Mordant Poems

Dog Chases Tail

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Written August 13, 2025, for a contest by Edward Ibeh

Quote: The grief you cry out from draws you toward union. Your pure sadness that wants help is the secret cup. Listen to the ...

I Drank from an Hourglass

...It has long ceased to rain here.
The embers of drought are fanned by the merciless
Hands of hell.
The air is stifling,
The heat insufferable.
I cringe from a long wait on a queue in the narrow
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Stars Shimmering in the Night

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How quickly I became intoxicated,
inebriated on this bewitching night
while watching the luminance of starlight.
I drank deeply of the view with heart and soul
beyond my limit...  beyond contro...

On the Threshold of Depravities' Door

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I objestigate between arabesques and sleep,
fugaciously spasmodic in fluxes and leaps.
I'm indifferent to the misanthropic mocking,
that welltering inflection that I call plockingism...

They Didn't Fuggetaboutit

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  People who still use the word ‘mordant’
                                       ~ don't find it to be impotent   
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Dusk hoover ring dawn ting task of badinage

...Dusk hoover ring dawn ting task of badinage...

This hug gust aspiring writer..., albeit youth
fool looking imp posse Hubble wordsmith,
(i.e. the babbling dad) coon sitters hyperbole
insync as a...

Adolescent infatuations never consummated

...Adolescent infatuations...never consummated

Greetings reader from a cross between an aging seventy inch long (ringing ding dong) haired pencil necked geek and a Norwegian bachelor farmer wannabe; ...

Stumbling In Mordant Shadows

...How quickly I became intoxicated
from the salt I'd tasted around the rim
of the crystal chalice he filled for me
with ambrosia kisses as shadows fell.

A spell was cast on this dark bewi...

Wounded Whisper

...Thoughts regurgitated though repugnant,
coil of self loathing tightens its noose,
venal thoughts a fragmented whisper,
to sabotage, undermine, disrupt,
one’s frail ego under siege,
wounded whisp...

On the Whim of the Wind

...No rooster crowed the tenebrous morning
I woke to somber skies aflame.
As dawn rose across a crimson horizon,
a firestorm blazed from a golden core
and scarlet lava flowed above the plains.

Ch...

Clouds Rippling Across a Stygian Sky

...mordant clouds swiftly ripple, moving across a stygian sky


February 18, 2023
A Ripple To Me 2 Contest
Sponsor: JCB Brul
15 syllables checked with howmanysyllables...

Aurora Spills

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"Aurora Spills"


Aurora spills like a waterfall
light from the eyes 
saltwater tears
crocodilian
scaled in the weight of worth
a drop in the ocean of fate
breaks the s...

Snow Night

...Snow began in mordant gray dusk,
a silent sprinkle of crystal light twinkle,
attaché charm to the simply ordinary.

Purple skies drew black as dreary fought back 
to obscure winter’s mask of cer...

Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 33

...“Please allow me to answer that question,” he offered.
 When Rian saw him his face went white.  Is this a ghost? He questioned himself.  Could it be?  It looked like Erlenkönig but he was sure he wa...

Sounds Discordant

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Sounds discordant around abound
We instantly react
Likewise for fearful thoughts that hound
Tranquility detract

Aversion and desire
Send to funeral pyre
Be free, aglow, afire

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