Short Usurped Poems

Robins chirp
Babies burp
Soup is slurped
Here's to Life!
 ~ All else usurped...

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Moon rises surprised,
eschews its pocked face,
caught in early glare
of sun in bleaches
awaiting its call.
A starlet usurped!...

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Joe found himself in a bit of a rut
     So, he bought himself the friendliest mutt
        Bow-wow, lick-lick, slurp-slurp
        Joe's space that mutt usurped
     Not room enough for them both in Joe's hut...

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With a nod from the heavens
The seasons tangle
Eternity shifts again
Falling leaves settle annon
A last windswept rustling
Proof that peace is usurped 
And replaced with the divine 
Truth read in vapors
Of inexorable darkness...

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In arrogance 
I ascended
the ancient steps
of earthly glory.

Higher and higher
I climbed 
beyond the reach
of my own humanity.

Seeking knowledge
forsaking wisdom
savoring intellect
playing God.

I forgot
pride comes
before the fall
I usurped God's thrown.

God....

            was not amused....

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love can’t be taken
given freely, it grows strong
thriving flowers' ecstasy

dominators learn
roses push away with thorns
love usurped by force will die

unleash if you love
held in a bubble, love bursts
chains will only sever bonds

accept love given
adore the rose when offered
no greater gift is bestowed...

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Pouring..out a melody as the street scene; is cascading such harmony.!
Evangalists and market stalls; woodwind plus.' A rhapsody calls)
Two shining eyes, much fluid form; the hum of life some
Visions form, a threadbare coat midst passers by,  just 
 As a norm.' All under skies, of mottled hue.. Usurped the
Summer, its time and dews' its past i view, in retrospect just
A time or two.!...

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I know that we must surely part
Another shines within your heart
The closeness gone, the magic dead
Your love belongs to her instead

The tears I shed, unseen, unheard
And once you hung on every word
Resigned, I see I lost the fight
Our love won’t last another night

Usurped, I toss my ring away
It’s pointless begging you to stay


Jack Horne, 3rd December, for Gail's a Flame once burned contest...

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Short spates of workaholic spurts of frenzied work.
A burst of starlight
That ignites the black,
Blights the black,
Fights the black,
Rights the black
Until the dark silence returns,
Until the frantic moments
Are usurped 
By doldrums of daunting inertia,
A vast swathe of offensive nothingness,
A vapid vessel of pensive emptiness,
A quagmire of numbness,
Blindness, dumbness
And a brutal sense of futility....

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The pyramid at Giza 
is ancient they say,
but is it oldest
on the worldwide grid?

Some others say nay,
consider Java's Gunung Padang
built 27,000 years ago
a new study shows.

Archeologists raise their eyebrows,
they scoff and snort,
we must surely investigate 
those most moronic upstarts.

They question timelines ordained
by us long ago;
we can't be usurped
by those deluded pretenders!...

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Freedom Usurped!

Homeward Bound,
  northbound;
A red car with four doors,
the red horse of the apocalypse;
suddenly, suffocated, gasping
  air thick with fumes;

Soon, freedom through death!

Struggling for a breath,
  unbearable pain in chest;
Open the window!
 

Freedom Usurped!

Police pursuit,
  stop the car!
I just can't walk the line!
Cited!
  for driving
    while
      DEAD!...

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I am Lucifer the Prince of daemons,
which I command like a bunch of minions,
for with them, I annex realms and subjects
who are no more than heavenly rejects,
distinct from saints, the apples of GOD'S eye.
In Eden's garden I hatched my first lie,
then with man's fruitful multiplication,
I assigned cohorts to every nation.
Today I reign on earth like sovereign lord,
with a crown I usurped without the sword....

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In life, we get to pick and choose
And live with each decision.
There’s more to it than win or lose
For what we might envision

Most often won’t exactly match
Reality’s rendition
And even if we start from scratch
To bring it to fruition

Another road may take us where
We’d never planned to travel;
Despite some welcome plusses there,
Our souls may still unravel.

Therefore to this lesson heed:
Wanting gets usurped by need....

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Status quo here
Seemingly ignores
Hidden agendas


Meaning hides 
In cryptic word
Sly camouflage


Hurl of mad swirl
In a crazy world
Crushed by conceit


Fling of sad lines
Vision usurped
By vain notions


Hypocritical
This notion that change
Qualifies now


To make a clear break
Die to resistance 
Be dead to old habits


Sanguine moments
Await old gripes
Change wears a mask




Leon Enriquez
26 September 2014
Singapore...

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Goblet of moonlight overflowed
Spilling glow, dusting ground
Spread over deep winter forest
Creating oasis fey folk found.

Moonbeams hang on denuded trees
Magical warmth spreads its glow
Forest creatures for one short hour
Join fairy folk in happy tableaux.

Enchantment fades it will not last
Winter will not be usurped this way
Silence so cold all creatures depart
Memory savored until spring day.


Pixabay image: BlueHeartGraphics...

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ode to shadows

as i peer out the glassed portières
penumbral visitations mock me; dare they
deign to scare this parched crypt of
adrenaline and cortisol, usurped by unquiet
scourges over lifetimes' rebirth?

steps shifting in the dark, familiar and
beloved; the shushing and stirring, commit
to draw me near; umbral amici and i
provide a panoply o'bosky trappings f'thee
a joinin' we, or off to obscure pastures
to wee thee pants for eternity!...

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My Hazed Singapore!
My once gleaming and buzzing city 
Now forlorn and glum
Relentless blaze and we keep mum
Hazy, crazy, why can’t I see 
The silent intruder reminds me 
How fragile life and existence can be
Gone the sunshine that sparrows once chirped 
The smiles of flowers and trees usurped 
Young and old huddling in on tasks 
Strong and robust scurrying off in masks 
Can we not check their insidious greed?
Let the long arms of the law act indeed!...

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Sun, relentless
Son, I can see the glossy haze
radiating from your fingertips.
A warmth unimaginable.
Delicate.
Childlike.
Pure.
I watched you count the number of
time(s) the waves
thundered against the rocks.
Usurped by the number One, you cried
“Ouch!”
On the second you begged me,
Stop their pain,
stop my pain.
What could I do
but turn you away.
“Do you want ( a distraction)
to try rollerblading? “
He fain did accept,
…with feigned interest.

Trust’s Last.


S.M. Alexis...

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With alacrity now, I give up

That, which my belief once usurped

To my thirst like a cup

However, the longing never stopped



Deem not, a-going astray

My new will to not

Genuflect, statutorily and pray

To that in marble or ivory wrought



I have not traded the missal

For a bride’s love nor wedlock’s ring

But my early truth, in a trickle

Hast dripped; a new faith, entering



Yet, methinks am gone astray

For the new truth, sounds several leagues away...

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