Short Selectively Poems

I've chosen this path 
to take by my own free will 
I'm in no hurry   

at this cross section 
the road less travelled is good   
I'm glad to be here    

in this cul-de-sac
of sedentary and still   
thinking, as an art...

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Things tend to have a deeper meaning 
But, we see selectively 
The direction is there 
It is not used completely 
We are often confused 
As a result of the ambiguity 
Pain and darkness walk in 
Nothing but a clouded scenery...

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A black cloud 
rains selectively 
on the dispossessed, 
a wretched lot. 
 
My billowing abaya 
now clings to me, 
revealing my form. 
Their glances lacerate. 
 
The road stretches 
to the horizon, 
but has swallowed 
my expectations.


Palestine, 1948...

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Permission To Include Incision

We wanted to mention a provision,
Allowing and giving  us permission,
To try and do;
Help me and you,
By Congress including an incision.

Jim Horn


Hope it was done objectively, selectively
and totally unbiased as well which would
be so swell....

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I have no doubt that is a D-flat, he insists,
No, no, that is a C-sharp, she persists.

It is okay having a nuclear U.S. and Russia
but definitely not North Korea.

The world can live with a nuclear Pakistan
but obviously not Iran.

A rigid set of standards is applied to some
while exceptions are given to the other ones.

No wonder the world is such a mess!...

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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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Your hidden precious smiles
that selectively rain on my face
as water from heavens above
as drips from underground cisterns 
the silver touch of your  fingers
that paint secrets sensitivities on me
the face full of pleasure-shines
are delicious food for my heart
and drink for my hungry spirit
these secrets I tell no living soul
or else someone works his way
through cracks and holes...

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I’M SO ANNOYED
When what I say is true,
And I can’t get through.
A flash from my past…
They seem to have no clue.
Déjà vu.
A small wrong that I detect;
A missing check or bill to correct.
Selectively deaf to what I say,
Insistently, I attempt to convey.
When via the phone,
More frustration prone.
A voice in an unseen space;
I want to confront you face to face!
No matter what the reason why,
I’m so annoyed, that I could cry....

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memory recalls selectively
forms our heart holds dear

memory however is flawed
freezing the frame of time

but time itself is an illusion

reborn here a million times
each immersion as ordained

wisps of straw we hold on to
are twinkling stars in the sky

to which form should we cling

all is one and The one is in all 
each inseparable from source

may that that never was die
that that that always is shine

pulsating with love and light...

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"Found in Sleep"



inside me
escape routes
found in sleep

dreams close 
the dark train ride
dissolving this reality

heaven finds 
it own way 
to reach me 

once in a while;

it and I 
are marking time 
selectively

(LadyLabyrinth / 2021)



“Heave Ho”/Ben Howard
https://youtu.be/joeOXcI1jmY







LYRICS / “Heave Ho”, Ben Howard
https://genius.com/Ben-howard-heave-ho-lyrics
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