Short Achingly Poems

Stifling hot Sunday
Body is achingly weak
Need some wet relief

8-27-14 for Haiku Contest
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step... stop... wait... step... stop... 
  slow, achingly slow, we---Sh!
    … frozen deer... staring...

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A magic cat
  did stretch and yawn
on a velvet carpet green
  perfection's Springtime lawn

Sauntered achingly lazy
  to a peach blossom tree
rubbed up against some petals
  then winked at me
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She is the Sun, I am the Moon, longing to touch, but never able to. She makes things warm and comfortable. I bring darkness and cold chills. She is what I so achingly desire, but to have her would be madness for all....

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Friends have departed,
I could not go,
The ones left grieve,
In a sea of memories
It's all within oneself,
This I know
But the spoken word,
silenced for now,
Is achingly awaited,
When dear friends re-unite
For eternity....

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Achingly
Beautiful
Courageously
Deft
Energetically
Frivolous
Gaily
Happy
Ignorantly
Joyful
Kind
Lovely
Magnanimously
Nobly 
Open
Preciously
Queenly
Rare
Splendid
Terrifically 
Unsuspected
Voraciously
Wicked
Yearningly
Zany
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WHISPER

His kisses 
whisper love.

I listen
as
his bottled up
desires
flow out.

I trace
those words
slowly
achingly
dangerously
desperately steadfast.

Gasping

Still
he quiets me
hopelessly endearing
in hushed
whispers.
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Violent thunder in a blood red sky
Tears of anguish in the family’s eye
Hearts held achingly in the grip of fear ~
Praying for those they hold most dear.

How long must the fighting last?
How long before the pain has past?
How long before our troops return,
And the hatred in our hearts cease to burn...
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deep masculine tones resonate tantalizingly, enticing peeks 
sending sizzling fire surging through my body achingly 
mounting needs have me writhing in search of sweet release 
as fingers dive deeply within my core, climbing, soaked in perspiration 
molten fluid laces fingers as screams of ecstasy ignite over the phone...

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The song birds
Of my dreams   
Sit on the sill
(Where I sleep )
And sing achingly
I get drifted 
In the world. 
I crave for it
When I am 
All awake.
Would that 
The songs take 
Over my life!
Just then …
My wife calls
Out to me 
For a walk 
Frightening 
The birds away 
I open my eyes 
To see the world
Filled with elegy 






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tentatively we touch
gentleness a brushed lingering
rising waves of repetition unfold
achingly intense
crisp as belled glass

full of heartache, plump with longing
life races toward … to ward …
in spiral tip toed pirouettes

trailing across the tympanic membranes
sliding up and down scales 
darkness sharp and ivory keys
sound reminds


6/9/14...

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This shade is damp with the net of sun
finely sliced with the paring knife of trees.

We softly move among old bones, places
where ancient lovers have lain, grinding
one another into thin blue dust, drinking
from a chalice of silvered hands held
one to the other safe in mid-afternoon light
among gnats and May apples arching achingly
toward the slow, soft, satin churnings of death....

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Caught behind barbed wire
Tangled in a child's shame,
old regrets and fears
We sometimes pierce our souls
in the death grip of our love offerings
Delightful wild-flowers
clutched in hopeful fists
Thrust out from our shadowlands
to be caught by understanding hands
How achingly beautiful we are
in the presence of their tender
and fragrant significance

© Cornelia Mattioli aka Flying Angel
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As dawn appears in golden rays,
A hint of jasmine fills the air,
This night has passed so achingly,
Though my heart is still filled with care.

I think back to all those moments,
In time, the distant memories,
Come flooding back in elegance,
Like a warm breeze across the seas.

These moments so rare and precious,
Those memories you gave to me,
More moving than the burning sun,
So why can't I just let them be?

(Eight syllables per line)...

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Harp and flute

Fingers bled of love by the strings of the harp,
Eyes filled with tears, mingled in the drops of blood,
As the flute elated sucked and kissed the slaughtered,
Love and hate, tears and blood, such are the broken hearts.

A song of love and sadness poignantly dejected,
The harp so majestically and queenly on it mimicked,
The flute so princely and so kingly on it emoted,
So eternally, beautifully and so perpetually, such achingly is how it hurts....

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Teardrop
From the sky
Rested achingly upon
The ample bosom
Of grief
Oh Divine, my beloved!
Kneel upon thy alters
Bow down, oh heart
On velvet cushion's grace.
Nigh is death
Lean on Thee
Erratic heart
Tumultuous sea
Calm! Hush now. Calm!
Thy belly crawls
 before thy feet's sorrow
Given paradise 
A tomorrow's dream
Thy brows sweat
And the moon dims
Take my soul
To eternal's promise
Bosom's tears 
water the heavens
Heart and the sea
Pleading for the nightmare's end.



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