Short Veneers Poems

These rice paper eyes
veneers to filter all thoughts
ignite with your touch......

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Old Chinese paintings
on sanded paper veneers
depicting swift flight
of a thousand long necked cranes
still trapped, just piercing the sky....

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change
looking
good today,
ideas  come-
then
go
manners
and customs
fashioned in new
clothes
soon
grow old-
as human
nature changeless
stays...

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The world is a stream of veneers.

Pierce through them and witness its truths.

Some alarming, some inspiring.

Often afraid of their realizations.

Can we bear it?...

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Facades crack; veneers fade,
leaving the exposed to wade
through realities that invade.


September 24, 2022
entered in a Premiere Choice Contest
Sponsor: Brian Strand...

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Veneers

When one walks as snow flakes of superficiality,
they coalesce into what becomes their personality.
When one plays to the crowd of peers,
their face is one of beautiful veneers.

When one realizes that - like life -
the beat of one's existence - like a hot knife -
can melt the dream, expose the scheme
and to the surface will rise the cream .

B.J."A" 2
August 21st 2009...

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Often greatness comes from humble roots
Where none-expected talents lay hidden
Beneath veneers of undeveloped yearning,
Hiding like gemstones in hard rough slate
Until the master discovers facets that glisten.

written January 1, 2020
[while visiting the birthplace of
Elvis Presley in Tupelo, Mississippi]

Entered "Bite Size Poetry No. 32" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Line Gauthier...

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I want to flash
Not with the hard drive
But solve the dispute
With a smile

Stares, veneers, stop the sneers
Have a drink
Lets think
Put some teeth into it all

I will walk you to the door
Then spring up from the floor
Spin you around like a top
And wait for you to flop, then drop

The red will run
The argument done
I will floss
Then go
No fight no more
Veneer and stares will lead you there....

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Inner self can hide
For only a short time
Grass that appears greener
Could be covered with slime

Exterior shells wither
Jewels loose their luster
While true beauty shines true
Where love and joy cluster

Choose wisely my friends
Look beyond the facade
Outward beauty duplicated
Is merely decoupage

Discerning eyes can see
Beyond the thin veneers
Courses can be corrected
When love, not lust, steers...

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Everybody has secrets they don't want anyone to know
Everyone has a facade that they put on to show
Nobodys life is troublefree only varying degrees
Its so easy to smile for a while and just say cheese
Through veneers its all cheers, mouths deceive, no surprise
We can hide what's inside, so please realize
No one's better than another
Though your disguise fools your brother
When Halloween is over 
We will all be uncovered...

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Robin Hood thieves from the woodlands,  
for seemingly meaningful greenery,
and rather mysterious scenery
to sell at garden  nurseries.
Jack axes the canopies:
veneers to go on vanities.
And the lavish sunlit 
leaves are fading,
and falling. 

Pragmatic greed
smothers silent cries,
of felled trees,
gruesomely shrugs
over carnage.
Emptiness sweeps
into grey-gaps.

We ache for beauty… 

remembered,

imagined,

unseen.
...

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There are trolls
under the bridge
that connects my solitude
with the world of mirrors and veneers
of office hobnobs
and dinners after eight,
where the deathless ogres follow me
to perch, invisible, beside my chair
and rock and leer and cackle
at my efforts there

So, I retreat
across the long and tenuous passage
into the labyrinth of my genius
where both men and demons flounder
because no signboards are displayed
and compasses despair....

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The Veneer

A smile
that just doesn't quite reach,
the teeth gleam,
while the eyes are dull and lifeless.
These are the veneers that fill our world.

We wander around,
cheerfully greeting our enemies.
Asking redundant questions
that we dont care about the answers to.
These are the veneers
that fill our world.

I'm gonna mean what I say.
I'm gonna say what I mean.
I'm gonna smile to my eyes.
Today's going to be different.
Tearing down the veneers,
that fill our world....

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