Short Sightless Poems

Barfly Gallops~
sightless old Pauper
Plops hugely...

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Sightless people often see things missed by you and me.
...

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Blinded blindfolds
never sighted nevertheless
sightless eyes open...

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 Moths and flames are God's cliche
For sightless lovers and the price they pay. ...

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sightless darkness smirks
across grinning deck flesh flies
deaf ears, silence smiles...

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Which Do You have
Haiku: by Tom
123/27/2020

Foresight looks ahead,
Hindsight is twenty-twenty,
Sightless requires braille.
...

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silent souls sing songs 
sightless see shimmering sky ~
scarlet silence speaks 

March 1, 2023

Alliterku Poetry Contest (2nd place) 
Charles Messina...

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Sightless eyes do cry. 
But not because they are blind. 
But for what they miss. 
They will not see past "I want", 
to see "This is all I need"...

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You rain upon my senses.
Your ruby-dark triangle
an opiate of drenched blooms.

Lost now
in a blood-warm memory,
saturated
by your ghost.

I turn my sightless face
to a blank wall....

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Haiku is 
 Lucidity 
Unseen


Senryu 
A sightless eye 
Does not see the deep night 
Blindness has no hue 

Haiku 
The shrubs by the road
Is full of dust thrown up by cars 
Discarded dreams...

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Who is this old woman who sits in a chair
Eyes wide and blank in a sightless stare
Attempting to edit her past unaware
That her life ticks by in couplets and pairs
And that where there is nothing, nothing is there....

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Listening to the fan
Blow my blues away,

I drift off on a plain
Of sightless hollow,

Wondering.....

If I'll ever find 
My home again,

     find,

         my 

            home

                 again........

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Let me be a light
A beacon
A hope
For the sightless

Let me be a shelter
A home
A refuge
For the homeless

Let me be music
A song
A melody
For the unhearing

Let me be faith
A message
A word
For the unbelieving...

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A Wanderer’s Path
………………………………………………
The route seems forever path in darkness
No returning and no receiving end
Beyond eternal dreams, blind and sightless
A wanderer’s path to belong the loneliest of a man
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Sown by beings courageous
The seeds of unsayables
Streak across landscapes echoless,
Vast and conscious of our mindsets,
To sprout home a shift paradigm
That gives insights to the sightless, quake not,
And voices to the mute....

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The sun was shining through a dull sky.
But then there was dawn brightness.

Yet, a massive lightning bolt is on its way. 
Then burst the rain, keeping us sightless.


Written: October 22, 2021...

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No dreams
Only fantasies
In the bed of insecurity

No vision
Eyes open
But not to see

You’re just a reflection
In-sightless
Incapable.  Incomprehensible.
Tolerable.

Hold me now
Take away my feelings
Sway me. Save me....

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The sightless sky 
Walks into the blind night
I share your dreams
You are welcome to die in
My mkhukhu in mahikeng

Mkhukhu:human dumping grounds called houses by the south african government. the worst replicas of the favelas in brazil...

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Inlove,
I see not;
I need spectactles
because love veils it all
I'm unable to see
nor foresee
hail:
it's so dark
dark, I see no light 
love's shadow covers
this love is just unsighted
feelings sightless
love is masked
love's blind.

Drencho POET Loads...

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Raised on Punch and Judy punch lines,
Kennedy-tears, King’s dreams.
We stood, short, sightless,
mingled in knees among the hot August freedom crowd.

1/29/20

for Greg Barden's Arbitrium Divisa 7 Poetry Contest

excerpt from Aged in Baby Boom, written on 11/2/19...

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EMPTY   AIR



Seagulls crying in the wind’s force
And struggling ‘gainst the empty air
To express their soul’s lost course
To other gulls not there
Cannot match the deep and hollow
Mournful groan of the forghorn
Warning that no one should follow
This sightless path of hope forlorn...

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Wooden figures
Held together by iron hinges.
A bit of glue here and there
But you wouldn’t notice it.
They’re all the same,
But that one with the crack?
You hate it.
It stares at you from the shelf
With an empty glare,
Always wanting to get closer.
But you leave it there,
And there it stays....

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this netherworld
this hospice of broken souls
this travesty of triumph’s trauma
blank pages
telling stories
sightless readers
sifting the ash
of scorched lives
charred character
seeking solace
			 on the edge
					   of night



©10/14/2018

for – Soap Opera Titles Poetry Contest
sponsor – Sian St. John...

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I reach for you in this darkness and find you gone,
Budless bloom of a forsaken thorn,

Nectarine of my life, song of my night,
Conjure thyself once more to bless my singed sight,

Search me now and see my grief,
In you lieth my only relief,

Water my withered roots and sire another tree,
Entangle thyself deep inside of me....

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Blinking and breathing in secretive silence
Fending off feelings of misapprehension
Trying to function in passive compliance
Ignoring repeatedly twisting of tension
Sitting in darkness with nothing to mention
Blinking ’s a sound of sightless defiance
Waiting for light to blithely appear
Knowing that reason can  deal with the fear...

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