Short Abated Poems

Unlocked memories
Muted
Quietly tears warm my cheek
Your embrace cold and abated
Alone
I cry...

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Fear unbraced,
Not in the pit of my stomach
But the cheeks of my face
Uncertainty quite abated
Superfluous words make me somnambulated....

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dried tears

I want to see 
the face of God
look down and smile. 
his tears abated
after they dried 
in Louisiana.  the 
kindness 
brought a smile....

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Grocery prices are now so inflated
I eat dried yams 'till my hunger's abated
Everything cost a mint
My billfold grows lint
Then again, food is so overrated!

10/17/22...

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The fleeting comfort of her silence,
rocking his troubles to sleep
All noise has abated, the bats have gone out
—till dawn o’er the belfry to greet

(Dreamsleep: December, 2021)...

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Zelda Yadkin Xerox was very up today 
stumbling round quoting poetry often, 
ninja mouse lurking, 
knuckles jammed in Harry Gummies foot
 echoed dangerous 
content bravely abated....

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Empty Spaces

I would,
to satisfy
my love for you -
fill your empty spaces.

To show your wonder,
all the prose there is.
To fill your wounds with health.
Your passions abated....

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Love drenched,
Thirst quenched,
Heart clenched.
Desire sated,
Pain abated,
Feel elated.
Tearful fears,
Yearning sears,
Love endears.

for Lin Lane

© Dave Timperley 07 June 2017...

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J-ust
E-mploy
R-ight
R-estriction's
E-quipment
M-aking
Y-ucky

A-ilment's
R-abidity
C-ompletely
A-bated

Topic: Birthday of Jerremy M. Arca (April 24) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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A-nother
V-ivid
E-arly
L-ight
I-n
N-ewness
A-ppears

F-rom
E-ffulgent
L-ucidity
I-f
C-loud
I-s
A-bated

Topic: Birthday of Avelina Felicia (October 30) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Life is a vortex of pain,
Coiling into the abyss.
To never kill the spirit,
But to cause grief infinite.
Yet with death pain abated,
My mind cleared of all its woe,
I shall rest six feet below....

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L-ethal
E-nemy
I-mplements
M-orbidity
A-nd
R-abidity
I-n
E-pidemic

A-s
R-isk
A-bout
N-asty
D-isease
I-s
A-bated

Topic: Birthday of Leimarie M. Arandia (June 15) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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D-arkness
I-s
A-bated
N-ow
A-s

R-ise
O-f
S-un
E-agerly

G-lows
O-bliterating
N-ight
Z-one
A-nd
L-onely
E-vening
S-hadow

Topic: Birthday of Diana Rose Gonzales (June 01) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Now that I'm on in years
I begin to savor all I have tasted
The past the worst of my fears
All the moments I have wasted
Bitter the taste of tears
In addittion, to those I abated
Closer those still near
All our hearts related...

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Finally, when all the unbelievers were drowned in the flood, God commanded:

“O Earth! swallow up your water, and O Sky! withhold your rain! and the water abated and the matter was ended. The Ark rested on Mount Judi.” [6] — Holy Qur’an, 11:44...

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Until you really love someone,
you don’t know what you’ll do

The old rules self-abated,
priorities renewed

Until you really love someone,
you won’t see past yourself

Your life upturned, your role reversed
—your soul to someone else

(Dreamsleep: February, 2020)...

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S-afety protocol and policy
A-im to end the ordeal; 
R-estrictions and standards
A-re made for us to
H-eal.

D-irt and grime in our hands
A-re abated by alcohol; 
Y-ou and I are health-conscious, 
O-bserving the safety protocol.

Topic: Birthday of Sarah D. Dayo (June 03)...

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Mass body rotten stinky crusted fat tissue issue molding fetish rotten masses worms crawling maggots rotten is my consumed my true self is it not called My soul and Spirit rises out of my chest all I have left is a figure abated mess

11/21/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020...

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The flames of the fire of our love
may have abated and subsided
but its embers still menacingly glow
and from time to time it's re-ignited
searing through us like lava's hot flow
until by joy fulfilled and delighted
it flickers, returning, mellowing slow,
into its normal pedestrian groove....

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There’s something stagnant in the day’s slow heat
It lies unnoticed by plodding feet

The air is there, though somewhat near
Hanging loosely in abated fear

But upon the wall the magpie sits
No scream or shout, but passing flits

Electric buzz of the cold hard screen
Reminds once more of what has been...

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Like water for chocolate
I cook't for the Gods
A nectar so succulent
It abated on my tongue
& I in turn was filled 
I gave n haven given
was revived
My tongue was loosened
From a thousand strongholds
My imagination ignited
into flame
My soul-a helium filled balloon
on which to pass the earth 
Contented...

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Clutching a sapling
  no port in the storm
Torn from its moorings
  No hope to keep warm

A waif of a girl
  wrapped in shawl and waistcoat
She’d not survive long
  her voice stuck in her throat…

When the blizzard abated
  she was found frozen stiff
buried alive ‘neath a snowmound
  Mother Nature not a finger did lift...

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Dither and don't
Wither and won't
Slither away
Pawns dismay

Carols sung on Easter morning
Blasting the cold away
Rustic pieces found daunting
Carries night into day
Won't open the terror door
It seems to squeak a little
You hate but wanting more
Easy with cork in bottle

Errors made
Terrors hated
Rumors abated
Time slated	

Russell Sivey...

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Big waves

the waves came in, went out
when the rocking abated
her heartbeat came back to normal
soon,too, the glistening sun receded

seashells and seaweed came, and went ashore
but it was the big waves that came in, and went out
starting as a ripple and curling 
at the end, crashing, that made her shout

connie pachecho

2/5/17...

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random matches in a book
the cover closed when lighting
pulling across the striking surface
sulfur catching and igniting

smoke lifts from the once cool head
the flame burns hot and high
combustion from the chemicals
consuming all close by

breath softly extinguishes
after it's abated
intensity has burnt itself out
cooling once exhausted...

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