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Thread for Short Poems - Henosis - 08-01-2017 Figured I'd make a thread for some short poems. If anyone has anything sweet... feel free to share! My first one... The inner divinity in its infinity is radiant. Its waters are vast. Its origin unknown. The great mystery pervades creation. Its rhythms are flawless. Its heart beats for eternity. The Light conceals Itself to reveal Itself. It's the essence of goodness and source of all truth. The Light is you. The Light is me. The Light is all there is. RE: Thread for Short Poems - Bring4th_Austin - 08-01-2017 Thank you for sharing your poetry, Henosis. I think it is quite clever and communicates the Law of One in a neat way. I especially like "The Light conceals Itself to reveal Itself." I've moved the thread to the Artistic Endeavors forum. Also, there is another poetry thread here, in case you weren't aware. Just sharing. RE: Thread for Short Poems - Henosis - 08-01-2017 Didn't even know about this section! Thanks! RE: Thread for Short Poems - Rybo - 08-04-2017 Recollect we float like a million chinese lanterns against the salt-strewn canopy sparks of divinity housed in paper shells nearly indistinguishable from our forebears eager to burn we do in death remember eternity RE: Thread for Short Poems - Aion - 08-09-2017 This Poem is Short So is God If it was Long It would be Man Nature is Everything - isis - 08-13-2017 Everything is Nature Nature is all I see, as I look around me; the moment contains love, unity reigns above; relax and watch the show, exult in all you know. RE: Thread for Short Poems - Diana - 08-13-2017 The Setting Sun So what can I do now But follow the setting sun Smoldering at the edge of day And brilliant in its final hour Bulging like a bursting heart As it slowly sinks with Coppery passion and quiet longing I can feel the last, long Golden rays beckon With sad fingers My life revealed somehow Such as it is In the evanescent light And with one crimson flash The sun plunges and disappears And I know that time has Caught up with me as the Light fades to gray And stars begin to form Out of the darkness RE: Thread for Short Poems - Rybo - 08-17-2017 Scooped two men came to my door asked where I’d been their sunglasses made me nervous I told them the truth they asked for proof so I showed them the scars below my knee one leaned down traced the three dots with his finger Orion? the other asked he shook his head and smirked Cygnus RE: Thread for Short Poems - sjel - 08-17-2017 unnecessary association between enlightenment and physical inaction. young, virile enlightenment is surely far closer to the truth. RE: Thread for Short Poems - Minyatur - 08-28-2017 Sense of a moment in time
Ephemeral impression Of a colorful still dance Perpetual fixation Of inter-colliding fates Pre-destination of One In the sight of its being RE: Thread for Short Poems - 777 - 09-04-2017 deleted RE: Thread for Short Poems - Chickensh1tTweener - 09-25-2017 Here's a haiku... CERN has some clockwork The sun was not specific Was button bluffing Various Profundities Briefly Noted in Only the Finest-Quality Doggerel by Ogden Nash - Dekalb_Blues - 09-28-2017 ~ Reflections On Ice-Breaking Candy Is dandy But liquor Is quicker. Common Sense Why did the Lord give us agility, If not to avoid responsibility? Upon Returning From The Gotham City To My Adopted Hometown I could have loved New York Had I not loved Balti-more. To Keep Your Marriage Brimming To keep your marriage brimming With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up. I Do, I Will, I Have [excerpt] ....That is why marriage is so much more interesting than divorce, Because it's the only known example of the happy meeting of the immovable object and the irresistible force. So I hope husbands and wives will continue to debate and combat over everything debatable and combatable, Because I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life, particularly if he has income and she is pattable. My Dream This is my dream, My own sweet dream; Fervently I dreamt it. I dreamt -- I dreamt that my hair was kempt . . . Then I dreamt that my true love unkempt it. Introspective Reflection I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance. Crossing The Border Senescence begins And middle age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends. Everybody Tells Me Everything I find it very difficult to enthuse Over the current news. Just when you think that at last the outlook is so black that it can grow no blacker, it