Short Upends Poems

a mallard dabbles
and upends itself to catch
       fish underwater


Date witten: 01/04/2020...

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I’ll meet you halfway 
      set fire to both ends 
        Kiss you in stasis 
      as our world upends
       God it feels so good 
    when balance transcends 

No 5...

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D-efeat
O-ur
L-ung's
O-pponent
R-ightfully
E-vading
S-preading

N-asty
E-nemy's
P-roliferation
O-nce
M-ask
U-pends
C-orona
E-pidemic's
N-otorious
O-ffense

Topic: Birthday of Dolores Nepomuceno (April 08) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Under a nylon dome
         upside, raindrops patter
                   upon my small enclave
                           unusual patterns 
                   unique, sliding over
          ubiquitous water
 upends the stormy skies.















A Pleiades Poem
10/1/2022...

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What was I up to while we were locked-in?
I was busy contemplating sin.
I had months and months of moments to spend,
Ms chaste without, misdeeds within.

Lust, like seasickness - upends reason 
and it burns like underbrush fuel.
So dust my DNA, and ID my dirty dreamin'
am I guilty of breaking some rule?...

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      I’ll meet you halfway 
      set fire to both ends 
        Kiss you in stasis 
      as our world upends
       God it feels so good 
    when balance transcends 

           Separated yes
      the crossing’s now ash
      Lost due to movement 
      and one lonely splash 
      Our love abridged? No
            devilishly rash 
...

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Childhood cavalcade upends
Serial stage pestilence
The kind of poisonous air barricade
That shunts the stitches when they twitch open

Human mind, they said
Stock in storerooms with mascara
Legitimate front to foot the system
With a pedal to the heart attack machine

When fanciful rage chops green
Evenly cut to make the barrage simple
As stacks of fallacy float out the door
All the clown scenery comes tumbling down...

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Popping-glad roses,
  lipstick red,
watered in crystal vase,
small as the ledge
of a pond.
                  pondering
those blossoms, yet to be lit,
with their potential flames.

ruffled scent of glory
   in their short-lived story.

three will croon, late-bloomers -
   still cocooned.

bronze deer nods his head
in amen-annunciation -

the hourglass upends the pond
in existential happiness.

Nov 2022...

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the sky upends
as we cut the lake
quick white strokes 
in the dark current

the flow of bodies
a single bright ripple

somewhere in the space
between the blade tip
and water, it occurs:

the mind releases
the rain falls

silver salt scales
bloom across 
our arms and backs

rising, falling
like the breath
of a dragon

coursing out
each jagged
exhalation

all returns to water

the dull roar
in the distant horizon
calls us home...

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