Short Roundabout Poems

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with no ticket to
where you want to be heading
take the put off ramp...

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Howl
Bellowing growl
Shout shout shout
With a roundabout knockout
Scowl...

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night out roundabout
storm interloper
cutting in
with showy lights
showering...

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I'm a button on her blouse
       roundabout chest-high

     Today she cursed because I burst
       though her guy's eyes opened wide...

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skirting issues
in roundabout ways
mysterious and baffling
deliberately foggy



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on May 28, 2020...

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Epigram #271:
SEE


Discern and see the journey route,
Truth and beauty in roundabout.

~~~~~~~~~




Leon Enriquez
28 December 2015
Singapore...

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New York Christians, Muslims, and Jews
Claim they walked a mile in God's shoes
As you may surmise
When asked for the size
They say they went barefoot like youse!...

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Sleep to dream, 
Dream to sleep,
Round it goes,
Like a roundabout,
Sleep to dream,
Dream to sleep,
Continues through the night,
Dreams not remembered,
Each night they come,
So it starts again,...

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Rednecks and roundabouts, they don't mix.
Don't try and fool us with your media tricks.
We drive around the back roads throwing bottles at signs.
Your roundabouts make us slow down or the ladies spill their wine...

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Here not there
You know where


In a fix
A blunt mix


Cuts flame slash
Harsh words smash


Bits of flesh
Ooze like trash


Blood red pain
Life now drains




Leon Enriquez
16 October 2018
Singapore...

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Truth is not an absolute
but an attitude of commitment
Throwing its blanket decidedly
over questioning and doubt
Paying deference to the moment
while blessing its intention
Choices made and choices bade
—verbatim roundabout

(Dreamsleep: July, 2023)...

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After hours, Maud, ginger cat,
Goes through O in fence:
No nonsense. 

Goes to roundabout, 
And sits there on still car.
Becomes calm...

Tail around, 
She does not study her environment.
She is like a totem as she waits for silver dawn.





3/20/2015...

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The playground at dawn,
so quiet and still,
with no hint that anything could move.

Still swings;
a roundabout covered with frost,
a seesaw with no child.

No dogs at that time;
no cats - they must be somewhere else;
no hint of later on.





5/19/2015...

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Beneath the dark blue veil
Of a moonless midnight
Under the radar
Without a bleep
A camouflaged whisper
Mystifies and mortifies
In a most roundabout
Conniving way
A shiver shudders
A murderous mystery
Not leaving a hint or clue



AP: 2nd place 2020

Posted on October 9, 2019...

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Dreams like stars, 
born out of foam.
Loneliness and desire, 
lights of confidence, 
sparkling, crystals of fantasy, 
gemstones of remembrance, 
before my eyes,
dreams like stars 
passing me,
slowly,
full of symbols,
colourful
in the roundabout of time, 
clouds are drawing circles....

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Satin summer sundays.
With the young children.
Picnicking in the shade 
Nana takes them to swim.

Watching while they play.
There growing so big.
Those memories we've  made.
Are, a most treasured gift.

Sewsaws and swings.
The roundabout spins.
As we reminisce.
Upon satin summer bliss....

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I am determined to be me no matter what happens
No matter who throws a fit
No matter what catastrophe rears her ugly head
No one can talk me out of it

Some strangers have tried
In a roundabout way
Trying to talk me into being more like them than me
It amuses me, but I do not get their phone numbers....

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She ventured out into the stars
   Though a stranger to their realm
Bright lights flashing roundabout her
   Would perhaps they overwhelm

This sweet young maiden, fair but frail
   Who'd braved the nighttime skies
Who'd quit the Earth, for there she'd felt
   That all Hope for Life and Light had died...

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Back during World War 11 -
written on the backs of envelopes
NORWICH
reveals our parent’s were quite, naughty too.
In a roundabout way, saying,“Get ready to screw”-
I never had a clue; Mum knew
“kNickers Off Ready When I Come Home”. 
I thought NORWICH- was where Dad was located. 
Handy ACRONYM  sadly outdated...

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Listen to poem:

Envision if you will
how your tunnel vision
denies sharing, context and scope.
Your ambit roundabout whirls in blinkers
denies entry with right-of-way blocks
as you go round and round
spinning endlessly in the dark
on a roundabout game in the park.
Your circumspect vision funnelled 
down tunnel into your black id hole....

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A poem is a way,

A subtle , golden path-

From soul to the heart,

from heart to the head,

from head to the nerves,

from nerves to the blood,
 
from  blood to the  tips,

from tips to the nib, 

from nib to the paper and 

finally

from paper to the reader's soul

in the roundabout way.

Such is indeed a poem....

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Sam Adams Drunk Driver Same, Same but Different 

Sam Adams was drunk driving 
Too fast down an English rural country lane
He ran at a stoplight he did not see 
Blew threw a roundabout
Was rubbed out in an accident.
His drinking buddy, the traffic cop flatfoot,
Smoothed over his death ruling it an accident,
And not drunk driving....

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Vacant mind filled with vacuous thoughts,
he is diabolical,makes me disconcerting.
Many a time we have fought a lot,
when things were going south,
on his terms I took the roundabout.
Going circles I never realized,
he led me on a rabbit trail,
I made it far, escaped the static, ecstatic,
but he left me at a place no one's ever tread....

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elements
of
a whole

different
  each time
played
  recorded
impressed
or
 created

improvised
ideas
  thoughts
of the moment
unique
  unrepeatable
aleatory
features

 improvised
   fragments
to introduce
  variability
of
short patterns
 without
coordination
a blur
of
 possibilities
on
a
roundabout
of chance...

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Feel surge
Of words found
Prompt urge
That seeds ground


Touch gains
Fond new grounds
Old pains
Now hurl sounds


Heed gall
A prized bite
That's all
Verse now cites


Glimpse jest
Sweat old tact
Words test
Pique vain act


Start well
In jazz bold
Spill tell
Hot and cold




Leon Enriquez
05 September 2019
Singapore...

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