Short Retract Poems

poppies sway and breeze 
ripples retract on old pond 
wisp of hair on face...

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Often.
Sometimes.
I retract.
I crawl.
Like the snail
softly back within
Those circuitous silent depths
of my hollow shell.

The light be too bright....

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A muzzle
  on a werewolf

Will never tame
  its bite

Whose jaws retract,
  with fangs intact

Enraged,
 —to prowl the night

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2017)...

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Do I resist the temptation of my unrest
Follow the steps to retract 
Emptiness flares to a bidding high of heartlessness 
A fool am I 
A love of a thousands times swept away...

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An exhausting day,
Even seconds falls extend and retract,
Fading, a thin strand of threads in between day and night

Erasing a little space
A breath gets hard

Just being a deaf and a mute
It's an only essential...

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To become what you look at,
to say what you know

Your eyes to retract,
your wisdom to grow

To live by a credo, 
to die only once

Your soul to take flight
—your spirit to hunt

(Martha Browns Woods: March, 2021)...

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Ever judge someone by the way they look and act
In a food court, your eyes meet, she surely attracts  
There's something special
She feels it too, field is level
But it's a guy in drag, your advances you retract...

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Expressions of the abstract,
Thoughts we can't retract,
Exquisite solar towers
of our mindful powers,
Into the glass ceiling,
Collectives of ideas and feelings,
Whence these expressions of abstract?
Thoughts we can't retract.........

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What's heard for a word's echo
And soundless, thought-vibrate
Way up into this starred night
Will they now dissipate?

If its true all that's done here
Transforms the universe
For good or ill retract, I
All such; adverse, perverse!...

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No more will I show,
Or articulate,
These words I retract,
Will drag you down to 
The low that I’ve sank.

Am I deranged? 
Or just misled?
I can’t get it,
Straight in my head,

Truth distorts.
Then takes shape,
Discarded,

So I,
Can feel

Numb....

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She never had to retract her words
or her ideas
or her behaviors
or her opinions
or her attitudes

because she had been goaded and browbeaten into retracting herself

trained into submission by an expert seclude-her and abuser a long time ago...

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If we account
compulsion renders us
tame
A haze engulfs unwitting
thoughts
Of seers our mazy lives
tire

If we speak
our crude torment ensues
Corrected speech and
chains resume
Of grief a woven tale
will craft

If not
we must this day retract......

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your mask slips
reality spilling 
all over me
drenching me 
in silent lucidity
before 
you can catch it
before
you can retract it
before
you can cover it
but the truth
does not set me free
instead it blurs
my vision
making it harder
to find my way...

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Crimson red

Orange

Shocking pink

Purple, violet

Piercing through

Golden rays

Blazing

Glorified vision

Stopped in my tracks

Time standing still

No dream

Biblical scene

Almost like

A miracle about to happen

Retract

It already has...

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Polite to me and tall in gesture fair, 
Offering openness to my raw feelings, 
Leaving nothing behind but a lectern, 
Insisting on my viewpoint and reeling; 
Tough on that, and unable to retract, 
Energy for my memories so compact....

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(from The John Poems)

              I wish
        I hadn't told you
        what I told you
        when I thought
           I loved you.

             And if  
        I could retract it,
         subtract it, and
            abstract it
              I would....

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I'm tired of flying
after stars
fugitives,
behind stars
decadent ...
I'm tired of me
fall in love with
unrealizable dreams,
impossible missions ...
today I run ... behind
of the letters,
retract
words...
 as hummingbirds
kissing flowers ...
I seek a love affair
with poetry ...!...

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As of soul pact, hold and release
Each offered vibration
Flow with ease, like the morning breeze
Sidestepping stagnation 

To make easy, earth life
Exit hatred and strife
Nonchalant, with bliss rife

Ego retract
As of soul pact

07-December-2021
Quietus ...

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Occasional snide words  
Often bruise small egos 
Once said cannot retract 
Or repair damage done  
Odd, this always works out 
Old hurts will hear me spout 
Oafs make this sad mistake!


FOURTH PLACE WINNER
Written April 3, 2021
Entered "Pleiades - O" Contest
Sponsored by Kim Merryman...

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Creeping up stealthily,
cushioned claws
cautiously gain ground.
Claws retract, amber eyes
covet the prey,
concentration heightens and the
chase begins.

28.03.2022

In Search Of Prey Poetry Contest
Sponsor:Joseph May

A Brian Strand Premiere Choice Poetry Contest
Sponsor : Brian Strand...

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Remember Lot's wife
Who stopped and looked back
To her treasures in life;
Her heart could not retract.
Though a holy angel
Led them out with pity,
She turned and beheld
The fire upon her city.
No longer would be rife
Friends and home she bought;
Remember Lot's wife
Turned to a pillar of salt....

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Gospel music is fantastic music because it praises God.
When it comes to Gospel music, it's something to applaud.
Anything is good if it praises the Lord.
When it comes to God, he should be adored.
Gospel music is incredible music and that's a fact.
It's awesome and that's a statement I won't retract....

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Dachshund is a banana skin:
Short like a cigarette butt,
Big eyes like two snooker balls,
Wide ears like the vessel's flags,
Legs  interlocked like a letter X,
Long trunk like a train on the track,
All buttock like a kangaroo.
If I should meet it on my way out,
I will retract home and recite a psalm....

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It is a hole of black
Where I find myself
Cannot retract
I dug the hole myself

Thoughts of murk
Not substance from the mind of I
Yet in this darkness I lurk
Pleasing the sadness of I

O’ how dismal the dirty, gloom
How can you forgive me?
A pother creeps stealthily, my tomb
How can I forgive me?...

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That prowess not exact
mishandling of intent, the wayward stack
taught needlessly, the childish empathy's intact
does meddle, muddle, and retract!

The wisdom of concern does counteract
the concentrated effort, closes lack
dissension in its needling, signals act
while consternation's rendering, faces fact!...

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