Short Vigilance Poems

Under the light, shadows of death — vigilance of God

4/13/2021...

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“The price of excellence
eternal vigilance”
A sheep dog watches
—the wolves at bay

(Dreamsleep: August, 2022)...

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candle flame cleansing
breath work so extraordinaire
hyper vigilance

daily mindfulness
astounding self awareness
soul finds her answers...

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Years and years of decreasing vigilance
     increasingly false moral equivalence

   Pointing the finger is all too easy
     accepting blame makes us queasy...

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Nomads of the Arctic,
    Never traveling south,
Noble Unicorns live
    Now in the sea, under
    Northern Lights and ice flows.
Near Threatened, will they die?
    New hope in vigilance!...

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learn to be free
with parts that cleave
left to believe
a mere notion of thought

a tender soul can't ever be bought
in sought vigilance
through a faint or cry
locked in the faint of myre...

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To me Thee, ‘is a sunder,
proped to one begging display
of teeming vigilance . . . what
to my Ire duth I believe?
Sweet sweet Melody preceding
me, laughter before me, thoughtlessly . . .
Carefree Notions of thee
pondering . . ....

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Reactionaries pale in the face of vigilance, rationale, and restraint
When rightful actions are served, reactions are not to be feared
Any price paid for just and proper responses is not in vain

01072020PoSoupContest, Threesome, Silent One...

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(P)articipate and don’t be silenced
(A)ct on the facts and truth
(T)rust that we can overcome this
(R)ebuild our country together
(I)nteract in a positive supportive way
(O)vercome all this by unity
((T)reat each other with respect
(S)urvive by preparation and vigilance

Heidi Sands

12/7/19...

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Hollow barge
A requiem.

Fire inside
Volcano.

White wolves
red snow.

Mountain
Swirling wind.

Fish
Vigilance.


A hen
call.


A girl
Wild fire.

Crow
Black astronaut.


Lizard on wall
Waiting.

Mosquito
blacklisted flautist.

Frogs
Deep sleep.


Five white roses
Touch.


Rock
A hermit....

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Children like to play hide and seek to misguide,
even in school bus after their pickup for the ride.
So, all the drivers, your careful vigilance is thus due, 
be extra patient, don’t let the playful kids trick you.
To search the bus thoroughly keen attention you pay,
make sure the bus is empty before you call it a day.
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Awesome!
Where do I have to go?
Impossible to count the number of steps to get me home,
She needed me for sexual excitement, 
Yet,my thought and ego was beneath enlightenment, 
Nothing did she afford to do then,
At the moment she saw me on the field,
Inside me was a tempered shield,
Which made her bullet against me, 
Get back to the shooter....

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The sellout of an identity 
was complete.
You were standing on your
blood.	

Scarce was the remorse
in your eyes,
after killing your
verse.

Bipedal activity has been
ruined.
And you were crawling
on all fours.

You are glorifying the
sex,
forgetting the brides of
jungle.

Can you walk upright,
stay clean
and stop eating the dialogues ?


Satish Verma...

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Vigilance deserted 
Attention diverted
      you slid under me

Caught me senseless
     indefenseless
     essentially brainless

Tripped toe stumbling
Tangled tongue bumbling
     no intelligence forthcoming

Curled toes holding onto dignity
Praying for declivity into
     dissolvability

Circle gold clear gleaming.

Do you see the hilarity?...

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A virtuous man put his energy on vigilance.
Vilest men channel their synergy on vengeance.
Fists that are always fast to give a fight
Will create eyes that cannot see the light.
An eye for an eye will create more beggars...
A bullet for a bullet will will breed more burglars.
Fire cannot quench fire, my dear brother;
Forgiveness gives us great grains to gather....

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Secrets of strangers,

a rotating beast of bangers',

a wobbling at least to show how to stumble,

a vanish less half-hat hung from the dread,

it is sonorous because of the angle it deflects,

it is unto us because that's what it says...

