Short Work In Progress Poems

My new puppy

Work in progress...

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Work in progress....sorry. will repost soon...

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Another work in progress,
destination unknown....

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How do you know that my work on you is finished?
Love
Lord...

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a work in progress-
                             until read aloud...

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God's work in progress
snow covered caps hit with light
the beauty of cold...

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A
lengthy
work in progress-
taking years to
do

Ekphrasis After work of Howard Hodgkin...

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I miss you like 
-the stars that miss the one most bright;
how the sky mourns the sun at night......

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That shed you made,
It was cold, and bitter.
You used our oak,
My oak,
For your,
Own reasoning. 

[Work in progress]...

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Needing to impress but honest to profess I confess a work in progress often with regress.



Contest: One Liner About You   
5 Oct 2016...

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I am a work in progress. 
Much like the highway department,
working on road construction, 
it's going to take much longer than expected 
and go way over budget,...

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Dreamer extraordinaire Walt Disney.
A work in progress his dreams will always be. 
With a mouse called Mickey, he began fussing,
To this day his Disneylands are still plussing.
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between the feral
and the ethereal
lust and love
playoff

soul watches
with bated breath

but the fact there's a game on
signals it's yet work in progress

11-December-2022...

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I've noticed a pattern
Drawn to abusive planets
Need a cyclone of change
I thrown my past to bandits

Change, change
From sunrise to sunset
Everything feels strange
My heart is turning dark red


---Work in progress---...

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Tri-Ku / Senryu


Frayed pants
aging tassels in the wind
work in progress




Patched dreams
soft comfort of renewal
love’s chevrons




Old boots
moldings of the soul
carry on


John G. Lawless
7/29/2017...

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Love is
my new drug
it
seeped inside
my blood
and
permeated
my lungs
now
I'm all
thumbs
and 
can't feel
my tounge 
Should
I be
catching doves
or
running through 
the slums
alit 
and all abuzz?

(Work in progress)...

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Shockwave of affectively laden numbness

Functioning trait through the plumes of dysfunction

Tempestuous fever in hibernation

Enclosed coffin emotions decomposing

Discoloration life's defibrillation

(Work in progress)





(Work in progress)...

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minuscule tempest
a flicker of rage
or disdain

the gust 
is soon quelled
by love’s healing balm

what aspect within us
as yet offers a pivot 
to feral instinct

oh weary hermit
it’s work in progress
our awareness stuporous 

26-April-2023...

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if you can sing then you can dream the dream
if you can fly you can learn to soar across the sky
if you can grow then you reach the stars
even if you didn't know

because its impossible just we can do
because it's endless all the things we never knew


... work in progress...

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Blue Bird
Builds nest
Gathers 
Straw, hair
Carefully place items for comfort
Guards, protects, warms eggs, feeds baby birds

Still work in progress....
I just changed from Tyburn to Free Verse
I will just rewrite a Tyburn..
When I looked again, I have written a Tyburn before
It is not easy.....

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spectrums
       of art
        bring
wonder
and ecstasy
a
fleeting
inwardness...
a heightened
sense
of the infinite..
so distinct
a visual
        chord
yet
out
    of key,
an
    idiosyncratic
act
of freedom
and chance
evolving..
into
a complete daub 
upon
the canvas
of experience...

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Contemplative, taciturn
Willing to commit
An immutable zeal to learn
Endowed with acerbic wit
Endless potential
But having few outlets, to express it
Seemingly aloof or deferential
Unintentionally causing pain
Coming off inconsequential
An indelible stain
Easily misunderstood
Without composure refrained...

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Missing the person even when together
missing them and every detail
Wishing you could hold them
Wishing to die for them
Always stuck in a tragedy
Were love is taken for granted
The world we live in is very awkward
And the ones we love tend not to care
Unless they love you back
Dont count on them loving you...

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Oh Saturn. The great harvester.
How strange you seem
With your remarkable rings.
Remants perhaps of a destroyed moon.
Or left over from the strange nebular material 
From which thou were created.
But even stranger still is the new Phoebe ring,
Many many times larger than even Saturn itself.


*Work in progress*...

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(this poem is a work in progress)

You've been there for me every step of the way
you've saved my day
more than once
when it hurt so bad
and I was so sad
I was always glad
to see your face
and know
that I'd survive 
with you by my side
when I was going through hell
you helped me prevail 
I owe you everything...

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