Short Atrophy Poems

APATHY, YOU WILL FIND,

BREEDS ATROPHY OF THE MIND....

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years of bitterness
his heart suffering
from atrophy



posted on August 11, 2018...

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A trophy, cold gilded praise, mocks me …..in ageless silence.


John G. Lawless
©1/29/2019...

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Look at you, faded;
I hope you get your smile back,
it was so cosmic;
Cataclysmic atrophy 
to transform into abyss....

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Atrophy of sound is that 
I say it not ~
my trust surround
for fear,
the harbor of the soul's astound
does cap my vestige
truth .  .  . another's ground?...

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plastic trophy
muscle atrophy 
product of a winner
(played too hard)
crumpled get well soon
card in the corner
unseen 
eyes are so mean
blink blots  
only open when broken...

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I find myself smiling
Must be enjoying this!
In God's perfect timing
It's possible to feel bliss
Awoken to His love
Choose not to think in apathy
Negativity, nor life in a glove
Your faith-muscles atrophy!...

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Incursion,moribundant
Iniquity,a malediction
Too late for reflection
No use for apologies
The harm has been done
Animus emotions
No war is ever won
Abjective adversity
Asperity of atrophy
Aberration then infamy
A molevolent society
A dictators sick dream
Future state,our reality!!!...

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RELICT IS NUMB

pain
strikes flint
flambéed tears
embers of love
atrophy   of   light
icicle       gaze
jaded   jaw
frozen
numb

5th Place
4/20/2017
Form N Contest
Ninette Form
Using word Numb

*Relict is a widow...

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lust intoned
with death.
and people, friends,
speak of ends
of where we go..
They know, within an atrophy
they goad.

they claim then with arrogance that all is lust,
and that lovers lie to truth.
But i would find,
with my eyes,
that they still must goad...
And it means that they soon shall find their seams
unwind....

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D angerous moral atrophy as the
E ver-deepening war orgy visits
B urgeoning bile from out the
A battoirs release of souls to their
U nspeakable death.  Watch a
C arefully orchestrated mosaic of
H onorable enlisted twisted to
E ntertain an illusion of security
R eminiscent of hitlerian thrusts
Y earning to control....

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Stones crash and shatter
Architecture annihilated 
Atrophy lie their empire
Fated souls separated

Nomadic in pursuit
Forlorn hearts in quest
Amour of absolute
A lifetime possessed

Dimensions of eternity
They cry into space
Dreaming of a fantasy
Fading memory of an embrace

A fated meeting binds them whole
Two halves, of one soul...

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My confusion 
And my disillusion
Sheds no blood but my own 
My secrets 
My regrets
everything I have never shown 
My apathy 
And atrophy 
Takes away all light 
My weakness 
And meekness 
Takes away any fight 
My lying 
And dying 
Burns through me 
My love and care 
Through so much to bear 
If only you could ever see....

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Night sweats and crazy
Hot flashes and lazy
Mood swings and a body (?)
That looks pretty shoddy

Eating and bleeding and wanting to scream
These are a few of my Favorite Things

When your doctor
Says a shocker
that your
Uterus is a lobster

I simply remember to pretend I'm filled with glee
and then
I forget that my uterus is in atrophy...

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Blissful ignorance

A vacuous affair

Mind numbing atrophy

Life without a care



Cloud dwelling dreams

Of a world less realized

The pyramid schemes

Of a world materialized



Land of the free

Home of the incarcerated

The money wheel keeps turning

Our debt exacerbated



Before it's too late

Do what you can

To save what's left

Of this common man...

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Dermal atrophy abated
Crows and creases toxified
Final look not contemplated
Alien just like you died

Flowers never reconstructed
Perfect beauty quickly fades
Aging process you obstructed
Mirror damaged thought invades

No way to see yourself again
Face frozen stare distorted
Looking back the joker grins
A novel look turned horrid

June 24, 2019...

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If there were no poetry or words as art
Who would hear the music in my heart
Would my muse fight to find its way
Or in atrophy die and simply wash away



Published in my 24-page photo/anthology ~SUNSETTING WHISPERS~ 2020

AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Submitted on January 22, 2020 for contest IF THERE WAS NO POETRY sponsored by SILENT ONE  -  RANKED 3RD...

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Having long ago gone past
The equinox, of my being
Now, it’s only atrophy 
In myself I’m seeing

Yet, I grudgingly march on
To the solstice in my life
A meeting with that grim
And hooded thing, with scythe

But, this journey to my destiny
At the end of perdition’s road
Is made, not with heavy heart
But with joy, from easing of the load
BOEMS BY JA 286...

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Listen to poem:

and just like that
summer was gone
the good times vanished
time in slow motion wilted
lost and to be forgotten

my heart in atrophy
silenced with the autumn breeze
wounded but not broken


AP: Honorable Mention 2023, Honorable Mention 2022

Submitted on November 14, 2022 for contest THE CRAP SHOOT #2 sponsored by JOHN LAWLESS

Originally posted on November 11, 2022...

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for it, the hot-blooded campus youth
   booed and cheered, fought and cheated;

      adrift in the hysteria of intramural sports,
         the losers wailed, the victors jubilated;


now dusty, it leans on a heap of rubbish,
   the Overall Champion trophy once golden,

      lost in the rubbles of the demolished gym,
         a relic of a youthful season long forgotten!...

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when thoughts unkind
and winds turn cold
a heart in atrophy
slowly turns to stone
while severed
disconnected
its string gone feral 
the soul astray
drifts off
to chase the first
warm breeze



AP: 2nd place 2022, 3rd place 2022

Submitted on September 26, 2020 for contest IMPACT AND METAPHORS sponsored by WILLIAM KEKAULA  -  RANKED 1ST

Originally posted on January 29, 2020...

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Rewinding that insidious regret
that art as counterfeit
did access all my faith's concept
and yet denying thy love's kept!

Each moment's fine adept
were not a loss ~ as all acceptance wept
wherein thy heart spoke,
also mine had slept!

Rewinding then this usury's invest
apart ~ and yet no time in mind
can atrophy entwine ~ forever thee,
. . . . . . forever solaced, stately mine!...

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The true color of red flags is rust, 
where they utter love it lies beneath; 
Faded, repainted, and insincere 
still there hoping you fail to see it; 

 Left in disgust over lack of trust  
false words atrophy with broken teeth;
Vet those you allow into your sphere 
aim the first punch for the hardest hit;

Accept what you know when it is clear,
fool’s gold will always be counterfeit....

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Dearest Ezra, 

did you ever dream one day,
that all the songs should cease?
No music in the cafes play
since the baddest news arrived 

A stone cold note told of the change,
no time to grieve, or make our peace
did it wither, man, or did we contrive
in sympathy with the new and strange? 

No church bells rang; no sermons read,
a simple phrase of passing, plain
ol' frowny face; sweet poetry's dead
let no one sing, nor dance again...

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the barren light flickers
for the last time, sealing fate
what thought was meant to be
as I was set out, simply free
free to roam 
a solitary heretic in atrophy
living where roads
bleed upon the horizon
rubbed against ruins, in exile
exhuming me
I'll take the long way, love
trailing darkened paths
trudging past, weakness
spilt as strangers pass
through wayward nights
holding steady with the light
for even the pain, never lasts...

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