Short Yond Poems

One earthen leg up
Radiating milk aglow
Yond the infinite

For: "FAMILIARITY UNKNOWN"
  Sponsored by: James Gareth...

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More friendly, the further
Away we get.
Even the stars, cities yond
Smile the brighter !

Detracts not from what, in
Love is freed up.
Nor for intenseness, what's eyed
Then of lover!...

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Tis the way of life's challenge as an adult male,
the prize parts in two fates: flock ownership tethered
innate skills, exiting rights the Bachelor's Herd
as skills tested, foes midst or yond; fail or prevail....

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*Image of Nature Rainbow by Pixabay.

Where Dreams Begin

Grand be the end of rainbows, wherein, nature and we appease,
By and by, we'd dressed their colors, bathing yond eternity.

2021 September 25...

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Something yond is sore to proveth,
judging those who is't disagreeth,
hurst nay hast peat swamp.

People breath their owneth blood,
Ulcers replaceth green air?

Benumbed lungs and panshard death,
city born city bred?...

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             'elle 
     'cross the ocean
   'twuz mine wander

       'round fjords
   'tween each ripple
   'pon the salty wet
'yond mine limitations

    'bout mine think

    'tiz uv hers mine
         ‘member...

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Their mumbling again
Wee folk of the rain.
Each word and each syllable
A lisping, spat out.

Yond this dark window
Heard from my pillow.
Off leaf, jumping. Off roof tile
Sliding. One by one.
Of all that drops by for fun
A great turnout....

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*Image of Vertigo Exercise by MOAP.

Astuteness

Permitted
Nobel Ethical
Offering Pleasing Beaming
Positive Altruism Hostile Malady
Appalling Begging Cheating
Thievish Tricky
Forbidden

2022 August 07
Mindful Yond Caged Primate's...

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Try imaginning it
When you were not.
Life, not conscious of.
'I'; nor that 'I'!

Once that most lightless
Of voids you spot
Blackest of black holes
Just dont apply.

The dismay, despair...
Terror - the lot.
Yond God to seek; who
May not be nigh!...

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Soul and Body
The body holding its head up
Welcomes the sun rising above the east
The body with the head down
Bids farewell to the sun setting yond the west
 
The soul nods at Phoebus,
Coming from the east 
Going to the west
All-day long, keeping the eyes on...

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I've been fed a prune of life,
Spooned it silver, everlasting.
I spat it out to seek a knife,
To chop and cease it of forecasting. 

The birth is reason as much itself:
Not 'yond the self conceived.
Wrote for book on busy shelf,
Whose tales unread aren't grieved....

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young morn
breeze sworn

such zeal
in teal

blue shades
view fades

ducks swim
to brim

of pond
be yond

grass bank
like rank

A cool
yard pool

kids play
their way
all day

they dive
flop, jive

mom sighs
kids cry

sun burn
they'll learn



3/15/2022...

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Through a lightning's gash
By a war-like clash
Nigh blinded! Oh the bedlam!
Then the expulsion
Of something, yond the realms of
Washed up repulsion!

With its dragon's wings
And its bellowings
What flew down our street; over
Rooftops; yours, mine.
Great fear, formed a storm from out.
Greatest accursed sign....

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'Yond the fields 
      of golden whey 
 A mountains- grown 
      in grayish clay 
Near it's 'neath 
      a river flows 
On bedded rocks 
      green algae grows
 Catfish' treats- 
      a tasty bite 
They eat, they jump 
      into the night 
When morning's sun 
      begins to rise 
They jump again
      to catch 'em flies...

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*Image of Novem by IMDb.

Novem: Affects IX in 1973

Nine college students record music
at some sheltered hideaway place.
They're killed in a van mishap,
on the way back to school.
Yond thirty-one years,
their songs recalled.
Sometimes fame
comes too
late.

2022 November 10
*3rd Place*
A November Nonet
~~Andrea Dietrich: Judged 2022 November 21

*HMS...

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L-Speed misjudged its breaks; odds knew--widow's mite.-a
E-Live yond your means, who are your family.-b
T-A hard worker, big spender, works in spite,-a
T-Jones styles for their smiles save one--their envy.b
E-Live simple, live smart unlike ducks and drakes,-c
R-odds knew--widow's mite; speed misjudged its breaks.-c...

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wither
away not
to thee gifts reason

of art
wingless dove bestilled
on halfpace empyreal thy breast behooves
thee further

o'er yond clingiest fairgrounds
moor dawning flora
promising showboat sanctifying lightness
up from their beds and
to their feds and down
to their peds

all the same maternally presence clement
intimate cavernous fire claimants contest

a fleeting gesture
of unattainable love...

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I never thought a stream could be so cool to touch
as it drifts past me,
thrush the flows its distance none to measure the length
for it roams so free,
scopes the heaven yond heights reflect itself quite pleased
of that which did see,
trance meandering stretched sounds breath down tones, in dark
and light equally,
stage is mine, turns I to 'words,' drifts, roams, see, and be ...
defined, --equally....

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My God!
what's in yond wind yee broke
doth burn mine eyes 
and make me choke.

Such bitter breeze
such wafting savour 
assaults mine senses
which flee in terror!

No sewage pit
nor stagnant mire
cans't rival thine
unholy power.

A road dead skunk
in a summer's swelter
would smell more like a rose
most precious flower.

What cursed perfume
thou  villainous rouge
doth linger in thine wake 
be gone and find your mom I say
it's her turn for goodness sake!...

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Listen to poem:

*Image of Vulnerability by The Conversation.

Coma

Endeavoring eyes opened
to the nothingness ere it.

Harkening labyrinths aches
to the silence yond.

Alone spoke I and
loneliness echoed
in faint whispers.

There remains
a trace of me
airing silently

the breath of
belonging.


Inspired: 2022 March 28
*7th Place*
2022 Poetry Marathon Mile 4
~~Mark Toney: Judged 2022 June 25
*1st Place*
A BRIAN STRAND 1098
~~Brian Strand: Judged 2022 March 30...

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