Short Arr Poems

IT is truly the SCOURGE of Humankind!

Copyright 2016 Robert  William Gruhn A.R.R....

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JUST STEPS AWAY  

Seconds turning to minutes
Minutes becoming those hours
Hours rise setting into days
Days spinning to weeks

Years greeting me with many birthdays
Still,  one hundred only a flash
Realizing when I was born
Just steps away from forever

Copyright 2019 Robert William Gruhn A.R.R....

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Run Aground

Arr, Matey! Me ship has run aground,
In this shallow world, I search for character, but none to be found.
Through me spyglass, a foggy, distant world, unclear,
This incessant devil bird squawking in me ear.
A chest full of silver, gold, and jewels galore,
But what I treasure most is a love forevermore....

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playing around
playing with sound
quadraphonic engulfing

me so 
i start off
simply being

me me me me
me eee ee e
so what so

what sooo wha
soo what so
try it again

defining
myself
elf ell

maddeningly
juggling
sound

starting with
an egg and
a wooden

chair with
a chain
saw

BEGIN

egg leg chain
chair saw egg
ggg arr charrr

ehhhh awww
errr gah chah
cha cha oh my

god i've chu
cuh cuh cut
my arm

off...

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That scarlet drop of a life still on my bayonet;
Lying lonely then in a six foot trench fox coffin,
Judgements of those at home not yet screaming in ears.
Shouldn't I have died to free them of guilt ridden freedom?

Only if they knew I had dreamed I wished it happened;
That final pain so much easier to survive than my fear.
Having to kill to live painting me into coward's corner,
At least that's the way I saw it in bloody dying color.

© 2014 Robert William Gruhn A.R.R....

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