Short Retires Poems

She walked today,
always there, sixteen years, and
I am at a loss....

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As the sun goes and retires without idea of his abode.
So did the LORD GOD YAHWEH in mystery abode.
        17:26:08:20:43...

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New desires to explore
new paths and more
an old year retires
a new one inspires
the past one is worn
a new year is born....

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Has anyone
ever imagined
the pigeons
call and answer
at dusk
as like orchestrating
God's Holy Rosary
before the flock
retires for the night....

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amidst grassy slope
                                         bighorn retires to home range
                                              begins chewing cud...

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I painted a smile on my face

It required the right temperament

I do wear it out on Sundays

And when the evening stars bring twilight

My smile retires for the night...

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The Canine Palace in downtown Fort Meyers
is where every chic, rich dog retires
The most posh place around
for worn pug or old hound
Ten grand a week is all it requires

6/8/22...

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When the moon retires its gleam,
And sunlight shines upon the dew,
Do you rise from bed anew?
Or slumber on in a waking dream….




All rights released into Public Domain...

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The days become years fading into life
a few tears, some laughs and many friendships
The brightness of your dedication will shine through
all the lives you taught and touched
What a wonderful life to reflect and build on
enjoy and be Blessed
Thank you....

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the bell tolls
after the musics
died down
screaming at first
then echoes
now trapped
in the hosts skull
as he waves his guests away and
retires to the lobby
turns on the radio
dial twisted
all the way up
to drown the
bell's 
stuck
in 
his 
head....

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President Obama, when asked if he had a bucket list
Replied, well kinda, only my bucket starts with an “f”... list
When he finally retires
To comedy he can aspire
Seems like a career he really might have missed


© Jack Ellison 2015




*True story...

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Hologram

The whole in the part..
The entire universe
as a whole and in
its interminable parts
are all holograms..
Might we say:
the Whole rises
and takes the shape
of what seems external in
both the vast and the small..
The mind retires and
is burned in wonder
on glimpsing this
sublime expression...!...

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Clocks tick, pages turn, and pencils furiously inscribe notes; two more chapters. 
The house is silent; earbuds blare.
And as the city sleeps, you refuse to conform.
Rest is for the weak; I go against the norm.
The only question is, as the sun retires and the moon clocks in, which will you choose, 
Productivity or inferiority?...

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Feel fickle fancy
Set senses sticky


Wear winsome wonder
Prize precious plunder


Treat troubles tricky
Dazzle dance dreary


Boost big bright blooms
Rest retires rude room


Set simple swift sounds
Ply piquant pitch pounds


Live laughing love loud
Seek surplus sweet shroud





Leon Enriquez
19 February 2017
Singapore...

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Within this structure,
my words remain
Each line a fortress,
as thoughts refrain

The ramparts solid,
its moat retracts
All quivers loaded,
as doubt attacks

The enemy constant,
assault on fire
What darkness births,
one phrase retires

The battle spoken
upon the wind
My legend written
—still safe within

(Dreamsleep: October, 2021)...

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Santa was on vacation, but with a cane unfortunately.
He was older now, and walked slowly, his time so free.
I could have enjoyed this longer, he thought when I was young.
When he wore handsome clothing – tuxedo with cummerbund.
You are doing okay Mrs. Claus told her man who finally retired.
But he did not think so, for being lazy was not how he was wired....

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I am pained by my own
One who claims to love
And yet pokes my heart
Ceasless blood flow
Scars in my body show
My heart retires to love
I am in fear, deep in tear
I am completely ruined
My strength has collapsed
Courage is no more my own
Fragile like ice-cream cone
Broken hearted
Peaceless 
My heart's pieces
Are all over the land. 

Drencho POET Loads...

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A lone winter wind chills a lone Yorkshire lady
while alone she retires for the day
And a lone fire warms her but alone it does little
to relieve the lonesome feeling as she lay
But alone is not so lonely while alone she knows her lover
lies alone as he awakens and can say
Alone we are together and alone is shortening ever
and alone we soon will send upon its way...

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The soldier retires
Seating at home,
Remembering how he fired 
His friends even foes

Friends come to greet
Happy they are 
But sad he's,even the sun hiss
Bloodshed,remembering how it begins

Throwing party
Celebrating 
But remember to eat was so hardly
"It was really tough" he says while walking 

At the end
He burst out in tears remembering all friends...

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The horizon is aflame

As the setting sun retires

I bow down to its glory

And the reverence it inspires

Soft shades tint the fading light

A painted portrait in my eyes

The clouds awash with color

As they flutter across the skies

With daylight now descending

And the twilight coming soon

Yawns a weary setting sun

That awakens the rising moon...

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Dutiful
Dawn invigorates her hands
Diligent
She's chauffeured by her goals
Daring 
She doesn’t rest on her oars

A woman who has sojourned
Conquered and returned
Cloaked by midnight
She battled fiercely and prevailed

She watches over her house
She retires to her chamber to ponder on the day
Aged but not caged
Slowed but not stopped.



January 29, 2023....

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that crab nip
upon fingertips
as sunlight tilts his hat
and nighttime makes his start
drinking liquid
from the passing breeze
unanticipated tremble of the knees
Squawked yawn as seagull retires
and sound swathes
its way
through quicksand air
Slip your chill
past neckline
nomadic course down spine
Wrap your silk cotton
darkness around
safe but unsound
unfound...

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Golden ball retires to its closet,
It sinks below the line set.

Temperatures fall,
As the night awaits its call.

High up in the sky's expanse,
It shone without resistance.

The seashore teeming with people,
Bathing and basking in the radiant pull.

As the day takes a bow,
The night stands ready to take the plough.

A wonder of nature,
Is sunset painted picture....

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-that spider wouldn't hurt a fly
-ever thought a shadows touch has never felt
-The Spoon spooned with the dishiest dish of the suds bay
-i'm sorry and meant it
-im a side effect of sorrow
-how long will obsession stare from behind the leaves
-if the sun retires has it had its time in the sun
- y do we need the wh
-Bees would still be B's without the e's
-expanded should be longer...

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Moonlight glistens on snow 
and he's stalking, 
slyly slinking, belly-cresting 
coverts to the coop.

Silence his canopy,
hugging the hedgerows
to safeguard his cover,
there's death in his eyes.

Silence is shattered,
the virgin white snow is blood-spattered;
no mercy is shown,
no quarter is given.

Silence settles again,
he retires, hunger sated,
he'll forage again as 
his craving dictates....

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