Best Withering Poems

withering leaf

   cascades on its thin ribs...

      draped by pearled mist


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~modern haiku~
SKAT's Picture Perfect Haiku #2
6/23/2015...

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Inspired by Cyrus William
The truth was concealed with many branches.  Countless 
are the days I happily lingered in the comfort of your shade 
before passionate winds revealed each of your limbs as too 
weak to support natural, core growth.  Your delusive roots 
cannot...

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We are delicate flowers withering away,
blown far over the tree-tops,
to fall apart like falling stars...
and land in unfrequented places,
where no human ever lives;
only falling rain can give us that new life!


Planets and stars were made 
for Humankind alone...to endure forever,
and our Earth is the jewel...

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dewdrops---
the withering rose sheds
another petal...

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you watch me WITHER
you watch ME wither
you WATCH me wither
YOU will watch me wither

YOU WATCH ME WITHER...

when YOU can WATER me with
                       ...

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This day is dying fast,
I'm afraid this would be the last.
Seeing her slowly fading away,
In her case she beautifully lay.

Tears hiding beneath the rain,
Fast pulses in my vein.
Frozen from this deep sorrow,
I wish that I'd skip to tomorrow.

Utter silence follows after grief,
My heart now is...

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Delicacy resides in the nectar of a withering white rose,
she holds the beauty of an angel in-the-midst of madness-
Although her purity brings majestic sanctity to the world,
to me she brings a sense of uncertain joy and sadness.

I held a bouquet of white roses the day...

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Like Lucifer your leaves fall.
 Your petals fade.
 Your roots fail
 to ponder
 The path of the deep.
 That season is upon you
 That devours the children of the earth.

 There is a song
 You hear when you paddle
 The canoe alone at night
 O...

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Withers away before the eyes of some with every word written,
Thoughts on killing oneself because only one was left smitten,
Jingles on blood on wrists, cutting and denying any type of blame,
Causing so many others grief and burying all the outward shame.

A husband and children left...

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Withering hearts on an emotional departure 

We believe, you cannot guess
What we are about to say now.
It really does seem like yesterday
You were snuggled up in blanket in the bed
Listening a story about ‘wedding of ‘Hima Kumari’
And we still see you there listening interestingly
the saga
The...

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Don't want to be reductionist
obeying only secularized rules

Would prefer to grow more
sacred inductionist
rediscovering golden win/win tools

For imagining
and re-membering
why win/win ancient relationships,
like space and time,
humane and divine
here and there
circle and square
pole and hole
purpose and goal

Feel more sacred
than win/lose dueling competitions
seem routinely dissonant

Despite StraightWhite Paternalistically Capitalist
secular indoctrination
disrespecting...

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Farewell to the withering of Autumn days
its bare branched trees and fields of maize
to the ripened acorns, hoarded by squirrels
and chimneys belchng black smoke curls

Goodbye to Fall's colors and pumpkin spice
Soon to succumb to Winter's sleet and ice
In silence, snow covers the ground, completely
I fold...

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Flowers wither and loose their 
hue
As I wander in vain I realize I 
have nothing
The gray clouds above me 
release a heavy downpour on 
my soul 
Drowning me in my sadness
Could this be so
That I shall never be free from 
my agonizing pain 
It shall...

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Canto I: The Wicked
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Wither and tremble awash at sea oh woe
Woe is he, terror from sights even blessed would flee
Serenades of night washed over him into the wrong
Dark tides so high and undertow pulls so strong
Wither

Wicked winds have sailed across miles of endless plains
Plain to...

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Canto V: The Oracle
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She came round the dunes again to disturb
Wise and whistling maiden bristled knowledge
Ghost's and demon's she did like to perturb
Those with knives, came to give homage
'He lost' she sighed and her tears flowed
Witch, woman, every which way she glowed
'Evil begets evil' but...

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