Short Surreptitiously Poems

Steep sandy sea shores stand shining surreptitiously....

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Surreptitiously she painted her dreams under the cloak of night...

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There is a secret arcane flame
        that warms surreptitiously
      the coldest and saddest poems...

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Excitement
Needed
Truly
Heeded
Unrelenting
Succeeding
Interest
Achieving
Surreptitiously
Trying
Invigoratingly
Crying...

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Rain

Translucent orbs fell
Surreptitiously out of 
Heaven’s opened door 
Canvassing arid landscapes
With liquid condensation...

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Rivulet
      
       ripples

              mellifluously

       surreptitiously

lilt
            conflating

         into

a
demure 
lagoon...

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Express and Address All of the Mess

Ourselves have to surreptitiously express,
And much stress must be sure to address;
Feeling inside,
Refuse to hide;
All sins with wrongdoings should confess.

Jim Horn...

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No sounds at all - no noise, no talking, no music
No laughter or arguing, no banter
Just quiet -
Panic sets in - don't let those thoughts filter in!
Those thoughts that creep surreptitiously through
Creating doubts and fear and terror...

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three trotting turtles
slowly raise a cloud of dust
neck and neck finish

six hissing serpents
surreptitiously slither
escaping their pasts

three city ground hogs
shaking their "jay-lo" booties
cross against the light

John G. Lawless
©6/13/2023...

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Miss Milai murmurs many times to me
Ssshhhh! Snake slithers surreptitiously
Between benches beside your bicycle
My craziest carelessness: catastrophic cry 
Carrying my carriage, ‘then I cuddle



©2015Leonora Galinta
     All Rights Reserved





Nov. 15, 2015   1.23am...

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Earth was sending a long 
shadow on the moon.
A great night for both of them.

        *

A city of dreams 
lies still. A divine path 
opens for the erring earthlings.

        *

A night falls 
surreptitiously on the lake.
The moonlight was trapped by waves.


Satish Verma...

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Surreptitiously its
Tendrils caress,
Reaching out gently,
Ardently intertwining
Nonchalantly
Gaining ground.
Little by little, it will
Eclipse and smother
Heinously,
Overwhelmingly pernicious if
Left to become
Deep-rooted.


03.09.19

 Pick A Title, Vol 8 - Acrostic - Poetry Contest : sponsored by Edward Ibeh...

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each impulse
born pure
until coloured
by perception

feel it
see and know it
as it creeps upon us
surreptitiously 

both joy and pain
are but flickers
until magnified
by lower mind

bring it on
anything
we offer no anchor
for rancour

oh hermit
there is no one here
save a bliss mist
pulsating

20-September-2021...

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The town was
fissured.
It does not listen to me 
that moribund heart, now.
The biome was ready 
to set on fire all the smiles.

No person of god 
will lead the prayers to grave.
Let the dust meet the dust
stealthly and
you win the script surreptitiously.
Beautifully done, the obscene death.

A bruise spreads 
shattering the mirrors of perfect accident.



Satish Verma...

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In a pond, near a stream,
The barefoot little girl crouched silently.
Only the screech of a bluebird was heeded.
Plus prayers for a true friend.
That she really needed.

It was beautiful to see her honesty!
I observed surreptitiously behind
an Oak tree.
Such simplicity in her supplication,
I added my own to her angelical
incantation.



September 6, 2019

...

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A WIFE 

Someone buried my rights on previously set soil 

And I woke up with the glass between my teeth 

What are you staring at, he wondered surreptitiously 

And waved his hand, slowly, before my eyes 

Before I bit them off, one by one 

And the blood ran down, infecting the air with the dog beneath and behind 

I’ll put on the red dress, I said 

If you watch me do it....

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The Final Story

A ragged rhapsody ruminates in relentless repetition as the fathomless

fugitive foments fearful fragmentation thus ethereal eternity engulfs

egregious expropriation of quietus’s quiver quaking querulous quickstep’s

quest when stories surreptitiously seep silently seduced by savourless sadness

27th March 2018

Written for all my friends who suffer from depression...

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see how they run

summer come and gone
see how they run

frost, its icy fingers
touched our lands this morning
light crept sluggishly 
from behind the horizon
to do battle for prominence
here above my cottage.

the white-cold face of winter
smiled surreptitiously
arrogant in knowing 
that his power made all life run
before him as sheep, 
stalked by the white wolf.

see how they  run!...

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PAYBACK

blood oranges oscillate
within plundered peels

squeezed out surreptitiously
bleeding on her heels

clicking brutish jaws
on paper thin walls

the pied piper grins
with greenback gall

HOWEVER...heaven insists,
maligned orange restitution

purification of every last drop.
shark lust sees only the dark

heel-harpoons of every female
stab his comeuppance heart.

11/27/2017...

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I stand at temptations door...
As anger spurs a grievance withheld.
Surreptitiously you praise the incongruent
While flinging to the wayside the valuable.

Eyes closed to the importance of veracity,
You belabor simplicity with objectivity denounced
As you are drawn only to the iconoclastic.
I long to visualize cronyism obliterated.


The Contest sponsor Jerry T. Curtis
My feelings about those N/A's...

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Longingly, desire to see your face

Achingly, missing your company

Jealously, checking on your emails

Languishing, in your caressing arms

Surreptitiously, following you

Suspecting, your infidelity

Persuading you, to do what I want

Laughing, when you say unfunny jokes

Nine times out of ten, your forgiveness


(Common traits of people who say they are in love)


Used howmanysyllables
Date 5/13/21...

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Far more words than 
open ears --
a world of chatter;

words everywhere -- 
difficult to avoid such
precipitous splatter…

poets use them, vociferously!

Politicians use them, surreptitiously!
Ministers use them rapturously

Words live
when they are infused
with passion; strengthened
by conviction -- 

my cat says it all
with a well aimed look

twitch of her tail

occasional meow

and luxurious purr...

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Creaking shadows, creeping over fettered floors
Shattered suspicion, silence cutting jagged scores
Preening portraits, conspicuously hung in full view
Callous hands, bleeding memories which do accrue

Adagio movements, nigh nocturnes of orchestrated harm
Prowling predators, facetious footsteps which do not alarm
Opulent treasures, gaily gleaming behind double doors
Pirated stars, surreptitiously swept off to foreign shores...

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Stakeholders, 
are coming. 
There was conflict between 
logos and mythos.

One black thorn 
was in the flesh.
You come out of the body
to find the window.

One long eel-
surreptitiously enters, 
in the guts- 
to pluck your eyes out.

But you were 
already dead-	
after the search of slant light
coming from the liberation.

Crossing the 
time zone,
you enter the black hole 
traveling at zero hour.


Satish Verma...

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Curtains or Venetian blinds,
Drapings, shutters, shades
Serve to keep our privacy
From peeping Tom parades.

Everybody loves a glimpse
Into another’s space,
Surreptitiously, of course,
And never face to face.

Which is why our views are blocked
With drapery or blind;
Thus it’s more enticing, wond’ring
Just what hides behind.

Often, though, we’ll get a peek
At furniture and shelves
And people who, ironically,
Live like we do ourselves....

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