Short Truncated Poems

stars flitter bright dreams
truncated through horoscopes
spent dust collecting...

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Where branches once stretched out their leafy arms,
stark truncated silhouettes
now scar the twilight sky


13.10.19
F F I series 27 kimo - Brian Strand's Blog...

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Became Trump and Truncated

What we should have done is sublimated;
With Trump again we became truncated;
We did consult;
Another insult;
Never ended up becoming safely situated.

Jim Horn...

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I was all stoked
ready to roll
when suddenly
someone else
announced
she is in charge.

Shift gears!
Put it in second.

We're going
down hill
to sea level,
where energy
glides upon
calm waters,
no waves.

Will she
take the helm
or let us drift
aimlessly
as it has been
awhile now.

SKB...

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Listen to poem:

Gray skys backer to the tears; said; to a clearly ominous canvas
Millions of misty dots; swiped right; and left; truncated by this
Blades; so sharply cutting them; from left to right
Driving you away; after all, guiding was by headlight;
The destinations worth; is much more than the journey
To have said goodbye; would have been; privileged to me...

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4 sullen swords 
4 truncated tombs
4 comatose clocks
4 querulous quatrains

We of the Absurd
We of the Timed Out
We of the Checked Out
We of the Hanged

our candle-like Keywords
wax and wane UPRIGHT
cough up the REVERSED card
confined in blunted light

enter the Knight of Keyboards
spiritless warrior
brandishing weeping sword
time for The Rest
...

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Organic mystery, bated breath
Known causes, uncertain breath.

Systemic matter, wild shields
Cells in order, fated breath.

Corporeal wave, bloody fashion
Tumultuous fissures, captured breath.

Peasant ailing, fortune calls
Civil measures, alien breath.

Shadows cast, a just reward
Mortal wishes, eternal breath.

Toasted glass, healer's gain
Conjured image, phantom breath....

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O, noble Belovéd,
     how sovereign you are!
Your rule is exalted;
     for you, we'd go to war,
conquer, and pillage. All men
     honor you, as do we;
they, Protestant, and pagan,
     swear unto you fealty.
So, grant us, our Daughter,
     this one wish; bless us now
with blood, oil, and water
     on our sworn heads and brow:
for you're now England's Queen,
with reign all but foreseen!...

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Called out of breath
To be over there when
Bodies amass and gasp
Truncated furloughs
Through downtown no dose
And beated arms grasp
Pointedly for drowning sensation

Raised eyebrows at consumption 
and withdrawal 
Not content to sit drooping
And chalkboard signs spell stupor

Porous passion
Healing internal wounds
Like feather surgeons 
Taking me back re-membered 
When all explorations
Held their own song...

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The fierce, supple tiger
     (an untamed, deadly beast)
is not meant as dinner,
     for someone's sportive feast.
The giant, harmless whale
     (a great, ocean mammal)
won't survive or prevail
     against reaving people.
All Earth's feral creatures,
     of land, sky, and the sea,
are here as our teachers
     and life's diversity.
Redeem man's threatened worth;
and preserve the good Earth!...

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A Sonnet begets life.
     Joy, her child, leaves her womb,
     bliss that transcends the tomb
and dulls the Reaper's scythe!
Ah! Joy belittles strife;
     delight, as from bedrooms
     (without impassive gloom),
makes mother of a wife.
When bards compose, ardent
     wax the virgin Sonnets
with their pens: eloquent
     the more, beauty begets
desire; then makes pregnant
     with Joy which ne'er forfeits....

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Acquiesce
(ak-wee- ESS”
By: Miracle Man
12-5-2019

I’ve never been accused of having finesse,
I get to the point without using much tact. 
Most times without showing acquiesce,
I cover the bases, without being abstract.

But now, I’m endeavoring to gingerly tread,
Yet sometimes I still become exasperated.
So to others my words won’t be misread,
 My conversation abruptly becomes truncated.

My Birthday Poem
...

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Love, Love, Love, what is Love?
     Love soars, and fears no height;
     Love is joy, and feels right;
Love's god-like, from above.
Love softens the stone heart,
     and pierces the dark night;
     Love shines forth heaven's light,
and stays,—to ne'er depart.
Love loves you at all cost,
     and gives eternal life;
Love saves the dead and lost
     (steals from Death his own scythe!):   
for Love's God's free-giv'n grace,
which saves our fallen race....

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tears rolled down the cheeks,
he snivelled his running nose,
he threw his arms all around,
he shieked,shouted and cried,
he did everything to get away,
he flapped his fists everywhere,
and fought with those,
holding him tight,
he did not know the pain,
that was coming was just right,
and like rotten carrion,
had to be sliced away,
truncated and well,
sense grew and prevailed,
and now he is the one holding,
"others" tight so that,
sense could prevail once again....

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A black swan was worried
about the debt slaves
and misogyny,
sailing along the
marbled slopes of red meat.

The ghosts in white cloaks
of truncated wombs, wait
for the pearl’s extraction
from the doe eyes of future.

Can you trust the truth of
the city which will not climb
on the rooftops to look at
the white moon ?

Instead you get paid for the
crimes you did not commit.
Now you will write your own
epitaph before you are shot 
down on the back.


Satish Verma...

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The modern world

Strange times we live
experience
is virtual
the real is harmful 
bad for the health.
The internet gives us link 
but our solitude 
is the same.
Famous women 
do not look factual 
like something made in a factory
we tend to be self-absorbed 
our feeling and thoughts
are truncated
into a massive none entity 
stalking the world 
while polar ice melt
and we can cross the seas
on plastic bottles
as seen on the internet 
and therefore appears unreal...

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When I open an old book
of your images
odd, truncated visions,
gilings clipped from once longer threads,
fall out;
something else,
a partial picture of what we left in each other.

I am modulated by memory,
the slow simmer of a salmagundi’s
long lingering throes and pangs.
There is much more
but the fade-out is leaching
your light away.

Maybe one day
we will catch each other’s breaths,
be bundled together
as close as newborn lambs
in a mutual wool of remembrance....

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Lock step, atoms burned
Fiendish restless
Truncated waiting
Shop and drop
Stop and slop
Old ladies masquerade
Preachers audible in a drunken charade

A toothless Tuesday
Parking lot drivel
Copy of a copy of a copy
Total insomnia 
Hairless bent on rogaine
Young and stupid with cocaine

Hapless pleading
Loud steps and sniveling

Rise Above!
Rise out and Above!
The solar system shines on you
Comets of mercury
And you're betting on cosmetic surgery
Rise out and Above!...

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As her father.
I walk her down the aisle. 
 People in attendance say
 She looks like a princess
I agree.
It was not always so.
She was my only son.
Until he turned 18.
My only progeny.  
Then one day
he came to me.
And said father.
I feel strange.
I don’t feel,
I am a boy.
I want
a sex change.
And so began the process.
For what else could I do?
Now when
the ceremony is over.
He will no longer
be Glenn.
He will
be listed.
As the couple
known as
Gwendolyn and Sven....

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