Short Chambered Poems

Chambered secrets are 
better kept hidden from world 
then fall in wrong hands...

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My thousand footprints,
mar the Earth's surface 
Precious blueprint
I carry in my
chambered heart....

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My four chambered heart wants you
Make up, your capital mind babe,
For I'm begging u
'Cause your lips are a medication.

#TmTs...

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LOVE ...

Is a many-chambered prison
That we go to willingly ...

And our sentences are dispatched
By those we trust ...

With the keys....

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The feathery dusky violets,
Of a purplish vaulted sky royal,
Tickles the genteel soles of twilights,
It wakes to a bluing chambered hall,
Whilst ups a blanched dress as white stars sprawl...

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Like a turtle,
I carry my house on my back.
Like a bird,
I carry my home on my back.
The shell, the sky 
And for me 
Chambered mankind,
With me always.
Walk turtle
Fly bird
Wake Man...

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This
Ornate
Fine silver
Gathering dust.
Hands splayed, overlaid
With golden promises
Caught in persuading rings.
Blood diamond among crystals,
Unsullied with obligations and
Laying in your four chambered treasure chest...

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I puffed out a soft cold cloud
In these long chambered empty rooms
As my hand held washcloth to brow 
Over me, your sickness looms
Hot breath toasted my fingers
Now heaving up dead fireflies
The anger still lingers
My fever induced by your lies...

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In wonder, count the petals of a flower
Be amazed, probe a chambered nautilus.
Walk backwards out of Fibonacci's Spiral
Into eternal embrace with enlightenment.


From Walking Into Enlightenment
Gregory R Barden's Contest  10/25/20
Liberum Divisa 2...

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Nautilus, chambered. 
Mathematics? Not really. 
By nature only. 

Smells more like…
Ah…normal distribution
(Of golden spirals). 

You could look it up. 
FIBONACCI? Not really. 
Logarithmic coil?

Not exactly. Else
One or the other would fit. 
Only nature fits....

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DIG

Dig with spade and a soulful heart,
Destiny’s soil chambered beneath.
Dust chalice canvas, questing art —
Dovelike Wings of lily bequeath.

Dig deep into the chasm of love —
Desired silty handfuls, free of
Debris, a blessed ruddy start.*

6/5/2018
Joseph May’s Pleiades Contest
*blessed with 2 syllables...

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Home, they say, does quicken beating hearts,
yet mine protests as I prepare to go.
Chambered rooms, stretched endless miles apart,
strain the pump and cause the blood to slow.
Precious thoughts of her upon my chest
stoke the fires and help the embers burn;
Vivian, may thy sweet days be blessed
Till in a month I’m able to return....

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A chambered shell 
with each a secret Lie. 
Memory dwells spiraling 
down deep and only the Infinity 
knows what is kept in each. 
A secret that lies 
dreaming 
kept in its chambers coil.
This heart is where eons 
of mysteries dwell. 
This cosmic design 
plays a part in the Grand 
Scheme of Creations mind.
A lost art.
Nautilus...

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I sense them calling through my chest.
Their counsel in my head.
Through thin winds shining shellfish light
I'm shown the way in red.

Their dead sound calmly drawing down
a crescent chambered brood.
As isolation fills me sad
with scars a park has strewed.

That everywhere I think I can
I'll look where more should be.
And everywhere I hope I can
accept that 13th tree....

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Through arid nights 
They fire their gun
But do not see 
my war is done

the years of blood 
have stained my skin
and chambered death
inside a grin

I have born my soul
To no applause 
And washed up on 
A thousand shores 

When the blasts denote 
That death is near
And the mists of dream 
Are all but clear 

As voices fade 
Behind the sun
Then all shall see
My war is done
...

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It began in the innocent spring of life

This of which, never did share

Spent summer of youth

… One in blanket gaze

While, she of long reaching, __ mystic stare

Now stirs autumn winds

Whispers of twice-cried tears

Two stories tell, each welling deep

The chambered nautilus of harbored fear

Maybe forever, shared song of winter’s discontent

Yet strings play on

As purveyed souls, soon greet seasons, never meant...

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where chambered feelings once were kept
levied love that now breaks through
overflowing and forming a pool
in the depths of my soul

where thoughts and dreams from my heart are swept
from an accordion folder in my mind's depths
memories painted on blue sky canvass
without a cloud in sight

where love flows inward over sandy shores
gregariously, we allow for more
a Crescent moon shines from above
a blanket of stars to catch my fall...

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"If a clown don't make you laugh, that's because you're an adult from Mars," ... by The Poet

'Tis magical youth-phemism plays its part,
and subtle measures of bliss-phemism chart,

a suite chambered core harmonized whose heart,
discovers a treasured keepsake impart,

photogenic instants a kid's jump start,
when purposed failure is a work of art,

amidst submerging laughter comes apart,
until the clown blasts, "Kids you're a sweetheart!"...

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Oh, to preach, to pontificate
Seize the “bully” pulpit
Bask in the reverberations
Of your own voice
Mock the sanctity of silence

To expound on the simplicity
Of the impossibly attainable
Berate the questioners
Expound on humility
In stained glass superiority

To infiltrate the openness
Of childlike minds
Inculcate the innocence
With tainted seed

Oh, rave on
You echo-chambered ego
Your bellicose denials
Deny their truth

John G. Lawless
©6/27/2023...

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the house shines bright, it takes every light

sleep refuses to dream, a reverie extreme

the plan to outsmart, a shot in the dark

trigger for a steel mention, the spelling of my name

directed to a lead core, dead center to each letter

primed for flight, a jacket of lead dares our right

a ripping force of violent heat, to rupture complete

rendered lethal for the take down, a fatal round

chambered by a sniper, posted at heaven’s door



Terry D'Arcy-Ryan...

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Below indigenous herds of species’
Soft stampeded tramplings,
Profound caves water rivers underground.

Roots grow their nether forests
Down to a shadow fathom depth of earth.
Tendrils leaf out only tuber leaves of dirt.

Flooded backs of charcoal catacombs
Snake like water moccasins through
Aquifers to rise disguised as springs and wells.

Here there is a bargeman who 
For pennies holding eyelids down
Will help you to forget

Vaguely chambered 
Urges of the heart....

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The strumming of these strings

A mesmerizing melody

Beginning to sing....

Taking me within this journey

Of these unencumbered loves

While the keys of pretty play

Note by note....

Upon this brighten stage

Falling upon my heart

Within this unconditional soul

As the winds begin their verse

Removed, from the chambered curse

Higher and higher....

A symphony sounds

Now Rising, before my eyes!

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           ~ The Opera ~...

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