Short Thence Poems

the path I tread thence 
is all poesy sprinkled now 
like gold dust on sand...

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The court room adjourned
No new evidence was learned
Taken thence and burned

By Robb A. Kopp...

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Green, gold, gray, old, from thence they pass away.
And from the dawn, the night is cast,
What's due to mortals falls at last.
...

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To hide yourself in public,
and turn your back on fame

Choosing thence to be alone
—the fire without the flame

(Dreamsleep: January, 2020)...

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I sat on my Republican fence.
Looking at politicians from thence.
And what did I see
Looking back at me?
Disenfranchised freedoms with no sense....

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hence,thence
with due diligence
birthing
scouring clean:
discard 
      the imperfect
experiment
   and reflect-
and traverse this bridge...

the immaculate beckons...

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Inventions

Never give up your imagination.
From thence man’s inventions come,
To make God’s world better…

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
January 20, 2010

Poetic form: Kimo...

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Inventions

Never give up your imagination.
From thence man’s inventions come,
To make God’s world better…

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
January 20, 2010

Poetic form: Kimo...

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Herein the throes of our family's tragedy,
Herein our woeful daze, we're not the defeated
Nor victors; Simply the bearer's of tragedy.
Yes, Jonas was here; Thence we're the cheated....

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.

         first i'll try to 
         love hern up
             Thence
      mine speak shall
             appear
                Az

              hern 
             utterly...

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All
alone
she
stares out
unseeing 
into
deep 
sunset's
fading gleam,
purple hues matched
in shadows
painted
on 
her eyes;
and untold
sorrows
spill
from thence.
'Till...




Form is Waltz Wave....

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Solitary blues—commence
Forlorn days thence
As for heart felt abandoned
Sole coldness, I reckoned
Oh heart in lachrymose
how irresistibly it goes
saying adieu is yet so tough, I deem
never reckoned in a dream....

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wind windy, windy shore,
wind with affectionate lonely hug of soul
from whence comes the wind
if not from thence prank
The long-shore winds
wind blowing so long
wind came into the forest
taken by sea goblin






kota kinabalu
1:12am
14j13...

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Oh the voice of that nightingale
Which once perched on my sycamore tree,
Still resounds like a melodious scale
Long after its symphony had ceased to be.
O but a nightingale that in a twinkle of an eye
Departed thence without saying goodbye!...

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Like beautified
Double-winged butterfly
Took a ride beautiful

There I rose
And you I rode
On petals of a rose.

So I love
The hive of your love
For thence scent I rode.

In cool breezy saddle
On bright scented petals
I rode a red rose....

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Whencesoever it comes, thence whithersoever it goes
This never-ending road, Oh, why no one seems to care or know?
So, I pitch my camp by the road-side and quietly repose!



~For a Brian Strand contest

~12/28/12
~"Sijo" contest by Rick Parise....

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Oh! Dear Brother, dear Cousin, dear Father,
Dear Friend, dear Grandson, dear Son, dear Jonas.
When rendered sullen, our strength is one another.
Let the sacred songs be your journey's compass.
For therein the sunshine of many hearts
Shall you bask, thence it love never departs....

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Sun-flagrant, a flashed tigress
Gaze-blazing, brazen.
This beauty species he shuns.
And to Shy Wood runs.

Doey eyed, in dappled light;
Which, doe-like, stepped out
Through gentlest coaxing words, with
A sweet demure noise.
Thence charmed away by its poise.
Womankind's standout!...

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Somewhere West of where he was,
and East of where he’d been
The mountains called their distant cry,
a pleading heard within
The alpine air, the red-tailed hawk, 
their spirits hail his name
To thence return, the past on fire
—his freedom to reclaim

(Chief Joseph Highway: September, 2021)...

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Lo! It is great
Same it seems too grey.
Is ours a blind-fly game?,
That picks yes from a 'nay'.
If 'nay' means no yes...
I will walk thence to the rails
"Wait!", and I will wail to her brace
Should 'wait' choose to bay,
A stiff's tears to grease my trail.
For i will walk and never look backways....

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Listen to poem:

I shall go hence
back whence I sprung
to shed, disgorge, eviscerate
all that I have ever known
all that I have ever learned
all that I am
all that is me, I be.
A full hard refresh
to be what I could be
untainted, smirched
unbiased, neutered.
Hence to whence
and thence I be,
freely 
impotent....

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BIRTH

Just all of a sudden
From nowhere it seems
This fresh    new force invades the eye
Circles the iris
Plumps the breast
Rides the living vein
Taking on its own peculiar color and natural voice
Thence to mind
Joining those unsolved mysteries
Finally    only to be given up
With blind acceptance...

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The trees with tall reach,
What lofty wisdom they teach?
Brotherhood for good,

What alas men learn?
Destroy in grey greed, govern,
Needless thence to brood!
_____________________________ 
Double Haiku |23.06.2021| 

Poet’s note: This tiny poem in Haiku form as usual raises a question and tries to answer....

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Scrooge encountered the ghost of Jake Marley,

    While slurping his bowl of blah barley.

       From thence, as we know the plot thickens,

         As from past sins Scrooge fled like the 'dickens'!

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSGT, USAF, Retired
(c) 2014 All Rights Reserved

Not for the contest - just for fun....

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Consciousness regained





Got shattered when my true love he betrayed,
Grieved intensely for days my broken heart,
The subtle emotions were eventually swayed,
Reinforced strength for a fresh start,
Nothing could thence tear my soul apart !





Written March 29th, 2015
For contest "Let 'er rip" by John lawless...

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