Short Subtracted Poems

If only one is in the room then 10 came over but 3 left and 4 were subtracted, then 2 added but those divided in two, then half left.

How many are in the room?...

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We are
Two
But whole, in
Three
trusting
One
mathematically
fraction
of
Percent of time
Divided by
subtracted
lies
Truth, fate
we 
calculate
the root
the square
and compensate...

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let us face it
we are impacted
when love is betrayed 
soul’s light is subtracted

we live in an imperfect world
burning with sin and rage
love’s flag not unfurled
till we come of age...

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Listen to poem:

Lights & Numbers
David J Walker

When he said
Think ahead
I think he was 
Thinking of numbers

What I heard
(Silly nerd)
Was seamless dreams
In vivid colors of
Visions in
Slumbers

As the night 
	Lumbers 
alone
Into 
	Tomorrow
Morning

When numbers are 
Subtracted from
The meaning of dreams

And the deep sleep of
dreams is over...

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When she closed her eyes
the weight of the world went away,
she could be whatever or whomever
she wanted; nothing more than a dream to dream.

When she closed her eyes
the potential of the world was realized,
she could, with elementary arithmetic,
add it all up, give grace to God and be good.

There was not always time
to close her eyes.  Sometimes she had to watch
the world this way; bent and brutal.
This too she subtracted for God....

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Hymen intact, it was a long night
in the grave. A naked skeleton
trying to cover, after a broken skull –

by telltale hands. Failed weapons ?
To bring out the unborn child of a
rhyme? The shadow lengthens on the bird’s nest.

A moon subtracted from a sky, meets
the sobbing silence of a valley. The
virgins will be sold again.

Mind blowing pearl on a wedding day
becomes a dance of tsunami, engulfing a smashed
boat of a body.


Satish Verma...

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Sun overhead
Our shadow is small
Heart heavy as lead
Back against a wall

Consciousness contracted
By believing that the caricature
Is us, magnificence subtracted
Crestfallen at our fallen stature

Within the bubble of illusion 
We take to be reality
Sleep walking in delusion 
We are our own casualty 

Observing our coordinates 
From a centred stance
As duality oscillates
We see our schizophrenic dance

In stillness

02-November-2020...

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I don't always see things that I probably should.
I don't always do things that are considered to be good.
I don't always say things that are gonna be nice.
I don't always  think before doing,sad cause I always give that advice.
I don't always mean what I say even though I say I do.
I don't always believe what you say even when you expect me to.
I don't always listen, sometimes I'm just easily distracted.
And I don't always care, sometimes feelings are better off subtracted....

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