Short Rote Poems

let’s welcome the Cuban defector
suggesting he steer to our vector
we could send our own boat
learning Spanish by rote
then pray that he’s better than Hector....

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Turning,
Merging,
Braking,
Swerving.
Dreaming
of a 
different
life,
a different
place,
a different
time.
Blinking,
Blaring,
Crashing,
Burning.

How did I get here?...

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“without doubt”


you say there’s no rhyme for orange
when ten, my son said, “Door hinge.”
proving wrong what is rote
smiting writing that’s wrote
but what was better was seeing you and yours cringe...

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Recall the rhetoric they promote.
Much like their predecessors, they’ll
struggle to keep us afloat.
In truth, they do not care;
all spouted by rote.
Agree to all
you denote,
for your
vote....

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Truth by lip service and rote

Nailed to a cross

Judgment by history; cut short

To appease the blaggard and bullies of faith

Nailed to idolatry

The future by judgment; cut short

To appease the Judas heart...

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Every becoming part of a flower
is a meditation by rote.
From seed to lovely bloom
a processional unfoldment.
When the bloom wilts
beauty unveils,
the flower sleeps
as if day were night
and all was ever
but a dream....

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Look at her
So happy and alive
Not knowing the child should be 3 months
The one she couldn't have

The only tether to life
Another child of 3

can't die yet
Must live by rote

Aching to be her once again
The picture falls from my hand...

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The rote shivery wind is Winter's maid—
she breaks heart to own the season's floor;
via frost's degrees in my throat,
while my glean lancet's chills burn.
I tape her over my
skin; my fingers in
our stitches show—
her peel true.
Gloves are
off....

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Seeker seeks:
Places to visit,
Fragrant peaks;
Can wIt fit?


Query quotes:
Spaces to sojourn 
Random rote;
Can voice churn?


Charming writes:
Journey journal page,
Moments cite;
Can touch stage?




Leon Enriquez
29 September 2018
Singapore...

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Craft calm choice
Vet verse voice
Prime pure poise


Dance deep dream
Set swift streams
Breeze bright beams


Live love loud
Pique pace proud
Cruise cheer's cloud


Niche nice notes
Reap rich rote
Vet voice vote




Leon Enriquez
14 April 2019
Singapore...

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William Shakespeare
Dramatist world 
renowned without 
fear.
Love and hate are 
great strengths of 
his
Read by all without a 
drop of hiss!

Poems and plays he 
wrote
All from his brain 
small by rote
Novel nor prose has 
he not
Which tainted his 
works by nought!...

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edward
      estlin
      cummings
      hurled syntax
      m
      i
      l
      e
    assumed nothing
    as far as
    grammar
    is concerned
    but rote beautifully
    in the
    vernacular and
    in the evening
    too.
    Rules is rules
    ain't they?...

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Empty souls enter the room
Rush to the waiting desks
Answer questions from rote
Spirit filling is left (out in street)
Erasers no longer in the room
Removed just like prayer____




(Most schools no longer have chalk boards and erasers but have electronic equipment)...

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No matter how great the versing
  writing always lacks the note

That music plants inside our souls
  words by their nature rote

Its melody takes you skyward
  all reason left behind

Pure joy out front to then surround
  —what substitutes as mind

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)...

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'TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE'

“To thine own self be true”
Seems such a childish quote
No hidden meaning lies asleep--
No lessons drubbed by rote

Once learned this simple thought
Weighs heavy on the mind
For if you choose to scorn it
Your conscience is struck blind




Victoria Anderson Throop ©12/9/2012...

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so many years just down the drain
      my so called friend
little did i know the horrible pain
     my so called friend
it came calling at your door 
     my so called friend
it will rote you to the core
        i said to you
     my so called friend
you didn't listen its now the end
      of my so called friend....

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Her Ship Made It Home

He set sail to her port going southbound  

through choppy sea swells to rarefied ground.

With wind at his back he picked up steam

navigating the channel, eyes a gleam.

Her beacon of light lead his way by rote

as howls of wind whistled to all she wrote.

6x10

connie pachecho

1/25/17...

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Ask
Bask


Craft cheer
Dream dear


Etch
Fetch


Glimpse grand
High hand


Ink invests
Joy juice jest


Keep
Leap


Mind moves
Nice noose


Orb
Pop


Quaint quote
Rain rote


See
Tee


Use urge
Vet verge


Wax
aXe


Yet yield
Zoom zeal




Leon Enriquez
08 August 2017
Singapore...

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Where’s my inspiration? 
Love, loss, pain- aspiration?
Nothing here but mundane,
Turning circles blinded.

Longing for yesterday in tomorrow,
Ignorant and pompous.

Thinking thoughtless, running careless.
Forgetting where my place is. 

In today-forever now.
A rote route, no destination.
I rust and wear, age and lose. At here-in place-forever?...

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A poet who doesn't feel 
Is like a dealer who doesn't deal
A knife sharpener without a steel. 

A writer who won't emote
Is like a schoolboy reciting by rote
A person who truly never wrote. 

This dabbler 'I' at least tried 
With words like feelings that never lied
Or sought coldness as a place to hide. 

"Upon Looking in a Modern Volume of Verse"...

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"you don't need a weatherman...
to know which way the wind blows"
sayeth bob dylan's lyrics

all learn some innate knowledge
reasoning logic concepts
it is drawn upon at times

a lit mental spectrum
each one a different painter
choosing their concept colors

memorize is rote learning
not drawing on what's innate
to both see and understand


stan sand...

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Feeling
Meaning


Word wit
Bright bits


Nice notes
Rouse rote


Pulse pokes
Yet yokes


Mind mood
Glimpse good


Zest zooms
Bright blooms


Feel face
Prize pace


Grand gift
Love lifts


Joy jumps
Soul sums


Heed heart
Sure start


Moves make
Tough take


Meaning 
Hurting




Leon Enriquez
06 December 2017
Singapore...

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Last day here
Cast new sphere


Joy finds grace
Seek new space


Last line lifts
Gear grooms gift


Notes end well
Poise hooks spell


Rote pokes feel
Fling last thrill


One last time
Ends fond rhyme


Rush now shouts
Just go out


Take one when
There ends then


One last tell
Fare thee well




Leon Enriquez
21 November 2016
Singapore...

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Tact funds pact
Act firms fact


Play feels pay
Say grips day


Note cheer vote
Dote charms rote


Joy moves ploy
Coy finds toy


Find pure mind
Sign deep find


Flow fond glow
Grow kind show


Flight grips sight
Light streams right


Voice clear choice
Poise clears noise


Be fond spree
See truth free




Leon Enriquez
14 December 2016
Singapore...

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My diary:
What I see...


Plain words brink
Thoughts in ink


Jot down notes
Lines sans rote


What I did?
Fit what feed!


Feel each thought
Play with plot


Spend or save
Live life brave


Love lives laugh
Tough greet rough


Feed and crave
Fool and knave


Words in ink
Scribble links


Smiles and tears
Faith now steers


On the brink
Brand new think


Leon Enriquez
29 Mar 2014
Singapore...

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