Short Specimens Poems

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Premium Member Two Pumpkin Seeds

There is more than one kind of pumpkin seed.
One can be eaten, the other does feed.
A red dotted fish.
Or squash with a wish.
Both handsome specimens of nature indeed.
Form: Limerick


1951

Broken in circles,
this
spiral
down.

A remnant, 
a relic,
valid.

A black mass,
in vacuums,
incision.

Specimens,
cultured.

Future calling,
sleep,
docile now,
humble.

Humanity.

The expectancy of life.
This pregnancy of hope.
Form:

Teenagers In Love

Young she ...
         young he ... teenagers ...
         little mouths of peripheral blood,
         pink cheeks .... sweet perfume ...
         Sweet youth .. enchanted songbirds ...
          beautiful specimens in love ....
          As the God disposes ...!

Premium Member A Garden Is a Work of Art

a garden is a work of art
    conceived with gloved, wrinkled hands
  a home for fragrant specimens
    for mists, for rain, for brilliant sun  

  yet when the weather turns, so do blooms
    from rich perfumes to withered tombs
  so clasp tight my hand, retreat indoors
    to dream of sun-splashed greener shores
Form: Couplet

Premium Member EXPRESSIVE INTENTIONS

EXPRESSIVE INTENTIONS

small
  separate
    precise
&significant

sublime
laconic
  specimens
unfold
  &encompass
vestiges
  of
obscure
     imagesless
dialogue
of
  the spatial
                  realm
in
delineated
defiant
  visual
    contemplations
of
perverse
   illusions
of
  stimulated
    sentiment
Form: Verse


Premium Member The Dream Wanders Far Afield

The dream wanders far afield,
in search of a kindred tribe
that to cynics does not yield,
by princely sums not bribed. 

Far and wide, it sees many a face
that it can scarce recognize,
specimens of a hybrid race
born of wanton compromise. 

Oh where can it be, it wonders,
the kinship my heart craves. 
As the sky dims and thunders, 
it stumbles upon rows of graves.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member red gathering monster

red flower gathering monster landed in the field with care
A sweet smell of lilac, persimmons and roses in the country air
He gathered some posies to take back to his planet to share
a snake passing by asked to go along, and said “it’s not fair…”
because he was refused a ride to the planet Bon Jarno Au Pair
Posies were the only specimens gathering monster was allowed to share
Form: Monorhyme

Panopticon

Centralised survailance, concrete division,
Altered states or pre-determined road.
Eyes are plenty, our voluntary will,
Concrete specimens of men, perfection of the imperfect.

Das Uber-mensch, learned, ingrained wish,
Whether body or mind, the image haunts.
Fallable or diseased? Where is the harmony in shared breath?

Walk in line, worship the 1%, nanny's eye will act as guide.

Premium Member The Room at the End

And now we come to the special cases:
You know, they are at the edge of the living,
Questionable that they fit the classification

Just a little red gristle at the articulations
Very desiccated, like pampas grass
Flopping like straw umbrellas

Non-speaking specimens, 
What can they be thinking -
If anything?

Cradle one in your arms;
Isn’t it sad
What you think of them
Someone thinks of you

Premium Member Optimism of Goddess Diana

The only game to be found was one tiny runt
Goddess Diana was sent by the gods to help with the hunt
The forest was amazed at her animal power
She unleashed cumulus clouds who brought down a shower
During the storm beasts came tr to the meadow
Many fabulous specimens were leveled by bow
Can you come again soon? Asked a hunter named Todd.
I think you can do it yourself, Diana said. Thinking his request odd.
Form: Rhyme

#183

Hoeing there and 
trying to 
make the fake food 
stuff grow i 
found inside a 
cracked line some 
specimens of 

unarmed rat fish 
that had 
futon sponges 
glued to 
them along with 

all the other odd sermons 
about 
blundering humility 
and how 
the thin react to knights in 
white sat-
in sheets when the weak end bend-

ers play to come dribbling out 
their un-
locked crates and great granny nook 
          holes.

Gods

The heavens hold the stars
The eyes of gods shine brite
Watching their creation below
Once worshiped, now a fading light.
From creation born
Their power still great
Their worlds have changed
Subjects turn to science.
What numbers cant answer
Religion holds the key.
For our lives are still theirs
Till new worlds form
And their worship restored,
As sure as stars in their space
New specimens will admire
At the beauty, at the grace.
Form: Rhyme

Musicians

Under the aegis of darkness,
they trespassed narrow-edged ways —
wayward musicians;
spectre-framed and so pronto the
afflatus of restless painters and
hungry poets.
Mute and stout,
they seemed agnostics,
reclining on image-powers; thoughts
and dumb instruments facing earth;
such clout among them,
and countenance —dim —
turning them into a cluster of
strumpet-begotten specimens.

Moments of silence.
In their string-fashioned phalanx,
Untaperable fraternity.

Premium Member It Has All Been Done Before

You may think it's unique
That it's just
happened to you
at the moment

But it has all been done before
Anything that you imagine
has already taken place
It's nothing knew

It may seem
like it's a catastrophe
or that it's the greatest
thing that ever occurred

This is just an illusion
an illumination of discrepancies
fostered by time and space
bolstered by the relevancies

of disinterested specimens
that circulate through
the time portals
of everyday situations

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