Short Vagrant Poems

a vagrant sky nods goodbye — brushstrokes of pink and blue pastels

2/6/2018...

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I'm a Zen vagrant
in this world
of a like minded
river overflowing
no thought of banks...

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A vagrant mortal heart
tones my prebirth mindset---
slowing cyclic sumsara freefalls...

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heedless sky above
 clean crystal mirror below~
 vagrant clouds float through
...

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Haiku 1-26-2018

whimsical winds
tease taut tree limbs
vagrant vibrations

John G. Lawless
1/27/2018...

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my sentinel cat
lies in watch at the window...
a vagrant, strange pet
approaches from the outside...
encounter at the border...

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Lithe, graceful,
light as air
barely human,
a figment
of imagination,
vagrant dreams,
attraction
to like parts, 
a certain lilting
smile....

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How can you live a vagrant life,
Sleeping anywhere you lay your head?
Has anyone never said building appreciation, 
Starts by owning your own bed....

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Written fragments
Broken songs
Stepping stones
To hope beyond

Music absent
Long at bay
Vagrant notes
  —last wish to play

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)...

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Rubbish


toss all vagrant words
in the ward of the absurd
lock them all up


there is no race
only  those who have no grace

in the bin of social miscreants...

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An ill endowed vagrant named Basher
Is renowned as the local flasher
Girls laugh themselves silly
When he shows his willy
It looks like a small bacon rasher

09/28/20...

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Taking Stock of Your Best Part

Measure
Treasure

A Drunkard’s Nap

Boozy
snoozy

Gun Enthusiast with Energy

Trigger
Vigor

 Bum after a Bubble Bath

Fragrant
Vagrant

Feb. 8, 2023...

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Words
clamor
and curdle
into ripened, 
red embolisms
of vulgar syllables
that dam fresh inspiration
with futile, vagrant dissonance.
I diagnose my swollen fingers
as unfortunate strokes of distraction....

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Memories are expensive
spent on looking back
Unpaid moments lost in time
debts for what we lack
Overdue nostalgia
debiting supreme
Clouded statements left unrhymed
—mortgaging our dreams

(Dreamsleep: May, 2023)...

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pretty in sunshine
puffy vagrant clouds drift by
grey peaks of mountains

blue jay seeks his tree
long before the fiery end
awaiting moonlight

lying in green grass
at noontime of blissful blue
peaceful daydream skies...

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Vagrant diamond stars teem,
Various in color.
Veering hued planets whirl-
Velocity dancers!
Vernal and infinite,
Vibrant universe dark.
Vintage colors abound!


Written on May 4, 2021
For: Pleiades V Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Kim Merryman...

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Oh! vagrant life, your motive unknown,
for what do you acknowledge me? 
and why am i a pawn?
why fix un-broken entity's?
why lead to deep desire?
and overpowering uncertainty
through all vanity,  yet to be..' 
immolated in eternity's fire.."...

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Vagrant thoughts
Hang about the corners
Of my mind
Idly tormenting each other
Daring
At least one
To take hold
Take shape
Cast a shadow
On the unknown.

©4/19/2023

Writing Contest - 'V' Words Poetry Contest
Constance LaFrance - sponsor...

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Empty soda cans litter
the side of the road,
as empty as the inside
of my heart.

Clocks stopped hide in shadows
of time counted and gone,
memories lie hidden
in dim corners.

Vagrant breezes stir windchimes
into a discordant jangle,
echoing 
the hollow silence....

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Like the fog
She melts
Into the wilderness
Never to come
Back. 

Like the snow
She drifts,
Crossing horizons 
Settles at
Home. 

Like the storm 
She floods,
All that is inside, 
Comes pouring 
Out. 

Like the grass
She stays,
Stops, 
Looks and
Wanders off....

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During day, mind is clogged
By a thousand thoughts
A pot of marbles upturned
On attempting to sweep them together
They slip and slither
Running this way and that way

At night, after their vagrant wanderings
They come back to roost
......................... if not insomniac!...

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a topology of the letter-set (ydv)

yoga defines vacancy-yachting.....
dampening vacuum-yawns.....dictionaried-vaguenesses.....

yielding distorted vagrant-yarns.....
discussions virtually yearning detail.....

virtual yolks.....
disengage.....
vapor your daily ventures....


stan sand...

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What is there within this vagrant lady
That I can neither hear nor see,
That I fail to acquire or fathom
And still it beckons me?

Is not she but a blood stain in the moon---
A bit of water, plasma, enzymes?
And yet she plays upon her bong a truculent tune
As if Karma had not kissed her with his fangs!...

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in my psychosis;
leverage diagnosis;
fragment minds hurting;
~
I bevel my watch
ruined vagrant derelict
my resolution
~
just to do nothing;
mind and soul in this sinkhole;
tarnish illusion;

diagnosis-PSYCHOSIS ILLUSIONS

6/12/19
written words by James Edward Lee Sr....

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How can stars be there?
I am blind in slush,flinched
From the vagrant wind
Wafting the fog's kiss
To wiz tree down the ravine
Tucked in by the fells
Where kinda moon drops
Souse eerie pebbledashed face
Of me to recoup.
  


Compose a Choka - Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Janis Thompson
07/22/2016...

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