Short Rivaling Poems

A pond is a micro-ocean
with rivaling beauty and tides
the lily pads with flowers at the edge
of land decorate its splendor
along with the moon
reflecting on the water...

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misunderstood bureaucrats gobbledygook
rivaling Lewis Carroll’s jabberwocky
poppycock reported by reporters of alternative facts
another round of USA’s wildly erroneous politics...

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 Radiation stings sweet
Rivaling the burn of
Razor blades through my soul
Ready to leave a scar
Rupturing the healing
Right before the climax
Reflected in your eyes ...

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I will not wade with you in ocean shallows

Love must run far deeper than a shoal

Having enough passion to make me blind

A love rivaling the grandest of hallows

Heal my heart and make it whole

Drown me in fervid depths of your mind...

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I seek not the the image, 
Covered in fine clothes of silk, 
Nor body decorated in gems and gold. 
For what I seek is something hard to unravel, 
Something rivaling the stars; 
What I seek is not your earthly gains, 
But what your soul shows from within....

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The rug’s brimming with ABC’s, numbers, shapes and bottoms. The kids, keen to hear the pages flip with blankets and bunnies, rivaling sisters and laughter.

tenacious inch worms —
preschoolers scoot off the rug
embracing the story

3/19/2019...

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Art Deco with her thin women
Pointed noses
Uppity attitudes
Elegant manner of dress

Art Deco with her square jaws
Curly ques made just so
Her flapper fringes
rivaling her outrageous hemlines

Art Deco with her ultra-modern ways
so shocking in the forties
when we listened to our shows on the radio
without seeing visuals...

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The melting snow forms streams that join the river
Pale flowers wake and turn toward the light

Bees bumble by with pollen to deliver
Sweet cherry blossoms scent the air at night


The garden comes alive in an array
of scenes and colors rivaling Monet
The equinox sheds light on everything, 
it's rising sun illuminating spring...

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The dagger has no name 
Hater knows no shame 
The purge is underway 
Bloody showers rivaling the rain
Terrified frights, rattling the bone 
Come one, come all
Many watch as the suspenseful white woman is bound to fall
The night is all but through
More violent neighbors whom you never knew
Time is the enemy
Killing became its remedy...

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The thinkers, vagabonds, creators, songwriters, dreamers
The tinkers, builders, inventors, musicians and schemers,
Running in their minds are ideas that jump outside each box.
They are wild and zany, rivaling the soul of a fox.
Rest of the world sits back in fear of their confidence and mirth.
They are the happiest, most joyful, enthusiastic people on earth....

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Does it begin half-empty?

No – entirely empty,

Yet easily made full –

That is, until a pair

Of lips sips down

Their fill of cool water.


Now the glass is halved.


Half-full. Half-empty.

Two factions rebelling

Within one army, rivaling.

It is not fullness that rules:

‘tis the mouth and how full-

-ly satisfied the lips are left....

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Fresh dust
bevels the
stagnant rot
of complacency
hollowing out
better purpose.

Are we
the imaginings
of seraphic
spirits and
demons rivaling
the majesty
of living?

When plumbing
the shaft
of consciousness,
linear thought
corrupts with
persistence the
notion of
time elements

folding membranes
with complicity
most jaunty
without regard
to infinity
within each
daring creation
etched firm
upon clay....

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Caution

Coal and violets strewn among your bone
Frosted the night, icy glaze of patient fire
Bending and breaking as a knead
Stammer and as tremor, shallots sake 
We play in the billiard righteous in wavery
Banner and bacon, in frivolous ache
And she flies high as one seed rivaling
A building stalking rancour
The peddling of this small river fish
Venturing in reference to a hone
A pyre of tigers eye the longest lead
The bones of balms are one ready
So like the turtle, wisely...

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