Short Bottle Up Poems

Abuse. A strong word.
Secrets that you bottle up,
can destroy your life....

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I have learned over the years
to just shut up and free the peace,
but, some people just keep on talking,
bottle up peace, and free wrath instead....

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verses gnomic verses
limericks sonnets haiku
poetry bottled
suffocated caged
waiting for liberation
senryu tanka cinquain
crystalline nonnets acrostics
terrible,ballad ballade bucolics
poetry packed into bottles
odes no more kings or queens
still we bottle up poetry
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Unlike many, I found ways to transcend  
I attempt to show you my ways 
to put your sorrows to an end. 
However, I am drained with this trend. 
Do you ever question if I pretend? 
I bottle up my uncertainties, hoping for amend. 
I hope one day you’ll comprehend, 
I desire a friend that will lend me a hand for a change....

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Let me clear my mind 
from the issues of life 

Let me clear my mind 
from the trials and tribulations that pass my way

Let me clear my mind
from false realities and the worlds perceptions

Let me clear my mind
from self hatred, and bottle up pride

Let me clear my mind
from the wrong points of view

Let me clear my mind
from all self imprisonment, in my own mind...

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Life can be difficult 
   but there are 
ways to assuage the pain
  Take joy in simple things!
  A smile, a handshake, a heartfelt greeting 
  A glass of cool water - a tasty morsel
Knock down the barriers 
   that bottle up joy 
Look up and kiss the blue sky 
Sweet rain will soon come 
Flowers will soon rise up from the earth 
Take joy in simple things
It is the path to freedom...

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Azure treasures,heavy laden
guarded by a sweet mermaiden
underneath a coral reef

come and sacrifice your grief

It is worth a gold doubloon
to give up mourning after noon
it feels so good to stoke the pain
embers there inside your brain

are you willing to deny it?
If you are the sea will buy it.
seal it in a Mason jar
now throw  it high
and just as far
as mortal man can fling his woes

to places only Neptune knows.
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If I could capture a dew drop,
Sparkling in the sun
I would hand the light to you
While you are on your way
If I could bottle up the fragrance,
Of flowers in the spring,
Fresh from the blossoms
I would send it to you,
For sweet scents to remember
If I could keep the sky’s reflections,
On the beautiful lake I see,
To show you when you return
Just maybe, you would see
Where I’ve traveled too,
With all my thoughts of you

Heidi Sands

5/28/18


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Laughter is a balm to soothe
Whatever makes you ache
And those who would reject that thought
Are making a mistake.

Just spend an afternoon or eve
With friends from long ago
And reminisce until the giggles
Start to overflow.

For when you’re caught up having fun
The bad stuff slinks away,
Afraid to tamper with the joy
On obvious display.

If only we could bottle up
Those laughs for future use,
Then all the sadness lurking ‘round
Perhaps we could reduce.
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What do people see when they look?
Do they see just the surface?
Or do they see what's beneath?
Can they see the hurt and pain that's been carried within?
Have they expierenced it?
Do they know what it's like not to be able to let it out?
Does any one know what it's like living with this guilt and repressed emotions?
Are these feelings from my doings?
Or are they from beyond my control?
Why is it feelings bottle up inside?
Do they even have a clue?
Or do they just judge?
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