Short Sanctum Poems

stifled by cacophony clutch I’m serene in sanctum of silence...

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silent shadows
obscuring dreams and danger
my secret sanctum...

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Noticing onset of dread,
we look at it in wonder,
as to how it intruded,
in our heart’s sanctum....

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The stillness of 
Calm water
Resting inside 
This toilet bowl
Reflecting an
Inner sanctum of home...

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still your thoughts and breathe 
inside your inner sanctum 
jewel of the Nile...

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How many of you can recall
The days of detective series on radio
Inner Sanctum
Perry Mason
Visuals weren't needed for great shows...

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The fences and billboards
  disappear in the sanctum

As theory is abandoned
  —and true knowledge takes hold

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)...

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My outlet
My sanctum
My place to be free

My mind
My paper
My place to be me

My pen
My thoughts
My mind is a sea

My world
My outlet
My place to be...

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Skunks have religious sanctum in Bombay
Protected from hunting both night and day
Skunk whisper was good
But misunderstood
When in skunk language they said, "Let us spray!"...

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Sanctum
Within the soul
Bedchamber once hidden
Curtain torn from top to bottom
Heaven

Date: 02/02/2024
Pick-A-Title, Vol. 41 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh
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sea of life
pulsates on passion waves 
         sapphire serenity drapes its depth
I sink slaked
within the submerged soul
          search for the sublime sanctum


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I
close my
eyes in haste,
one’s body gone
into the inner sanctum of the ground.
Gone, gone forever into paradise.
are you joking
I’m asking,
in the
ground?

© Harry J Horsman 2012...

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some say is 6six6

deep in the Vatican

engraved on a door

of the inner sanctum

but who knows if

the pope is fallible

or if this numbers game

is propaganda

or spin on some

other agenda...

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Having conquered death

Soul's eternal home prepared

Sanctum Sanctorum!








© Demetrios Trifiatis
      21 April 2019


* HAPPY EASTER TO ALL CHRISTIANS WHO CELEBRATE EASTER TODAY!...

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Through your heart’s inner sanctum,
I, savor your deep inhale
bringing you closer to God.
Will you be my breath?

© Drake J. Eszes

*Linda-Marie 'The Sweetheart of P.S.' contest: "SPICY": 4th place. YAY!*...

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She wouldn't allow me to enter her sanctum,
Due to my affliction entitled kindness
For she wanted tough love
A touch of insanity and a pinch of absurdness,
Kindness was my weakness
Never mind my apparent strengths...

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You keep giving me titles for limericks, you do
The Sanctum of Sinsations is the latest from you
Appreciate the help
It's really heart felt
A bunch of thanks, my friendly buckaroo


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Pleasant touch I miss
Emerging from your embrace
Alone in abyss
Calm allure of love I trace 
Enshrined in sanctum of peace. 

May 18, 2021
Contest : Tankacrostic
Sponsor : Andrea Dietrich...

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EMOTION
suspended
  prominently
meditative
  ethereal
in style
seductive
  visions
in
secluded
 patinas

disconnects
 in balance
a sanctum
of spiritual
resonance

delicate
aspirants
 storm
ijtegrity
&
complicate...

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sometimes at the other
I am this waiting
this vibrant worthlessness

my cousins think it
my friends imagine it

and a hope of beautiful soul
delivered of his body

a long time absent
during very long Time

he will have died...

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fill me with the sorrows
of your love
let me please borrow
your tears of love

angst that burns
your tender heart
silly fears, in the
sacred sanctum of 
your inner soul
fill me with the sorrows
and be free like a wind
------...

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Serenading peace within,
lull me in thine hushing tide
for fate is now a foe.

Lose me in your endless fathoms,
instill within a glint of hope.
Raise me to the lofty heights to lose all fear
below.

Till fate above me shines once more....

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Imagine
you can see
what your ears hear
and they see
what your eyes watch
as you dwell
in the
Sanctum Sanctorum
of prayer
while communing 
with The Most High
whose returned gifts
are beyond
all other words
except:
“Halleluiah…Amazing Grace!”...

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I drove the meaning of the poem home,
dropped her at her front door, then drove home alone.
And I never heard much more about her after that,
except a rumor that some scholarly types had made a sanctum of her flat,
where twice a month they meet to chew the fat....

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armed with lance and shield
embarks on ivory steed
approaches sanctum

nemesis sighted
embroiled in bloody battle
vicious creature slain

bestowed with honour
patron saint of a nation
commemorated

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(C) John C Michaels, April 23rd 2017...

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