Short Baleful Poems

Blasphemous beastly betrayal braced brutal barren babble. Bruising baleful backbites 
become branding breach....

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Baleful, cold and bright
Luna stares tonight, unblinking,
astonished by fecund Earth,
within its jealous gaze.

MS 1/18/14...

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The Pink Super Moon 

The Pink Super Moon
Casts a cold baleful glow 
Over the sleeping world 
Inspiring the drunken men 
To howl at the Moon...

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Remember,
keep your jack-lantern lit
‘cause on this eve should its flame quit,
dead-bolted doors won’t protect you 
from baleful spirits pouring through!...

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Perched oval moon glared in baleful triumph;

it’s huge, round face turned my bones to goo!

Mr. Orb’s rapt, relentless gaze raised goosebumps;

scared-goo-feet flew, ‘cause, I swear, it yelled boo!


...

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OMEN
O’er wintry land bare trees now sway
On wing above, black birds traverse
Occluded skies of baleful grey
Outspreading wings impart a curse 
Omen of darkest consequence
Outcomes perceived by prescient sense
Oppress the spirit, damn the day...

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This afternoon, my tongue
Dripped pink ice cream.
Glass-dimpled dish ensured I would,
With baleful strawberries
                                    looking on.

I'll have them soon -

But first... enticement,
For pink must be the best of all ice cream.






6/19/2022...

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Hijack


Strategy employed in a hijack
You cannot tell or crack
Each time, new clever tricks
That are a plus to statistics!
Criminals, they say, are ahead
Is it not alertness that is dead?

Mistrust even your shadow
And avert this baleful blow!!


JM

03rd February 2014...

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I beheld amidst the baleful sky,
a single snowflake falling gently
startling white against the slaty gray.

The crystal alit with cushioned sigh
upon your lips and sat contently;
you, too cold for it to melt away.

Rested long upon that ruby scar
did that winter's magic falling star....

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Anxiously waiting trying  not to clock watch
Baleful noise breaks the silence,
Calmness disappears,
Distraught, sons first school day
Excitement as flying body flings himself at her, at home time


Penned October 1 2017

Contest : Sara Kendrick ....let's do some alphabet


Based on own friends ordeal...

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Beastly Betty badly breaks her brother’s
Buttocks with a bat upon his butt.
Broken, beaten brother barely bothers
Bellowing at bawdy Betty. But

Because bad blood between both babe and bro
Builds baleful bias brought by Betty's bane,
Beleaguered Bob bestows a bitter blow.
By blasting boiling bile on Betty's brain.
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Winter’s calming twilight
Instills a sense of awe,
Nestling together in the quiet,
Trying to tease the fire to draw.
Ever in the solemn night
Reminiscing of the thaw.
 
Baleful loss of sun and light
Leaves our hearts cold and sad.	
Unless Winter soon takes flight
Ever in wool we will be clad!
Spring will grant a greener sight....

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Mammals cried on the domestic site.
They were pursued by homeless shelters.
A calamitous plan destroyed the primate.
Declaring war creeped on mining wheelers.
Deforestation triggered ruins.

They left a ministerial threat.
Incendiary propaganda mouthed great.
The rules crawled havoc with it.
State gave them a baleful coat.
Nocent chemical found it....

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Frightful feelings flush his face,
damned to dance with his disgrace,
stigma stained though sight unseen,
damaged days depress, demean.

Silent secrets simmer, sulk,
hardened hairy heartless hulk,
oracle of all obscene,
decoy demons daunt his dreams.

Witless words waging war,
baleful bully, beastly bore,
cancer catches in his craw,
fury was his fatal flaw....

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Sorrow circle back,
you bury it, ask the moon to bless it
and then again that same moon
comes looking for you;
you see by its baleful light 
that the grave is still open.

King Kong loved a little lady,
big mistake.
At night he listens
to the vicious buzzing of bi-planes,
and though his eyes are dry
he weeps.

You need to be the forgotten one
if you want to forget....

