Short Supplanted Poems

The deeper you dig
the simpler it gets
Each question supplanted
—the truth in your debt

(Dreamsleep: October, 2022)...

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Sunshine effused into my cup,

nebulous…with vanilla silk.

Stir-and-sip splendid sunrise.

Murkiness vanishes, supplanted

by cheeriness and clarity.

1/31/2022...

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Smaller in the rearview mirror
the past retreats from view
Perspective changing rearranging
the old supplanted new

Fading in a dying focus
dust beyond the wind
Blowing wild beyond our memory
—fates forgotten hymn

(Dreamsleep: December, 2022)...

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A new year does not begin
Until the old year ends

There can be no beginning 
Unless there is an ending

A new dawn does not ascend
Until the night does end

New seeds are not planted
Unless old plants are supplanted

What all must you let go
In order for you to grow?...

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Feelings of elation
  Mingle with desperation

Doubts and fears
  Supplanted by cheers

Prejudice and discrimination
  Yield to acceptance and toleration

Laughter and mirth
  Follow difficult births

Ambition and greed
  Succumb to basic needs 

Defeat and despair
  Give way to hope and prayer...

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Let's just emote the dine!

Far to the North, we increase the enshrine, 
send our tails to the features-

Whale away with convenience,

And all the while-

No one clocks the mile~  

Our time was the picture,
every slogan here today pleases teachers...

Endemic, like what we wanted supplanted eases creature......

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An unloved woman
Is married to a mean ghost
She sees not nor feels.

Terrorizing her
And haunting another house,
He is like the wind.

Earth reels with tremblings
As his spirit takes a maid;
It can not bear it.

Now so repugnant,
She wonders in mystery
And is supplanted.

What predicaments
Caused spurn and frequent visits 
Of horrific love?...

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When nothing true you world torment
And brother unlike brother contend
To debase your hunger, and no relent
To snatch at grace when all offend
You met him trembling in his wide fear
Submitting all he thought you wanted
And gave him hugs, kisses, and your tear
Who did the birth priesthood supplanted
So let me be constant when met again
With barren thy ridicule, no virtue is vain...

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Genial waves of warmth 
speak through gentle rays 
 
Awaken my senses 
the marigold sings her joy 
painted steps are born 
 
Fragrant juniper fill the horizon 
gusts of innocence flush my cheeks 
first wiffs grab my being 
as soft touches trace her core 
 
Welcome into my sunlight 
white wishes still endure 
supplanted suppliant kisses 
you've entered through my door...

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A big black dog is following me,
Everywhere I go,
I don't know where it came from,
But it just seems to grow.
Every time I look at it,
It gets bigger, and more black.
I cannot make it go away,
It just will not turn back!

I close my eyes and make a wish,
But my wish is never granted,
And I feel I am just a fish,
Taken from the water, and supplanted,
Into a hostile environment,
Where it's impossible to survive,
How long can I suffer this,
Do I want to stay alive?

Tom 04/08/2012...

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Listen to poem:

Dance the winds of the night
against the shadows that decline
nature’s state of shining bliss
behind the breeze that remains

those meager echoes from the moon
are supplanted by the storm
the former master of a domain
befallen by the hurricane

the tempest building without regard
for lovers of the ball
a celebration that must proceed
even as the heavens quake

still the night has a charm
the choreograph will go on
in the ruins that may remain
the dance of winds until the end....

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