worsens; And that is why I do not like the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons. Family Court One would be in less danger From the wiles of a stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to be with. Ode To A Baby A bit of talcum Is always walcum. I Didn't Go To Church Today I didn't go to church today, I trust the Lord to understand. The surf was swirling blue and white, The children swirling on the sand. He knows, He knows how brief my stay, How brief this spell of summer weather, He knows when I am said and done We'll have plenty of time together. Reflection On The Fallibility Of Nemesis He who is ridden by a conscience Worries about a lot of nonscience; He without benefit of scruples His fun and income soon quadruples. Requiem There was a young belle of Natchez Whose garments where always in patchez. When comment arose On the state of her clothes, She drawled, "When Ah itchez, Ah scratchez!" Samson Agonistes I test my bath before I sit And I'm always moved to wonderment That what chills the finger not a bit Is so frigid upon the fundament. Spring Comes To Murray Hill [Midtown Manhattan] I sit in an office at 244 Madison Avenue And say to myself You have a responsible job havenue? Why then do you fritter away your time on this doggerel? If you have a sore throat you can cure it by using a good goggeral, If you have a sore foot you can get it fixed by a chiropodist, And you can get your original sin removed by St. John the Bopodist, Why then should this flocculent lassitude be incurable? Kansas City, Kansas, proves that even Kansas City needn't always be Missourible. Up, up my soul! This inaction is abominable. Perhaps it is the result of disturbances abdominable. The Pilgrims settled Massachusetts in 1620 when they landed on a stone hummock. Maybe if they were here now they would settle my stomach. Oh, if only I had the wings of a bird Instead of being confined on Madison Avenue I could soar in a jiffy to Second or Third. The Firefly The firefly's flame Is something for which science has no name. I can think of nothing eerier Than flying around glowing by one's posteerier. The Lama The one-L lama, He's a priest. The two-L llama, He's a beast. And I will bet A silk pajama There isn't any Three-L lllama.* *The author's attention has been called to a type of conflagration known as a "three-alarmer". Phooey. -- O. S. The Hippopotamus Behold the hippopotamus! We laugh at how he looks to us, And yet in moments dank and grim, I wonder how we look to him. Peace, peace, thou hippopotamus! We really look all right to us, As you no doubt delight the eye Of other hippopotami. The Cow The cow is of the bovine ilk; One end is moo, the other, milk. The Lion Oh, weep for Mr. and Mrs. Bryan! He was eaten by a lion; Following which, the lion's lioness Up and swallowed Bryan's Bryaness. The Middle When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn; So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born. The Ostrich The ostrich roams the great Sahara. Its mouth is wide, its neck is narra. It has such long and lofty legs, I'm glad it sits to lay its eggs. The Panther The panther is like a leopard, Except it hasn't been peppered. Should you behold a panther crouch, Prepare to say Ouch. Better yet, if called by a panther, Don't anther. The Parent Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore. And that's what parents were created for. The Wasp The wasp and all his numerous family I look upon as a major calamity. He throws open his nest with prodigality, But I distrust his waspitality. The Octopus Tell me, O Octopus, I begs Is those things arms, or is they legs? I marvel at thee, Octopus, If I were thou, I'd call me Us. Achieving Happiness There is only one way to achieve happiness On this terrestrial ball, And that is to have either a clear conscience Or none at all. The Catsup Bottle First a little Then a lottle. The Plight of the Pelican A wonderful bird is the pelican, His bill will hold more than his belican. He takes in his beak enough food for a week, But I'm damned if I see how the helican. I Love Me I'm always my own best cheerer; Myself I satisfy; Till I take a look in the mirror And see things I to I. The Old Dog Barks Backwards In my mind's reception room Which is what, and who is whom? I notice when the candle's lighted Half the guests are uninvited. And oddest fancies, merriest jests, Come from these unbidden guests. The Purple Cow I never saw a purple cow. I never hope to see one. But I can tell you anyhow I'd rather see than be one. |