Short Slanted Poems

through slanted eyes 
she reads my mind
scratches my patience
then glides on by...

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No fountain of proof,leaving truth to stand on it's own.
Like, a myth 
Slanted, sideways
Passing on by ways
Truth...

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How thick and blunt is the eclipse tonight!
How thick and blunt and deathly black
Are the slanted bones of the eclipse!...

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slanted autumn light
gentle breeze shifting shadows
summer’s soft goodbye

ALL YOURS (March)
Contest Judged:  3/1/2021 7:19:00 AM
Sponsored by: Brian Strand 
First Place...

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Perfect universe

I gave her 
  the moon,
 she handed me 
  the stars
     and together 
  our love
    created a 
      perfect universe



Ok, slanted Monoku :)...

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Our language in Canada and the USA
Originated in England but we've drifted away
Since the Mayflower landed
English got slanted
Quite unrecognizable in downtown San José...

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Our language in Canada and the U.S.of A.
Originated in England but we've sure drifted away
Since the Mayflower landed
English got slanted
Quite unrecognizable in downtown San José...

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Quiet Moments

Sunlight beaming through the slanted shutters
Tiny dancing dust particles floating mid-air
Underneath desk a sleeping dog snores
Vanishing baby dreams
In my quiet moments, they haunt me....

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With his slanted eyes 
like a tiger,
and with his nose
like an eagle,
His lover’s face 
a beautiful stretch of countryside;
I think they have a lot 
in common,
and soon,
we might see them
as a groom and bride...

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Why am I in morning in
here the slanted season, 
and now you've befriended me 
like the King Of Golden Gulls,
and now my blinking has retired,
leaving me in broad seismic senses,
stretching my gods to cover what I like....

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Heavy on the rocks
My weight burdens Earth's unrest
Slanted eyes recall

What brought me here now
Seeking like winter fauna
An alert peace stills

Sonorous in clouds
Above my deep distance
Birds seem to call me...

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Can I journey to perfection 
On the rails of evolution
Or must I relinquish my ticket 
To a Conductor unseen, and to me unknown?
Is the road upward 
More slanted than downward
And can I know why 
Before the end of the trip?...

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Forging through
 Destiny will befall a crimson head
 Wrapped in silver tongue
 
 
 
Slanted, the gift jury rigs
 A court appointment dusting
 Off today's wig
 
 
 
A jester posed as unsketched
 Captures an ear briefly
 Searching the discount rack...

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I blame it on the light
pretending. Auburn bright and Autumn
too.
Fainted dim of our December
imparts the solemn fall of all to
view.
Crass comes the stilted body, amalgam
in the slanted rain. The April rains a timbered
soak.
The rings. O time! O time remains....

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In disbelief
Phosphenes shine
All I see
Is only mine
The trails
The ghosts
The U.F.O.s
The me I am
The highs and lows
Glimpses of truth,
Wasted youth
Implausible outcomes
Photo booths
Distorted views
Slanted trees
The little sights
I can’t unsee...

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Seasoned daylight ascends
dominion happening 
upon the bends of merriment
for every venue she sojourns
the fruit of her existence
blooms with each slanted petal
as they settle among the squares
cleaved within the terrain
a beauteous quadrant affirmed
????...

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When you are feeling extra blue.
You just wish the earth would bury you,
In your mind let the earth make a mound.
Gather all the joy you have ever found.
Don't let anything in life seem so slanted. 
Tell the world that you've just been planted.
...

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We are chained together
Beneath the belly of 
This cold dark slave ship
Drowning in this sea of humanity
Hundreds of captured slaves
Peeking through the wooden cracks
Praying for the slanted light
To touch and free their souls
This human cargo 
Bound for the new world...

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One tear slides down a slanted cheek
A silver line, the only sign

Of anguish which she does not speak
Insistent smiles, bright by design

Thin fortitude, her whitewashed shrine
Gilded answers rain, lily meek

She lies and says that she is fine
When truth is too fearsome to seek

2/1/20...

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Little nothings
Unimportant
Mere slips of the tongue
Omitted truths
Slanted or tinted
Not meant to hurt

Each one 
A drop
In that ocean
Drifting them apart



AP: 2nd place 2021

Submitted on February 24, 2019 for CONTEST 565 sponsored by BRIAN STRAND

Originally posted on February 23, 2019...

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God I know you love me,
you said so yourself,
I'm no better than anyone else.

Please forgive people who kill,
as I walk up and down this slanted hill.

Until you decide to call us home,
think of me, I'll think of you.

Walking with you on your very path,
or sitting here doing math,
your with me, God you are here!...

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        I've been Taken
	Written: by Tom Wright
	1/27/03
	
	I’ve been taken for coffee,
	also, taken for a ride.
	I've been taken for dinner,
	and I've had taken, my pride.
	
	I've been taken to the cleaners,
	taken there left ego slanted.
	The two places I refuse to be taken,
	is for a fool or for granted.
...

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the shamegasket…
sealed to its shame

pounding pistons
steam-hiss-bang

don’t let go
won’t let go

polymer of repression
weakening, yielding…

No!

slam-whish-clang
drive-control-wield

must…hold
can’t…help me…oh no

letting…go…now
yes, that’s it

Blow! Blow! Blow!

oil-stained junkyard
slowly spinning

slanted yellow moon
mocks twisted hearts...

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Everyone's entitled to
Whatever's his opinion
For no one holds the power
Over intellect's dominion.

Yet sometimes it's preferred
To keep those slanted thoughts inside
Since sharing them may paint a picture
Others may deride.

No one likes a message when
It's shoved down someone's throat
And that's the reason why I just
Deleted what I wrote....

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Winter is playing tricks on us now
We may get a frost tonight somehow
Only 35 degrees this morning too
I hope it only turns to morning dew
Flowers to be saved, beans already planted
This change of thinking, seems a bit slanted
However, all this is chilly and true
Winter needs to stop playing games
     -   With skies so blue   -

Heidi Sands

5/12/18...

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