Short Reread Poems

8-2-7

for any meaning to be found  
reread  
the title of this poem...

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“Journeys”

I reread “Grapes of Wrath”

Today,

Then went to El Paso

And stared at the wall....

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The time 
You are away 
I came back 
To 
My cave 
To rewrite 
The Torah, 
The Bible, 
And reread the Koran....

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You're my poem
My consummate rhyme
And I could reread you
Time after time
Flowing in meter
Perfect in sync 
Inscribed on my heart
In indelible ink...

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I reread what you wrote about me
I see you haven't written
Since I left.
I wonder how you are
If your okay
Do you even write anymore.
You've crossed my mind
I don't know why
Maybe I passed through yours
But I thought of you tonight....

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Think, plan, scheme, devise
 Write, read, review, revise

Sit, wait, reread, reflect,
  Insert, delete, keep, reject

Rethink, rewrite, reorganize
  Snip, cut, paste, prioritize

A poem's a process of many a step
  From that very first 'No' to that final 'Yep!'...

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Wow what words woven where wit was working!!

Well written words while I wondered what to write...weally wonderfully witty!

Two bees or
not two bees
that is the difference in 
anaphylaxis
and life!

Really random rantings
Rouse right reasoning
Reread and rear
Reason in season....

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I read you like a book
the cover fading
the binding cracked
pages dog-eared 
and yellowing
a book I have read
many times
and still reread
contentment in your story
comfort in your words
an old friend I cherish
the ending sad
never changing
but still I read
page by page
chapter by chapter
a book I love...

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I'm vain enough to think that I can read
Current contest sponsor's mind,
Failing often as not.

Sometimes I write and rewrite
As I reread instructions,
Then find to my great chagrin
I read right first time.


By: Joyce Johnson
My kimo and dodoitsu  For  Russell"s "A Mesh of Forms Free Poetry Contest"

Won a 2nd...

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Carnival
Two brothers save coins
Look forward
Excitement
Read, reread poster, pictures
Talk about strange sights

Main big tent
Brothers find a seat
Excitement
Mountain high
Someone in main tent screams,"Fire"
Boys run, bam, brick wall

Contest: Share A Shardoma
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Written by: Sara Kendrick

Shadorma form not listed...

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I reread the scriptures
Raised my hands to the same sky 
My body trembles once again 
Of fear that perhaps my supplications would go unanswered 
My eyes flood over with tears of remorse 
Of how I had knelt here before 
And asked for you from the heavens 
But now I return 
On my knees yet again
To ask
Why my prayer was answered...

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I reread the scriptures
Raised my hands to the same sky 
My body trembles once again 
Of fear that perhaps my supplications would go unheeded  
My eyes flood over with tears of remorse 
Of how I had knelt here before 
And asked for you from the heavens 
But now I return 
On my knees yet again
To ask
Why my prayers was answered...

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Matthew 21:2-7
King James Version
2 Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me.

Reread the passage. A man who had never ridden and a colt that had never been ridden. 

he tied the donkey 
unridden colt, they waited....
a man rode the colt...

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I'm reaching out
but you're not there.
Our sunshine days,
all gone.
There is nothing left
but the fog now
I can't see you 
or touch you anymore.
All alone in my room
I reread all our chats
spend alone time
with all your pictures.
Nothing lends comfort
nothing soothes
this cracked heart of mine
my friend said give it time
but without you 
honestly
I just want to die.

©SamHarty...

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sometimes it turns around
wanna take a second look
slowing down this time
jotting thoughts in a notebook

studying the angles
trying to make a plan
doing the equation
start back where you began

erasing the mistakes
using all you learned
knowledge gives you power
to once again return

sometimes it turns around
and you take a second look
mysteries uncovered
when you reread the book...

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Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord wrapped in the laughter 
and the sounds of a five year old.

Truth is marching as I witness commencement exercises across the university 
law campus.

Bombs bursting in air has a truer sound and a detailed message as I reread the 
letters from my son who serves his country overseas.

This is where the real pledge of allegiance is silently read....

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I don’t really want to dance in the night,
To forget you,
I don’t really want to hang out in bars
To forget you,
Nor want to find friends,
Nor want to cross Idaho, to forget you,
I don’t really want to write a novel,
To forget you,
Nor to reread “Les fleurs du mal”, 
I don’t really want to forgive heavens,
Or to become a writer, to forget you,
Quite simply, I don’t want to forget you,
My panther....

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Punctuated by the virtual fifth degree, 
 he placed his neck on the line,
 the sucking, pinching tidal wave to slip away from the soft comforts and relapsed boredom.

 The new, energized voices, never spelling the conventional way,
 the pages of books he'd read, once or twice, erased and reread, compounding and retreating back to proto-motion.

 The motion that is now, clear to him, a cog in a single machine....

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Do you change the meaning
  in favor of form

Do you add a new comma
  because it’s the norm

Do you shorten the sentence
  because it’s advised

Do you scour the pages
  re-dotting your I’s

Do you read and reread
  again to address

What sure of at first
  and now want to correct

A wise man once said
  and it’s truer today

“The First Cut Is The Deepest”
   leave your words as they lay

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)...

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Do you change the meaning
  in favor of form

Do you add a new comma
  because it’s the norm

Do you shorten the sentence
  because it’s advised

Do you scour the pages
  re-dotting your I’s

Do you read and reread
  again to address

What sure of at first
  and now want to correct

A wise man once said
  and it’s truer today

“The First Cut Is The Deepest”
   —leave your words as they lay

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)...

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i wonder what a word feels like
Is a.....g......y
........n......r full of points
Does water t...
......................r
.........................i
......................c
..........................k
.........................l
.............................e
Does the turn nrut turn like a ballerina spun
What is wonder full of
does black pull back
is the the only one
Imagine what mental could fracture
if free could be
does happy raise its chin
Does sad feel me...

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For safety reasons it seems fine
To smile and say hello 
To anyone who's passing by 
On streets of neon glow
For deeper reasons it is good
To hear our music loud
And to reread the books we should
Know well what they’re about
For some of reasons falls a rain
To clean the road I choose
Sometimes it feels like blunted pain
To which I can’t get used
For reasons we don’t understand 
But maybe the most wise
We see the lark that still ascends
Into the depth of skies. 

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i say Jesus can flip these tables upside down,
with his voice he did, without crashing the table to the ground,
poetically speaking, it all has deeper meaning,
reread it again...it's in your heart he's revealing,
secret clubs, societies symbols,
organized structures to control the system,
the spiritual balance...the divorce rates are high,
by means of selfishness and greed, the numbers rise,
connected to all numbers in physical degrees,
our spiritual tilt on earth affects our gravity....

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She feared the outside world
The pandemic had killed thousands
Hundreds of thousands
She stayed in for over two years

People coaxed and cajoled her
She was lonely but would not venture out
Safe in her nest, she reread her books
She wanted to be safe

Two more years went by
She is depressed but cannot reach out
People scare her now 
She is secluded, living a half life

Five more years of self-imposed hell
It was a relief the day the plane hit her building
killing her instantly...

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