Short Ruminate Poems

Wee young butterfly
   Graceful on your blade to graze
      Harbinger of wings.

8th place in Raul Moreno's "Caterpillar's Gait" contest.

A. Green...

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Recognise the intent
Realise all content 
Register logic's part
Rationalise own heart
Ruminate on right way 
Resolve to start today
Reason reason reason...

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My
mind
is filled
with a lot
of anixety
thoughts of abandonment plague me
I am terrfied of not having a family
I ruminate about my fears every waking hour because I cannot stop...

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Butterflies drift
before a man
before
the
dawning night.

Clouds retreating
beyond the veil
beyond
a
setting sun.

Ruminate long
within this space
within
this
sober sight.


(click on the pic to preview my poetry book!)...

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Like a branch tapping on the window  
The words ruminate in my mind 
Lips are tight, words unspoken 
Their heavy on my heart 
Now, it’s time to heal
I’m first to say
I will start
Forgive
Me.

©Holly P. Moore
   November 2012

Traditional 9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 count...

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It is truly yours
Belonging to both
This single point
Examine and ponder it

Established once
Polished complete
By agony pleasured
Ruminate and reflect

Cite and believe it
In it’s finality
Of defined setting
Intimate and echo it

Holding on
Here at the end of all
What was there to think about?...

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A double dact doe dance:
Six deer in a row prance
Merrily, playfully
Dancing so sweet!

Ungulates ruminate
Chewing the cud is great
And most amazingly,
Didactyl feet!

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ok, ok, i'm getting carried away with these - almost a tongue twister, but fun, and what I saw on my walk with Missy this morning!...

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Thank the world for its people that have been created
Shake a hand you disagree with after you have debated
Remember that the stars still do not know we are here
So getting one above is the worst thought of the year
Believe that time tries but fails to ever stand still
Doing what you know is true does challenge every will...

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Borborgymus, Borborgymi,
Eructate so delightfully!
I ruminate, throat tickles late,
And choking, I gesticulate.
I just ate but I don’t gestate.
Who throws the voice? Seems I’m the dummy.
Ventriloquist and talking tummy.
Borborgymi, Borborgymus
A lovely word, why all the fuss?

H/T to Milt’s Mysterious Rumbling Noises...

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Ancestral
These assurances
These well-intended 
Platitudes of wisdom borne of
The lightest light they ever knew.

I resist
I cringe
I worship
I respect

I do not judge

I cannot always appreciate

I respect
I ruminate
I live and breathe and yearn
I stretch and dance and sigh and sigh again

To make the haunt
Less daunting...

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I contemplate lips.
those rounded pale things are perfect against my dewy eyes.
I ruminate on hands.
those strong old things deserve to be in mine.
I consider eyes.
Those seas of soul wash over me and soothe beyond imagining.
I reflect on you.
yet never see your focused form.
lost, distracted.
by tiny.
perfect.
details.
I think on you....

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Happy Easter to everyone on Poetry Soup
  (except those of you not in the 'Christian group') 

I hope that you all enjoy the holiday
   and that the Easter Bunny comes your kids' way

Of course, there's a lot more to Easter than bunnies and bonnets
   but I'll 'Pass Over' that ~ let theologians ruminate on it



           ~ Happy Easter to One and All! ~...

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Let me ruminate a minute
            and pose
     for the portraiture

           The sylph
    whisking about me
        in my dreams
       fluttering about

       She kissed me
         on my cheek
    she put a mirror to
            my face

 Yes it was I with auburn
                hair
      with auburn beard

Remember when I focused...

           on that grey...

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Combing through the carnage
Questions outnumber answers
Derailed if dwell on the details 
Will we forfeit all our advances?

Easy to get singularly focused 
On second guessing decisions 
Better to not ruminate on regrets
Since the past has no revisions 

Power in pivoting to the present 
As a new path has been charted 
Final destination still unknown
But in a better place than we started...

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The itch to love 
and satiate pride
swallowed too long stifles
breath
without emancipation
A tragic capitulation to self

Pride, perhaps acerbic,
leaves morsels to ruminate
and loves to regurgitate
coy ceramic dalliances
and Venusian masquerades
Masked in smiles
And toxic

This love, 
These loose granite memories
Ductile innocents
And hasty lulls
These shining sunsets 
And supernovas
Must rest.
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They that kill so wantonly;
callous conveyers of death.