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OMENS
O’er wintry land bare trees now sway
On wing above, black birds traverse
Occluded skies of baleful grey
Outspreading wings imparting curse 

Yet outcomes told by prescient sense
With omens of dark consequence
May be belied restoring sight
Of hope; see yon horizon bright

[Poem in 8x8 form]

Submitted to:-
Contest: Unrest of Spirit
Sponsor: Julia Ward
22 November 2018...

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Words will sour
in your lust
for power,
it is these
deeds
that come.

Prayer is lush,
it makes
one cower
but pure
is the cure
that scours.

I fend off
these baleful insults
which tumult
through my brave
innocence.


The flower 
of the flesh 
is stretched
into power.


I oft come
here
and smell
the daisies
by the lake,
where bones so
fresh
waste away
in your wake....

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our inimical truths
our baleful words
have torn us apart
i stood for myself
you stood for yourself
i gave you signs
you gave me signs
but fate had other plans
now dark heart is all we have 
with all its chambers full of detest
if I come to your door
you won’t open
if you come to my door
i won’t open
so we lost our love
to the hands of our fears
never to come back
never to be same
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By Kerinth Campbell

Ahhhhhhhhh!

Nerve shattering
Spine chilling
Teeth chattering
Feet unwilling.

High pitched
Ghoulish delight
Screams!
More screams
In the foreboding night

Low and ominous
Rising moans
Screams!
Inhuman baleful groans

Cackling, evil
Gleeful pleasure
Groans
Moans
Screams 
Without measure

To a crescendo
Lowering to a suspense
Rising
Rising
Rising
Building up again

Ahhhhhhhhh!...

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nocturnal needles 
ebony embroidery 
silver scythe shimmers

skeleton sunsets
harvesting heart hue highlights 
bursting blinding bones 

baleful basket buds
spirits sparkling soil seedlings 
ghoulish ghost gardens 

reaper rhyming rain
wanton words whipping winking winds
stormy silky skulls

crackling crying clocks 
grieving grand gravestones gleaming 
sorrowful souls scribe 

January 6th 2019
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This strangeness can seem
so insidious and violating
Glaring at a stricken life
while assuaging 
a broken lense and its tense beam
Streams peter and crawl
silently
beside intended tears
Friends till the last embrace
when the bough broke

Learning endures my trust
Each baleful of insight 
ignites a trail
where something burns,
and another arises
But this summer does in deference to its blaze
require some rest,
its master, another day...

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Bacteria

                                      Baleful creatures at times
                                        Belonging in one place
                                       Brutal if their misplaced 
                                       Basic need for our lives
                                         Benefits and betrays
                                        Boundless, microscopic 
                                        Barbaric, blessed bugs...

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The child pursues melodies I’ll never understand,
the notes wallowing through my fingertips like grains of sand.
But in the distance a flute laughs, softly,
a zither weeping its baleful notes—
both distant, blunt, and foreign.

I fell here once,
at the border of sound and silence,
hit by a blade I didn’t see coming.
Whose shadow loomed, blade in hand?
The answer is buried deep in the night,
stretching long and wide,
refusing to end,
refusing to begin....

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I can see the false hope and doom,
the hissing in the breath,
Sorrowful, baleful emotionless,
every word reeks of death.

The masses that follow blinded now,
forever will they weep,
Appointing a puppet of false hope,
The rage and anger we reap.

Anger fills the glasses full,
confusion fills the mind,
My heart now torn, as a tattered flag,
doom for all mankind.

To settle now for this false hope,
my desire to amend,
To watch our world fall apart,
the loss of a life long friend....

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The great dog down the street,
Hellhound I would hate to meet,
With its coat of brown and black,
Huge teeth and big clawed feet.

Dark growl devilishly deep,
Makes my skin shiver and creep,
Eyes alight with evil glow,
Body crouched ready to leap.

It escaped its yard one day,
Lurked baleful in my driveway,
Stood and would not go home,
So inside I had to pray.

Now I think I hear the howl,
Of the Hellhound so foul,
Over the air every night, 
He raises his mighty jowl....

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