Short Abrasive Poems

jagged prescription

abrasive realities

I can't take much more...

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Under scorching sun
    an  abrasive summer heat
       zero tolerance...

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        Scratchy 
      sequin smile, 
     love pulls hard 
 at my chapped scars;
        Abrasive....

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abrasive noises streaming noisily
motorcycles flabbergast the highway
I hear and pray for their worried mothers...

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Noise
Stressful, Abrasive
Disturbing, Aggravating, Irritating
Fights, Argument, Agreement, Serenity 
Resting, Soothing, Relaxing
Wonderful, Peaceful
Quiet
...

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Where is the lightning?
Rains calculated thunders!
Roars across the skies scape;
Treacherous abrasive storms;
Drench righteously;

1/11/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2022...

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I’m salt,
ionic,
on tables laid iconic,
abrasive, bitter,
savoury and,
consecratory:
Tridentined mandatory:
a quarter
of the blessings
from the sky.
And without me
in smallish lots,
you die....

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Soothing immersive warming
Cold abrasive scolding

Calm serene majestic
Rough mean frenetic 

Falling flowing bubbling
Pouring groaning crashing

The worlds most important element
Can be what it wants to be...

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Wandering in the desert
profanity infused me
Each word like a scorpion
the curses on fire

The sand an abrasive
the cactus a warning
The sting of my words
—killing prophet and liar

(Dreamsleep: October, 2022)...

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Calling through the branches of trees,
Cutting through the curtains of rain,
Catching all the bracken of her words
Cold and sharp, abrasive refrain.
Cleaving in the temporal malaise,
Could this pay the wages of sin?
"Closing time" the ending of days....

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Let your words always be sincere
Not abrasive words bent to inflame or cause dissension;
Often, man spews forth words as heat seeking missiles,
Enlisting the tongue for their launching pad;
Forgo the rhetoric that has no usefulness
beyond invading the silence of my space;...

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Real poets don’t make lasting friends
they shun fraternity
Their truth like gritty sandpaper
abrasive when intoned   
The reader may be gratified 
with what the words uncover
More likely though the pain involved
— will cut them to the bone

(Dreamsleep: February, 2024) 
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They pierce into the lives
Of the people 
Deep into the Heart
Mind and Soul
A One Way
Not to be returned
In other ways
They tragically unfold

More powerful 
Than any emotion
More abrasive
Than a cutting edge
Words can pierce
At a very high speed
If not careful
To what is said...

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Downright nasty
    abrasive was she
  Hostile to friends
    vitriolic to enemies

  Raised on the streets
    she learned their dark ways
  Focus on your target
    and set it ablaze

  Who knew underneath
    was a little girl crying
  Scared-to-death of the life
    she devoted to dying...

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All attention, every conversation must lead back to her
She swiftly turns everything into a “me” or an “I” moment.
She gets louder, more abrasive when we pretend to not hear.
The harder she tries to get our attention, the harder we run away
Escaping not only her, but the part of ourselves we despise the most....

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SANS 2


Where flair meets good grace
Do you trace your fine splurge?
Hope has a way of telling
How the emerging light shines
Despite the disruptive blurs
That impede conscious knowing
Even as faith nurtures peace of mind
In the somewhat abrasive confrontation

~~~~~~~~~




Leon Enriquez
05 October 2019
Singapore...

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She conversed with the butterflies
The more abrasive ones says she lies.
But to kin, ability is no big surprise
Spirit animals speak to her through God’s eyes.

An empath’s heart will truly expand and rise.
In the present of the spirit sent to surmise
Whether or not she is living her highest highs.
Studying her today are His monarch butterflies....

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Soft Soaping
Written: by Tom Wright
3/15/2016

Don’t soft soap me attempting to gain my favor,
Or use abrasive words thinking they might sway.
After time dedicated to thought, I will not waver,
Nor from my early impressions do I seldom stray.

Nothing harder to change than a made up mind,
Unless it would be a three dollar bill;
Tom
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The force of bleeding words 
Traps helpless tears
Like rotting newspapers
Suspened from broken branches
Hanging laundry of lullaby memories
Gaurded
Hasty passages to destinations
That guarantee nothing
But indifference
Coarse sand soothes burnt souls
Abrasive to the center of passion
Where blistered hope cracks
and leaks more sorrow
Than the eyes betray....

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Tiny adventures renew the spirit and the mind,
curing us from a world that has been abrasive and
unkind, in the throes of the hustle and bustle no
one sees our pains, so we have to take care of 
ourselves, the best way we know how.........
Refreshing our innocent souls that lay
bruised and tired from being under attack,
Tiny adventures allow us to get our groove
back....

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May your head always ring,
with God's mighty word.
He gave you those ears,
so that he could be heard.

Open your mind,
and open your heart.
Don't spit out words,
that rip others apart.

I know I'm abrasive,
and a little bit rough.
I will always defend,
those that are not so tough.

Bring it to my doorstep,
and you to shall see.
I will never back down,
and I will never flee....

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it’s a matter of
where your thumb was
when Thumbelina walked
into your toll-point

this voice
is as abrasive
as children in the park
where larks perch

in cold not sheltered
by old prostitutes
in gold with cats
and salad on mayonnaise

these winter suns
are prophylactic
‘Aurora’
on photographs
of my father and mother
long dead

like empty bottles
where cockroaches have tread...

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Today, I brought my earbuds. 
So, while I'm surfing 
Facebook™ 
 in the computer lab 
I can listen to music 
on youtube at the same time. 
I clumsily molest the 
backside of the dusty monolith, 
as my left ring finger 
discovers an abrasive crust. 
Someone broke off  
their headphone plug 
in the jack.

How do you manage that? 
Oh, tell me, lord almighty in the sky, so high. 


How do you manage that?...

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Everyone stop needing,
can’t you see how I try?
Feels like nothing but stress; 
A mask with a wide smile 
slow dancing with darkness;

Everyone stop needing!  
Popping off those demands,
such an abrasive touch!
It’s driving me insane,
always asking so much; 

Everyone stop needing! 
Wild goose is what you chase 
running down a cyclone; 
You’re not there when I ask,
leave well enough alone....

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I’m not without sin
I’m not going to lie
Sometimes I fight dirty
I often cross that line

Every time I am wrong
I’ve taken stock and learned
I’ll accept any punishment
That my big mouth has earned

I’m harsh and abrasive
Or so I’ve been told
My words are not pretty
My chest bears no gold.

I am fiercely loyal
For my friends I will die
You’ll never break my spirit
But you are welcome to try....

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