Short Carbonated Poems

Early morning mist
caught by smoke 
through carbonated thached roofs...

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Up on the mountain
Clouds swirl below like opening
A carbonated drink...

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bubbly pond cheerful and carefree
peace tranquility
sparkles lively one by one
carbonated effervescence
animated for youthful fun in the summer
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VERLENA S. WALKER
PENNED ON JUNE 19, 2014!...

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Carbonated popsicle prose
Oh it glows with fun
Sudsy taste bud delighted
Splashing wonder wheel
Frizzles on the fountain tongue

A message to the stomach it sends
Fuzzy feelings and warm midnights
A toasty surprise in the storm
Keep it close my friend...

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my mind is all
chitter chatter
body propelled
pitter patter
compelled to
touch the sky.
i cannot tell
but i cannot lie-
still, carbonated
breath, the will
of life; the promise
of death. i know
i am here, i know
you are too, but
we're surrounded
it's crowded &
my heart-
achoo....

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is short-lived.
Deep.
Like a crypt
yet coherently-linked
with your windblown hair
strewn with rubberclips poly-carbonated.

Candid.
As a sneeze 
yet non-allergenic.

On its last seconds,
its supremacy 
situated along the alleys of lashes
tightly-knit my lips
as if all-perceiving:

blunt 
as a snore

yet

casual 
as a yawn

etched 
on heart's core.

Be that as it may
as i hang endured
for its sequel......

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Sarsaparilla sneezes
Soda wishes blowing bees
past their lemon flower love
swish of air beneath their wings
Carbonated moments
When the lights pop on in minds
Blown to breathing labored breaths
bubble waxed until it shines
Tantamount to flying
Air to breath and stings to bees
whooshing past what might have been
to break emotion on the breeze
Pollinated lucid
Sleepily immerse the buzz
lighting carbonated wings
inflated to this flying love....

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Inhospitable stares;

Invisible slickness;

Incandescent beauty

In glacial scenes so fair!

Immense chill on a breeze!

Imbibing an *Icee -

Instant, intense brain-freeze!


Feb. 24, 2017 for Kim Merryman's I Pleiades Poetry Contest

* An Icee (or slurpee) is a frozen carbonated drink. If consumed
too quickly it sometimes feels like you get a short horrible headache
we call brain freeze!...

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flying through a dream
try to grab what's real
it all just spins away
exploding in clouds of confusion
doomed to search the endless voids
never finding what I seek
feel the screams coursing through me
all of those tears left unshed
carbonated emotions
bouncing down a flight of stairs
tighten the cap on my sanity
could this be reality
wake me up from this dream 
if only it was just a nightmare
whispers from nowhere
they're speaking without a sound...

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the pressure builds
the burden
too much to bear
pulsing
groaning
cracking

'show me the door!'
one needle versus reality

that beautiful zero kelvin vacancy
erupts 
following 
the synthetic carbonated haze
as the earth
fizzles out

these colours 
these sounds
drowning it all
drowning me
'show me the door!'
one needle versus reality

but it's there
you're here
the further you run
the closer you come
this trickery devours you
one more time

r'thomas '10...

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