Short Viewpoint Poems

A Viewpoint

Wolf of Wall Street
A carnival of depravity...

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Error in mindset
Foggy windshields and time
Huffing in a closed loop...

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Vast world is my love
Best flash for chick is applause
Freedom is for dove....

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From guy's perspective
Proposal is such a heart thing
Girl's feel expensive....

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so rarely about what we see -
                                                      more the mood evoked in me...

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Early viewpoint set,
     Made so by a high
          opaque wall,
Yet spilling gold
     And lighting the upper edge,
Twilight had a delayed start....

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VIEWPOINT

Some poets see life in concepts, metaphor and feelings
Others in cold facts and a sharp monochrome reality
Yet there is a welcome for both in communications
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life ...
      'twixt & 
 between 
anarchic 
        asides 
pricking 
balloons :
so easy 
    on the eye 
wry smiles 
otherness 
    observed 
held on ...
       ...pause...
the perfect..
      ...point...

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Fluttering wings rise
High viewpoint gentle senses
Float across the sky

Joy and fulfillment
Love, trust, peace and weightlessness
Rushing, gliding wings


For Constance's contest 
Thanks for the inspiration!...

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Soul, wait out this viewpoint.
What nights, above grave
And piercing it
With stars' radiance
As deep entrance;

Strikes for its saving trust
Through a death-mist is
Angel-revealed.
Whose heavenly eyes
Are calmly wise....

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Each of us, will move to name a thing 
before or as it comes and is gone again.

In that moment we are here by proof 
of exchange only 
in the memory of having so been named 
as not. 

while all of language rushes by
 
Am I the only word that waits, 
unspoken....

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Polite to me and tall in gesture fair, 
Offering openness to my raw feelings, 
Leaving nothing behind but a lectern, 
Insisting on my viewpoint and reeling; 
Tough on that, and unable to retract, 
Energy for my memories so compact....

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SUNSET

Squinting at a blinding white sun
The whole of planet Earth turns
And from the viewpoint of us all
A fiery giant ball of red and gold
Dips so slowly below the horizon
Until the merest sliver disappears
And recognises time for darkness
Leaving a crescent moon smiling...

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FATIMA

Marion visions 1917 — what if the flock missed the Son?*

10/25/2020
Contest: Fatima
Sponsor: Kai Michael Neumann


*alternate viewpoint

For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus… 1 Timothy 2:5 NIV...

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Perception pours back and forth,
amid the windows and the eyes
and where is mind between them both?
Between body and soul what we may see
has many meanings we’ve yet to know;
look carefully between the panes,
examine study every winding road;
conceptualism’s highly untamed.

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Furuike ya
kawazu tobikomu
mizu no oto

- Basho



Literal Translation

Fu-ru (old) i-ke (pond) ya,
ka-wa-zu (frog) to-bi-ko-mu (jumping into)
mi-zu (water) no o-to (sound)

my two cents

old pond

leaping frog

splash!    (alternatively ripples*)

*perhaps better from an imagist viewpoint!...

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Lonely 
          Bride cautiously
         Conquers her denial
     Light drives her to understand so
She recognizes her pink-tinted viewpoint
    Yet the costume highlights stubborn
              Arguments thus created 
                Staying bright yet
                        Lonely
Visual #1
Euginia Liapich
9/9/2013...

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the mark
of an educated man
is his ability
to listen
to another's viewpoint
without rancor

no matter
how obnoxious
or foolish

not out of kindness
or respect 
to social convention

but with genuine interest

for only in that way
is it possible
to further
his education

Collection: Life
Written: January 2020...

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possess a disposition of agreeability
have a position of hospitality
take a stance on being pleasing
with an outlook of sound reasoning
a viewpoint of compassion
an aspect of courtesy
a posture of kindness
and stand on congeniality
to have an attitude of gratitude
to always be kind
to love your fellow man 
to always have God on your mind...

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Parallax in optics:
   Perceived objects vary.
      Pendulums swing from your
         Pivot points unique from
      People who don't concur.
   Perhaps your relative
Perspective is correct.

Image Attribution:
By Booyabazooka - Parallax Example.png, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1335592

written 4 Oct 2020...

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If God is actually Jesus' dad,
would he really get so mad?
If someone with him didn't agree,
would he, perhaps, the other viewpoint see?
Do you think he'd look down from heaven's height,
and everything he saw he'd want to smite,
why would he on them want to jump,
and fire and brimstone on them dump?
Surely such havoc he would never wreak,
would he not just turn the other cheek?...

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Peeping to the sky:
Beating wings of twilight
Leading home, the birds 
Horizon, engulf the ember Sun.
Invitation of the dying day
Give rise to a tranquil bay.
Putting me in the battle
Of: need and happiness. 

Every viewpoint 
From the hot iron pan
Searching those mountains
Of a distant homeland
Cool breeze along with
Perfumes of spring woods
Memories of myrtles
Holding back to hear:
Cooing, Cuckoos....

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Double Standard?
Tom’s Opinion
4/29/2020

She makes charges, He denies.
Fair minded people report the facts,
but the national media is disingenuous,
spinning everything to fit a narrative 
that often portrays their own viewpoint.
Listening to the accuser has now become dependent
upon what network is asking the question.
Each person should be measured with the same yardstick!
...

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Don’t live your life with skin that’s thin.
Never be sorry, never give in. 
Never apologize, never explain.
Never surrender to meanings not plain.
 
Never forgive, never forget
Never be soft, never regret
Always defend what you know is true 
Against others who haven’t a clue.

Arguments based on empathy,
Are spineless, and lack honesty
Though stated with intensity.
They're nonsense, not reality....

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The most discussed Basho haiku How would you translate it?

Furuike ya
kawazu tobikomu
mizu no oto

- Basho



Literal Translation

Fu-ru (old) i-ke (pond) ya,
ka-wa-zu (frog) to-bi-ko-mu (jumping into)
mi-zu (water) no o-to (sound)

my two cents

old pond

leaping frog

splash!    (alternatively ripples*)

*perhaps better from an imagist viewpoint!
Copyright © Brian Strand | Year Posted 2019...

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