Short Subsumed Poems

Extending East our line is held
Component men subsumed by steel
As individuals we meld
And standing thus preserve the real
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the end of the year's day
consumed in the setting sun,
subsumed into shadow.
a world destroyed
before begun.
twirling axis
centered
on a polar energetic praxis
cleansed in tides rising
entombed in lunar lapses....

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You enter my starry expanse—
every thought I try to hush brightens.
I tame my pulsations with restraint, 
afraid my asterisms 
will say too much.

You shift along 
til you entrain my world—
subsumed 
but never near.
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It’s a watercolour morning  
The sky a wash of grey    
In the gloom before sunrise  
No motion or sound, but for the  
raindrops in the river   
making broad brush circles 
that briefly touch then disappear 
subsumed by the water  
hidden by the ochre reeds  
that huddle in mock attention  
waiting for the palette  
of dawn to colour the day...

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She stood stoically fighting
the disease that crept through 
her dry trunk
Sapping her life,
withering her leaves,
leaving her naked limbs
silhouetted against the
summer moon.

Her Roots retracting from the
moist soil
lose their grip on the earth
Until slowly, imperceptibly,
She leans
She falls

Lying in her lost leaves
her resting place accepts her
Embracing her death 
with its life
Slowly, imperceptibly
She is subsumed
Until
Under a summer moon
A sapling grows...

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