Short Superficial Poems

Superficial girl
Beauty, undeniable
Gaping, empty void...

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Make love the long way
beyond superficial
almost forever...

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Defiant actor
Passing superficial roles
In love's theater,
Blessed by her charming entry
He's able to play himself...

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Despair not, 
The wound is superficial 
The arrow only grazing 

Your death mask delayed

The pain is real
But the end, 

far from us...

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We skate the frozen face of reality
Above the deep dangerous dark
We make our superficial marks
Not too deep
For fear The Dark will mark us
And visit...

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She pooh-poohed his smallish gift.
He looked glum and she looked miffed.
	No diamond in sight,
	She did not delight.
Her love for him was set adrift....

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Glass looking 
Mirror shots
Happy times 
Post mark
Expensing just character
Improvements pattern cast
Dividing superficial power
Melting pot requirement...

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so potent,
a scarce resource
the essence of
true love,
comes
not by chance,
oust the negative
radiates
itself
hold love aloft-
the only antidote
to all things 
superficial...

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Harold's hope at love was nill and none
A groomsman at fifteen weddings
No pretty gal caught his eye
They seemed superficial
He was a great catch
People liked him
Mom said so
Single 
Still...

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Only fake gold needs to be gilded with gold,
Real gold doesn’t need a gold mask to hold.
To pass the exam entails years of great effort,
It’s no use talking ideals for superficial comfort. 
(Tran.)...

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These superficial notions of love,respect, and morality have a tendency to tell others how to think and feel about them. Anyone's way is no one else's business, anyway. To a large extent, at the very least....

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Love is poison masked as bliss
People change like the seasons
Life ends, oh to soon
Young grows before it's their time
yet,here we are
Living in a superficial world
Oblivious of that that goes on around us....

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FDR said, "A radical is a man with both 
feet planted firmly in the air."
How inspirational.
How impossible!
A radical is original,
Revolutionary!
Just as long as it's not a 
Superficial 
Conservative!...

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superficial courtesies
hollow social chatter 
mundane inanities
are so wearisome 

let’s go extempore
rid of habit patterns
free from all bondage
in communion with soul

16-January-2023...

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Be an evil Zionist 1 
Support genocide and Zionism 2 
Be silent 3

or


Be a human 4


The difference between Love and Hate
obvious to some
oblivious to the superficial

Dial 0 for Freedom Fighters
...

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The 'crucial' material, superficial and trivial,
Affects subjects in context of perfected defects,
Venial miracles, remedials for the cynical,
Introspect. Project and infect, this selected side-effect.

14/08/17...

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Touching the divine
Immersed in the Aesthetic
Finding beauty in Simplicity
and a true Wonder in Functionality

to gaze upon true beauty
is to see the Glory within
in lieu of superficial pleasure
free of virtue, free of sin...

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Like Hollywood
politicians play a part; 
not from deep within
nor high above,
their common nature
a superficial ego…

though as poets
we command our seats 
of beauty at all cost--
as God
Our obedience
to enter…....

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Never known such an obedient dog
Our Annie, understands our human dialogue
We often have to tell her
“Stop biting”, she concurs
The flesh wounds are usually superficial, thank God


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Further Or Worthier

Maybe impact might have been initial,
Wondering how much to make it official
After analysis which was much further
Decided to facts no one mat be worthier
Looked deeper to see what was superficial.

Jim Horn...

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Until eye meets eye
The thought wavers:
Appeal I, to his
Superficial need?
Albeit the heed
Of skirt-chasers.

Until lip greets lip
Doubt's chill sets in:
I'm not loveable!
As worthy a love
Felt but for a shove
Friend's friendly in!...

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Into darkness without my friend,
Every hardship has an end.  
But to struggle alone, when you ask for help… breaks the bond you both have felt.
No person is worth more, than what they give.
So when you reach the end , will you also be missed?...

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superficial  
don't delve deep
within  
focus on 
the external
surface 
no need to 
go any further  
limite knowladge 
no need to get to know
the inner person
no need to get to know
the past versions of self 
who truly cares
anyways...

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The ancient men of letters spared no efforts in studies and
Their feats were derived from hard work since adolescence.
The knowledge acquired from books seems rather superficial,
A thorough understanding comes from your own experience.

(Tran.)...

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We all think we're more than the score
And we carry that thought to the core.
That we are individuals and deserve the best above all the rest.
When really here we all are veneer--
A superficial glue of material that binds the inferior 
To their exterior...

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