Short Retrieves Poems

Springtime and Summer pass in a whir
      Autumn winds expose a raw nerve

   December frost retrieves Old Man Winter
      What's for dessert ~ I think I'll skip dinner...

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An Astonishment...
A Dispute between,
My mid and conscience

Yielding me to astray,
Annoyed my studies,
Twenrty-Four hours daily...

When?, Where? do myself retrieves,
Condemned as an introvert,
That Holds my prosperity?

GOD...Please Help Me!.....

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“From the debris of desire the essence of 
lost love retrieves the hurt heart” – Quote by Poet 


The glee of love embracing me if ever dies
My heart will feel it depart while it cries
From dire dust of demolished desire I’ll rise     
...

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non-stop rat-a-tats
moving targets drop like flies  ~
blood-soaked western front

a fierce, friendly fire
soldier retrieves dead comrade  ~
own life hangs by thread...

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In a fear shell, as hope dies out
Silence retrieves heart’s bliss 
We’re ready for another bout
Matters not serpent’s hiss

Awake hermit, awake
The rope is not the snake 
Night will yield to daybreak

Dark desires fell
In a fear shell...

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hunger
discontent
           emptiness,
a frantic
           surge
of fatigue..
          defeat...

a turning point,
an impulse
claws
        for space,
advocates 
sweeping changes,
retrieves
         lost grace
renews
            desire,
brings
          perspective...

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Ripples in the water float one by one far along the banks, 
One by one each rippled motion  retrieves the echo of silence and emotions that bob slowly  
out to sea ; 
The frothy tide returns the echo of the sound that slowly ripples back unto the bank it waved 
upon,
only for you to hear the calmness of the ripples flow....

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Just one line of cocaine from sniffing the white powdered abys

She washes her poisonous laundry pegs the bottomless threads

Retrieves her dead tired credit card from a pocket of dissolute fear


06th June 2018 

written for three liner contest with 17 syllables max per line

Syllables checked on howmanysyllables.com...

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Ego’s the one in us who grieves
but what is the force that retrieves
stuporous soul from deep slumber,
to behold the world in wonder,
breath by breath and day after day,
ensuring we joyfully play,
forgetting our soul’s origin,
revealed to us as bliss virgin,
each hue new like the morning dew,
of God’s blessings that so accrue?...

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Old Scribe

Dry and pointed, it bleeds nothing. 
Scratch, scratch, scratch, it tears the paper.
Clang, it hits the bottom of the trash bin.
She frowns and retrieves it. 
Licks the end and dabs the well.
The knobby fingers gracefully draw it across the page. 
It bleeds freely in the eloquent strokes on the parchment.

July 10, 2020...

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connect the dots
like the stars
in the night skies
wind magic
autumn leaves
tumble down
the street like
broken butterflies
the coming tide
retrieves all
that is stranded
while reaching
new stranded highs
wake before
the dawn
listen to
the silence
slip through
the crack
of day
shoot the rapids
of the
kaleidoscope
of life...

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my new puppy runs like a gazelle except faster
He is a retriever all right
He finds whiskey bottles, bottle caps, gum wrappers,
He has been bringing home pieces of a porch lately
Not our porch, an older porch, with paint that is more yellow
None of our neighbors have porches
More ditch diving? Perhaps
He retrieves everything he finds
and he finds a lot...

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Freeze-frame final fate
Lust losing life late
Grandeur grooming gate


Tensile tact treats take
Soon soaring sweepstakes
Wonderland waits wake

~~~~~~~~~


Breath bursting boom bloom
Grasp greets grouse's grim gloom
Ripe rest retrieves room


Troubles taking toil
Style solemn sad spoils
Broken bearing boil

~~~~~~~~~




Leon Enriquez
09 April 2015
Singapore...

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You want to define Poetry,
behind the safety of your bars

Open the door to your cage,
a world awaits, whose feathers tar

Dusty journals and how-to books,
no longer serve you here

The price of your admittance,
an acknowledgement of fear

With words only as strong
as the impression they leave

And feelings only as sacred
—as memory retrieves

(Seattle Washington: March, 2017)...

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You want to define Poetry,
behind the safety of your bars

Open the door to your cage,
a world awaits, whose feathers tar

Dusty journals and how-to books,
no longer serve you here

The price of your admittance,
an acknowledgement of fear

With words only as strong
as the impression they leave

And feelings only as sacred
—as memory retrieves

(Seattle Washington: March, 2017)...

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Like a splinter in the brain
It drives you insane
Must wait like the coming of a train
Don't go fast, cause it might past your lane
Maybe I should wait for the second coming
But who knows when that will be?
The arrival of the blessed three
Or maybe I will know when the reaper retrieves me with his scythe
O well I guess I will never know the answer to the greatest question
The meaning of life...

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You want to define poetry,
  behind the safety of your bars

Open the door to your cage,
  a world awaits, where feathers tar

Dusty journals and ‘how-to’ books,
  no longer serve you here

One price of admittance,
  the acknowledgement of fear
 
With words only as strong 
  as the impression they leave,

And feelings only as sacred,
 —as memory retrieves

(Seattle Washington: March, 2017)...

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“Britches”
Miracle Man
2/7/2025

Today, his steps have slowed and back is bent,
and his days most gone afford slight acclaim.
But in thought he relives life without lament,
Knowing expended days he cannot reclaim. 

But his life has been lived with little regret,
and memory still retrieves a long passed friend. 
Today, with issues of health he is now beset,
and he contemplates time he’s yet to expend.
...

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A Smile

 A smile extends a hand of hope

 A smile retrieves a heart of gold

 A smile relieves my apprehensions

 A smile welcomes with open arms

 A smile calms an uneasiness

 A smile peaks my curiosity

 A smile pulls you closer

 A smile accepts all that you are

 A smile melts the ice we stand on

 A smile freezes the pain we hold on to

 A smile warms my weary cold feet

 A smile cools before I over heat...

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Lonely hearts roam in memory lane
Events that are dear to heart pass like links of a chain
A window in the past opens for breeze cool
A sweet fragrance of love perfumes the soul

The awesome serenity retrieves the loving moments
Hand in hand with your love you walk
To your heart’s content you talk
You feel the lavender of each other’s breath

To fret for the one parted is in vain
Just enjoy the bliss of your memory lane

Sintra, Portugal 24-01-2015...

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Another day ends
Sleep retrieves memories
A strange touch attends


Journey journal page 
Words spread slanting you see
On a virtual stage


Watch the words compile
Tales attract attention
Ooze and squeeze now style


Curious wonder spreads
In fatal attraction
Words fashions odd dread


Come away right now
Pretty petty passage
Scripts of drafts tell how


In a basic feel
Heed the rough message
Ink stains buy goodwill




Leon Enriquez
05 August 2018
Singapore...

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