Short Chafed Poems

my chafed wrists are sore
odors rise up from the floor...
Cell mate starts to snore...

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The knocking continued
until knuckles chafed

footsteps...
...heart leaps

both fade    out...

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Rudolph Valentino could feel
A new woman in every reel
Santa's reindeer
Is not a steer!
A chafed nose is just a raw deal!...

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We are boxes of matches,
Some crammed with chances,
Some rattle th last few,
Some too chafed to spark a new flame,
Some crumbled with th rain,

My last matchstick,
I want to strike it for you....

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Here's one for Patricia, my friend from up north
My hooha is just aching to ride there on a horse
Need ointment in case
My bum gets chafed
Wearing a camisole should ease the pain that's in store...

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How chafed the foot bereft of sole,
when unshod thoughts meet splintered floor.
Known terra firma drifts from whole, 
as reason loses sight of shore.

03 Mar 2020 
First four lines of "Unmoored - God Knows Where I Am" written 29 May 2017. Gregory R. Barden's Rithimus Divisa 2 Poetry Contest...

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I hear the loosened bark 
nestled and chafed beneath 

the whispers of dark sultry 
sweet brown maple pouring 

from within the silent rings 
of where life began forming 

a solid equator around 
the greek body of my wretched 

soul covered in white cloth 
awaiting your docile subtle arrival...

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Its quest is over.
Life's. Wholesome-faced.
At this drop off point, a world's
Sea-washed. Effaced.

Shackled by which search, a slave's
Profitless, for coin
Proved it, toward more and more
Becoming joy-rich
Now breathing freer, will ditch
What for too long chafed
Of self deceit, to the winds.
Sharpest thought-cleansing...

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A lovely face with a gorgeous height,
Nibbles the straw with its bemused delight,
Chafed palpitation in bewilderment,
Ticks disaster reeking of harassment;

Look away and miss those voluptuous joints,
Fine lingerie upsets the veiled data points,
Tattoo figures in barbarian flanks,
Badgered innocence and I muse for ranks.

In her feline moves watch for the gait;
Never burn fingers when you see her bait....

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To My  Friend Ira


 

You must forget

that we had bad luck!

We chafed our own wounds.

Inhale Spring!

Be happy

in spite of troubles,

because Winter

has finished for us.

Quickly buy a bouquet of snowdrops,

and at your home, prepare

a few different flavors of ice cream,

sprinkle them with raisins!

Ah! What a dessert!

It is medicine

for depression and trouble!

Enjoy!...

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too many in this room
open the window so I can breath
it's time for me to go
watch me pack and leave

the message that is clear
I can't embrace it all
written in lover's script
flowing across the wall

I need to find the key
to release me from this chain
the skin that now is chafed
a mark that causes pain

close the door behind you
don't even leave a crack
let me slip away
instead of pulling me back...

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The tight-rope of salvation
Is a straining, wire-taut strand
You inch along on foot-chafed trepidation
Defying Satan’s law of gravitation,
God’s balance-pole inside your hand.

Below, the audience is cheering,
Your equipoise of faith precludes all fearing—
Your toes assert their knowing, nimble grasp.
The platform, once so far, now’s nearing.
Step upon it! Crowd gives out a gasp—
Satan curses with a hoarse and rueful rasp....

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The tight-rope of salvation
Is a straining, wire-taut strand
You inch along on foot-chafed trepidation
Defying Satan’s law of gravitation,
God’s balance-pole inside your hand.

Below, the audience is cheering,
Your equipoise of faith precludes all fearing—
Your toes assert their knowing, nimble grasp.
The platform, once so far, now’s nearing.
Step upon it! Crowd gives out a gasp—
Satan curses with a hoarse and rueful rasp....

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The tight-rope of salvation
Is a straining, wire-taut strand
You inch along on foot-chafed trepidation
Defying Satan’s law of gravitation,
God’s balance-pole inside your hand.

Below, the audience is cheering,
Your equipoise of faith precludes all fearing—
Your toes assert their knowing, nimble grasp.
The platform, once so far, now’s nearing.
Step upon it! Crowd gives out a gasp—
Satan curses with a hoarse and rueful rasp....

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The redwoods’ fairy ring, wall in a family secret
Only, not all roots dig as deep…
Parched, some shrivel, loosening the circlet

Shush….the tallest ones whisper steep
Elegance alas, the needy ones, have lost…
Chafed, bitter barks scatter cones they can’t keep

Raging fires sear heartwood of dearest cost
Enduring burns gape trunk-wide scars…
The remnant wall shrinks tauter, visible as vapored frost


(10/2/20: '87 Tiara 3600 Convertible; DMS)...

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Brusque the evening tide had dawned


As music roared across the scene


A billow of zeal subtly spawned


Forlorn a spirit quite so keen



Chafed be our bodies swayed in tune


Carefree the night swept us away


From our skins perspired monsoons


Whilst new passion sauntered astray



Mouth to mouth revelations speak


To the cadence our hearts detoured


Across the sky sunrise had streaked


Lovestruck we both remained unsure...

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Our minds like leaves 
Fall in brown and gold 
Flickered green light 
Before winds changed the old 
Peel of skin 
To dry lignin. 
Thoughts sloughed and chafed 
To hold a name in the safe 
Crutch of a swaying branch; 
The proper term 
For things in the discourse of disciplines 
Or a shifting season 
That make the deep sap 
Flows sluggish, and stop 
The loquacious tongue. 
Youth is past. 
Memory is a leaf 
It turns in the Fall. 
Gravity touches everything with grief....

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you enter into my innermost calmness
chafed naught a crawling grapevine 
and speared mustered seeds I'd beckoned 
your tenderness your infamous timely 
sorted kisses morbidly missed over time 
driving over gravel searching for hidden 
scents of blushing rosebuds that catered 
to my senses why I'd explored your shyness 
that emptied my kindness beyond a darkened 
cave a sinking floor causing me to blush 
beneath the mauve sky hidden 
along Baghdad's humble shoreline...

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