Short Reopens Poems

Light
bids me welcome
darkness retreats
Alas
poor death
thou must be alone
His gate
reopens 
before yours has locked
The harp
of an Angel
—calling me home

(The 1st Book Of Prayers: August, 2023)...

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If you call out loudly,
  the past will find you

The pain but a looking glass,
  all time a shroud

As memory surrounds,
  its prison reopens

Chaining the present
  —locking the future down

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)...

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My heart smiles at your every word
With a love I feel which is unsurpassed 
Love this game of writing down words
That reflect my innermost emotions
My wish from the start is to touch every heart 
As each soul in heaven reopens...

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ocean sounds
I pass a conch
from my ear to hers
 
monsoon dusk
the flood carrying
my shattered dreams


long rain
the homelessness
reopens the school


holding tight
to the hand of my child--
on the iPad
my mother talks and talks
of returning roles...

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The sun slips beyond the horizon
Like a letter slips into an envelope
Where it will stay until the dawn
When the envelope reopens
Spilling its contents into the sky
Brightening the world
Lifting the heart with its delivery
Like a missive from a loved one...

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The falling of a giant
Awakens another giant
The removal of a door
Reopens another door
Wiping these tears off my eyes
I am about to live my life
Roll out the carpet, the one that is meant to be rolled
There is no ifs nor buts, search the soul
Loyalty is imperative
I am coming...

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From him you can snatch a fable:
Just place whisky on his table;
He could stories quicken their pace,
In the hearer’s hearts create space
Wherever he stops Audience wait,
As only he reopens Gate …

They say that it flows in the blood
His room story lovers would flood …

But I hold His Gift from whisky;
For some whisky, he went frisky....

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Broken feelings…
My chest of gold
A torments ransom
No trinkets sold
The treasure bounteous
Walls lined with blood
Its hurt and pain
I have withstood
The jewels lack sparkle
But shimmer deep
Their cut and clarity
My soul to keep
And words if cheapened
Must leave this throne
As the lid reopens
  —on the pain I own

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2016)...

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Broken feelings
My chest of gold
A ransom of torment
No trinkets sold
The treasure bounteous
Walls lined with blood
Its hurt and pain
I have withstood
The jewels lack sparkle
But shimmer deep
Their cut and clarity
My soul to keep
And words if cheapened
Must leave this throne
As the lid reopens
 —on the pain I own

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2016)...

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standards fall
infinite divisions
of a space call
for creations base

" eat me "
the waters taste
of completion

Aellopus delivers
revelation
a connection
reopens
and a field explodes
in subtle elation

an ocean
births a generation

" opposites attract "
answers
a burning question

" and the beauty of a point "
marks
the equation

it's the holy graphic
of a single
calculation...

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Like wine in storage,
The cellar of my perception ages
Buried deep in its recesses
The past and future abandoned 
  —time no longer the vintner

Fermenting in the immediacy
Of the chosen instant
And distilling in the perfection 
Of the perpetual present
  —the moment reopens
 
       Bringing with it everything
          —and nothing at all

(Garrett Hill Pennsylvania: January, 2014)...

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Border reopens 
After a long long time
A tremendous flow of cars and people
Crossing the border
As though limitless
No more barriers
No more restrictions
No more ban
That doesn't mean you're totally free
As an invisible barrier does exist
We refuse violation of SOP
We refuse violation of laws
We refuse wars and  terrorists
We lift the ban only for the people
But never the virus
Or the crimes...

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The Messanger of peace
looks gladly upon us
and endures patience
when most of us
turn away and don't
listen to His words....

The Messanger of peace
waits for the believers that
that are laughed at by the large
number of unwise!

The Messanger of peace
reopens the closed gates
of Heaven for us;
the messanger of brotherhood
and equal love
teaches us to live
in peace with neighbors
in all places...to love
and pray for enemies,
instead of returning evil for evil!...

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In the stillness of the night,
In the ambience of blurred light,
I'm awakened,
My prowess is strengthened.

My muse comes to me,
Inspiration flows like the sea,
It’s an encompassing tide,
Nothing can hide.

A door opens,
I walk out of the woods,
I'm no more cloaked by gloomy moods,
The waning door reopens.

A tranquil moment,
I'm in an unperturbed element,
Bloom stays,
Gloom frays.



April 1, 2023.
Writing Challenge - 'Q'' Words - Poetry Contest,
Constance La France....

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