Short Chalky Poems

winter coats frost fleece
snowy ivory chalky mounds
cast blank white canvas...

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The first small steps
Upon the stones of freedom
Taste sharp and chalky:
Like medicine, undissolved....

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Chalky causes
Covered radiant, red eyes
Sore and fractured from
A blow to the chest
Leaving only
A beaten heart
That beats no more...

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Bones
Pale, chalky
Hating, stalking, gripping
Skull, skeleton, Jack-O-Lantern, candle
Humbling, pleasing, comforting
Orange, hollow
Pumpkin

Russell Sivey...

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The cult of the bone 
the bone
the bone
Chalky and porous and white
as a stone
crushed in a cauldron
in flames in a fire
brewed as a potion
to cure my desire.

Inspired by Anthony Slauson...

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chalky white stars shine in a dead sky
shadowed clouds roll by
stars still shine
unseen by the human eye,
hours come and go
the sun travels up high
stars still shine
made invisible by a daylight lie...

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A stone; a grey stone,
Cut roughly square
Neither rough nor smooth
Chunky but nothing sharp
Damp
Cold
Covered in a thin film of chalky brown clay
Turning 
Floating 
Alone in a dark space.

© Barry Freeman – June 2019...

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O' dirty water
a terrible chocolate runs
at the perfect stone
~
dull dirty water
stands before ready chalky 
because of the mud
~
no longer runs clean
sits up murky and blacken
no longer perfect 

3/6/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2020©...

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Night sky: lifeless, dull, chalky gray 

Apathetic expressions face one way 

Eyelids heavy, long day 

Foggy windows, potholed roads 

Warm breaths exhaled, the seats are cold 

Zombied stares at blinding screens 

Infinite autopilot, we're all machines...

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These chalky bones
A brittle breath
and all in life that is complex
A turning point 
of monument
When ideas burn their thoughts to death
A settled sight
A twitching limb
A hand which looks so frail and thin
My mother's face
has been replaced
By sickness with no consequence....

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Meadows swaying with fresh plant life
Cliffs stand chalky surround the valley
Deep within it breaths heaven
Habitants there within caves
Ladies of hair scarfs and long dresses
Men with strong structure and charisma
Whispering winds of imagination leaves
Farmiliarising myself to the re-occurring dream...

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The death,
             it's a pack of bones,
             chalky crumbly...
            Life is light at speed...
            In this passage, we drop
            here, the meat burden,
            and we conduct only
             The spirit...
             To perform the final trip...
             crucial is to accept
             and  live it... !...

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Chalky Snowy Winter dawn - A Haiku

snowy winter dawn
for a prepared, fine chalk skips
whilst watching the box

color white flows down
the powdery chalky mix
blankets the ground white

snowing chalky white
flakes of glistening dew drops
color white flows down







1/29/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2020©...

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Dreams stolen
By an illness
With no compassion
With no heart or soul

A chalky pill
A weapon against the madness
That lives to destroy
The brilliance that lives inside us

A bitter illusion
Our bodies free to roam the world
While our minds are locked away
Prisonsers of this frightening journey
Inside this manic depressive existence
That we call home...

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I descended
Depths pulling 
Ropes tightened
Swelling water
Chalky crimson
Pricks of loose twine
Slivers in my ear
Jabbing 
Hard.
Red.
Flesh.
Strangling inside.

I collapsed
Head cocked back
Throat asphyxiated 
Veins flooded
Liberated
Weaving in a downward 
Spiral of hopelessness
Sustained vertigo 
Aborted birthright
Chumming across the 
Ocean floor...

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Sitting in the bowl a bit chalky 
colored story telling candy;
Timeless messages sent melt hearts;

Romance lives within these hearts,
updated verse but still written chalky;
Lovers still trade flowers and candy;

Sweet on you, lips taste like candy;
Sugar buzz from fluttering hearts, 
after taste leaves my mouth chalky;

An old tradition of chalky candy hearts....

