Short Assuaged Poems

Rembrandt van Rijn
painted himself* as a sign
Over ninety 'selfies' as he aged
thus his ego was assuaged
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I phoned the incontinence help line today
To say “I’m Mrs. Brown, can you help me pray”
In the hope of having my condition assuaged
But try as I might it was always engaged...

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I phoned the incontinence help line today
To say “I’m Mrs. Brown, can you help me pray”
In the hope of having my condition assuaged
But try as I might it was always engaged...

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Turbulent emotions,
Disparate thoughts,
Like a troubled sea,
They cease to be assuaged,
Raging tempest,
Unsheathed swords.



February 17, 2022
Bite Size Poem no. 36 Poetry Contest...

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I think a lot of my name
but little of my signature
The letters left bleeding
as they die on the page
Endorsing a memory
in the hearts of my readers
The words free of structure 
—immortality assuaged

(Dreamsleep: July 25, 2023)...

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Like cellar stored wine
uncorked for a ripe moment 
slow poured ....capturing
swirling... my hearts love bouquet 
tasting ... passions perfect blend 

harps vibrations strum
harmonious melody 
flambéed with desire
assuaged fears slowly fading
as I loved me back to life......

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What light fades within your presence?
For light exists, if only through thee
Your beauty shines from your essence
For it exists both internal and externally

My mere self, wanes when near to thee
I am but a shell, just skin, au visage
Allow me then your light so I can see
I am then filled by you, I’m assuaged...

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that soft sail
and the wind looks as if
it’s trying hard to breathe 
i have elements in me
a compass borrowed, for some sorrow i assuaged
my eyes upward and unfolding
over some wave i might beach
adrift
my cuffs are turned up
and arms are a reelin’, in that wind I know 
is my kite yet to a’sail on this sea
coming for me...

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What light fades within your presence?

For light exists, if only through thee

Your beauty shines from your essence

For it exists both internal and externally



My mere self, wanes when near to thee

I am but a shell, just skin, au visage

Allow me then your light so I can see

I am then filled by you, I’m assuaged...

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A chill in the air
ignites my dry bones
washing over with sweetness.
I inhale, consumed with an appetite
assuaged only with the kiss of hiemal night.
Branches spindly, frigid, and gaunt
strike at the grey darkened sky,
while a cool mist blankets the ground.
Crystalline prisms dance through the air
as I take in the gentle crisp silence of Winter....

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You and your Road Rage
   Should be locked in a cage
Way back in the Stone Age
   You blacken the Space Age

Each time you go on a rampage
   Won't you please try to gauge
How you impact the teen-aged
   You and your Road Rage

Your words are an outrage
   Once released, can't be assuaged
They disgrace your 'Golden Age'
   You and your Road Rage...

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"Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along." ~Rumi



Entangled eons collided

     Where familiar hearts resided

          The day our eyes engaged.

               And a quickening abided:

                    I'd loved you long unsighted--

                         Like coming home assuaged. 



~by deborah burch©
4/28/2012

*Rime Couee
Title: "Like Coming Home"...

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When fingertips are rough
Connect them with the wire
And let them freely slide and twang
The resonate supplier

The frequency transpire
And waves that flood the room
Do soften roughened fingertips
When audit’ries abloom

How sonic muse do plume
So disregard the stage
It’s in your hands, it’s there and then
Embittered and assuaged

The opened spruce-wood cage
And canvas to bedeck
Do welcome roughened fingertips
To dance the wiry neck...

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COMING GOING
to go or stay or runaway avoid delay of my being here of my being there of leaving now
 wondering how of roundabout hereabouts of this residence a missing prescence in this
 empty house in this empty mind of being unable to decide about coming home to go or stay or run away without delay with  empty hands&of an empty heart


esoteric
   intricacies-
 mumurs assuaged

inspired by Samuel Beckett novel& poem 'Watt'
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A depersonalized holocaust slowly proceeds
Under convertible assuaged currency
Separate disparate lives, anonymous dredging
Tear against the land, air, and crawling

Human hands finalized the creed
Scourging banks to let the biosphere bleed
Recognizing no natural dignity
Expect that converted into commodified property

Distraction allows us to peel away
Taking the mind narrower still
And filling the void with caramelized exchanges
Simply  look away
The slave servitude continues...

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“When you are not fed love on a silver spoon, you learn to lick it off knives.”
 – Lauren Eden

born to the purple
no one to guide or support
love sought cold comfort
in all that surrounds
pushed aside by family
a need for parental touch
assuaged by those captive outsiders paid to placate
thin pitiful whines
yes, born well to the purple
all desired shackled within tacky satin
ribbons and gilded exchequers with coveted
foul purse strings
serrated hearts, cutting tongues
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