Short Siphon Poems

Come let me hold you, 
siphon away all the pain; 
You re light in my arms....

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Let’s Have a Drink

Here lies the woman who poured booze down the sink.
You can take out the siphon; let’s have a drink

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
January 24, 2010

Poetic form:  Epigram...

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Siphon your hope
barricade against your accusers
You should be a contender
Polish Lens like Spinoza
Nature is mathematical Godliness
Tell us truth is neigh
as we guide our silent prayers
into transmutableness...

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A firefly in an ox eye's petal
tread those  October chestnuts
A siphon of a lie within a parchment
Lovers touch on the realm
Golden cup poureth
Assure broken  schemes
A way to love
A way to give
The rain falls low
but the wind rides high...

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AFRICAN SUNSET

Watching the sun sinking into a golden horizon,
My heart’s glad as I watch the evening sky siphon,
The scorching heat from an African day,
Giving reprieve to all life that may,
Rest until the morrow, now a day older and wizen!...

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That dream where staircase
turn to oil beneath feet
and like quickening sand
drags you underneath
appearing in a bastard black sea
blackend sky and black clouds shiver by
sun black hole siphon off the light
and black beach
never felt feet
and in the screaming black
i look back...

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They say,
“If marriage is a boat, 
then many of us are in the same boat!”
Well, who steers the ship?
Don’t mention it is “Fate”,
Then, in case of evacuation
all travellers will need 
a huge siphon or gate, 
In that case, 
it will be a common concern
yes, but
what if the fate sits on its stern?...

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I gaze a stalky single-helix cradle,
Squished so in seemingly hydrous blue cover,
Attracts square substantial planes in a bundle.

I embrace now feather's mass helve to ladle
Psychic portraits siphon to it in wander.
My fist fiddles as it scribbles on oodles.

Cuts of a suckling tree, soil, river fondle
Paper, pen, poet in cahoots as lovers
Rupture of a skeptic smug gnostic noodle...

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My blood never aches unless she is nearby Ameoba foamed at the mouth while repenting
sedative games Larvae linguistics of dead tongues fold the river by the lips I got a
prayer that’ll siphon off our blood As water quenches a blazing fire God damns my shadow
bound by the sender The burns a taunting to dissolve in you I gotta rid this world of one
who is starving A monument hidden from ravens in the sand...

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You parallel my humility with weakness
You take me as meek; spiritless
You scorn my modesty as frailty

So you think it is okay to dishonour me 
To conduit your frustration through me
To siphon your indignation, 
'cause you surmise me as submissive! 

I may silently weep 
But I ain't a sheep 

And the day I'll speak, 
I will roar, I will roar
And I will roar louder than a beast. 

Never again take me as meek; spiritless
As submissive, spineless....

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They do not spend their time at home
the way most families do 
Talking of the day’s events
and dreams they will pursue

Oh no, this family’s different
they’re led by dirty Don
Steeped in lifetime swindle
a master of the con

Bit coins, crypto, real estate
corrupt in every way
Saudi secret deals are how
these grubby grifters play

Now they have a new account
they’ll siphon from each day
It’s called the U.S. treasury 
no doubt, their greatest prey

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Drop by painless drop 
Washed down the drain, 
Flowing to a stop 
Free from my brain 

Hysteria and torment 
With regret to follow, 
Make their descent 
Amongst fear and sorrow 

There they all go 
No need for them now,
Still learning to do so
Was never taught how

So deeply instilled 
And clotting my veins, 
Their intention fulfilled 
Until I took the reins 

To draw the old strife 
Siphon all the negative, 
Right out of my life
For a chance to live!...

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