Short Sum Total Poems

“The sum total of cooperation with love is infinite whereas the sum total of war-disagreement is an end”...

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going
slower
then slow

i cross bred
a snail with
a sloth and

so 
taking two 
to make one

the 
sum total
outcome

is
rush
hour...

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who ever
said math
ain't fun
i believe i
did at one
time but
then found
the sum total
of these equations

? + ! ÷ by !!! = : )
yet
: ) and ( : = mmmm
furthermore
/ and * plus \ = /*\
thus the total
1+1= 1...

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I am not
the sum total
Of people's thoughts
Nor am I the
Manifestation of
People's conversations
I am not a
Recreation of people's 
Imagination
I am a unique design
GOD made
Created for the
Master's use
I am His
GOD made...

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Is honor sum total,
or dolled out by degree

Can it live through confusion,
and your failings to be

Are those moments of weakness,
made up when you strive

To become more than just living,
eternal—alive

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2019)...

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Colors of what real life is
Cultivates it's self
Between highs and lows
Feelings marking hews
Embarking routs
Dark then light
In all fullness
From womb to marriage
Carrying events
For sharing
Seasons of happiness
Showing, Caring 
With a fleet of daring...

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Once a haggard old chap I met
Who had to tell a sad sad tale
“Now I know how life to hate!”
This was the sum total of his tale.

“Once a youthful beam I had
Like yours so broad a good smile
And upon my hand the gourd I held
The wine on faces did put a smile!”...

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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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sum total 
of recollections, 
of expectations, life;
all that can no longer be undone, 
all that is yet to be done;
what has finally gone, 
what is yet to come;
the irretrievably lost, 
the hopefully promised,
a continuum 
of everything that was, 
is, will be,
the midpoint 
of which 
is the here and now, 
the two of us, 
you, 
me....

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storm
   after storm, 
       rainbow after rainbow,
         loosely strung together,
             the sum total of all I am;
                all these cheer up
                my weary, wasted mind,
                touching, healing old hurts,
               soothing new pain,
              as they ease their way
            through  my soul, 
        lifting me up, the way
      they always have,
   and maybe 
will....

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A snail crosses
along a razor's edge,
from it's past, complete.
To it's futures, separate.
And just before it's twin selves
slide down the opposite sides
of a steely wall
it's last thought 
captures the totality
of it's trek.
The atom in the
quantum corral,
a mirage of the discrete,
or a sum total of all?
Deck chairs and boats
in a Duchampion universe.
How would our own years
be viewed,
ninety degrees
from the razor's edge?...

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