Short Underscored Poems

You detached me from your regard.

You devalued me with your unkindness.

Your unapologetic apathy underscored my uselessness.

But, when you told me to get out, you were redundant.

I was already gone....

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The spirit can never be suppressed
its silent essence roars

No government or despot’s reign
can change its ethos pure

Bottled up the pressure builds,
like Cuba underscored

The rhythm faint but always there
—erupting force majeure

(Deamsleep: December, 2020)...

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Open drawer To war
Out it pour
From the door
What's this for
Fight some more
What an eyesore
Evil to the core
So furthermore
The Antiwar
I adore
Anymore
Nether more
This encore
I ignore
To much gore
To explore
Therefor
This rapport
Is hardcore
My cries out pour
Hope won't restore
These lives tore
And our lives are
Underscored...

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A wrestling River
has run its cause
A quick recce
and all is sorted
Be not a Miner or mariner
for promises they cannot meet

The spite of the bitter leaves
up to the knee 
With a scheming
and storm in a teacup
I was thinking too fast
With a sinking of peculiarities underscored
Jacob has drawn my blood
but with a wink and a guile
perhaps we can grin
après moi le deluge 
...

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Under a grin, redirected, 
A sniff of grief claws
Through, revealing
A sad blue artery,
A pain 24-7.
Underscored with carefully
Emoted verbs, 
And adjectives imbedded with
Mock sincerity, 
A simple sentence: a right to be honest. 
Beneath the pulse in heartbeats encephalo
A few tearful regrets
Lob empty phrases into
A field with no guilt, washed and dried, 
And returned unlabeled....

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I was perfectly happy,
a singular chime

I was perfectly happy,
alone in my mind

I was perfectly happy,
my world underscored

I was perfectly happy,
my feelings secure

I was perfectly happy,
adrift in my world

I was perfectly happy,
no feeling’s unfurled

I was perfectly happy,
till one fateful day

Now misery haunts me
—in love I must stay

(West Philadelphia: June, 2018)...

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Cynosure

Not so sure cynosure
surrounded by an
entourage of well paid
admirers.
Circus whore
performing tricks
for those who
worship costumed
beauty.
Underscored cynosure
frail ego’s faults
magnified
on stadium screens,
lip syncing a
voiceless lie.
Dinosaur cynosure
too soon afraid
of ageing
too late to savor
youth.


6/23/2016

submitted to – Cynosure – Poetry Contest
sponsor – Nayda Ivette Negron...

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Winter begs its cruel reward
                 despite surviving nature’s claw
And so her face, though lovely still, 
did bear the season’s due.

Yet, not just time had stalked her fear 
                Her fragile beauty underscored
The lines of doubt that pierced her sun
had drawn a bitter heart 

Though Spring could lift her heavy brow
for promises of flowers, she could not find
her garden’s path, for even still 
and after all
      she was a tortured Rose...

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SIGNS
contemporary
        initiatives
   innovative
      highly visible
a
prominent
  exposure
       with
celebratory
              vision
underscored
 &
       fluid driven
in a
flowing pose


THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two way interplay and often a unique interpretation by the enigma so derived...

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