Desiccation Poems - Poems about Desiccation

Aurora in the Ossuary - Broken but bold enough to bounce back

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Written: August 14, 2025, for Contest Sponsored by: Anoucheka Gangabissoon
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I writhed in the womb of a necrotic hush,
a stygian silence where barghests lurk—
My ...

Thrill of Late Summer

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Written: August 09, 2025, for contest SEASONS NOW AND AFTER Sponsored by: Nette Onclaud

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Aurora sheds her velvet, gleaming flame,
Dusk with iridescent shad...

Yellow Lights

...Toxic, intoxicating solitude,
With a tantalizing proclivity 
To slither inch by inch, or suddenly,
Back into suffocating loneliness

When will I again see my own person
Reflected back at me fro...

Winters Cutting Edge

...The porch-potted have attenuated
into stick insects.
Geraniums are hallowed be dark moons,
Fragility turns to desiccation.

The red tin watering can
is iced over by a fallen sun.

Of a sudden...

Legacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RING

...Legacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RING
uninvited GUESTS linkedin as the themes of mein kampf.

Despite countless factorial permutations
& combinations, this cyber surfer
avails left and...

Hostages Kidnapped: Casualties of War

...Hostages kidnapped: casualties of war

After extorting pound of flesh
lifetime humiliation drummed into captives
hammering indelible nightmare
no amount of therapy can expunge.

Lifetime traum...

The Death of Garden Flowers

...They impregnate both water and soil
with their surrendering
as we do.

After the wilt
cadaverous blooms rattle their bones,
the desiccation a scaffolding,
the skeletal hollows a refrain
of a ...

Poetic Prognostication Proves Itself Pathetic Pablum Part One

...Despite countless factorial permutations
& combinations, this cyber surfer avails two alms
seeking succor asper Somerset Maugham.

Mom mee whiz able to sic cure human bondage,
boot metastatic ca...

Santa Ana Reclaimed

...Wildfires of fall bring us whirlwinds of flame.
Black-scape throughout, life’s survival or death?
Spring blooms of dogwood. Renewal sustained.

Santana stampedes, she’s wicked, untamed,
through ...

Tardigrades Aka Water Bears Or Moss Piglets

...Tardigrades aka Water Bears, Moss Piglets

Before T-Rex appeared and the Dodo bird disappeared,
Leading to modern-day scientific knowledge increasement,
Creatures of infinitesimal size cal...

Roaming a Barren Desert

...I roam this barren desert isolated with fear.
Solitary am I; neglected and left apart from 
those who used to love me. For I am but a 
lonely woman who bore a loss too deep.

This inferti...

Glue Bill Whar Ming Dublin Down

...Court hiss sea hove The Irish Times,
     this hum mere ruck can bloke
kin esse spy climb mitt till impact
     desiccation ravaging with choke

hold thee aim rilled isle,
     which haint ok k...

Here Lies She

...Just see
How fearlessly
Sunshine is seated
On the  gravestone

And the caring breeze
Whispering to the loneliness
So absolute
Beneath the tombstone

A paleolithic stone
A meaningless silen...

The Endgame

...The endgame 

And the cemetery was
nowhere to be found
yet was so present
in the shallow depth
the graveyard of the mind

No tombstone unturned
fragmented torn and twisted 
sorrow flowing d...

My Mother's Son

...I am my mothers son,so she always say

As i gasp my first air in her arms she held me

Like priceless yet valuable item never to lose me

My first teacher ''say mama'' she taught me

To her i...

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