Short Set In Motion Poems

Consciousness…
foundation of the universe

Awareness set in motion
—building block of time

(Dreamsleep: January, 2020)...

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the city awakens
as the sun slowly rises
gears set in motion



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Posted on April 16, 2025...

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Frivolous action,
begets random outcomes.
Heartache and despair ensue.

Reasoned action,
entails planned results.
Success ensues.

Heed your actions....

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A river of black birds streaming in air
Just above the bare tree tops
Across the busy street

Were set in motion by busy mobiles,
And I could not see the end
Of that stream above me....

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The 4th dimension,
  space and time

Godel agreed,
  Einstein opined

If set in motion,
  the future passed

Time self negated
  —its truth recast

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)...

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Slur in time move side to side 
deter all hesitation;  
Transfer of lively hormones, 
pure magic set in motion;

Buy one more heighten the buzz,  
high on what it’s feeding me;
My mind is on a joyride, 
I wonder if you can see....

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Early morning, sky true blue, full moon above, peaceful

All quite quiet, beautiful like a piece of fine, clear crystal

Oblivious to the commotion soon to be set in motion

The silence is broken with each scurrying to find life's direction...

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A universe 
Set in motion
No one else 
Just the ocean

A big world
It's simple math
God looked down
And set a path 

A great nation
Not much to see
Oh there we are
You looked at me

A little town 
A little store
You looked again
But I looked more...

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koan cajoles
habit patterns
to freeze in time
to transcend mind

the medium
does likewise
through hypnosis
actually de-hypnosis

but if presence be awake
in animated spontaneity 
empty like vast space 
there is no polarity 
and hence no reaction
to vibrations set in motion

the arrow piercing space
is simply a non-event...

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Seconds are ticking by swiftly
 In the eternal song of time,
With the rhythm of each moment
 The clock begins to sigh

 Its hands are set in motion
 Never to go back,
 The present ever fleeting
 And the haunting of the past

 There are infinite possibilities 
 Each day bestows on us
 We must seize them quickly
 Before procrastination steals them

 7-4-2020...

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Enthralled by the notion
A mermaid could set in motion
Such powerful devotion
Causing ludic commotion
She offers an elixir of love potion
Stirring powerful emotion
Feels much like an implosion
Monsooning into an explosion
Down to the bottom of the ocean



Submitted on August 4, 2019 for contest DEVOTION TO OCEAN sponsored by CHANTELLE ANNE COOKE  -  RANKED 1ST...

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Caught in a fog of elusive dreams
Apparent enigma of the imagination
Stirred by seductions wants
Mesmerized by shadows gaze

Quivering under breathless tones
Set in motion with cryptic phrases
Anticipating the next deadly move
Realities temptations

Words whispered sweetly
Tongue of liquid golden honey
Breaking past boundaries limitations 
Moistened by dreams wanton desires...

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Place your hand on your head
As if it were a winter cap
Spread your fingers 
But don't take a nap

Wiggle your fingers 
In a writhing movement
Now that old brain sucker
Is set in motion

You know what that
Brain sucker is doing
He's sucking your brain
But it is an illusion

In actuality his belly
Is quiet empty
Soon he'll starve
For there isn't any

He only sucked a mirage...

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R.K.
An uphill battle is all we were or could ever be
We collectively from the outside-in make perfect sense
But two cents and two more
Somehow cannot amount to four
In all your complexity
Bothered with my simplicity
Distant marks so prettily spark electricity
But only momentarily because inevitably
It  becomes evidently clear
How terrible we would end
If we ever again set in motion
This train wreck....

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beyond the summer sunrise, 
the tender touch of blue reflecting in your eyes 
- from heavenly skies

the wind- whispering again, through my hair- 
along clouds of marshmallow cream, 
it’s like a dream

love being an echo, 
around every moment and sensation i know, 
calling and falling everywhere
               
emotions are set in motion, 
with depth and devotion


~ tender moments ~...

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Grown Up

I weep
now and then
simple things
a song lyric or
an old photo
touching me
in raw places
sliding past
thinking parts
that used to be
sentries at the gate
protecting me
from hot-wired
exposure to myself
instead
defenseless in the 
heat of contemplation
glacial walls melt
frozen anguish and
freeze-dried pleasures
transform
set in motion
once again
animated
newly weightless and
simply passing through......

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The scenery of you is a dream within my dream,
Interlaying into a kiss by which your soft lips set in motion unknowingly,
It consumes me and
It overwhelms me back into the sweet and fragile reality of we.
Of me, of you together as nightfall sets beautifully like a songs melody,
While the soft and pleasing wind takes hold and caresses our fair skin as if it were a blanket,
Made to embrace two lonely roses like us into lover’s oblivion....

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A dream without an action
Is like a mission without a vision
Or an emotion without a notion
A true commotion set in motion

All will be in deep sorrow
If we slumber today to dream of tomorrow
Hunger, famine and thirst will follow
If with our strength in dreams we choose to wallow

But all who dream should stand and work
Pledge their strength and give their word
For Jack will be dull if he plays with work
And all will be slain if we sheathe our sword....

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My head spins in your atmosphere
So you to think that you can interfere
Cooking an egg before it can hatch
You started a fire with a lit match
Struggling to breath in a room full of smoke
Spinning as I’m falling with a stroke

I never knew the sight of my beautiful face
Until I watched you launch into outer space
I never swam like fish in the oceans
Until your open sail set in motion
Now I'm spinning out of control 
In the opposite direction to your soul...

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I did something, I thought of something.
Some processes were set in motion.
Now I’m wondering. Now I’m thinking.
I consider an impact of Heaven.

What was made by chance, and what was not?
Some of my reactions were instinctive, 
Some of my actions had to come from God,
Some work was in vain, some was constructive.  

What mechanisms were activated?
What power does move the unseen strings?
Am I a free being or a puppet?
I am full of dilemmas and questions......

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