Best Splintery Poems

Over streams
or above deep ravines,
they cling to the earth that supports them.

Having borne years of burdens, their bones are cracking;
the splintery skin of their once-strong...

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My son is out fixing up the shed.
Winter is coming on. Needed doing he said.
He had the time and the bound-to’s.
I’m not used to this...

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CHRISTMAS EVE

riding the wind
a thousand christmas bells
swirl city corners
custom country steeples
ring round my splintery old pew


in a ponderous quiet
on this hallowed eve
i’m forgetting the dreary
remembering...

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POSEIDON

Sleep, Lord Poseidon,
Deep, everlasting sleep,
While sailors watch with bated breath.

Old planking creaks –
The pitiable splintering sound –
Old planking creaks.

Old sailor,
Splintery-kneed old sailor,
Keeps his watch,

With ever...

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Penetrating the window the moonlight casts onto my desk wheyey cream of gleam

Bypassing the door ajar extends afar my reminiscence in wee wisps of waft,

Ferreting...

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Sleep, Lord Poseidon,
Deep, everlasting sleep
While sailors watch with bated breath

Old planking creaks -
The pitiable, splintering sound -
Old planking creaks

Old sailor,
Splintery-kneed old sailor,
Keeps his watch

With ever...

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At that hour
 the breeze turns around.
 The fishermen are coming back
 with hands splintery,
 without lips,
 with eyes of stone.
 The bottom is empty
...

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** Summary: A high school boy finds happiness and love in a small, dreary town. Just when it seems like life can't get any better,...

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THE DESERT THE WILDERNESS THE STORM

I am parched, my back is arched, 
my body racked with pain,
Nothing green in sight, 
my thirst, my plight, 
eyes...

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The best I could hope for was a lame or weak animal, 
limping along, not able to catch up with their tribe.
My cubs are hungry,...

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How Much Vengeance Is Enough?

By Mark D. Stucky
How much bloody carnage and rubble
is required to atone for sins of a few?
How many eyes must be...

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A dog
wanders down the road
sniffing
snuffling
head raised
suddenly
alert
to protect
	
    why

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A wall
built ten feet high
stone upon stone
brick...

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You’re watching video reruns
from last summer.
They’re lighting the cauldron, The Games 
return to the home of the gods.
2-minute snips
between commercials: muscles
grasping for a globe.

And then...

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My passion is the happy fervor
That covers and moves the lever
I heard an exciting, silent flaming
To warn me about this mine anxiety
And its eyes have...

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Written: August 31, 2023
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Each day the evenings will shorten,
My lawn never got vibrant in my garden.
Life shifts slowly as the sun sets low in the...

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