Short Vainglorious Poems

steeped on humid steps
soaked and impressed Summer leaves
— vainglorious veins

9/10/2018...

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Volutes of nirvana 
vine leafs hem cobalt green
vale’s sun drenched molten trance
van dyke brown eyesore balm
vital sign gilt mirrors
vanish o’er rainbow gules
vainglorious zoom lens

Date submitted : 6 th May 2021...

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BUTCHER’S PAPER

population growth, wrapped in butcher’s paper, blossoming beautifully

eyes dot the vainglorious poppies — bloodshot with remembrance

6/1/2018
Silent One’s When one line is not enough
33 syllables...

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What a tragedy,

to see so many of our fellow men, 

willingly to relinquish their souls' eternal glory  

just

to enjoy a few vainglorious cheers on the 

ephemeral plane! 










© Demetrios Trifiatis
       31 July 2020...

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A Venus shape, the Men go Ape:
tender, slender, svelte!
So toned and taut, her treasure sought-
by far, the best they've felt! 
Inviting lips, come hither hips, 
her silhouette in waif.
Vixen curves and kitten purrs... 
no male, of course, is safe....

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Florid bouquet like a breathless waterfall.
Love’s vainglorious velvet lipstick.
Old-fashioned hips, voluptuous curves.
Wanton dozens sensuously strewn on stage.
Everywhere they praise his rosy star.
Riveting ruddies for his Valentine.

2/13/2018...

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There's a monstrous beast I feed

          (Though I cleanse its bloody chin)

               'Tis that bitter, vainglorious truth

     That my demons ... always ... win.


Still, so starved in grim defeat ...

          I'll be damned, should it not eat....

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The towering tide in the sea 
should not awe you by its height
This  is mere effervescence
Rising and falling wearily
On   the  bosom  of the foaming Sea.
The momentary peak of strength that it attains
 By  jumping out of its mass to reach the sky
Is as vainglorious and transitory As the Ego of his ‘I’....

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paradox ignites inquiry
separation of miles
simultaneous expression
heart, diamond, seven
sympathetic origins
obscured talents revealed
matriarchal lineage proffers
activation of decoded language
awakening old ways, water ways
path ways of vainglorious movement
ebb and flow of awareness
inquiry satisfied...

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Hear ye hear ye o vainglorious creatures
This day have I weighed thine lives in measures
Know ye not thine retinue will not last?
And all becometh old as of the past?
Repent ye of thine evil ways  this day
For it cometh soon to an end - mine stay.
For of nothing but debris art thou made
To it thou surely returneth someday....

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HELL OF THAILAND

two men beat their chests
contest of very hot spice
the hell of Thailand

first man’s sweat pours out
a linen napkin’s laughing
vainglorious plight

eyes of number two
tears streaming grow big and sting
vein-bulge vanity

admiring friends
cheer and jibe in kodachrome
racing pulse of weak

4/12/2018...

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Take your glorious beauty,

your handsome 
perfect body.
Take your precious stones:
Your sardius, topaz, and diamond,
your beryl, onyx, and jasper,
your sapphire, turquoise, and emerald full of gold.
Take it all!

Don’t be so vainglorious 

as you kiss yourself 
like a drooling whore.
God loves his son
who is 
not you....

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A THOUSAND SHIPS 


Is this the face, this old hulk in the salt marsh? 
Is this my lady with creaking timbers
 and peeling skin? 

 A mere figurehead, a turkey prow, 
missing one oar, grandiloquent, vainglorious, 
still fighting the old sea-battles
with the wind and waves

the thousand ships
 that lie at the bottom of the sea....

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The Killer Shark~so conceited,he.
Wants every part of the sea, his to be!
Each human, each acqautic plant. “Mine”
Destruction, dearth to him, just shine!

His abundant teeth gleam in the sum.
The greedy shark,murdering everyone.
Theft of life, fulfill his vainglorious days.
The seas flush with a dark,crimson haze.


                       4/5/2023...

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SUDDENLY SPRING

Magenta and tangerine petals
              Tantalize the sky of my eyes
                       Appearing as faithful as a new day

                       Gone the days of gray and dreary
        In their stead handsome brown trunks
And vainglorious green leaves of oak

Winter indeed bows, gives way to fair lady of Spring
Branches burgeoning in an endless bliss of birdsong

Kim Rodrigues © 2017...

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Many Women passed before thy face,
but they haven't read it.
countless women, passed through, 
they never left on your chest shades but the Ah
Nor with flavoring love,flavored joyful lips.
 
Many women Passed vainglorious on your wounds, 
Walked without paying attention,
planting your evening with fires and absent.

 ... My fate, I passed and read,and
Ah I wished, I wished I didn't. 
Neither I put down what they burned,
Nor as what they did, I did....

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Here come the birds a-twittering at 8:26 a.m.
The racket not heard until now, but now
the sweet pecking of my eardrums drum
in the sweetest way — the way God made them to.

Too precious the vainglorious melody, simply
harmonious, it flees. Replacement choir says cheese.
Release your chirping song inconspicuous lovebird,
winged-treasury of heav’n psalm, choir of angels.
          Angels sent to pleasure my ears —
an earful of morning cheer.

3/9/2020...

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clasping, holding firm
cradled in unnatural burn
ready to perish
they build their world
of wildflowers 
cocooned
breathless build of agony
vainglorious vines
like golden twine
laying over ankles and shins
a blanket of ethereal sun
illuminating, encapsulating
their tethered world
masterpiece of royal robes
exotic dress
must surely finesse
after the kiss
morse code
of dots and dashes
ignored as the impassioned
rise and fall into oblivion
quickening death

9/30/2018...

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When anthro-privileged consumers
of massive monotheistic miscommunications
replace faith in compassionate StatesMen 
and bipartisan StatesWomen
with vainglorious hope
for straight white supremacist BusinessMen

Then what might have been a healthy 
polycultural democracy
has now become just another nationalistic 
monoculturing kleptocracy.

Sacred EarthMother
does not define
what matriarchal yin Beauty is,
and yet S/He seems to refine
what patriarchal yang Ugly is not.

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Convince me I am wrong to assume
You only mean for me the best,
For I am prone to believe your words
In them your intentions seem manifest.

Holding feelings very close to my chest
Your compliments inspire me to excel,
Yet sometimes I sense vainglorious praise
And an insincere sappiness, I can’t tell.

Convince me I am right to presume
You only mean for me the best,
And I shall continue to receive your words
Believing your intentions in them manifest.

written March 2, 2022...

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