Short Tenants Poems

The darkness angered
The shadows of the house wail
Clawing at tenants...

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the pleasure of sin
  the pain of penance

all across the earth's surface
  permanent tenants...

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The heat takes away my water,
The Flames lick my skin,
The smoke swallows me up.
My tenants flee from the unwanted guest....

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It all started in reverent passion,
When truth could not be sold.
Our lover beneath us, darkness above;
Lords and tenants;
Kisses and thugs....

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If doctrine and dogma
held a conference with reality 
and an agreement was reached  
on a common philosophy and set of tenants
Would that be a paradox or paradigm shift?...

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A
Bewildering
Catastrophe,
Disastrously
Expanding,
Falsely
Guides
Hereby
In
Joining
Killers
Living
Maliciously,
Nefariously,
Often
Painfully,
Questionably
Regarding
Sadistic
Tenants,
Unimpeachably
Venomous,
With
Xenophobia,
Yearning
Zeal...

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Target k ghar k aju baju tenants k roop me bandy rakhvao.
Target ki taaq me raho.
Moqa miltay hi target k ghar ghus jao.
Moqa na milay to kisi bahany darvaza khulvao.
Kaam tamam kartay hi nikal jao..
The success of an assailant's attack depends on surprise.Bruce lee...

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I'm engaged with the great hover 
As confusing as it, I ponder
I venerate its spry glory 
When I look in the high observatory
As imagine, I see 
With its plot guarantee
Winds cool, into red of elevation
For its ravenous tenants passion
All, in its stylish creation 
Of stature and functional question...

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At the bloody battlefield-
When he'll drain enemies,
His queen would be the power-
And I would be his peace!

He'll be betrayed by tenants-
They will darken his shine,
Two graves would be there
And the latter is of mine!

The Reign is not mine-
I am not his queen-
But to love my king the most
Only I can win!...

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Pregnant sky labors in misty cloud
Tenants of earth awaits the bath of life
Warrant is issued to eastern wind
Stagnant is earth and man's thrive


Rain now patters in Noah's days fashion
Vein shivers as cold infiltrates man
Pain enslave the worried thought and soul
Champagne is the savior of man


For Rick Praise's lento contest...

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Skid row bums
Dress for no occasion,
Refuse raiders
Need no reservations.

Drug-addicted tenants
Beg for coins and candy,
Deadbeat derelicts
Reside at Hotel Alley.

Gutter renters
Lounge against brick walls,
Vagrant paupers
Rise to no wake-up calls.

Psychotic transients
Cruise dim lit corners
Wayward sons
Fight without honor....

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Nature welcomed Man into her mansion and he started evicting the old tenants!* 






© Demetrios Trifiatis
   05 December 2016



*The total number of species facing extinction according to IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Species is 15 589. These include 1 in three amphibians, half of freshwater turtles, 1 in 8 birds and 1 in 4 mammals....

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How long will blood run cold?
Seven eternities, I’ve been told.
Generations wax and wane,
But our ignorance remains unchanged.
Love is a hut, we are tenants,
A piece of our mind is how we rent it.
Unknowingly riding the horse of death as.
Cherry blossoms are but a second.
The only reason we can’t change fate,
Is because we don’t do anything but wait....

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The apartment leaks their footsteps.
Ghosts avoid them
they live on in the fabric and pith,
die in the gist and substance
as fragmented recordings;
the former, the previous.
Once they were the replacement tenants
now you’re the usurper.
They won’t speak to you,
for you are not there,
however they will arrange and restore
what you thought was yours
as you dream of being....

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Loneliness visits
when stranded alone
Confirming the emptiness
—lost to bemoan

The darker the moment
the thicker it spreads
To lie and to cover 
—my spirit in dread

It blocks every motion
I make to get out
Its shroud to enshadow 
—within and without

As somber it tenants
it knows all the while
Its life but a memory
—the moment you smile

(Dreamsleep: May, 2022)...

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To write from silence,
Merton's spoken silence--
True mind, free mind,
No-mind,
Land mine.

Dangerous territory
Errupts as the
Tenants of self get sucked into
The crevasse of freedom.

Like Moses sending the
Ten Commandment tablets
Crashing into the trouble makers' midst--
The ground opened,
The ground swallowed up
As Mother Earth took back her own.
Forty years of freedom in exile followed....

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Finally the owner did send his own son.
The tenants who killed him thought they had won.
     So in his dismay
     the owner did slay
them, finding others the vineyard to run.

It's there in the scriptures, have you not read?
'The stone rejected by builders – instead
     became the cornerstone.'
     That's how it was shown
to elders and scribes and filled them with dread.

Mark 12.1-12...

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Listen to poem:

Life in Love
David J Walker

The mystery of love I have known 
And cannot explain more than 
any man can 
never fully recovering from hands 
imprinted on my body
words left without explanation 
thought with no reason
soft kisses beguiling common senses 
I am your partner 
              who must learn obedience
              to the tenants of commitments
              to your expectations 
Surely one lifetime will be enough...

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by Mark Miller 12/30/2017

Traveler starlight dusts 
Our color emotion departed
Ever within never dissident  
Below sordid toss assortment 
Blooms circuit substance 

Our obsessive privy throws  
Living symptom circular gaze
Before myopic oceans deep gray
Grasping worlds structure foray
By shipwrecked days estrange

In homes left untouched the many
For whom history appoints
The fill of sentry tales 
Holds purpose tenants void...

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Lying in a verdant spring field,
scents of fruit and roses permeate the air;
thoughts of you are never far.
They caress like the sun's warm rays,
bringing a suffusion of joy to my heart.

The hum of occasional automobiles
blend with the drone of honey bees
lulling my senses like a Gregorian chant
in an Austrian monastery.

You and nature have become 
my tenants of religion,
calming my restless spirit;
soothing my soul, 
until I am a placid lake
soaking in all that is you....

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