Short Sediment Poems

those flying f-bombs
a thinking impediment
some speech sediment...

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The sediment courses with questionable energy, murky and conspiratorial...

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JEALOUSY   a haiku

       bitter thoughts
passion coffee grounds
          sediment...

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Boil me down, 'til I'm only sediment.

Dust in a bowl, composite parts, base elements....

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Pet Rock in my palm,
invent of late twentieth
century and hard
mass of mineral, able
to soothe without sediment....

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Barren escarpment
Atoll of detachment
Reclusive compartment
Recycled sediment
Eroded embankment
Nook of rejectment...

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blue sentiments make
mental sediment, so clear
your mind.  point your face
towards the sky, or you'll have
an ostrich's head in sand....

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SENRYU 12/25/2016

Christmas Bells

dormant hearts sing praise
arise, stir the sediment
renew faded dreams

John G. Lawless
12/25/2016...

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Don't say that slander is as dangerous as a deep torrent
And people who’re banished sink forever like sediment. 
Although with painstaking filtration the panning is bound, 
Only when the sand is filtered out, can the gold be found.
(Tran.)...

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Shrouded in imaginary fear
Consciousness contracting
Illusionary demons sear
In dark shadows cowering 

Cause being our attachment
To that that is impermanent 
Self blocking bliss contentment 
Stagnating in gluey sediment

03-August-2020...

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Ego rested, life is but play
We live in the moment
Rapture rises, we gently sway
Free from lust sediment 

No memory recall
Here and now is the all 
Ensconced in a bliss squall

Feel joy crested
Ego rested

04-January-2023
Quietus ...

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After the flood
We tallied the living,
Scurried under the Earth,
And invented new prayers.

There was a hungry need 
For sentiments under the sediment.
We pushed like rainbows against the dirt.
Our new songs would take 
10, 20, 30 years to bloom
Upward and outward.
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lava spews red glow


angry flow casts fear-


boil sheds bitter truth



rock pool overflows


droplets mock shallow borders -


drenched tears surrender



waste land heaps anger


worms wiggle madness


leaps of treasures rise above


06th February 2020...

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Northern breeze
blows golden leaves,
Spinning down
from maple trees.

Fall-foliage
blanketed knee-deep,
Rest around rich
scented sediment.

While the crunching 
Sound echos, 
Over the canvas-
covered Converse.

Swirling ...
a constant melody, 
Around the timeless 
day of the season....

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Lower nodes dormant,
no dark sediment;
to complete the grid,
they now do as bid.

Choice of love or lust,
matters not to dust,
alive by God’s breath,
love it’s sole soul wealth.

Here now, bliss replete,
earth learning’s complete;
sparking innocence,
soul’s luminescence.

28-March-2022...

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triassic thunder 

echoes through fire storm and rain

triceratops falls

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blackened sediment 

dripping slow rusty waters' 

one mammoth unearthed  

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~Wonderment~


crowded museum 

children straining, gazing high

huge bones stand silent

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A P.D. Contest

Poet-Rick Parise

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Life, A melody
Meticulous blending
Of sorrows and joy
An unknown peninsula
Where we gain weight
Too long to fly
Stick to our own plates
Rapturous in Proportion
Inducement sediment
Parameters of love and lust
Sneaking hours of indolence
Gagged life unworthy to live
Only one way is left
Luscious hours
But you should burn them all....

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I keep my remote distance:
controlling volume,
sweep of channels--
omnipotence in the palm of my hand.

Of course we know
in our hearts
this is foolish--
the entire exercise
or lack of;

the sediment life style
or lack of;
death in an easy chair--
too easy to die,
far too soft 
and cushy
to take shape 
and usefully live.......

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Inevitably, the changing color,
beckons to the ground,
upon the earthly sediment,
which churns with great resound.

Supporting roots to wander,
til the southern most sunshine yawns,
the deepening reds and orange
swirl around -- all around.  

Resting in the valley
ferns and trees are intertwined,
Basking in the sunlight,
Solitude resides....

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eddy's leftovers from - life's sediment-alley-time currents
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musing a roadside can
send a mental image of...

a sediment-alley time-traveler
stilled yet echoing past times...

in memorium of some time-current beats miss't
that changed an eddy to a send-a-mental tune...


stan sand...

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Thoughts, words and deeds in perfect alignment 
In resonation with pulse of conscience 
Presence vibrant, in perfect contentment 
Thoughts, words and deeds in perfect alignment 
Devoid of narrow ego sediment 
Flowing thus, in divine entwined parlance 
Thoughts, words and deeds in perfect alignment 
In resonation with pulse of conscience 

23-March-2021...

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john died..

his earthly bones offered to sediment
tangoing with gold flecks and blight
his soul woven into the tapestry
of eternal light

before he left
he sowed rows of gems
across the universal garden
for birds of paradise 
to 
perch upon
breath in
gently palm
weave nests
temper feral hearts 
with waves of warmly calm

john died..
John the Poet died...

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Two Rivers

Stark naked she slowly shrivelled her exposed vacant mind

shed dry viscous tears and filled the empty river in vain

Exhausted petrified her and the stream her inner self 

bared to rugged contraction with one final squeeze flooded

the truth that she floated on sediment nevertheless


17th November 2016

5 times 14 syllables howmanysyllables.com...

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Wall Street


Like the poor, the comfortable
you will always have with you.
They hold good jobs, then

get better ones. Like coyotes
they grin and walk slowly
in circles. They hire,

even fire each other.
They wed their own kind
and selectively proliferate.

Theirs is a constant harvest.
Their voices are a sediment
thickening on everything. 


Donal Mahoney...

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Good Mixers


Like the poor, the comfortable
you will always have with you.
They hold good jobs, then

get better ones. Like coyotes
they grin and walk slowly
in circles. They hire,

even fire each other.
They wed their own kind
and selectively proliferate.

Theirs is a constant harvest.
Their voices are like sediment
thickening on everything. 


Donal Mahoney...

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