Love of money
above all else.'
But human lives
have human dreams-
 Have human plans
 Have human goals

Human's love,
caress another's lips;
clasp a lover's hand.
seek out the stars
on cloudless nights

If only you would ruminate
another's precious fate
perhaps you'd count the cost.

either way,
as fire lifts up stubble,
 
you'll pay on judgment day....

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Seniors in our town
gather at Hardy’s
on Wednesday mornings
over biscuits and gravy
to ruminate on life
as they’ve met it head on
as they’ve faced it with hope
as they’ve lived it with courage
as they forecast its future
in dread and fear
	for their offspring.

They joke and laugh
as coffee flows downward
and embrace new promise
in the here and now, as tummy fills
with yesterday’s toasty comfort,
	hot biscuits and gravy....

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I was dealt a lame lot -
To hold on to a thought. 
I ruminate and rot, 
Yearning for a jackpot 
Of a tropical spot, 
Where I cruise on my yacht. 
That is all that I got -
Holding on to a thought. 
I would give life a shot,
But I simply cannot. 
Just in case you forgot 
I was dealt a lame lot - 
‘Procrastinate’  is what 
Depicts me dot to dot! 
 
December 4, 2022

Sponsor: Kim Rodrigues 
Contest: Dot To Dot...

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Came looking for a verse to transcribe
Couldn’t think of anything to inscribe
Mind wasn’t directing any orderly lyrics
Composedly accepting everything as is
No ripples of thoughts, no dilemmas,
No judgements, no opinions,
No portrayals of any sorts 
“Why does anything need description?” was its question
“Just be” was its proposition
Decided to ruminate on that
A feeling of freedom came just like that.


Smita Kulkarni
02/11/2021...

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I see him working like a horse or bull or donkey or buffalo; never resting peacefully even to swallow a mouthful of the meal and as though has time to just ruminate; hurrying yet consulting his physician every two days; gulping his medicines while walking and running, and pulling himself on as though there’s nothing else worth in life than his relentless labor… 

diamonds, rubies
dearest ransoms for his lifetime fortunes 
dead cockroaches...

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It is not helpful to think, to ruminate
on things that cannot be re-thought.
The original is pounced upon
by piggy-back thinkers.
Charge and counter-charge,
nothing changes
thoughts engraved in stone remain.
When a brash mind questions,
rats nibble at ancient foundations.
Better to write poetry,
better to lie then bolster a false truth.
A poem can fabricate
love and hate and still be true.
It's not helpful to think too much
about this....

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43.
There couldn’t be a comfortable rejection.
I would rather cut my own head off,
Then to ruminate in your hate.
Holding my man back
Is just my womanly cowardice.

Who wants to accept father’s disappearance?
Avoid anything but the last time out the door.
The man is not afraid to swim with sharks
The maid shivers with awe at the sleek cold blooded.
The ocean is too wide for a still child filled with worry.
And slick enemies dance so well in the dark sea....

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beyond reasonable doubts
behind rabid regrets
beneath a bleeding world
below bombing cyclones
between raging atmospheric rivers

I slide around in a pit of digital snakes
I track my disintegrating limbs
I observe flashing lights rushing to disasters
I ruminate over lost causes
I persevere without purpose

the End is neighing
the horses are noisy
the noise is hoarse
the sky is raging
the rage skyrockets

This too shall pass
This too shall become gas...

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Beside the foaming waves;
The swell of surf and sea.
Barefoot in the sugar sand
With my best friend, who is me. 
There we marvel at the mystery
And contemplate eternity.
The horizon feels a life away--
For endless seems the sea today!
And there, alone, with only me,
My one and only friend...
We wonder at beginnings
With no apparent end.
And we ruminate--the two of us,
Just my friend, alone with me;
Is time a thing cast far adrift...
And as endless as the sea?

~Mel...

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   Do the crickets in the trees
     welcome a breeze
   Can a frog on a lily pad
     ever be sad

   Would a fish choose to swim
     if it were molasses he was in
   Does a monkey grin 
     when he thinks of vice & sin

   Should a zebra without stripes
     just give up on life
   And what about a female baboon
     Does she bleed if pecked by a loon

   Thought you might like to 'ruminate' on all of these
     While I bring up dinner - straw and day-old cheese... 
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