Short Substantial Poems

Disadvantages
Inadequate provisions
Yet substantial waste!...

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I love that even
in the darkest night your hand
can always find mine....

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The joy is greatest
Pain equally substantial
The source is the same


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Thin line of justice
in substantial evidence...
guilty or guiltless.

© Harry J Horsman  2012...

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A 
substantial 
direction just calls; 
Sitting undeniable
not
bored;
You just listen to your heart
beating like a drum;
Destiny 
tempts....

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A substantial wahine named Beulah,
To please her husband was learning the hula,
But the wind she created
As her grass skirt gyrated
Devastated most of downtown Honolulu.
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Oh Philip!

Queen Elizabeth, long may she reign,
Is the Head of substantial terrain.
She married a prince
Whose gaffes make her wince
But life's certainly never mundane!


19/08/18...

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Information Had Been Substantial

All the information had been substantia,
But we heard was purely circumstantial;
Never fail;
Dollar trail;
Trump convicted on data that is financial.

Jim Horn...

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If I was a flower
I would not be a bleeding heart
They are too petite and delicate

I could be a zinnia
colorful, substantial and perky
but I am kind of prickly
a happy large face Kansas sunflower...

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The boo boo gnu of pinkish crew had the Russian flu
Without a substantial clue, their jeu jeu curiosity grew
Whew! Said two, one who had a convoluted cough like moo.
Might have been spoiled stew from Café Rue down in the Loo....

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I like the full English
When it comes to breakfast
Something substantial
For a satisfaction that will last
None of that continental rubbish
All foreign and nasty
And what’s the deal with a croissant
It’s nothing but an empty pasty...

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DECEMBER DAWNS

with a crescent blink,
the moon awakens,
clouds fracture, and
the heavens sigh hello.

after days and nights,
of substantial rainfall,
the heat of Georgia

           /////////////
         /hibernates/


1/6/2016...

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Mine eyes see the bareness of her presents
Equipping my heart with your last breath
An earnest warm gentle kiss
These substantial most
Flowing,  streaming
Whilst my heart yet beating

7/10/21
Written By James Edward Lee Sr....

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Frivolous yet attention seeking,
Astounding yet absurd and going nowhere.
Sensationally pointless.
However, it's deemed cultured.
Instead we need something substantial.
One new medium of expressing our identities.
Not fashion but literature and poetic works....

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I take in a sunny day is like a tiny season, reading a bedtime story, while tucking the sky, lifting holy cover out of the heaven sky, angels sowed throughout the quilts, a scorch warming beams down, a blazing substantial temperature over the earth's ground.
- Loverboi...

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Do we live too long for the moment,
for our visions that fleeting seem?
Do we deem what is passing substantial,
and what shall abide a mere dream?

Was love brought by a moment,
by a moment stolen away?
Did the fire that burned most fiercely
turn the soonest ashen-gray?...

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Eat Your Cake

One time and many
the past you speak of
was my present
it was the icing on my cake
The yellow marzipan 
my dreams 
my pleasures
under that substantial
crust of sweetness
Now 
its remains 
sit in an old tin
forgotten
waiting to feed 
the birds in my garden....

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Roots and fruits , being the staple of earth 

Succulent varieties , distribute at birth

Bounteous cornucopia , gratitude pleasing

Source of life............. substantial meaning ,

Root of our foundation , fitting self fruitation

We bear the fruit of what we root.............

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E-nglish breakfast is substantial, 
L-ike ham or bacon and cereal; 
L-ife is happy with a sliced bread, 
E-gg of the chicken brings cool head; 
N-ice wellness although doesn't last, 
A-im not to skip English breakfast.

Topic: Birthday of Ellena O. Asuncion (March 28) 
Form: Acrostic Couplet...

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At this table, you continue to stay.
The dice have not rolled your way.
Are you going to get even today?
I doubt it.  That’s all I have to say.
There is substantial room for doubt.
It increases with each seven out.
Circumstances are not at all nice,
when your life depends on dice.
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Be now normal
Make it continual and ritual
Forget the causal
Stay put not frontal
There are many things to do factual
All things you are in control
Unless fatal and impartial
Do things substantial
Mostly it will be rational
At level, reversal
Mutual, dual
Pastoral, beautiful and fruitful....

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Time Has Finally Reached
Years Gone By
Toiling Tines Passed and...
Great Memories Made

Ladies of All Genres
Ladies of Substantial Value
Ladies with Charisma
Though We Had Clashes

Though We Faced Troubles
My Batch of Sisters with Perseverance
We All Made it Through

In My Heart, Will I Always Remember......

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The Ghost denied
he was a Ghost,

though clearly
I saw through -- 

Someone I knew
in life, back then
quite pink, substantial
with lots 
and lots to do – 

tried and tried
convincing him
all to no avail,
myself even now
more pale

till recognized he

dear friend, himself

who had

read my eulogy…....

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Some I call friends 
But they don’t let me in
They need you close
If you meet their own gain

The fibres of my heart
So deep and trustful
Become a wrenching heave -
A broken spirit, so humble

In a world of substantial fitting
And dependence on each other
With time, they could be you 
On their way to salvation...

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The sum total
just breath 
on glass
vials of substance 
and substantial
dust on shoe
your thoughts
your softness
like rubbed edges
Blurred memories
its sum total
measured or
spent
while you 
cautiously
frown 
while smiling 
Crying
graciously honest
believing honestly
confabulations
as lines writ
erased
forgotten...

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