Short Steadies Poems

fluffing silver leaves
cottonwood steadies herself
glittering my heart....

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With his arms on knees steadies his lance
Searching for breath gives him a glance...

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it’s countless the ways
          your sleepy head steadies me
the moonlight shines on your hair
          the number of wisps
               only brilliance of God knows
in dreamy state, i feel safe...

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Bold-lit lamp, rained on, snowed on
Undaunted; undismayed.
Even of tree's fleshy torn strips
What is splattered for leaf.

Constant standing in one place
With this one fixed purpose;
Courage, nights! Which clear heart-way
Steadies as smooths beneath....

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One mint balloon dreams ceiling
to keep it from the sky, and
such balanced vision
steadies days by and by.

Until one day it takes a breath,
emboldened by greater sight--
one great sea has turned all gold from all the light.
With eyes turned desirous to float ever high,
one mint balloon adopts a new flight....

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tingle in the chin node steadies resolve
overseen by the threefold light of Christ within
with the flaming forehead and toroidal heart
entwining with enlivened spine and head ovoid
conjoined with magnetised palms and feet
pulsating all together in a rhythm beauteous 
epitomises our breath by breath sense of being...

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Tippy Canoe and Tyler too
Gray rabbit is on top with attitude, spots overdue
Red rhino steadies him as he leans
Balancing a blue ball, which is filled with beans

Rocket ship is kind of in the middle
played by a panda who is never second fiddle
they are all riding across the lake on a tan canoe
decorated by the busy gnomes from Timbuktu...

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failures and triumphs
whose

there is no one here
save presence
in a space-time warp
as has been impulsed
in this lucid dream

residual identity
sometimes resurfaces
that we may feel
transient tremors
seeming as real

overriding all sensations
the magnetic bliss current
as ignition renewal
steadies the love flame
as the false drops away

06-January-2023...

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SUMMER

The sun is high up
Crickets sing amidst the fields
The dogs are asleep.

MONSOON

A heavy downpour
Steadies down on trees and lakes
Vision is blurry.

AUTUMN

The golden leaves fall
They help beautify the ground
The breeze is happy.

WINTER

All the trees stand bare
A white sheet forms on the ground
A fireplace is lit.

SPRING

Birds and insects sing
New blossoms cover branches
We are delighted....

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in the stillness of every night 
we are enveloped by magnetism 
teleporting formless consciousness 
encompassing the absolute vastness
of both the manifest and the unmanifest

during the waking state at each moment 
toroidal heart steadies the energy grid
felt as a humming magnetic implant
creating vital soma nectar divine
within each cell of feeble form

we share because we care
hoping some souls will pair

16-February-2023...

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The hand steadies
Screaming in the mind
Eyes burn in holes that chill
A sight that tries to break a life

Heart pumps the blood around veins of life that must live
Memory explodes in anger
Shaking, trembling fear hits, damn it hits.

The hand steadies
Evil in a soul
Rises to the surface
Got to push it down below

Find silence
Sink into darkness 
Face the fear and fight once more
The smiling face of the body hides a broken soul fighting its own lonely war....

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I'm planting a rose today,
a knock-out rose
for you, dear friend.

My hands wield the shovel,
crumble and sift the soil, 
sprinkle weed inhibitor,
settle with water, 
and scatter mulch, 
as I think of you.

The rose bush steadies down, 
assents to your ownership
its limbs posing petals 
of pink, white, and salmon,
as varied and beneficial
as the gifts you bring.

Your art, your photos,
your words bestow peace,
benevolent as quiet rain
on a warm summer day....

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