Short Cacophonous Poems

cacophonous voice
	exquisite mischievous thief ~
		blue beauty and beast...

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quiet has a sound...
unlike cacophonous snore
...intense solitude

4/23/2018...

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unspoken

sounds of silence scream
in cacophonous onslaughts
again and again

©deborah burch
2.17.2013...

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No peace here for these slumbering souls.
Mourners songs - a cacophonous keen.
These rocks are weeping here on hallowed beds,
the habitants are restless this eve.



Visual 3
Tenielle...

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in the open air
cacophonous solitude ~
quiet containment

the pert butterflies
speckled and multicoloured ~
flittering about

2/16/2023
Spring Flower, Bird or Butterfly Haiku x 2
Sponsor: Tania Kitchin...

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Cacophonous crow
Raucously robbing robins
Pandemonium

Salivating snail
Predator of petunias
Duck delicacy

Sweet Spring surprises
Doe dining delicately
Nature nourishes

Hungry hawk hovers
Quiet quail quakes and quivers
Corn cover conceals...

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unable to identify
with cacophonous din
caused by stuporous minds
we take shelter in silence
aglow with light of God

perhaps it is escapism
as we search for rainbows
yet to manifest in the blue sky
which are already created
in the cave of our heart...

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Busy piazza, 
Amidst angry sun
And cacophonous sounds such as,
"pipipi peepee" and "bonanza! bonanza!!",
Calling all to answer,
Nagging market women,
Causing palaver.
Pedestrians roaming.
Every man to his own
Yet who knows who?




CHARLESMELODY
(Lightning Ink)....

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A writer does not shape his time
Rather the times
Shape the writer
Who gives voice
To his time
In his own special way
In hopes that
His one small voice
May be heard
However faintly
Above the cacophonous din of the times
Or through the void and vacuum of time's indifference...

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There’s a grinding in everyone’s mouth. 
Something cacophonous and discordant
That resonates perfection.
It sounds like continents in your throat
Villages of little fluorescent bulbs,
Branding stories on your tongue
And crunching into you
Until you become the philosopher of the world....

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MIND FIELD

idle thoughts collide

                   in cacophonous chaos

                                         a 
                                                broken 
                                                                silence


John G, Lawless
©12/7/2017...

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clever clouds
chase
cunning clarinets

curious cats
collect
cacophonous cicadas

colorful candles
captivate
cavalier crowds

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cavalier crowds
captivate
colorful candles

cacophonous cicadas
collect
curious cats

cunning clarinets
chase
clever clouds...

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I am me 
Who said this? 
So is my body 
An invaded custody 
Occupied by her 
Thoughts and memories 
Two sided glossaries 
Not a reflection is mine 
That would determine 
My own identity 
Out of my sanctity 

I may be a string 
Of any cacophonous Sitar 
Where she creates 
On my wounds 
Riot of sounds 
Without bounds...

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Nothing to say
do beyond robotic routines
…beyond eluding erosion

Something to say
do beyond repetitive rituals
…beyond evading entropy

Nowhere to go
hide behind cacophonous clowns
…behind vehement vaudevillians

Somewhere to go
hurtle beyond comedic ciphers
…beyond vindictive vipers

Nothing
Something
Nowhere 
Somewhere…
is
Everywhere...

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two-legged ants dart
around & through
a holographic city
overcome by
  an illusion of order
overwhelmed by
  a terrestrial constellation 
  under cacophonous con(de)struction

six-legged ants dutifully
transport breadcrumbs to tiny 
chasms in the mottled dirt
where cool dark silence 
briefly mollifies
  a holographic planet
  under careless (de)construction...

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The fluidity of strings, the rain harp ~
tears of joy and sadness spill, from incense
prayers of cacophonous clouds, clapping loud.
Sweet cherub fingers plink, spot on and sharp.

Wings whisk away the doldrums, banish doubts.
Tenderly, the raindrop symphony, lifts
the spirits of the drenched fallen earthlings.
The lilting psalm of living water spouts.

6/14/2018...

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Fate, love, and coffee
turned into substitutable
with reminiscences,
Striving to be free from
cacophonous relics gifted
by your poisonous love
will my violaceous lyrics
mend my wounds, I urge you
a hundredfold of which you
allow no response,
I hold a bleeding soul, but you spurn
degrading you detects me though,
however, we can still endure any spell....

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So I used incorrect terminology.
Are you saying that is not proper vocabulary?
I was not accustomed to such occupational nomenclature.
I used the term “nail job” instead of “manicure”.
My question was followed by cacophonous laughter.
“Typical man” was the verbal response that came after.
Well, in all of my journeys and trails,
I usually don’t have work done on my nails.
...

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Confused by the cacophonous voices in my head,
Reason has been replaced with paranoia.
Alarmed by my self-destructive tendencies I am restrained,
Zipped into a strait-jacket of my own making.
Yielding to the voices clamor, I surrender myself to insanity.

9/2/13
For Andrea's 5 Letter Word acrostic contest

(This is a work of fiction! I don't hear voices and I
am not self-destructive. Just so you know)...

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Drowned in thoughts cacophonous trill
Deaf to conscience, we’ve become ill
How then may dark voids within fill
If we know not how to be still

To make easy ascent uphill
Ego cravings we need to kill
But silence is an acquired skill
For which we must surrender will

Dew drops within heart overspill
If we choose to take a chill pill
Love draws us back for a refill
That our life mission we fulfil...

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The cacophonous din of troubled minds,
intrudes rudely into our sacred space 
and momentarily tranquil eye blinds,
although we soon recover, by God’s grace,
choosing to release the toxic embrace.
Perhaps the immersion is but a test,
brought forth by the universe in light jest
but be that as it may, we soon restore
vibrance of presence, which is by God blessed,
for we ride the boat, He Himself does oar....

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In the sunken hollow a gray mass 
addles
A silhouette of swaying muskets 
shadows
Braying horses the silent vigil 
rattles
A curdling breeze across feted 
expanse prattles

The stilled pageant concludes with 
the order, "charge"
From sheltering tree line, a 
disheveled mass doth barge
A shrieking, cacophonous chorus 
christens the onslaught
Menacing octave wafts;
Union, tidal waves to 
distraught...

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Clear undulating waves play tag
with an omnipresent seashore;
each recurring breaker burbles
sounds from an ancient beginning
ebbing back to its salty self
with rhythmic perpetuity.
Subtle unvoiced fricative sounds
echo from sandy, shallow shoals
awash with vacant tiny shells
that once dwelled in this saline soup.
Gray and white gulls hover above
receding breakers scavenging
them opportunistically
in a cacophonous frenzy....

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beings of the grind
grind through
catastrophic time
[[[!*&$%!!!!!!!!!!!%$&*!]]]

beings of the grind
groan in
cacophonous slime
#@!////////???????\\\\\\\\!@#

beings of the grind
grovel in
contorted grime
|?$#!-!#$?|

beings of the grind
gallop into
convoluted crime
|?$#!-!#$?|

&
kick
contentious cans
down the road
of raging
rabbit holes
(((??::::::::::::::::??)))
...

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I pray in a crescendo, a wound unwound,
softly moving ‘round in the sound
found vibrating inside of me;
a variation, a fusion,
a euphony to black
adversity as a requiem
unbound would be –

the stress of chains,
cacophonous then melodious,
black to black then onto a deceptive
cadence with an end-note tremulous,

a nocturne played under stars
with a tempo easily bent
toward the present perfect tense
in a chord seared by sweet lament –...

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