Long Shrivelled Poems
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At the Graves Gate
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"A grave wherever found preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.” Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Categories:
shrivelled, fate, grave, hate, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Sea of Roses
“Nobody`s life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear and we all just do our best.” Yoko Ono
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Categories:
shrivelled, feelings, heart, life, love, paris,
Form:
Rhyme
Halloween Bride
And yet the Sun did rise again to warm a broken scene
It peered through ruined window frames where coloured glass had been
Inside, beneath a vanquished roof, before an alter, smashed
She waits in grubby gown and...
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Categories:
shrivelled, halloween, wedding,
Form:
Rhyme
The Boadicea Blood Cup
"The Boadicea Blood Cup"
Didst thou think? Didst thou?
Didst thou think, at all?
That thou would remain untouched, unchecked, unscathed
Safely locked up away from mine wrath and thee, thy self-made grave?
Imprisoned in your Dark Lost Woods of...
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Categories:
shrivelled, daughter, home, lost love, love, magic, mother,
Form:
Free verse
Deafening Silence
Deafening Silence
we live in a world juxtaposed
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Categories:
shrivelled, feelings, life, peace, poverty, truth, war,
Form:
Free verse
Regretting Cake Takes Two
Regretting Cake Takes Two
Rachael looked sheepishly like a hawk in disguise claws clenched meticulous sharpened
yet hidden her sullen face pressing wrinkled no motion frosted lips the icing on the cake
It had meant to be such...
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Categories:
shrivelled, freedom,
Form:
Free verse
Sleepless In Whereis Part 2
Continued from Part 1
The forgery of Multitudes between the Silhouettes
(and discarded cigarettes,
neath the haunted parapets)
mock my lonely echoed steps
– mock my lonely echoed steps...
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Categories:
shrivelled, fantasy, lonely, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Too Close to the Edge
Memories of a bleak childhood triggers deep pain in him.
Whenever he thinks of that dark day, a thousand blades cut through him.
Shocked by the ferocity of that memory, grief comes in, dragging his dreams to...
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Categories:
shrivelled, angst, death, depression,
Form:
Haibun
Once I Was a Prince - Part Two
Once i was a prince in your eyes my every wish granted
even before I could wish it
eevaa peerankal muuvaa maruntu
the hot kuul boiling complaining in the chessman...
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Categories:
shrivelled, family, me, water, fear, me, time, water,
Form:
Free verse
The Storm
The river boils and burns
Churning the soil downriver
Silencing the calm quiver
Halting the anaesthetic shiver
This fissure in the earth was the sliver of hope in this dearth
A cool spring, the fuel to my being
The Sun has...
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Categories:
shrivelled, lost love, world, light, light, me, red,
Form:
Free verse
The Red Balloon.
The inanimate object floated tentatively towards me,
Red in colour and form, it spoke to me in silence,
I knew then it had made me special,
Tugged it did in the clear warm air, the string that held...
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Categories:
shrivelled, happiness, hope, imagination, me, magic, me,
Form:
I do not know?
Embryo
You who sexless heard the pounding of the sex
nerves conditioned to the tune
through all the...
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Categories:
shrivelled, life, dream, dream,
Form:
Elegy
Repent and Believe
Riding a roller coaster
Propelled by life’s velocity
Governed by instincts and thought
Driven by an urge to emerge victorious
Sentience deadened to conscience
Flitting thus from desire to desire
We built an imaginary script
Of narrow ego identity
Some...
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Categories:
shrivelled, god, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Untitled 22
The heat soaked day drags on: each daisy sweltering
every buttercup melting into the dry ground,
a golden oozing of petals. I watch them through the window knowing
that I could not be ready, this I that’s still...
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Categories:
shrivelled, health,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Bikku Under the Bodhi Tree
yogi under the banyan tree
yogi under the bodhi tree
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Categories:
shrivelled, funny,
Form:
Burlesque
A Dog's Life
It is just a dog, a common cur
The scabs, the sore upon the eye.
O the rattled temper
And the garbage bins tottering
Under the mischief of its paws.
It is just a dog, a common cur
And more...
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Categories:
shrivelled, allegory, animals, dog, dog, mother,
Form:
Free verse
Eli Eli Lama Sabachthani, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel's Eli Eli Lama Sabachthani By T Wignesan
God ! God ! Why have you forsaken me ! Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s Eli Eli Lama Sabachthani by T. Wignesan
Opening the eyes requires such an immense effort
As if the entire sky were their eyelids
And...
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Categories:
shrivelled, faith, jesus,
Form:
Elegy
Second Quiz With Even Broader Hints For Blind Poets
Second Quiz with even broader hints for blind poets
The Princess Anna stood
arms half-akimbo
at the scrawny edge of the receding bank
her Polonaise pollarded down
to her exposed tarsus...
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Categories:
shrivelled, fantasy, heartbreak, loneliness, , western,
Form:
Free verse
It Does Not Interest Me What You Do
I want to know what you ache
for
And if you dare to dream of
meeting your heart’s longing
It doesn’t interest me how old
you are
I want to know if u'll risk
looking like a fool...
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Categories:
shrivelled, betrayal, love, me,
Form:
Alliteration
At Heaven's Gate - Part 3
Part 3: AT HEAVEN’S GATES
To set Her free from destiny was far from my design,
but, though unplanned, I touched Her hand to give Her peace of...
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Categories:
shrivelled, fantasy,
Form:
Ballad
Fearing To Bloom
A Garden rejoices when it envisions colourful exquisite blooms everywhere filling the empty spaces.
Lush green grasses are the attire it adorns and flowers become the embellishers.
Even a sad heart would feel enlightened & placid...
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Categories:
shrivelled, beautiful, fear, flower, fun, garden, green, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
Etched Memories
I didn’t pay much attention to what was said about her; it felt as if I had discovered a lost star. We talked at length, and the past played out like a movie, with memories...
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Categories:
shrivelled, grandmother, loss,
Form:
Haibun
Bullies
Maybe it’s when they are born that their heart shows signs of fault.
That instead of pumping red, they pump blue into the body of steel.
Maybe when they take their first breathes, some specs of evil...
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Categories:
shrivelled, 12th grade, anxiety, bullying, depression,
Form:
Blank verse
Purpose of Existence
Deep within the realms of my inquisitive mind is burdened a thought. Given birth
by silent amazement as I pondered upon nature, its beauty eternal.
Ages bloom and fade like flowers, yet remains this burden, this...
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Categories:
shrivelled, faith, life, nature, life, light, life, light,
Form:
ABC
One Hard Pea
“She’s let me down again Clare Cox” the ‘missus’ fumed about her wayward aid.
Now with the job to do upon her own. For other arrangements have been made.
“You’re helping me today” she pointed “And I...
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Categories:
shrivelled, humor,
Form:
Rhyme