Short Veneer Poems

Through the veneer of the new year, old habits hold dear.

12/29/18...

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Within us all two aspects domineer
Our natural manner and it's veneer...

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my facade has cracks
you chipping the smooth veneer
that used to protect...

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Music
massage my soul;
music to bring a tear-
every sense stripped to its
veneer....

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Trump wants an huge Vanity Wall
And it MUST be "Corona" tall
Empty bottles of beer
With adobe veneer
And Mexico pays after all!...

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lies plied between us

                             the glue beneath our veneer

                                  secrets behind smiles






12/26/18...

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Silently undermining
Oh, what sneaky saboteur! 
Simmering vindictiveness
'Neath his warm veneer



Date written: 01/23/2022...

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The thin veneer of clarity 
cracked
and revealed
tumult beneath.

I want to shed myself
like a snake sheds her skin.

Words lie coiled inside me,
ready to spring....

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Let us take off the veneer 
the comforting illusion and cosy half-truths
blow out the candles 
make a wish
say a prayer
prepare for letdown

A set piece for Fools !...

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Tell me a lie, close your eyes
Silent seducer.
This veneer is delicious,
But you're still as feral underneath.
I do not want perfection. 
You make being alive
Seem so easy.
None is more happier
Than the fool....

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My dad had died, my wife had left:
just Mum and I that year;
our hurt and sadness swept beneath
the Christmas cheer veneer.

For the contest, A Christmas Memory, sponsor, Broken Wings
By Jack Horne, 21st November 2015...

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The personal life of Sam Grover, a popular talk-show host, turns upside down when he accepts an assignment from a media tycoon.The job plunges him into 
a deadly cat-and-mouse game hiding behind a veneer of glamour, money and power....

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Are your words predictable,
  are the feelings staid

Is the truth rehashed,
  the same pavers laid

Is your verse now tired,
  its veneer worn thin

Whose mask barely hiding
  —the emptiness within

(Dreamsleep: June, 2019)...

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We all think we're more than the score
And we carry that thought to the core.
That we are individuals and deserve the best above all the rest.
When really here we all are veneer--
A superficial glue of material that binds the inferior 
To their exterior...

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I wonder why you changed;
my heart can never guess.  
Why did your veneer slip? -
Sly actions to address!

Do you have regrets now?
You seem as warm as ice.
Too many people fooled
to see you act so nice.

for Dear Heart Constance's Lento contest...

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I stand, alone.

Scratching for my truths,
peeling away the veneer,

I stand, alone, before this
impregnable cliff so sheer.

Cocooned in my solitary shell,
wrenching a smile from a tear,

I stand, alone, a little odd,
and definitely quite queer.

I stand, alone....

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Your eyes your smile
your heart beats so close to mine
the wind blows the thunder roars
the rain falling
hiding behind your veneer
streets solemnly empty 
in a mere distance I see 
your eyes your smile 
in a mere distance I feel
your heart beats so close to mine...

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Music massage my soul,
To caress,perhaps console;
Music uplift my heart
As distress fades and departs.
Music moving,brings a tear,
My senses stripped of their veneer;
Music tingling the spine,
Heaving emotions re-align.
Music for my every mood
Impacts my solitude....

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Music
   massage my soul
moving,brings a tear
every  sense
  stripped of its veneer
Music
to console
 uplift my heart
distress fades 
  and then departs
Music
 tingling the spine
heaving emotions 
  re-align.
Music 
for my every mood
impacts 
  my solitude....

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Led by the nose, when will we learn
That not all leaders are sincere
Though heaven-sent they might appear
Our trust they trample in return
Then when their deeds reveal their game
Our freedom’s gone; heads hang in shame.

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spots of ink in sky
a specter of nature shape
if you look, you'll see

cool breeze at the shore
under the cold blue veneer
small gravel tremble

gloss black of crow wings
sparkling as the midday light
walk proudly up grass

Written: May 14, 2023...

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It was as if 
the veneer of a morning 
split open and six pelicans
flew out through the crack
carrying the light 
of another world, 
bright gold upon every wing
and passing overhead
had me bathed
in a moment until
they flew back
into their world,
leaving me to mine.


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Wettened by the mornings dew 
Closely spaced where rows of roses grew 
Footprints stained the cobblestone 
Where my love and I had walked, alone

Memories bloom like flowers anew 
inside this heart of mine who knew 
That every trace of her still here 
brings back the scent of her veneer...

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fresh and new I choose
dialed back veneer new view
dial it back when

the hands of times send
myself back into the grace
life in heaven space

live new in mom's womb
to beginnings before back 
before now way back 


5/2/19
Dial It Back Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Maureen McGreavy...

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we live
       we sigh
we oftimes cry

and sometimes weep,

as words hit deep...
       we die

sensitive souls,
'neath the veneer,
       a tear

       appears
       then dries...
the scar remains

       festers
       erupts
again,again....

until we choose
new birth...
we lose...

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