Short Scanned Poems

winged raptor's high perch 
moonlit field carefully scanned
flight triggers panic...

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Between tastes and sips
        noble Vienna café
          Freud scanned Sigmunds.....

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John Betjeman you have to say
the most famous rimer in his day
His bio scanned truth to tell
as he rhymed it so well...

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If it were to happen today
When the star above so bright
How to ape those of yesterday
When scanned in an era of byte.

 © Harry J Horsman 2020...

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Eyes from a distance reveal the man
  Strengths, weaknesses, gauged and scanned…

Close-up, they open upon the soul
  Plunged in mystery ~ Pupils of coal...

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   Hercules peered out on the dance floor
     spotted beautiful Delilah holding court

   Scanned the room for Samson but 
     saw a chair where hair'd been cut...

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I scanned all my shoes with my eyes

What I concluded was no big surprise

        As I recall

        It was me brought them all

They're all my favorites and they're all my size....

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Bright Beach with Shiny Sand

When on shore sometimes scanned and scanned,
Sight of bright beach  that contained shiny sand;
Waves washed in,
Again and again,
Then I had blocked out rays of sun with my hand.

Jim Horn...

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I have to say that Shakespeare
Wasn’t really on my mind.
I scanned the menu, wondering
What lunch deals I might find.

The diner had a special
So I ordered it. Besides,
Who could resist a Caesar salad
Offered on the Ides?...

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At the desert junction
        of hope and despair
     We scanned the horizon
        to seek passage there

     Yet just when despair
       loomed ahead in the sand
     Emerged hope, our oasis
       on a prayer's caravan...

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From Trump This Do Demand

To know from Trump this do demand
Why treat Rose like she is second hand
Food tastes bland touching long tongue
And takes advantage of heroes unsung
For sexist things computer have scanned.

Amazing what you find out about Trump
in his Trumpapedia.

Jim Horn...

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My soul, like a sea gull,
Poised in the midair
and scanned the wide and
shimmering surface of the sea.

Taking a stance to dive,
It swooped down with
grace and swiftness
and scooped up its prey--
Leaving behind unexplored
the treasures hidden in the
deep bosom of the sea,
as it soared skyward!...

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ABEL  TASMAN    -  DIARY  1642


Long since we left the quay,  
My glass has scanned  the astral dome.
Bright though these stars may be, 
They are not the stars of home.





5  January   2020

…………………………………………………………………………….

NOTE  The Dutchman Abel Tasman discovered Tasmania, New Zealand, and Fiji....

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Nother round of fun at hospital.  I was x-rayed, y-rayed, cat-scanned, dog-
scanned, sun tanned, lobotomized, hypnotized, capitalized, cross eyes.  All copd 
and heart failure again.  no sleep 4-5 days.  didn't eat for 3.  just couldn't breathe.
c'est la' vie.  it's the way it is, and gotta grin and bear it.  Later'....

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a lost and other soldier
scanned across the sky
a film as big as texas
a man as much mountain high
i gripped the chair arms
lost in the space
between the cowboy words
a soldier of the prairie
a ranger of the plains
an american man whose low call
brought in the dogs
the cows remained the same
lost in the cowboy...

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visual
scanned living sunrise dissolve
to deadpan fall of dusk

audio
whispers broadcast sweet
to escalating screams

olfactory
perfume scents of rose
to blast of graveyard musk

taste
lip-synched cherry kiss
to sucking blood of dreams

tactile
vibrant love and hate
forged in gossamer fire

conceived immaculate...

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On yonder strand
In bridled land
A motley band
With vigor fanned
Across hill, lowland
With self righteous brand
Seeking brigand contraband
From each licentious hand
To forthrightly remand
Every highway spanned
Tolls, tribute to demand
Each pilfering cleric did reprimand
Then every bloated collection was 
panned
Every royal vestige scanned
Gratuitous coffers to expand...

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Where could I find thee?

Plunged into waters deep and depth
Flew into blue high to get a clue
Ran 'NEWS' round the globe's
Scanned the cues found no views
Searched in the fire wide spread dear
Ringed on the 'wire' to ask every near
Logged on the net World Wide Web
Tried every woods fine with bloom's
Nowhere could I find you, why?
Except in my heart and soul, hey!

By Harinath Vemula...

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I LOOKED INSIDE THE BOX
A LOT OF GARBAGE THERE WAS
I FETCHED AND FETCHED
NOTHING I FOUND
I BEGGED MY MEMORY FOR S O M E T H I N G
TO CLING AT
A THING TO MAKE ME HAPPY
NOTHING CAME OUT
I FALSIFIED HISTORY
A LITTLE CHEATING CAN DO NO HARM
A LITTLE WHITE LIE CAN EXTEND MY BREATHS
A TRUE LOVE STORY
I PRETENDED
WITH A LOT OF HOPE
AND SATISFACTION
GLAD I SCANNED THE BOX
FROM A DIFFERENT ANGLE...

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The graveyard's vast, the grass was high.
I picked my way amongst the graves
and thought, Like these, I'll some day die.
I scanned the rows of headstones there -
it looked as though no one came near;
I'd come to show at least I care.
So many stones, the names now gone,
anonymous, forgotten, lost...
So can it be the soul lives on?



written 12th October for Constance's Tercet contest: Death...

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My father left this rocky coast
Upon a southbound brigantine;
To make his fortune, he did boast,
Six months along the Argentine.

A lighthouse lit our lonely cove
For more than fifty years in all.
The beacon of my mother’s love
N’er quenched a night, as I recall.

Long have I scanned the sky;
My sons have come and gone. I cry:
“O, who shall carry on the light
That shone in mother’s eyes, so bright?”...

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My eyes scanned the ground 
Looking for something beautiful to be found
Gloominess filled my soul, 
And in my heart there was a large hole

Until its beauty appeared to me, 
Joy I did not not see
The little lines lie smiling at me, 
And made my heart jump happily 

You see, life without little lines 
Is nothing but a caterpillar 
But if you find the little lines in life, 
A butterfly it will always be...

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The other day
I lay for an echo of my heart

The technician scanned my chest and sides
I could hear my heart pant aloud

Oh boy! Was that a chugging train,
a distant wail, water gurgling,
or a rhythmic rub inside an empty tub?

The guy sure was at frantic speed
wailing all the while

Thank the Lord 
He has made sure
we never hear
the perturbations
of this friend of ours
labouring inside each of us
all twenty-four hours
...

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I did a little reading,
 scanned the poetry of others bleeding;
okay, I did a lot
 many hit the spot,
You know the one with hope
 where everything you wrote
is not near as good as those you read
 not even the random thought in your head;
a smile, a laugh, a gathering of tears
 took me back in time to better years
that spoke the words poetic
 written on the page to bloom rejected
then finally some inspiration
 not a moment too soon....

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A world in need of spiritual balm
 Many have lost the way,
 Your faith may give you a lift
 When from the truth you start to drift

 The prophets have told us of the times to come
 Where beastly motives will prevail,
 A new world order to mark the times,
 And a 3 digit number will rule the day

 Economies ruled by a beastly mark
 No cash or card needed at the register,
 Raise your hand, get it scanned
 It's time to check out!

 5-22-2023...

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