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Beechwoods,downland and common heath,
Chalky soil inches beneath;
Trees,jostling tall,
Leaf,yellow-brown in Autumn,fall;
Fallow deer feed at dawn and dusk,
Treading flat the beechnut husk;
Open heath,sandy soiled,
Whence commoners once toiled;
Roedeer,muntjac proliferate
As Nature reverts and liberates;
Winding brooks and narrow streams,
In mingled,muddled childhood dreams....

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THE TEACHER AND THE FOUNDLING


Dirty raw face
Lost in a vicious
Dog-eat-dog world ,
His tears washed rivulets
Into my chalky hand .

Dissolving into
My soft inner soul ,
He sensed mother
And clung to the skirts
Of my conscience.

My  home’s warm respite ,
Another world of gentle feeling ;
Before the return to darkness
And bruised cold fingers
In beer bottle bedrooms ....

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Once I was an artist
I painted in the sky,
the rainbows and the sunsets
but they never seemed to dry.
  Once I was a poet I wrote
in chalky hues,
I wrote of love and raindrops
in purples,reds and blues
  Once I was a player
I strode from town to town
singing songs and acting
we traveled all around.
  Now my soul is empty
there's nothing more to do
and I have nothing left to leave ,
no heritage for you....

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inspired by nature contest theme

Beechwoods,downland and common heath,
Chalky soil inches beneath;
Trees,jostling tall,
Leaf,yellow-brown in Autumn,fall;
Fallow deer feed at dawn and dusk,
Treading flat the beechnut husk;
Open heath,sandy soiled,
Whence commoners once toiled;
Roedeer,muntjac proliferate
As Nature reverts and liberates;
Winding brooks and narrow streams,
In mingled,muddled childhood dreams....

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re-post inspired by Constance contest

Beechwoods,downland and common heath,
Chalky soil inches beneath;
Trees,jostling tall,
Leaf,yellow-brown in Autumn,fall;
Fallow deer feed at dawn and dusk,
Treading flat the beechnut husk;
Open heath,sandy soiled,
Whence commoners once toiled;
Roedeer,muntjac proliferate
As Nature reverts and liberates;
Winding brooks and narrow streams,
In mingled,muddled childhood dreams....

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Soft rain had blurred the lines
Softened the edges
Frizzed the sharpness
Of artistic angst

Smiles drooped,
fingers grew thinner,
somehow reaching out.

The eyes caught the raindrops
Blinked them into dappled blues
Noses spread in humor's humidity
Glasses sliding from their tips

They would all leave
Float away on a
Chalky rainbow river

Leaving us to wonder
Where do they go?


John G. Lawless
©7/17/2023...

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Two young zombies met for a midnight tryst.

Miss Zombie claimed that she'd never been kissed!

As the mellow moon caressed her chalky face,

Mister Zombie was quite taken by her grace!

He whispered sweet nothings in her ear.

She said, "My love, that's what I like to hear!"

All was going swell 'til he whispered, "And moreover,

My honey dear, you look like death warmed over!"

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
(c) All Rights Reserved...

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God’s Heart

I sat outside feeling terribly low
until, a heart-shaped patch went by,
amidst a blanket of cloudy calico.

I pondered what this message meant,
winds threw limbs off trees
as a heavenly cloud mass leaves.

White against cerulean sky
a love heart shape appears again
this time chalky, alone – a Friend.
				
Whether cloudy, or clear, His love is here, 
remember God’s sign from above,
when he sent an olive branch by dove....

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beechwoods downland 
           common heath
chalky soil 
      inches beneath

trees 
      jostling tall
leaf,yellow-brown 
          in Autumn fall

fallow deer feed 
    at dawn and dusk
 treading flat 
        the beechnut husk

roedeer muntjac proliferate
where Nature reverts 
                  & liberates

colours tint our view
         daylight
so soon out of sight
            
 waves goodbye

      all  creatures exhale

a sigh...

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