Short Transience Poems

clouds furling
unfurling
this transient life
...

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petals
temporary
beauty that perishes
in advance of fall, end began
foretold...

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Everlasting sun
  Shining upon a life of
Ephemeral time…

 Transitory, yet eternal within belief…...

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attached to transience
shifting tides determine mood ~
piquant dilemma 
let’s get to the source, hermit
reclaiming light eternal...

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Beauty is best known,
For its transience.
Much like joy, love, hope, or purity,
It disappears quickly,
When touched by the world....

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leaves
lingered
on the branch
and paved the path
transience held still
the in-between
~November~
Autumn
leaves...

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For billions of years
I did not exist.
Then I existed
for a little while.
Soon I will return
to not existing
for the rest of time....

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birth signals
death reminds
life’s transience

look deeper
in within
at soul’s light

we are that
God essence
eternal

0-March-2023
Tricube...

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not this, not this
ancient neti neti teaching
negating transience as unreal

all this, all this
for where is God not
exclaimed the sagacious monk

25-December-2022...

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Future time; is unknown 
and has custody of our dreams,

Present time; the transience
of a bestowed moment,

Past time; varies 
and warehouses our memories.

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What is life?



Transience? Flame? A passing flare?

Why do we live if death awaits?

Yes, that's why

After all, if there is no life, then death does not wait.

Um, in death there is new life....

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each pulse of light, surprise delight
if we be not shrouded in fright
recognising earth life transience 
thereby with joy in resonance 
bliss from which soul never alights

14-July-2021...

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Another old friend has passed on,
May he rest whereever he's gone.
Once you're a year above eighty
thoughts of life's transience are weighty.
but here were good times to think upon.

Old friends, I'll see you anon....

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tickle foot touched (smile).
bird like nesting
in transience....your lips part....
leaving that indentedness 
(of place)-- unfolded,
disarray of jeans become
your shape....bodyless blue,
(untouchable) textures
reflected in amber...

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Written: by Tom Wright
February 2015 

Funerals and Reunions,
I’ve no fondness for either,
But similar to magnets,
They attract. 

People come together
For a transience of time,
And then withdraw,
To meditate;
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Inevitable
Is pain that does stain
Bubbling joyfulness
Cessation reclaims
Bliss in innocence 

Recognition 
Earth life transience
Our stagnation
Ego parlance 

This moment
Here and now
Fulfilment 

Be still 
At peace

Now

11-October-2020...

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Search search search
Find the happy ending.

You don’t need to pretend.

There are lights dancing on the horizon
They shine with imbued ambivalence
I can touch nothing but my eyes reflect 
Shining orbs of transience

Floating.

Away.

12.25.2010...

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Strange sight in heavens
Darkness veils darkness 
An ominous sign
The moon’s countenance 
Turns to crimson red

Man’s forsaken
Time for penance
Earth life transience
Now a stark truth

Rage and lust 
Relinquished
Heart’s at peace

May love
Replace

Fear...

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Auburn interspersed with deep dark green
Under skies of China blue, air chilled
Transience now defining feature seen
Unset mellow summer cast distilled
Masks impending season, lulls the mind
Nulling coming darkness, close confined

BITE SIZE POEM no29 Poetry Contest...

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Here and there 
Everywhere
Like an exhalation

Here and there
Everywhere
Spasmodic Hiroshimas

Here and there
Everywhere
Ash in wings of foam,
Sandal-less dodders
Violently envious of
Fallen leaves

Transience naked 
Here and there
Everywhere-

Nowhere 
The eel...

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Unfulfilled desire does not yield
Cause of our heart’s tremor
Bliss current vibrant, our soul shield
We wake up from stupor

Life transience not real
Feel tranquil calm appeal
Prayer does heart anneal

Do we yet aspire
Unfulfilled desire 

30-September-2021
Quietus...

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Though great were Joyce’s writings,
 —his preference was to sing

Irish ballads and Welsh folk songs,
  his raucous nights to bring

With transience his dearest Muse,
  words speaking for themselves

His truth to roar from greater depths,
—still lost within himself

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)...

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integration
   of opposites
intensifies
in
eccentric
language,
      images
     of
    ephemerality
change,
to
living
forms:

nothingness:

images
of a
pure mind,
      discarded
      masks
bring
consequitive
reasoning
    to
    the fore:

revelation:

      in the
     beauty
    of
transience...

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passion play

orange dots on blue wings

the butterfly extends his freedom


lavender

shares its purple pollen

reaches out disseminates measure


sweet fragrance

perfumed indigo scent

sensual feast for fleeting moments


transience

ephemeral journey

colour blind to racial divides


01st March 2021...

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Future of infinte pain,
+something you don't want to do x
the difference in these loving eyes,
carry the once and future king of england,
The sum of this is a very rich man.
This years preoccupation is written on the leaves that have fallen on the path i walked all year.
As leaves from trees.
Transience is gold dust under your fingernails....

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