Short Upheavals Poems

We blindly traverse life’s vicissitudes,

Upheavals and harmony

An odyssey in search of love,

Beauty, truth and happiness

Lamented in moments of sorrow

Euphoric in joyous bliss

Recorded in hours, days and years

Till hands of death bring to cease....

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primal energy coiled
like a snake sleep-
ng goddess of lov
intelligence of complete
maturation electric cur-
rents rising up we
were on the gree
n earth chantin
emotional upheavals sur-
facing repressed desir-
es boiling up spreadin
into a whole body re-
lease of massive
blisssssssss...

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Late commers snap beaky throats,
mug with angry complaints.

A gathering
of de-frocked preachers strut
and preen, a tussled foraging, 
hustle, and riot.

Up in the branches brothers caw and jeer.
Upheavals come together,
those with more pluck, snatch and pilfer.

Wanton blackouts of carrion crows
crowd my eyes 
with their petty, ill-mannered crimes....

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The outskirts of ruin, children of war,
Pass by upheavals, turmoils, turbulence,
Impacted scenes that tore, they must endure,
Safe from acts of war that was merciless,
Behind smiles and charms, home, away from war,
Now comes the battles, that adds to their scar.


2019 September 27
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Little earthen quakes
Rumblings of the soul

Missives made of letters
Placed in ordered rows

Tales of ancient ruins
Never told before –

Little earthen quakes
Restless on the page

Telling little tales
Giving it away –

Aftershock upheavals
Pain, that trembles, grows

For the pen that wrote them 
Little did it know

Little earthen tremors
Never letting go –...

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as memories past are in my head
my eyes are filled with tears
the anger long suppressed fills my being
emotions are rushing in, filling me with dread
awakening my long my long dead fears
my hate for humans all i'm seeing

now i'm back, and in control
emotions once again suppressed
and anger once again is buried
and i cannot help but wonder
during my emotional upheavals
why is it that i can't feel joy?...

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In life's harsh drought
Rain feels like a faint memory,
Seasons change quickly
Upheavals hurl

Dry thoughts like cinder
Flames of crackling wood
Burning with fierce heat
Spark consuming spark

Ashes in dry season
Hazy shades floating far
Ashy debris suffocate
Hazy grey mists obscure 

Dry months conspire
Tree pyres consuming,
What can we do
From far far away?




Leon Enriquez
20 March 2016
Singapore...

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So many times our lives rearranged
    Resilient we are, accustomed to change

  Wars, Revolutions, Coups and Upheavals
    Plunder and Pillage and assorted evils

  Recessions, Depressions, Runaway Inflation
    Calls for austerity and eating food rations

  Bankruptcies, lay-offs, terminations
    Then all of a sudden, rejuvenations  

  So go with the flow, and just do your best
    Give yourself one leg up on the rest...

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Life’s Upheavals
6-27-2016

Sometimes God uses some upheaval in our life,
to remove us from a passing period of inaction.
	To stimulate, and restore our attention to Him,
and away from some minor, earthly distraction.

There’s a disparity in servitude and free living,
servitude is being unconnected from our source.
Suspended between heaven and earth was He,
establishing a way, that from sin, we’d divorce.
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Where's the confidence in life
You're facing a controversial world
Of changes, chaos and upheavals 
But an optimist will see a chance in difficulty
A pessimist will see difficulty in a chance 
You have to try to live better
God only helps those who help themselves
Only trials, perseverance and efforts
Will accomplish something
A little accomplishment means 
A little confidence
Let's the confidence piles up
And you'll have eureka at last...

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A mousy light filters a tracery of sunset,
dappled beams succumb to gloaming.

Evening stretches moments
for the rescue of wreckages,
to calm the upheavals of disheveled hours.

Dusk softly pronounces its adieus,
carries the bruised upon ebbing tides
as children, they are brought out 
from burning houses.

Upon a twilight cradle
eventide glides each baffled breath 
along a dwindling shore,
a Moses basket
that dreams us unto dawn....

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they live now
in layers of motion and stillness

a fret sawing wind
a chaffing river
have shaped them

limbless bodies
turned upon
a lathe of time

glints of starlight are in them
eyes blinded by too much
of light
or dark

blue veins leach from granite pores
synapse
with bloods tingling clamor
with fingerprints

a molten world
drips green algae
upheavals whisper
from an unending past

a stone thrown back
finding a voice
in an uttering splash...

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Journeying through steep, 
narrow valleys into which 
sunshine never reached, 
experiencing jagged breaks, 
abrupt upheavals, 
gradual changes, 
to become 
unrecognizable today; 
an outsider not part of the 
warp and weave of strangers 
moving in individual bubbles. 
Mesmerized by crystalline depths, 
daydreams infinitely gentle
reached out and kissed 
my withered hand. 
The hole in my heart 
is being filled by words 
from a black angel's 
writing quill....

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