Short Small Time Poems

BRANCHES WITHOUT LEAVES,
MESSAGE GIVES.
COLD BEHAVIOUR OF NATURE,
IS FOR A SMALL TIME.
AFTER THAT, 
ALL WILL BE SHINE.
LIFE WILL BE IN FLOW,
ALL TREES WILL SMILE,
IN EVERY WIND BLOW....

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Twenty-two twenty-two caliber guns,
With twenty-two ammo,
Pointed at me....
By twenty-two small time hoods
Each having done twenty-two years apiece...
I'm hoping twenty-two times,
Twenty-two twenty-two's
Ran out of sufficient gun grease!...

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‘Tis true, time waits for no man, but moves swiftly along
     Age to eon, in big laps or small, time is never retrievable
          Once gone it can never be recaptured, even in song
               Moving inexorably forward into realms unbelievable.


written May 24, 2021
entered "Time" Poetry Contest
sponsored by Chantelle Anne Cooke...

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Some Old, Short Ditties
(doggerel)

I.
Our sojourn on Earth
is of diminutive worth.
Our small time is spent
(and no more are we lent!)
long before we're ready.

II.
Drunkening wine of heady
illusion obliterates thought
and causes confusion.

III.
Fleeting is life!
Fruitless existence!
'Ere any purpose
is completed
life is done --
and we're defeated!
'...

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Double-sided mirror
Deceptive reflections
Void of truth and beauty
Faith a small-time felon
Captured in a tight snare
Beyond pleasure and pains

Purchased books not read
Portraits not painted
Houses without roofs
A nonfunction heart
Stagnated living

Showing cold love
Unresponsive
To blank feelings
Reprimanded

Double-faced
Characters
Manifested

Human
Beings

Cruel...

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the aunts come for coffee
in their daytime dresses
always sharp with lipstick
they take long drags  on their cigarettes and wave their hands
in the smoke
while they talk
in small whispers so we can't hear
and then louder
about whose baby is due
what cousins getting married
more coffee
in nice weather they'll sit outside
big Jackie O glasses
small time 60's ladies
heading into  the revolution...

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If you wait, it may be too late……………………...........A
Simple thought to make that…...………………........STITCH
An action which, wisdom proves not to hesitate...IN
Dealing with a problem large or small…………........TIME
Is of the essence needed to capture, as it.…….....SAVES
Future toil and trouble eight times out of..…….....NINE



For Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen's "End Line Word" contest.
I hope I did it correctly....

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Times change along with faces and names
Somethings stay the same
Living with shame
Searching for fame
Don't want to live in vein
Or go insane
Its only me to blame
The man I became
My soul set aflame
Unable to tame
This isn't a game
So take aim
With a small time frame
For it maybe near the time our LORD came
To reclaim the ones who proclaimed
I don't want to be one of the unclaimed

3/16/2017...

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One bright afternoon,
The sky began grumbling as
darkness fell swiftly.
While rain pounded my windshield,
my heart matched it beat for beat.

After a small time -
darkness fled as my heart lost
its pitter patter,
and the brightening sky changed
to the blue of robins’ eggs.

Above the mountains,
a lovely bow stretched across
the sky in the east,
and my heart beat as softly
as its soothing pastel hues.

(see "about this poem")

For Debbie Guzzi's "Transformation Contest"...

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Small time girl,
Just me,
With big time dreams to just be happy..

In a city so full of people I feel so alone
In a city so full of streets I've nowhere to go, nowhere to turn,
I've learned that everything comes at a cost
But with so many roads here how can I be lost?

I just need you..
These are my innermost thoughts that I'm writing down,
Echos of cries and pain I've found,
I don't want to be sat here feeling these things,
But sometimes the world has a way of clipping your wings....

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