Short Trumping Poems

Mercurial freedom
Beyond sexuality
Love trumping weakness
—truth beyond lies

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2019)...

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The light gets richer
approaching the end

Warmth trumping distance
—goodbye an old friend

(Dreamsleep: April, 2020)...

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Charted lanes of custom,
 complacency alights
familiarity trumping all
—mindless in the night

(Dreamsleep: October, 2021)...

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Good and bad are truisms…
  a qualitative masquerade

Ideology trumping feeling
  —in flashes of joy and pain

(Las Vegas: January 23, 2016)...

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Christians killing Christians,
politics trumping God

The Axis dared, the Allies fared
—shared lineage facade

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2019)...

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Dancing on the fringes
waltzing through the fire
Tango once the step of choice
driven by desire

Life a dark flamenco
words to not intrude
Motion trumping conscious thought
—foxtrot interlude

(Dreamsleep: August, 2022)...

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Ace
Top card
Trumping all
Beats the high King
Into submission
Forcing him down the deck
To acknowledge the lowly
And accept all have their betters
New game begins with different aims
Shuffle serves to level the playing field...

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Time not only seems to be speeding up…
  it actually is

Perception trumping reality looking forward,
  not looking back

Undercooked moments blow into the future,
  their aroma unsettling

As tomorrow disowns today
   —lamenting the past

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2019)...

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A Devil's ad

How do we tell

If Earth's about

To go to hell?

Two leaders, dim

Twice immature

Consider carnage

Cogent cure

If in the midst

Of dueling ids

Cans get kicked

While blowing lids

That final conflict

Fools will fend

Reaping us ALL

Our dusty ...

END....

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Take life for every minute it gives
Spend time like dust specks gathered
Free your mind off taunted shadowed thoughts
Clean the mind unfurl coiled negative energy

Walk equipoised trumping rooted darkness
Rejuvinate coarse emotions thrusting chuffs
Run a mile and count the escalations
Forgo the tumbles and stand chin up....

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There’s something more valued
than dollars and cents…
humanity trumping pretend

Your mantra has been
that “winning’s enough”
losing yourself in the end

Each attempt to be clever
and self-aggrandize
takes you away from what’s real

The most treasured of things
to be loved and endeared
—your actions can’t borrow or steal

(The New Room: September, 2021)...

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For real in keeping it real.
Ornery man in the political arena -
Xylophone players of classical music support is essential.
Trumping it to be the next in the Oval Office.
Rococo effect you strive for.
Ordinary people are against your representation.
Trump, Donald will be the succeeding President?
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Written March 22, 2016 for the U.S.A President Campaign 2016!...

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Reading all the news
I sit here and reflect,
All those people said “he’s sick”-
Now currently correct.

President in quarantine
And his trophy wife,
What a marriage they do have-
Such quality of life.

Though they’ll have the best of care
I’m not at all desirous, 
The super model nudist 
And the husband who’s a virus.

Good USA people
Just know when you’re in doubt
He may die-oh why oh why
Or “Trump” the Covid out!...

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