Short Usurper Poems

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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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old Smeaton’s Tower
spends its retirement dreaming
recalling its youth

no light in its eyes
glares at the young usurper
on Eddystone reef

Jack Horne for Russell’s In the Light of Haiku contest...

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Kidnapped by the Muses,
  sentence now unknown

Thoughts are held for ransom,
  will denied the throne

Kingdom banned in exile,
  usurper in control

Welcoming confinement,
 —house arrest extolled 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)...

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Reach Unto Jesus of Nazareth 
Unto New-creation Realities
Never Return to Ur

Righteousness is Uncovered Now:
Utilize, Network and Renew
Never Retreat to the Usurper

Review Undertaken Narrow way
Unlike Nowadays’ Rebels
Nearer is the Real Utopia...

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clarity seeps the wound 
the flip phone missing digits 
a womb infused with violet hues 
it's quiet till it fidgets 

happenstance and bruise 
it swells for martyr avenues  
the screen is cracked yet vivid 

seed in purple 
seized usurper 
seems the impact killed it...

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I cherish your dreary safe house; I share your cover trick. 
The nightfall apparition is unmistakably pitiful, not majestic. 
Alone, yet not the only one, I walk around my sorrow phobic 
Almost when a heron offers a final chance, it is laded with panic.
The maelstrom witch hurls an illuminated usurper mystic.



Written: August 25, 2021...

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The apartment leaks their footsteps.
Ghosts avoid them
they live on in the fabric and pith,
die in the gist and substance
as fragmented recordings;
the former, the previous.
Once they were the replacement tenants
now you’re the usurper.
They won’t speak to you,
for you are not there,
however they will arrange and restore
what you thought was yours
as you dream of being....

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My shirt is splotched with spit-up,
Though my shoulder sports a burper.
My clothes are like a kingdom
And my grandson's the usurper.

He drinks his bottle, gives a burp
And then, without a doubt,
A quarter of what just went in
Comes, like a fountain, out.

I really do not mind, but learned
My lesson, truth be told - 
When I'm with Henry, what I wear
Is faded, frayed or old!...

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Blinded by the Light


The lightning, it was over-bright
vengeance, slashing a darkened sky,
awakening the sins of night.
The lightning, it was over-bright,
usurper of the dead souls sight,
cauterizing the heavens eye.
The lightning, it was over-bright
vengeance, slashing a darkened sky.



6/19/2016


submitted to – First Line Prompt – 2 – Poetry Contest
sponsor – Julia Ward...

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OBSCURE LIFE CHARACTERS

Hero
Your terror is palid..
fear is your greatest gesture!


Soldier
your loneliness
is greater than death...
smaller than an enigma,
a data..!

COMMANDED
The bigger the well
from the horror,
more exposed to
subordinate...

THIEF
eternal processor
of other people's gestures..
overeacting prophylaxis
poorly provided,
usurper of
compromising crumbs,,,

NOZZLE
verbose word
among deaf...
brilliant gesticulator
among blinds...!...

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