Short Cavernous Poems

stalactites are
pure inner  cry of the earth
 in cavernous tears...

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Wandering into
Mist-shrouded, cavernous rooms.
Gliding past ghostly
  Mirrors. Choking on Pages
  Of a Faded Existence....

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Delving down deep into the inkwell of our cavernous hearts

A cascade of colors crisply careen out creating a crescendo 

To fill the blank canvas awaiting us all on the easel of life...

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the cavernous universe
holds the truth if you
get used to talking
to yourself but
say and think
that it is
some
one

else
other
than a
repetition
of your own
simply saying
HELLO HELLo
HELlo HEllo Hell...

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wispy green tendrils
flicker & frolic
  in sunny
  capricious breezes

a brief glimpse of peace 
a brief glimpse of harmony
a brief glimpse of life...
  
beyond 
a
suffocating
cavernous
c
a
g
e...

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Topsy-turvey and
Not releasing is
This discourse. 

Stale, no - 
Seeping into a 
Cavernous mixture that
Overwhelms the Self. 

Sensing immortality.
An impossible reality. 

Dragging my feet
into puddles of
deaths lost
and pains remembered....

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Death is a monster 
With a thousand arms 
A thousand legs 
A million eyes 
A huge cavernous mouth 
Filled with black broken teeth,
Death is a monster. 


            W.A CHOLT. Copyright Fergal O Reilly 2019.

             22/3/22...

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Your empty song resonating through the cavernous room
Loss and despair: a constant left behind
Pain dripping from the darkness, destroying all shields
A forgotten emotion lifeless in the corner
The overbearing blackness out shadowing the light...

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Existent justification
denial exceeds reason

egotistical and maniacal

golden tongue 
forked intellect 

controlling and powerless

higher self 
potential serenity
 
eden slumber 
conscious oblivion

mortal, healing, cavernous
self...

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  Neither in the cavernous cathedral
    nor in the minister’s glittering vestments

  But in the anguish of the widow
    the outstretched hand of the beggar

  The loneliness of the orphan ~ There
    you will find it, if that is what you truly seek
...

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howling void of whistling hail
uninterrupted tempest 
ears filled with reeds and cavernous sound
the melodious echo of empty eternity 
spring out that void a hand
of demon or angel 
black, white or red
to pluck out what last thought of comfort
and leave the husk forgotten...

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Ginnels are cavernous and gloomy
Between smoke-stained dwellings
Under the close watch of a warship
Where the flowers of beauty bloom
abundantly available
Ugliness is merely apparent
With the likelihood of being subjugated

Written: November 17, 2022...

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introspection into the heart 
dig deep down within the
concaved cavernous 
crevices of the caves 
of the untapped mountainous
emotional holes that are 
scattered through out the 
surface that are yet to be 
explored by the mind's eye
in fear of causing an emotional 
rockslide...

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My heart is a bright canary
Chirping with delight
At the suite kisses you blew
And when I descended into
In your cavernous mind
I shuddered and sputtered
In the dark corners
Your noxious words
Left my heart gasping for
Air at the bottom of
My rib cage
Bleeding
Dread
Canary red...

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Cavernous abyss;
Unending waters;
Your silent secrets
Span earth’s width and breadth.
You are Neptune’s realm.

Poseidon’s seas,
They twist and curl;
In caverns deep;
Strange souls at play.

You harbor
Unknown realms
Fantasies.

I ride
Your great

Waves.
...

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In the cavernous mind
a thought becomes
redundant.
You go straight for a snakeroot.

A flat cluster of white flowers
spurs a stigma
at the white moon
for floating rumors.

This was my native pain
of brilliant tapestry.
The threads had a weaver’s knot
of rare beliefs.


Satish Verma...

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For ever, I heard the cavernous rumblings
The truce, the battle, to find , to choose
My misty pathway, unknown, indefinite
Yes, the tattooed carvings , I see
On the tree of my life, crystal clear
The spur, the muse, the magic wand
Blessing me to stride, the course
To scribble, the unvoiced stories...

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In this very deep dark place
Where all my secrets dwell
I’ve gathered many memories
Some which I’ll never tell

Memories of love long lost
Memories of hope
Memories of yesterday
And things with which to cope

Always adding something
More and more each day
To this cavernous, deep, dark place
Always locked away...

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Hush
hear the stillness in the waters
the calm and steady to and fro
the ripple-less canvas
that delivers life to our door.

Clear and cavernous
bliss is found in it’s depths
toes dipped in, cooling
in summer’s relentless heat.

Teaming with adventure
dates chronicled in the flow
silence deafening, suppressing
newness found in attention
Hush....

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A sordid smile
    a crooked frown
  invisible bile
    a tattered gown
  
  Different color elbows
    cavernous armpits
  Unflavored saliva and spit

  A blistering waistline
    curious shoulders
  A cratered mind
    rocks and boulders

  Checklist never-ending
    no suitors pending
  Resolve never-bending
    all offers final ~ depending...

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Charlie consumed countless calories
chomping Christmas cake
chocolate
cookies 
candies
chewy caramels
cherry cheesecake
consequently 
Charlie complained of
cavernous cavities
and cramped constricting chino’s
Charlie can’t control continuous Christmas chomping!

Alliteration Poetry Contest

Sponsored by Eve Roper

12/11/20...

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Time and distance blinks
in a fit of frustration
static turbulence
retards reception of
your explanation

your sun rises as mine rests
against stunted horizons
purple, yellow bruising of
unexpected allegations

take your fair measure of worth
of what belongs to me
I care not for possessions
that bind me to cavernous delusions

of what I once believed...

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An angel splayed under the sheets
Saturated in slaughter 
Wings plucked to the supernatural skeleton
Halo devastated; shards of fading light
Drowned in deep red

A demon curled under the bed
Ensconced in laughter
Forked tongue slithered through murder lathered fangs
A raging fire scorching the wicked asylum encrusted beneath ghostly flesh
Sunken in my own cavernous evil soul...

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“She is black and white,”
she is my wintry queen-angel.
She inhabits the icy cold cavernous spaces
in my mind. She feeds me Turkish delights.
She drives her dogsled through my heart at midnight,
her expression frigid, her eyes like piercing icicles
Her wolves howling with every crack of the whip.
She is crazy. She is awesome. She is evil.
SHE IS MY ABOMINABLE
SNOW MISTRESS...

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A wee lad, tresses from a day's play tousled
  Squinted up at a cavernous sky to find
Where the moon and stars were twinkling tonight
  Mapping out bears and lions in his pint-size mind

Time's passed, he now employs a telescope
  His stellar scientific maps delivering hope
Of discoveries to change the way grown men think
  ~ Yet to a wee lad's curiosity will they be linked...

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