Short Untraced Poems

Tony said he was managing waste
When in fact, it was folk, he erased
He did see a shrink
But without a blink
He continued and hid them, untraced


The Sopranos

On A Lim Poetry Contest, placed 1st
Sponsored by: Joseph May 
Date wrote: 3rd April 2022...

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Just as I forgot your scent  
Here you come again
Just as I erased your kisses
Again you steal my breath
The warmth of your body just left my breast 
My fingers have untraced your chest 
Your name was just now 
erasing from my mind
And again everywhere I hear it chime
I thought I was rid of you
But no , you still  persist   
You'll always be the thing 
that my mind cannot erase...

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      It dances deep in tranquil eyes
    from velvet plumes of ether's calm
          as soft as alabaster skies

      It softly sings an ancient psalm
     rewritten when the moon invites
        in lavender of evening balm

   It gently blooms with conscious slight
 in zephyred streams of fragrant dreams 
    as lilacs waft the night towards light

   Upon the page, untraced it streams
 It dwells between the words – it seems...

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The split in the walls of Time
Widens, and you walk through
Corridors, eons, new…
Why can’t I come with you?

Up towering heights you climb
Seeking infinity
Far, in a sky-black sea…
Left here on Earth is me.

And you hear the centuries’ chime,
Caroling, one by one,
Tolling our time’s, now done:
Hope that is left…is none.

For now that you’ve vanished, I’m
Pining in this bleak place,
Dreaming about your face
Lost—untraced—in Space.
03-02-80...

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Numbers have a lasting smell
while figures have a taste
Shapes can make an ancient sound
whose feelings stay untraced     

Intuition grants a wish
to those who rebegin  
Dimension in the blackest hole
new dwarf stars from within

Counting up or counting down
deception stays the same
What you gain or what you lose
redundant in the game

Endings come and endings go
ephemerally despised
Until the sacrificial lamb
—bleats out the final lie

(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)...

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