Short Vicarious Poems

shallow veil shrouding
threaded dreams woven deeply
virtuous disguise...

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A vicarious metaphor
 —the writer’s privilege

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2018)...

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Discarding all vicarious knowing ~
Devoid of resistance, keep on flowing

06-May-2023...

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The gypsy life appeals to me
I love fun Bohemian ways
Pretty jewelry, fancy skirts
Their beautiful wagons
My hippie-like self
Vicarious
Wonderlust
gypsy
Love...

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not wanting to be bearer of grim news ~ i’ve sought vicarious views 

said the reaper upon reflection ~ what would you use if in my shoes 


By
David Kavanagh
hms...

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Life the abattoir of emotions,
     create the corps that is the heart.
What donnybrook takes the tole?
Empathy, the vicarious plight,
     direct the cruel incorrigible start....

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feeling each pulse, we live and learn
good touch, bad touch, slowly discern
knowledge vicarious futile
our know it all ego beguiles
no wisdom ingrained, till we burn

22-July-2021...

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Living vicarious… 
  the most important attribute 
  of an effective Poet

Never consumed by your 
  subject
   —consuming it in verse

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2019)
          ‘Dedicated To Emily’...

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Two chairs stare from across the room,
leaning on each other like worn puzzle pieces,

mine, towards the front where I often
perch in anticipation of life, yours,

decidedly towards the right where
you lean in anticipation of me....

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preachers practice not
vicarious knowing
of lower mind

collision of concepts 
dissolved in love
unifies truth

the void centric hermit
having imbibed bliss
is ever nonchalant 

dwelling in the heart

21-February-2023...

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Video audio 
Vicarious living 
Voyeuristic addict
Vegetatively blissed 
Viewer discretion, right
Volume blasts to the max
Vexed neighbour calls with axe


Pleiades V Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Kim Merryman 
Syllablecounter.net 7x6...

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silence enlivens existence
as all pervading
noumena birthing phenomena
by heart’s intent

our subjective awareness 
stripped of identity
radiates divine light
in incessant renewal

discarding all concepts 
each conditioned belief
and vicarious knowing
we transcend limitation...

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Chants ranting
rants chanting
narcissistic voices
deliciously pounding

Vicarious words
devilishly dancing
choruses spewing
copious chords

Muses climax
narcotic pleasure
poets revel
feeling hypnotic drums

Poetic coitus
lend me your ear
cry havoc
the Virgin Mary is hear...

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feeling  like dancing
on fluffy clouds of colorful petals
inhaling the  heaven scents
as I imagine an autumn
through my vicarious experience






Nov. 1,2012

This is gogyoka form of poem.


Second Place
Contest: Gogyoka
Contest Judged: 11/7/2012
Sponsor: Poet Joann Grisetti...

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Mind not the past, not a thing can change;
You are unique, don't think it's strange.

As often as ever give love to all;
Don't be rude, that may be your fall.
Vicarious living- steer clear away
I know only you can lead the way.
Calm yourself, don't let life pass by
Every piece of advice- a hypocritical try....

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Bindu, third eye, heart and crown glisten
As we feel pulse of bliss beats quicken
An enlivened spine and tingling eyes
Teleports presence to new highs

We care and therefore share
Of such awareness self-aware
Yet what use is vicarious knowing
In being, becoming, we keep on flowing

20-January-2023...

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Delay success for as long
As you can
Living up to an image
Will only cloud your vision
Stealing what you can least
Afford to lose
Dragging you into the illusion 
And myth
You have spent a lifetime 
Railing against
Dragging you into the
Vicarious trap
Of another’s false and wasted
Dream

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2016)...

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She was lake angry
beating the britches of the chi city
white capped whirlwinds
competition for her sisters
cul de sac of endless horizon.

Lake Mishigami,
dreamed 
of vast, vicious and vicarious power
being largest of her five great sisters
not third.


4/20/19

YOUR CHOICE(8),any form,any theme Poetry Contest
Sponsor, Brian Strand...

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third eye, crown and Bindu
burst forth in joyous dance
as toroidal heart witnesses
the enigmatic play underway

this slow motion bliss ignition
renews within by day and night
compelling mind to relinquish
all imagined vicarious knowing

an urge arises within to share
ineffable blissful wholeness felt
but language is merely symbolic
and the symbol is not the thing

23-April-2023...

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Considering if we were a spirit; subjugated to endure as also, view...
These the darker side in night's, atrocities committed by many their life
Upon another's here amid humankind yet not only they, rather all of creation
Perdition it would somehow seem this vicarious vexation ? Derelict shame disgraceful
Beastlialities such dymanics; forging forcefully about her universe resounding; ectoplasmic....

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Eat me a ton of star bellies
on your grandiose trip to the Milky Way
and break off a hunk of the fluorescent moon
to burn spiral rings in your nap sack to glow
Lift up black holes and hula hoop swing
side stepping gravity's bowl with a wink
Leap onto tails of inflection's decree
and bring me the voice of the sun.

For through you vicarious living's begun
and I can't take my two eyes off you......

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Fame means part of you
Maybe all of you
Belongs to someone else
Someone vicarious in their intent
Insatiable given their adulation
Proprietary, 
Eschewing personal risk or harm
Watching from the comfort
Of either praise or blame
They claim your soul like a 
Racehorse
When you win their hearts
Leaving your memory abandoned
 —when dissident odds prevail

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2015)...

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Vivacious veins of hope

       Virus still spreading fear

                       Veering variably

                                               Voices warbled ill-use

                       Vaccination striving

         Vicarious breathing 

Vanquished foe valiantly

3rd place winner

Written : May 5, 2021

Pleiades V Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Kim Merryman

Checked by : howmanysyllables.com...

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Heading for the next election,
Votes vied for by vicarious politicians,
Who are we all voting for?
Is it for their superannuation? Or,
Streamlining services to sway us,
Does Oz really need  such fuss?
We're walking on the winning side,
Let's have some more Hi-fives!
Debates due to direction,
Teen brain selfie obsessions,
These are our politicians, 
It's a short, amusing ride,
Someone pass vicarious pesticide!!!...

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hindsight
        a vicarious sanctuary
        exhiliarating  fluctuating
harmony
         conventionally coidtered
         exquisite enchanting
         in mysterious patterns
changing tones&
                        textures immersed
                        in stunning images
depictions
               tinged with
                            wistfulness
chaos
     from desolation
             of emotions awry...

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