Short Scrutiny Poems

I akin to your scrutiny,
Gawking back at me
So strikingly Blue...

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birds spring the branches 
positive cut scrutiny 
end of the winter...

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his rogering scrutiny —
the sexy satin clings to 
shape of his buxomly wife
begging to be shed

10/10/2018...

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cinquain

cosmos
of perfection
warrants man's scrutiny
finding our Father's fellowship
Eden

written 13 February 2016...

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Like stomach acid
Your observant scrutiny
Digests every flaw;
While the weak wooers scurry
The patient one grows stronger...

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Dangling thoughts
Of your brilliance 
Dream about the days of destiny.

The wondrous slots 
Of due diligence
Fill their chairs with the pace of scrutiny....

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Scrutiny of Mounting Mutiny

Wanted to feel secure so had a scrutiny,
Of what would  be big mounting mutiny;
How  they react,
To body contact;
Immediately knew ir required immunity.

Jim Horn...

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Opportunity for Scrutiny

At first, found it to be an opportunity; 
After I had looked with more scrutiny; 
Wondered around, 
And balance found; 
Me and my bank account had a mutiny.

Jim Horn...

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Acclaim and fame
sudden
as a March wind,
so quickly
               fade..
pale
      under scrutiny
on closer inspection:
gilded hoops
through which
to jump,
into
the bracket
of
real life...

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There is something in absolute nothing ---
The purest form of exact idealism ---
Cleansed of all prefabricated points of scrutiny ---
The essential quantity of virtuous emptiness ---
Which is all that I have left....

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putridity rhymes with acridity
  for the same reason that
tumidity rhymes with turgidity

and tepidity is to vapidity
  as solidity is to rigidity
'course, all this has no validity
  ~ 'til they check my lucidity...

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Indigence and torch light might be beguiling to a visitor
When he aches for his anguish to deter
Chase tension and scrutiny avert
Yet enduringly rubbing shoulders with them hurts
Amounts to additional burdens and strains exerts....

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Am I just something provided if you lean?
How do you think I want to be seen?
Short I am but is there need for such scrutiny?
I just want to be loved can you see?
Leave me alone, just let me be.
I guess it will always just be me....

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Soul is subliminal
seemingly surreal,
stupefying, still a
sedulous, scrupulous
scrutiny shows those who
seek salvation savour
stupendous sensations

22.04.2021
Inspired by : 
Contest Name : Pleiades S
Sponsor	: Kim Merryman...

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CALL TO ACTION

Whether it’s chance or destiny
It is just what we make of it
There will be time for scrutiny
Whether it’s chance or destiny
And should we start a mutiny
From which we all might benefit
Whether it’s chance or destiny
It is just what we make of it...

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The blue bells assume you came to save me; you're yesterday's love anyway,
A fragmented secluded infinity, no expectations, just sadness and melancholy.
Leave me now, I am exultant and proud, I retain my scrutiny,
Let us not pour fuel on to the burning wreckage no more....

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As warlord of the ticking count…
  time marches uncontested

Avoiding every scrutiny,
  defending every lie

All seasons caught within its grasp,
  each day a slave in training

Order becoming disorder again
  —complexity denied

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2019)...

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Translation trends
Truths forgotten
Languages lost
Estimating
Guestimating


Inadequate scrutiny
Self fulfilling prophecy
Warnings waved
Rewritten in self interests
Applied apocalypse
Engineered ending
Discrediting disaster
"Nature" knew best
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My Heavenly Father
lifts my head up again, 

strengthens my aging limbs,
breathes life into my dreams.

I view with scrutiny
my future destiny.

He gives me the foresight
to walk my life-path right.


3/17/20

Alexandrine - Modified Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Dear Heart...

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Nomadic memories
nurtured in mind's eye as
necrotic curtains part.
Naive sanguine beliefs
nourish scrutiny 'til
novelty rendered moot.
Nirvana was falsehood.

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(C) John C Michaels, 30th April 2017

For the "Pleiades N" contest sponsored by Kim Merryman.
(3rd Place)...

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Shan’t one discern
Between a reverie yet to conclude?
And unprecedented retribution?

Society may think it dexterous
To berate the triumph of others
And reprimand them
in exclusive and dire scrutiny

Though such a sycophant
Becomes aroused by
The fashioning of controversy
An indictment is questionable...

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Sadness scrambles to survive
and tears become termites

Self reliant moles taint speechless lips 
and form explanations yet to ripen

Tears that reject wiping 
smear pride's respiratory system
leaving heart beat unpuffed

Humility is Reality

What makes sense
is not always understood...
And weeping ensues....

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timing

there is this place that we all come to die
we wait for the right moment
when the world is not looking
then we slip into obscurity
into our own history
which is personal
private
not open to scrutiny
or prying eyes
when we are dead
we bar the doors 
the windows are locked shut
so that we may live out 
our death in peace...

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The light of my salvation
That created me to worship thee
In all my joy and misery.

The light of my salvation
That saved me
While I was on my knee.

The light of my salvation
That carried me 
In the days of great burdens and scrutiny.

The light of my salvation
Thank you for forgiving me,
For all the things that I did
That displease thee....

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He was frightened by direct scrutiny.
He frequently was a pinball machine.
He knew he couldn't talk in this mutiny.
He was frightened by direct scrutiny.
After airflow, he repents fluently.
The naked truth is still taboo when seen.
He was frightened by direct scrutiny.
He frequently was a pinball machine.

Written: May 09, 2023...

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