Short Callously Poems

Space seems motionless
but for those who know the truth,
it shimmers, yearning for love.

Hearts callously squashed,
rise from mists assuring us,
injuries are forgiven....

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New York Is Struggling

New York now struggles with reality,
After learning about another fatality;
Were sadden by;
Wiped eyes dry,
And each death was done so callously.

Jim Horn...

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Murder at the Prom

Frankie Lyman shrilled his falsetto.
Gwendolyn Gould danced in stilettos.
So callously smothered,
they never recovered.
Poor little piggies, scrunched little toes.

©Kathryn McLoughlin Collins
March 11, 2012...

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The last drops of a drink
    crumbs of cake on a plate
  The olive in the martini
    lone blueberry left to fate

  Shan't we save them for posterity
    morsels and sips to treasure ~
  Or rather down them callously
    for the slightest second's pleasure...

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In walking the road 
We are too worried about pot holes 
In every twist and turn we are looked anxious
But the thorns we keep  
Within us the bad seeds we grow  
Are callously overlooked 
In the garden the way we clean weeds  
With the same intensity and urgency 
We need them to be removed....

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Unwanted, forced from my mother's womb;
cold, this table where I am lying.
Just one of the aborted millions . . .
does no one care that I am dying?

People wait for my breathing to cease,
callously turning to walk away;
those who should be giving loving care
are extending blood stained hands for pay.

Copyright, August 24, 2015
Faye Lanham Gibson...

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Inspecting emptied views 
Of my tulip glass
The ambience skews
A surreal warping
Turned callously crass
Words lose edge
In distractions gum-up
Jaded rebellion
Heart says give up
I laugh
As another cork erupts
Languages absence 
Would thwart the corrupt 
Still the drunkards sing 
Voices echoed to space
Bellowing ballads 
Is man's natural grace...

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Callously torn in fragile shreds,
I sheepishly snuggle in cozy threads.

Succinctly laced, the cactus leans -
Hope nestled amidst it's thorned scenes. 

To bittersweet melodies, in trance, 
A medley plays, with puppets dance. 

Every errand, a gallop in the meadows wide, 
Yet petals of mahogany dews reside. 

Am I still alive, or lost in posthumous hues?
A sombre ballet, unfolding in view....

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The essence of humanity,
Oh, so delicately frail
As gossamer silk wings
On arid August winds
This unkempt structure
Capable of fierce vivacity 
And yet somehow…
So effortlessly fractured
By a heartfelt whim

Hopes once worth effort
Strewn about sidewalks
Life’s weathered stones
Abandoned and waning
Callously kicked aside
And then somehow…
Rain washed to the shore
To be pulled away once more
By the evening tides...

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Callously discarding,

talismans of heart and soul,

hastily scorching all bridges,

in a supernova burying me whole,

retreating into emptiness,

no salvation to be found,

sins too many to absolve,

drowning, in a freshly
dug hole in the cold ground.

Hollow, empty, barren desolation closes in,

asphyxiating me,

within the walls of my dismal room,

sinking into the abyss,

disappearing, fading, lost forever,

inside an emotionless,

vacuum...

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Silence whispers
Softly murmuring out
Sweet essence breezes
That sighs through your hair
And susurrates the saplings

Taciturn memories
Moment of yesterdays…
Hushed hopes of tomorrow
Fragile reticent promises…
A phantom spectacle

Forever unattainable
Remote and distant
These frivolous voices
Softly murmuring out
Sweet essence breezes

Lost aspirations
Callously blown caveats…
Gently muted choices
Easy and idle thoughts…
Silence whispers...

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callously the world had split
two hemispheres disconnected
scalps and war chests decorated
glamorous uniforms 
heaving with medals
speechless arithmetic 
spacious troops on the map

her mind severed in pain
corporeal numbness leaking
from a crashed skull bone
squirting brain matter
and lost hope

displaced she roamed the ruins
her only salvation that
shrapnel had formed
a lacuna of blood
where semblance of
left right and wrong
now withered in vain...

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I hate to see a plate of wasted food
uneaten stuff thrown callously away
no care for hunger and starving lot
delicious delicacies left to decay.

An ocean of undernourished children
skinny bones, wait for a morsel of toast.
Scrapping leftovers in  drains and bins,
Superpowers or frankenstein ghosts?

I hate to see a plate of wasted food,
My only appeal, is this what we  should? 




29th May 2019
Sponsor	Kevin Shaw
Contest Name: It really gets me going...

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Written by Gail DeBole on January 26, 2013

Whiskers and wisdom all in one. 
Generously and gently protecting us.
Every grandchild thought they were your favorite.
You in your long johns at night.
Joking during the day like Groucho Marx.
Sleeping in your favorite chair.
Smoking smelly cigars that callously killed you.
And yet I treasure one of the boxes left from those smelly cigars.

The farm was not the same without you.
We were not the same without you.
I was too young to know....

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Hearing subversive, oft-hand remark,
Callously spreading rumor on a lark.
Silhouette of angst o'er mind parks.
Deceitful soul's vast refuge a bulwark,
keeping mind's sentient eye in the dark,
Still short-sighted vision veils a quark,
But to dry, subliminal tinder won't hark.
Fueled consciences' flint strikes spark,
Fanning winds o'er tender psyche arc.
Singeing flame peels soul's, dense bark;
Contrasting light to mind painfully stark




quark: elementary particles having electric charges...

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(This is a fictional poem)

You destroyed my life when you raped and killed my daughter.
Now you're on death row and you're going to be slaughtered.
You took the only thing in my life that mattered.
I'm glad they're going to fry you, you bastard!
When the sun rises, I don't even want to get out of bed.
I'm miserable and I'm falling apart because she's dead.
You broke into our home and callously killed her with a knife.
I just want you to know that I'll hate you for the rest of my life....

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