More fair than Donavan,
but a little less than he bets,

a sore stretch of vigilance but also a creamy whip from the test....

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Unfurled in magisterial splendor
To minds memory forever render
Glorious vision of red, white, and blue
Steadfastly waving, our hearts to renew
Emblematic embodiment we embrace
Thirteen stripes of valor, purity, and grace
Vigilance, justice, emblazoned by blue
Fifty white stars twinkle in united hue
Flying in freedom, tell our nations story
Liberties bulwark, our flag, Old Glory!...

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Back at 12 
 I thought 
 I had 
 A special gift 
 Evan to me 
 It was hard 
 To believe 
 So conditioned
 are we
 in the reality
 we 
can not see 
 is it my pain that 
makes me see 
 or is it hyper 
 vigilance 
that helps  me see 
 others disquiet
 or is it the really me 
 it doesn’t matter 
 really 
 it’s the gift 
 that only matters 
 is it,s there or 
not 
 you tell me...

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Thy music plays till the twelfth of nev'r, 
i carryeth grief with thy heart f'rev'r.  
 
i shall loveth thee as i doth as timeth flies, 
soft songs of springeth until f'rev'r dies.  
 
this muffl'd lodging of thy death done sev'r 
a did beat brancheth to thy lasteth breath endeav'r. 
 
sublime, vigilance amb'r sunset riseth,
m'rrow's m'rning darkness, crusheth silent cries


1/13/2021...

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Floods and droughts
What is it all about?

Vigilance is in dire need
It’s time to watch the times
And take heed

“We haven’t been that bad”
Some may say

We’ve passed unforgiving laws
And looked the other way

Now we’re using ground water
And digging wells

Our so-called good intentions
Have failed

Treated sewer water is being processed
Mother Nature will have us drink our mess...

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On the lush meadow
Serene ostrichs rest
Towering it with vigilance
Rheas they seem from distance
Indulging in sweet silence
Counting evey single chick
Huddled under their wide wings
Abdicating as everyone learns survival
Nurturing them with keenness
Demolishing parental worries
Warning them of stinging wasps
Always looking for new victims
Surrounding them with loud buzzing
Pugnacious and vicious as bulldogs
slayers they surely are...

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Beneath the roar of rhetoric tossed 
Bellowing in waves of stripes lost
I can hear a song of hope
Surviving among the trope
50 to one we resist this star
Hand in hand united we are
And with blindfold, balance, and sword 
We shall resend all accord 
For days numbered are upon
What hate did spawn 
And in light, darkness shall pass
Bringing to heel what was once crass
Ending the spread of petulance
With innocence, valor, and vigilance...

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Longing to feel your clement breath
while reading your letters in the sand,
you write about premature death
a life taken by one’s own hand.
The whole world knows it’s sometimes hard
to put on a face and face the day,
life isn’t about the right card
or the way one needs to play.
For here alone I need time to think
while straying not from vigilance,
recollecting life in the pink
after years of assertive innocence…

© Harry J Horsman 1996...

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I forgot.

When was it
the word withered
the phrases fled?

When did vigilance for the lines
crumble laxly into the air.

Was it when I, unfaithful
to my craft, forgot to work;

in nonchalance to practice;
lost nose to the grindstone.

I thought, poetic as I was,
the majestic write would

upon me light like 
pollen in the breeze.

Write it down, when it comes.
I'll bet that's what Dr. Seuss did.

Kathryn Collins
May 8, 20016...

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Eternity ensues to mount	
from fertile vale above the mist.
Traverse the river past the turn.

Calm at the perpetual fount
and steady forth into the fist
of heady sun-struck silent burn. 

Encounter rare beauty to count 
and serenely sense heaven-kissed
soft, silent aerie space to yearn.

Drift in God’s righteous paramount, 
true philosophic pantheist.
Sup of all tantamount to learn.

The universe is elegance.
Be within it with vigilance....

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