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Gaunt Poems - Poems about Gaunt


And my poems have gone gaunt
Men of learning mired are in envy, Those of influence, proud and haughty, As rest are ignorant, My poems have gone gaunt, Untold, unread, old and weary. ___________________ Translation | | poet, poem Poet’s Note: Bhartruhari was a poet king in central India in the seventh century CE, who when disillusioned in love renounced kingdom and became an ascetic. Neeti Shatakam, a...

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Categories: gaunt, poems, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Red Telephone Booth
An old gaunt lady With feeble steps Walked to the red telephone booth On the roadside pavement Every day she dialed a number And spoke inaudibly into the receiver As tears streamed down her crinkly face This continued for an hour Until she resigned for the day Hoping for another heartfelt conversation A baffling mystery unsettled us Spectators to this daily drama. ...

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Categories: gaunt, loneliness, mystery, old, red,
Form: Free verse



Rather Gaunt and Had To Haunt
James Thomas Horn would be rather gaunt letters were in a weird font which would have to haunt...

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Categories: gaunt, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Her Face Gaunt
[ ] Her face gaunt whiskers from oddly coloured lumps wrongly pathed teeth plunge from well i called it a smile but not sure kindness fawns into darkness within the youngest eyes coloured cloth hides her mumbling wizened hair thick woven sheets of shoop dyed in their own blood still think it should be shoop wrinkles turn to darkened caverns within her crumpled clothes Stale held her breath in lovers arms Insects lathered...

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Categories: gaunt, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Gaunt Face
A gaunt face wizened by time, portrays a no-nonsense man...

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Categories: gaunt, angst, art, beautiful, feelings,
Form: Verse



Gaunt Generation
there was a tuned time when wet wits' wiles pricked pestered passion fragile fills foiled fracture there was a drooling decade when wanky wields waited on meagre melody, clogged cleavages hampered hanker humming hymns there's this mystic metamorphoses smothered time trails on lanky lips of tampered technology, squashed syllables dripping dances etched in gaunt gullibles this time is a bruised bile cooked in cauldron of vile vices. ...

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Categories: gaunt, technology,
Form: Sonnet
Gaunt Gravity's Hood
nocturnal nature nimble hibernating hampered hurdle salient acme strained whooshing wills waned drooling dainty dirge pruning punctured perch sassy spectre surged leasing lofty lurch amputated atmosphere pursed airy ascension hacked felon fate squashed trailing taunted trance porous prayer pulled gaunt gravity's hood. '20:05:12:20:08 Note: Of porous prayer....

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Categories: gaunt, faith,
Form: Sonnet
Grooming Gaunt Gloom
callous clouds hummed sassy syllables puked dripping dark dribbles vying veil trickles amputated atmosphere bewitched spooky spell enriched thrilled trees trailed crumbling crescendos' wail rusty rhythm raved nudging nature nimble munching meagre mumble bounty boulevard hurdled bridged blitzkrieg bruised grooming gaunt gloom. '20:04:27:18:21 Note: An imitation of an art of nature the Almighty etched in the earth....

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Categories: gaunt, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Gaunt Gift Grasped
bruised bliss puked vying voluptuous view lanky lust lurched veiling hankering verge dark drips dangled felon fate fumbled saucy sight seeped'n nocturnal spell spree, callous contraction's creed moaning mists melted basked braces belched smothered syllables rent gaunt gift grasped taunted troubled trance. '20:03:13:16:03 Note: Dedicated to Homer....

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Categories: gaunt, hero,
Form: Sonnet
Gaunt Gods Grasped
spooky sleep staggering with wills wielding hoisted hands hankering lurching, fiddling lids sumptuous state stuttering eerie end enveloping Zeus zipping zeals pricking pulsing peels moaning mists munching summoned sundry saps gaunt gods grasped pruning punctured pats "Leave for Earth, damp desirous death." 19:12:06:07:49...

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Categories: gaunt, dark, god,
Form: Sonnet
Gaunt Faces
Countless gaunt faces bewildered and pathetic staring while passing in droves...

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Categories: gaunt, conflict, confusion, humanity, leaving,
Form: Cinquain
Blank and Gaunt
Its transparent and I can see right in and deep, there is nothing of substance, its an unending creek, an unusual light illuminates it, beating the dark, this is crevice in my soul and heart....

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Categories: gaunt, inspirational, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

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