Crumpled Poems

Crumpled Flower

Crumpled flower by the roadside,
sadly wilted, withered, and dried -
for asking, I beg your pardon:
whilst never cared for in a garden,
were you pretty before you died?
I love you, 'cuz I know you tried.

Paper Crumpled up

Paper Crumpled Up 
Made mistakes 
Always learning 
Strive to improve 
Halt to writers block 
Ascend onto ponder 
Start over 
My philosophy, just be you 
Human to error 
Nobody else but to be published 
Stillness on reflected waters 
A journey through Azure from above 
Inhale gratitude sudden 
Write another poem 
Set high standards 
Fly as a

a crumpled thought

A crumpled thought
Unfolded
Asking questions
I felt their sting
“I came to you”
“you tossed me out”
“why will you not listen”
I watched it struggle
To un-crumple itself
Smooth its rejection
Stiffen its resolve.
My cold coffee
Took its side
Whispered from the cup
“you do that a lot”
“dismiss thought’s thoughts”
An oily film clung to my throat
As I sat
Pondering
A crumpled thought

Crumpled Roses

dripping
from his 
book of poems
bleeding red petals 
from too many
crumpled roses

he thought he never
found his love

morning sun
stretches
through his window
pounds the face
of the Peloncillos

early birds
from 
empty trees
reach out
 
while a parade of 
sighs 
knifes down the road

he tried not to
write her into
his stitched-up
Frankenstein 
heart

poor baby

another
crumpled rose 
bleeding 
from his book of poems

Crumpled Musings

Methinks it is a hidden curse
This vain attempt to write in witty verse
To take the words and put them in reverse
Turn them to sardonic lines quite terse
Yet I pamper them as bedside nurse
With shaking head and lips that tightly purse
While rolling crumpled musings to the hearse

John G. Lawless
©1/17/2023

Crumpled Mayhem

Crumpled mayhem
By Michelle Morris
07/11/2022

Take time to heal your mind
Take time to heal your soul
Take time to heal your heart
It takes time to heal and be whole

Maybe start with a small memory
Of sadness or of hurt
Unfold it like a crumpled paper
That is flattened and made inert

Deal with the crumpled mayhem
Of memories one by one
Imagine burning them

My Crumpled Wings

My Crumpled Wings

My crumpled wings 
Quiver as pinions tremble
Bandaged by your balm
Brokenness shed to soar at dawn

5-10-22
Contest: Naani Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Joseph May
Four lines/14-25 total syllables
Syllables checked with howmany syllables
Syllable count 24

Abandoned Rhymes: Crumpled Pages

I heard taunting echoes and scurrilous snarls.
It was my conscience, and I listened as it spoke
in accusations, contemptible remarks aimed at me.
Shameful words delivered to break my fallen spirit.
In mocking voice of Shakespeare's Hamlet, I heard,

"Fatuous one, why does your writing hand quiver,
mimicking the trembling lips of a child in fear?
You dare to call yourself

Crumpled Cars

Welcome to my world she said with a grin.
She pushed back a long fence and here I was
Facing crumpled, stacked, sorry, sad automobiles.
I had never been here before today.

They are amazing, I said.
Out of any good ideas apparently.
She snickered. 
We went into her office.

I just need some help with my resume’ she said.
I could not

Crumpled Wings That Fly

Crumpled Wings That Fly

I hold close your crumpled wings,
Trebling fear that traps your flight
Quivering in the grip of songless things
Night crushing pinions swallowing delight.

Your caged heart beats wildly next to mine
Wrapped in brokenness - numb to soft caresses
Dazed in listless trances - faint lassitude entwines
With suspended starlight longing to refresh.

Nestle your broken parts in this

Crumpled

I knew it would come.
It always does.
When you least expect it.
Uninvited,
like the Groke.
It freezes reality.
Crumpled,
all I can do is wait
for its grip to loosen.
Just wanting to drop,
to be swept away.
To forget. 
To be forgotten.

Crumpled Wings

  
a chrysalis shudders 
   crumpled wings 
      spy the light

         sheer beauty takes flight ~~~
 


Written 20th March 2021

Contest LETS GET CREATIVE WITH HAIKU
Sponsor Constance La France
2nd Place

Contest ALL YOURS (Mar 23)
Sponsor Brian Strand
FIRST PLACE

Crumpled Thoughts

Tucked away underneath my pillow one simple slip of paper 
with wild words of love written that I could not loose nor taper 

juxtapositions, each other's opposite attracts but when attacked 
the writer goes in hiding the coward in me has been smacked 

Morning arrives to find a broken soldier at the cusp of poetry

Crumpled Thoughts Down the Pan

my poems are crap
written on toilet tissue
waste bin overflows

I straighten each sheet
these words will get flushed away
perfect recycling!

Crumpled Thoughts Poetry Contest

Sponsored by John Lawless

01/14/21

Crumpled Thoughts

Crumpled Thoughts 

They wait – in hues of vibrating silence -
Like leftover orts of rumpled paper wimples 
On creased clandestine journal pages –
Bent scraps of wrinkled inspiration
Smudged moments held in their one moment of time
Musings fading to illegible
Lost chords in treasured memories of radiance, 
Sunspots of incomplete illumination,
Or crumpled creativity on paper wings
Snapshots of raw

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