Short Transitions Poems

Species cannot make transitions by one another
If they do, the tricks of compromise and competition
they take would make this world no order and logic...

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Watching a snow flake
Melting on my hand I see
Transformation like
That of human souls freed from
The hindrance of mortal flesh
...

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Exquisite flower 
Beautifies with dainty grace
The place when you stand
From weddings to funerals
Representing transitions











3-6-2016...

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one flickering light
at the end of a dark hall…
hospice nurse running

Date: 19 Mar 2019
Contest: Writing Challenge 3- March 2019 - Senryu Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Dear Heart...

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treelines edge my mind

defining life transitions

past and future time.

 

(January 19, 2011  Wausau, Wisconsin)


(c) Copyright 2011 by Christine A Kysely, All Rights Reserved...

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If you sculpt beyond the self
Terse transitions, ample ambitions

If you think outside the box
Daring dreams, exciting extremes

If you’re aware of all dimensions
Timeless travel, purple unravels...

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Reincarnation
eternity’s myth
You’re incarnated 
only once
Though many transitions
are stamped with time’s pretense
As it was in the beginning 
— it will be at the end

(Dreamsleep: March, 2025)
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SPUMATISTA leonardo
imperceptibilities
  in
   gradual
transitions
from dark
         to light
effecting
relief
  in soften
         contours
blended
shared
   shadowed
manneristic
   smoke
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A cocoon to butterfly's.
Egg, to free birdie's.
Inseparable from each change
Smooth, painless goes by
Wonder into wisdom morphs.
Shallow, deeper joy.
For what of bodies, souls
Tell us, Earth and Sky....

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In the midst of expectations
she learnt acceptance
far away from grievance
she practiced transitions.

She doesn’t seek perfections
just some inductance
and some capacitance
are what lead to her aspirations.
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once lives discovered
inevitable transformations
illegal apostrophe vortex.
whippersnapper extractions,
are whisperings enough? 
virtual transitions
all lives interdefined
never ending romances
beyond our now nowness
TAXI!...

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My dear Grandma
alive and kicking
on this sunny day
modern medicine
and
miracles of science
life is a balance
between old and new
extremist aggressions
replaced by
rational transitions
not the end
only Zen...

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uncalled and unwitting
I slipped through the wrong door
propelled by the philosophy
of birth marks
and there she's standing
eating a pear under the apple tree
the verminous tree
in sweet naivete
which comes 
in many transitions...

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That happiness can bring you just as much sadness
when it goes away
You always wish that happiness would stay
And when it doesn't, tears stream down your face
No hint, no goodbye, gone without a trace
I guess it's time to find a new dream to chase....

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Some days my mind is hardened,
on others like a sponge

Today my thoughts are heartened,
with feelings on the run

Tonight as light transitions,
and darkness fills the void

My mind and heart will lay as one,
true lovers—dreams of joy

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)...

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Recurring transitions
A world unknown
Awakening eye
A new design

One more step

Struggles and growth
A new mans depth
Constant cycle
Occurrence with time

One more breath

Mystery in life
God knows best
A change of season
A change of mind

One more day

Tomorrow....

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Some days my mind is hardened,
  on others like a sponge

Today my thoughts are heartened,
  with feelings on the run

Tonight as light transitions,
  and darkness fills the void

My mind and heart will lay as one,
 true lovers—dreams of joy

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)...

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Transitions


Bright Saturday in Spring
and there, for once, the whole of it
and, Lord, I have no camera.

Outside the church
a wedding party waits.
A Mass is still in progress.

Before the wedding can begin
ten men, in files of five,
must carry out the corpse.


Donal Mahoney...

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Everywhere I look
I see glimpses of Your grace
In the sunrise
Bursting light
And at dawn
Streaked with night

In the fiery red leaf
As it transitions to its fall
And the silent looming moon
Hanging over all

Every sight I see
Captures me with wonder
At Your artistry
And Your love for me...

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As nights draw in, the silver harvest moon
Shines boldly through defenceless, naked trees
And pirouetting leaves will settle soon,
For winter’s riding on the autumn breeze.

29.09.20

An excerpt from my poem ' Seasonal transitions'

Rithimus Divisa 7 Poetry Contest sponsored by Gregory Barden...

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Slowly drifting on a billowing cloud 
the languid liquids drench the underbelly
of the moons ethereal glow. 
The dreamscape transitions from 
dark to light.
Shockwaves shiver and melt into 
lakes of mercurial sky.
Fire flashes, breathing new life
into Nuclear Nights born of 
creative overflow....

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Proud daffodils have bowed their weary heads
And roses shed their petals one by one,
Green leaves transform to gold and fiery reds
The gilded reign of autumn has begun.

19.12.19


An extract taken from my poem 'seasonal transitions'

Arbitrium Divisa 5 Poetry Contest  sponsored by Gregory Barden...

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Time turns its wheel, 
The pace exceeding comfort. Yet,
The world has proceeded
Complacent.
Time transitions with insistence 
Between raging waterfall and, for a distance,
whispering river. Ever changing path and
Speed.
Time moves, impatient,
Its inhabitants – unaffected- 
Even while questioning
Existence....

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Gas crisis and smog emissions
Coal war economy
Urban sprawl
Forcing rural withdrawal
While cutting down the trees.

Gas prices and tax submissions
Political parody
Fly to the moon
Live within a cocoon
But this trip will not be free.

Before technical transitions
Sublime ecology
Now it’s ride on a horse
With a meter of course
To measure flatulency....

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A wild horse
freedom’s fiery flight
courage is
his nature
power to face Gaia’s moods
flaming transitions.

A stabled
steed quickly fattened
fortitude’s
broken back
long days awake memories
no longer made, stilled.

In corral
fleeting dreams arise
greet the day
breaking free
one jump and freedom anew
just keeps beckoning.

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