Short Straying Poems

My hands stumbled through the wire
choppy, noisy; I wrestled 
over distance of long miles-
straying from her voice...

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Addiction.
Secret, self-destructive.
Craving, blaming, straying.
Blind to what your loved ones see.
Possession....

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Our nature is a beautiful sight
Gives us so much pride
It takes us to Spain 
Or keeps us straying in the deep alleys of pain!...

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Straying
Haiku: by Tom
1/28/2021

Too often man strays,
from God’s appointed pathway,
a fatal mistake.
...

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My mind is straying towards 
A staircase of the unknown
One vibrant as relativity 
And puzzling
For realities perception
Is fading on my thoughts
Like staircases
Decaying...

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P eople with belief
A scribing to a cause
S pirited in action
S trongly focussed without pause
I ntense of feeling
O bsession that overawes
N ever straying - ALWAYS yours....

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Las Vegas Strip Spraying

Last night there was a strip spraying;
Bullets were straying and bodies laying;
Agony there,
And despair;
We wonder what message this is saying.

Jim Horn...

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Hoping, pleading, watching, waiting, Coping with the games I'm playing. Mad that I'm 
Straying. I'm not the same. I'm disobeying. I hear every word they are saying. Stop 
preaching. Start Praying....

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Giuliani and Clyde and Bonnie

Trump again had gathered in Giuliani,
And with him is also Clyde and Bonnie;
Some were saying,
Bullets straying,
While trying to steel much more money.

Jim Horn...

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Either Laying or Playing Than Portraying

Low for them Trump really was laying;
Usual around always would be playing;
Like a doll;
Does appall;
Likes to lie and from laws is straying.

Jim Horn...

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Hearts cannot deny
straying hands once touched
love’s jagged edges,
searching for escape,
finding each other.


©10/18/2017

submitted to – MINIMALIST FORM – Poetry Contest
sponsor – Nette Onclaud...

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oh my wilful heart 
            straying so far off the chart
                   sultry work of art
            she’s ready to play her part 
               julia makes a great tart


By
David Kavanagh...

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Playing and Praying

While a piano had been politely playing,
To God was graciously praying and praying;
My fingers manipulated,
And great song created;
When fingers stopped straying and ricocheting.

Jim Horn...

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Beautiful iris flower,
Some petals folded down ,
Instead,

Many are  upright, however,
Making a pretty crown
Indeed!

Tantalising architecture,
Fragrence in profound,
Appealed !

Nectar lover pollinators,
Straying all around,
Hurried!...

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Haiku  Straying Husband

forlorn ice slit bedroom
frail flower between your legs...
ardor expires

Tanka   Stay At Home Wife

hours ravage ardor
supple sin envelopes grey
thick belly obscures
erotic athletes wrestle
loyalty in lieu of love...

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THE MOMENT

It is not the many rainy days
Weeks, months, years we waited
Hoping we'll be found
By one, the beloved;
It is enough
quiet introspection
Holds us strong, from
Strutting and straying
With deaf ears,
A Greater love awakens us.

*...

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Tied to customs
never straying
affraid to differ
stay on the path
forget your beliefs
or be prosecuted
beliefs too different;
you are weird
beliefs too similar;
you are a poser
life is hopeless
filled with chiildren
not litterally and yet mentaly...

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I wish you were my brother, 
the son of my mother,
This was the true dialogue with my soul,
in many many days in a row.
Until the cankerworm came,
and my straying passion I could not tame
this left me totally in shame.
Now, I need a cure, 
so I can be pure....

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FLYING   FREE



Strings hold it tight;
Wind lifts it out of sight.
Without both,  kite cannot fly  -
Nor orchestrate the silent sky.

A son stretches away
From parents’ song and what they say:
He’s straying from the fold  -
They’re slackening their staying hold....

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Bittter Litter Quitter

He had been known as being bitter,
After they looked at all of the litter;
Loosely laying;
Some straying;
Started a rage caller Litter Quitter.

Jim Horn

https://www.poetrysoup.com/poets/
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I am now Number 4....

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Children are gifts of
gold
Sent from heaven, for
Us to behold
To treat with LOVE, but
seldom scold
And, into thine's own
Image-mold
So, they on "Doing the
Right Thing", will be sold
Never straying from this
path, while growing Old
As they travel down LIFE's
long, winding road...

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Lest I falter by the wayside,
Hold my hand and lift me up,
Help me endure the bitter cup
Taking your place near my side.
Never straying far from me
Being there for me when I’m sad,
Sharing my joy when I’m glad,
And I shall forever grateful be.

Written September 23, 2022...

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Alcohol, So fine, So smooth
So calm yet So strong
It brings people together yet is so straying
It makes you forget all pains, but brings more for life-long

Cigarette, So silent, So much it attracts
So expressive yet So devastating
It makes you relax
It makes you feel energized but weakens you in the long run...

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Drifting soundly, oh so lulled
Over pearl moonlit waters
Purpose views, beneath a cloud
This stray forever straying.
It seeks to find an answer lost
Within a deep so empty
To flee a place so rich in sin
And bathe in pool of justice plenty. 
I stare beyond that silver seam
For time is ever lending
Waiting… just waiting
A wait forever pending....

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Every season has a message
meant to stir the human reason.
Easter isn't just a rite of passage
but God speaking in due season
to a world straying from His purpose.
No time for fervent praying than now,
that God turn all eyes to the cross,
where His love for the world stands,
offering to all a life like His.

© 2017 Celestine S Ikwuamaesi...

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