Short Slouching Poems

With slouching branches
The skin breaks to flower pods,
And the willow weeps....

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(Nay Say No. 4)


Standing or slouching
He is so fly -- when
buttoned and stretched ~
Oh my, so pleasing to the eye
Is it your beloved?
No my dear it’s my blue jeans!...

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She looked at him.
She saw him slouching,
saw the lay-z-boy bones.
She thought of the man she once knew,
and he now more chair than man -
stuffed with kapok.
© 20 days ago...

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Waves
slouching
soft
against
the quayside.
My thoughts
stilled;
at peace.
Sky devoid
of seagulls; clouds
contrast with 
moody
tones
of the
horizon
above 
pav-
onine
sea.

...

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Her book was disturbing,
  in an antiseptic kind of way

Cleansing words of their reluctance,
  periods gone—commas laid

         “Tribute To Joan Didion’s
       ‘Slouching Toward Bethlehem’”
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2017)...

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It was a Friday evening.
She looked at him.
She saw his slouching.
She saw the lay-z-boy bones.
She thought of the man she once knew,
now he is more chair than man,
and filled with kapok.

What? He said, sensing her look.

She forces a smile, "nothing".
She thought, "it knows"....

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slouching in a pink blue chair
any chair
the room is not square
with two eyes oblique

the lines vanish 
to many spots 
somewhere 
anywhere
between the ceiling and the floor
the walls and the door 

the room
the world 
like Picasso still lifes
a collage of shapes
colors and textures

are like many people...

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who, US?
by Michael R. Burch

jesus was born
a palestinian child
where there’s no Room
for the meek and the mild

... and in bethlehem still
to this day, lambs are born
to cries of “no Room!”
and Puritanical scorn ...

under Herod, Trump, Bibi
their fates are the same —
the slouching Beast mauls them
and WE have no shame:

“who’s to blame?”...

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As a child I was always in the shadows,
Only to be seen for something I was not.
Slouching low for fear that I'd be seen.
I planned it all, I planned my plot.
Day by day
Step by step
I'll live my life "my" way
Without a second thought.
Now a days i'm wondering what happened
To that promise, that one true plot.
I'm not only still in the shadows,
I'm in the complete dark a lot....

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What holy crown will twine
around the serpent's head
great slouching shoulders turned
draw back my head and wonder 'pon
the wisdom of the world.

Take my hand between those mountains
bring up to the beginning
mighty cawing
mulberry smiles
it is not enough to prove.

These promises are whispered
through dripping pointed teeth
with blood upon the 'morrow
how can you possibly sleep?...

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Slouching, sleepy in the little arm chair, eating cake,
Our country on the screen, there isn’t much at stake.

Drowning out the tacky tunes with our laughter,
It’s harmony,you see, that everyone is after.

Harmony, like this, in your living room together,
Flags and funny costumes, it’s times like this, nothing’s better.

Maybe peace is best achieved through art,
Oh Europe, please

keep open
your musical heart.
...

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Hunched over Harry had a humpback for sure
He never learned to stand up straight, but his motives were pure
Children ran from him screaming for their mamas.
He felt sad about this, so only made friends with his llamas.

What is wrong with him? Someone asked me one day.
Nothing, I admitted. He is really a nice guy, truly okay.
But he started slouching over when he was in junior high.
No one knows why though; no one knows why....

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Hunched over Harry had a humpback for sure
He never learned to stand up straight, but his motives were pure
Children ran from him screaming for their mamas.
He felt sad about this, so only made friends with his llamas.

What is wrong with him? Someone asked me one day.
Nothing, I admitted. He is really a nice guy, truly okay.
But he started slouching over when he was in junior high.
No one knows why though; no one knows why....

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So, I'm slouching before my noisy heated up laptop, randomly dropping in on waves made by others surfing the 4G. 

Then in my head, from out of nowhere, I ask my-selves;

Why is it that the word ‘Life’ starts with the same sound as 'Lie'?

And, how do we actually know that we’re telling ourselves the truth when we really ‘Like' something?

And, our ‘Lair’ could quite honestly yet simply be changed to ‘Liar’ by speech or by typo.

Just saying....

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Silver-haired princess
Masks her heart with icy glares
Russian secrets bloom
Whispered words like snowflakes fall
Melting on his unhearing ears

Classroom desk neighbors
She scolds his sleepy slouching
Yet yearns for his touch
Pen scratches hide heartbeats quick
As spring thaws winter's silence

Student council's queen
Wears a crown of solitude
He sees through her guise
Their dance of shy glances spins
Like leaves in autumn's crisp wind

-...

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The Rough Slouching Beast 
has been born
in Washington.
Upon its birthing
what bastard sunrise
were we promised
to relinquish our souls?
What white dawn
in darkness
was actually
immune cells
rallying
to fight
a growing cancer?
Now that it has begun
metastasizing
upon our national flesh,
tell me,
O toothless sages
of our faith,
what is your plan
to restore
our birthright
of azure, blush mornings
while we can still live
to see them?...

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Slouching on the evening train
Ravelling through old anxieties,
It better than eye contact with robots
Haplessly Shuffling on and off 
The deepest and fondest memories appear
Through the thorny ripples of mind
Speeding down memory lane
First memory, first bike, first bruise
First Day of school, no front teeth
Fast forward to first date, 
Sloppiness of that first awkward kiss
First love pangs of distress
Until at last your realize
You passed your flaming stop....

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Droop of eyelids
Tipsy blur swirls
Sleepy form bids


Plunge into twirls
Plain arch and curl
Snore in loud swirls


In a fast zip
Body feels numb
Crash easy trip  


Sleep floats sense dumb
In breathing prance
As motor numbs


Face slouching falls
Breeze into trance
Watch slumber call


Hear strange deep trance
Journey and all
Sleep grabs fond chance


Siesta now swings
As dreams unfurl
Old strains that fling




Leon Enriquez
27 November 2016
Singapore...

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