Short Vestige Poems

villas villages
vestige views valley vinca
vacation venues...

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Leaf refuses to fall
vestige of summer gone
some memories last...

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Racing projectile,

High velocity impact:

Surface impression....

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vestige
of yesteryear
dusted off



posted on September 13, 2018...

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In this winter numbness only the snow 
angels of ours remember
to our love-making games....

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vestige of summer
suntan lines
fake spaghetti straps



AP: 1st place 2021

Posted on July 19, 2018...

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The final vestige of autumnal reign
Releases its exhausted grip on life ~ 
A wistful willow quivers as its last leaf falls.


08.01.20...

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Atrophy of sound is that 
I say it not ~
my trust surround
for fear,
the harbor of the soul's astound
does cap my vestige
truth .  .  . another's ground?...

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Forgotten lie the graves of the forsaken, 
long unremembered, strangled 
by the grasses of neglect; 
misbegotten, ever mute they fester, 
worm-mingled, mercy less, with 
no vestige of respect....

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Forgotten lie the graves of the forsaken, 
long unremembered, strangled 
by the grasses of neglect. 
Misbegotten, forever mute they fester, 
worm-mingled, mercy less, with 
no vestige of respect....

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Forgotten lie the graves of the forsaken, 
long unremembered, strangled 
by the grasses of neglect. 
Misbegotten, forever mute they fester, 
worm-mingled, mercy less, 
without a vestige of respect....

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Esoteric Enema
Miser of Burden
Intrinsic Impetus
Seer of Inertia

Virulent Vestige
Alias of anonymity
Pious Pathogen
Fear of Androgyny 

Visceral Virtue
Tao of Two
Antigen of Affinity
I love you...

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Forgotten lie the graves of the forsaken, 
long unremembered, strangled 
by the grasses of neglect. 
Misbegotten, forever mute they fester, 
worm-mingled, mercy less, 
with no vestige of respect....

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THE TIDE CAME IN
SWIFT AND FURIOUS
BESIDE US
THE OCEAN
CARRIED YOU AWAY
A WAVE OF SADNESS
THE MOON 
PULLING YOU FURTHER
BLACK AS NIGHT
COVERED IN ASH
YOU LEFT WITH MY HEART
THIS TIME
THERE IS NO TURNING BACK....

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Forgotten lie the graves of the forsaken, 
long unremembered, strangled 
by the grasses of neglect. 
Misbegotten, forever mute they fester, 
worm-mingled, mercy less, 
without a vestige of respect.

              ******

...an exercise in assonance and alliteration...

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Deep within the ashes,
  a last ember burned alone

A final spark to light the torch,
  to guide your spirit home

Deep within the ashes,
  a last beacon in the fight

Refusing to let the darkness take
 —your vestige into night

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)...

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Forgotten lie the graves of the forsaken, 
long unremembered, strangled 
by the grasses of neglect; 
misbegotten, ever mute they fester, 
worm-mingled, mercy less, with 
no vestige of respect.

            *******

an exercise in short 'e' long 'a,' 's,' 'm' and 'g' letters...

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Forgotten lie the graves of the forsaken, 
long unremembered, strangled 
by the grasses of neglect. 
Misbegotten, forever mute they fester, 
worm-mingled, mercy less, 
with no vestige of respect.


               ******


An exercise in alliteration and assonance,
the 'music' of my poetry....

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light
                    bright, luminescent 
             shining, signaling, beaming 
fluorescent, illumination, silhouette, vestige 
            obscuring, following, stalking 
                      umber, darkened
                              shadow



Date written: 12/20/2022...

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One girl among a throng—
	no, declared her swaying hips,
		to woman she had bloomed—
Whose pert young face I’d never glimpsed
	(until that instant,
		from mall’s bench)
By passing, merely,
	eyes so bright
		and sweater shapely,
Touched off a vestige
	of youthful years
		and adolescence lost....

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Deep are the tears 
that lay buried in the shadows
they seek not the eyes
from where they would flow
known only to the birth of yesterday
they drip like raindrops
down the memory of the soul
to pool before the fall of quiet eyelids
as the last vestige of the day
turns to restless sleep

10/25/19...

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Errant, superficial and of kneel
this male emboss, so sacred finds appeal
within a drama's spoke, yet not of real,
while faith's abounding wisdom highlights skill
and interferes not prestige, but reveals!

As so my vestige in this writing wills
thy truth & trust  .  .  .  .  the vagrant heart, but thrills!...

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To everything..
Turn, turn, turn
Standing upon this ledges edge
Uncovered as peering amid
The city lights below
Biopsies water colours..
Moments splashed about
This vestige of neons
Dissecting organisms hues called life ?
Time, seeking purlieu sorties
Reasons incised..
Lifted from the palette
Of brushed; their rhyme....

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The last vestige of light
silently lingers
with the revillers drunk and blase

Stained windows
empty yesterdays hopes
Socceresses and velvet dolls
only offer their smiles

As the dancers kick like harlequins
your tears are gilded
Questions are divine
mourning for lost friends
Waiting for the sun
as the tapers pass by
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DUSK

Sadness surfaces at dusk
permeating sky
as gentle pitch of
birds intone
above evils shriek.
Lost leaves depart
lonely barren sticks
as winter chills its
mortal demise
and festers deep.
Panorama vestige steals
and defies the stroke
of the hand that lies
like feline eyes through
an eerie dusk



© Kim van Breda—June 2014...

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