Short Bleakness Poems

desolate bleakness
a single soft bird singing...
in the warm center...

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MY LIFE IS SADNESS
it's full of Death and bleakness
Life for me is hard...

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amid dunes
flowers stain the bleakness
born of death

©3 aug 2011 cgh...

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Her blizzard-like air 
Whitening up the universe
Painted pure bleakness
Making me feel helpless
Begging for an escape plan....

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loneliness
laying empty in chest
waiting for salvation from bleakness
to open this locked heart.

DOREEN CYR
OCTOBER 17,2010...

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The morning star held onto two other stars just for me to see
Faint color at the horizon saying go away bleakness, life come alive
For the rain of yesterday has cleaned air and sky...

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Blooming with a triumphant splendor in the middle of pond bleakness















For Monoku Pick A  Picture What Cha See Poetry Contest
Sponsored by James Edward Lee Sr.
April 6, 2018...

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The marriage flame he had diffused
To her every pleasure refused
But she held him in secret
Though her days were filled with bleakness
Till at last his breath was dying 
For an eternal love she was vying...

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WILTED ROSE

shade of wilted rose
bleakness fails fragile hips
wind-whispered embers
drought’s tearless petals crumble
the dike’s plugged with pricked finger

Tanka Form
6/20/2017...

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Drench me in the hues of ocean.
The sky in my bosom quivers
while the dark clouds shadow the birds. 
Lost in  eternal darkness
heart ripped off by this separation
Insanity mollifies  the baffled mind.
Devoured by bleakness
the soul rejoices in complacency....

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bleakness of Autumn
    on a cloudy-sunless day
            muted colors droop
spirit’s  s i l e n t  interlude...
…blush of solo-leaf descant

12/1/2017


descant - a melody or counterpoint sung above the plainsong of the tenor
(from Merriam-Webster)...

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November

Bleakness..

The fullness and 

Warmth of

The earlier season

Seemingly passing..

An annual story

Recycled with

The question of

Permanence.. 

Finding..perhaps

The paradox of

Life as

Brilliant 

Fullness and 

Bleakness......

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the sun descended when you left
the moon bereft of its glow
the wind's blow scattering leaves

suddenly we ceased to speak 
the bleakness of each morning
continued pouring teardrops

years were the wasted days
hastened only by sleep
a heap of misunderstandings

7-4-2022...

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Bleakness

A story of an

Outward blanket

Of whiteness and cold..

Overwhelming perhaps..

Reflections arise of the

Amazing sudden change..

In the story may also arise

A sense of no-time

A sense of no-changing:

No-changing seeming as

Bleakness..

And peace......

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A closer gaze
Yet they see not
A keener look
Clarification not found
What is to be
To see this bleakness
Cataract covering up their eyes

They couldn't see
What traitors around

Spectacles!
Spectacles of the mind
Let lenses be attached to their eyes
All they need is spectacles...

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A time of desperation that collapses unto itself.
Bleakness is a metaphor for unoriginality in a world consumed by chaos.
Lovers tease eternity to justify their contempt for one another.
Why does my seasonal appreciation require a void in acknowledgment of the species to which I was assigned?...

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a bus stop 
with a shelter

remote and 
standing tall

surrounded by 
bleak countryside

where no one 
lives at all.

does anyone
get off here?

just who
the heck gets on?

where does the bus
that stops here go

and where does it 
come from?...

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I’d rather just leave it
So turn around and believe it
Don’t wanna be your fool no more
Don’t think I can stay here
I have to go there
But I don’t I'm strong enough
i am just not that tough
Because you are my weakness
The light in my bleakness
But I'm not your fool no more
So here is the door...

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Were nights darker or did time seem to move slower 
with houses twinkling in distant meadows
uprooted emotions floating on air
looking for love in the moonlit bleakness?

10/27/2020

taken from  Was It So Long Ago? written 11/12/18 for 
Liberum Divisa 2 Poetry Contest
Sponsor, Gregory R Barden...

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Sometimes people complain that they don’t know what to write about.
My fingers can think something up in seconds. 
It is like they cannot face the bleakness of a plain piece of paper.
They begin to type before I know what the heck they are doing.
My fingers are both poets, but they give me the credit.
No idea why....

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I thank you for coming into my life
When bleakness had settled in.
I thank you for taking my hand when
I was low in spirit and needed a friend.

I thank you for bringing the smile
Back to my lips,
The tingle to my finger tips;
For smoothing the frown from 
My brow and most of all,
For loving me, the best way,
You knew how!...

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Until drippings of light cease from the days hallow hole,
A veiled moon veils spirits, love carries all our might 
Through the bleakness, for what happiness may come
From the wars beating drum in the middle of the night?
Greet death with happiness in this time we should be sleeping.
Greet the morning in death's dreams, sleeping rather than weeping....

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The night draws down steel clouds and cold drizzly rain
whilst under roof soothing slumber yet remain.

I walk to darken gray rooms of my tomb
in bleakness and despair, malignant womb.

Kneeling in acceptance with mournful din
my penance will never end for my sin.

The outside evolves a prolonged unrest;
while I ebb, lost upon my hollow breast.

2/2/2019...

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.                                                     On a barren tree
                                                 A Cardinal stops to rest
                                                    Bleakness flies away

                                                            ~~~~~




                                              Written:  January 1st, 2010...

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Beauty
Echoes of tears
Seem suspended in time
Encapsulation of sadness
They fall

Bleakness
A tear stained face
Hauntingly beautiful 
Forever held in the minds eye
Standstill

Bereft
View emotion
Needs human connection 
Tears for now frozen, you are held
Cared for

Traditional Cinquain Poetry Contest
14th April 2023
Sponsored by: Sotto Poet...

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