Short Waylaid Poems

She was wild; I was waylaid....

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Soulmates MIA
life waylaid by confusion
we search a world of
topsy-turvy Escher halls
climbing flights of endless stairs...

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Remise desire,
waylaid,
joined abandoned dreams,
clutching at treacherous reflected visioning.
Betrayed,
the gleam removed,
ended!...

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Though Cupid was not on the scene
the dame had her very own scheme.
Her gent, she waylaid,
her breasts, she displayed
and cashed in on his Valentine dream....

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you are my naughty Nightshade
my love for you; you waylaid

     no need for melodrama
     my lovely belladonna

just stop poisoning the plans that we made!...

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A language that tied me in knots was Chinese
  Oh, and another tongue-twister was Japanese

But the toughest of them all was Vietnamese
  ~ Until I got waylaid by American knees...

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When winsome women wiggle while walking,  
workman will whistle wolfishly, wailing words
wrought with washroom wit. Whilst waylaid wives wince,
wizened widows wink, waving wily.



(Alliteration)...

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Take two for the doctor’s perceptions, 
About their prerogative to treat, 
The poor and the waylaid,   
By life’s fast lane. 

The right to be a patient, 
No matter who you are, 
Is absolute, unquestioned, 
You don’t need a star....

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A lizard in a leotard,
a leopard in a froufrou,
strolled off together, arm in arm,
in search of Desmond Tutu.
They stopped to drop some laundry off
while walking through Ukraine;
got waylaid when they picked it up,
were never seen again.
...

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The world is waiting
  waiting and watching
watching and wincing
  wincing and wounded

The world is weakening
  weakening and wilting
wilting and waning
  waning and withered

The world is whimpering
  whimpering and weeping
weeping and waylaid
  waylaid and whipsawed...

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I offered you the moon and stars,
  you took the sun instead

Your darkness preyed, all love waylaid,
  my dreams and wishes dead

Beyond all hope, with stolen light,
  my fear you then unmasked

And pulled a curtain across my heart,
 —the future now my past

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2017)...

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I feel like a rusty key
that cant open any door
You waylaid my cloudy kingdom
Your butter knife
cut through my land

Through a secret glade
between the hope and dust
I detest what I've become
I painted my dreams
and waited to see
This sloth what I've become
is driven by a hearse
amongst the heavy pinions...

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questions burn
pages turn
still some secrets
I must learn

behind, our past
don't look back
nothing there
but smoke and ash

still, the dreams
my mind screams
waylaid answers
I get it seems

in between
crisp, fresh sheets
love starts over
for you and me

one more time
it's all fine
still I wonder
if your heart's mine...

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algorithms 
which art in zuckerberg
hollowed be the tamed 
hide the kingdom come 
oligarchs will us dumb 
in our place as it is in cyberspace
deny us this data our waylaid brain
and foreclose all our expectations
as we confirm our programmers'
and lead us not into liberation 
but deliver us for extraction
for yours is the sole right 
and the power 
totalitarian
forever
amen...

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Nothing on my mind that
I want to share poetically ...
People get ready.
This message is from my gut, not my mind.
I have shared my mind so many times.
My gut needs to be emptied;
So, I attempt to tell you what I mean.
My gut is churning out loud.
I scream, I Yell;
All my failures regurgitated
in an obscene, scene.
Waylaid by the delayed sun.
Always the bigger picture to be seen....

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Words unsaid
Loss is laid


Gone too soon
Ere next noon


Dead on time
A lost chime


In life brief
Echoes grief


State too late
Empty plate


Loss feels deep
Final sleep


Sad looks bleak
Knees feel weak


Eyes droop low
Last light glows


Farewell then
Loss knows when


End game woes
Time to go


Pay cheque paid
Jobs waylaid




Leon Enriquez
27 October 2017
Singapore...

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Why is it you make so many demands
Always wanting me to do things your way?
I get so tired of hearing your commands
Just watching the myriad games you play,
I would like to think for just this one day
I could manage to speak words to the wise
And feel like I'm not wearing a disguise,
Can't you let me be who I know I am?--
Not being waylaid by your constant tries
To always make me follow your program.

written July 10, 2021...

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By the power of will, I'll be just a bit closer
to redemption---embracing
who I am, one precious jewel
shining along this moorland.
To triumph over an unfinished act 
before being waylaid,
upon the path of losses
yet my faith endures
in the darkness, where crosses
mark the thorns dismissing
a light ahead of me as it
awaits my strength's finale--
I will reclaim my due and ignite
my power over me.



10.Nov.2015
Contest for Songs Of Power
Lyrics:Something inside so strong...

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