Short Char Poems

in the land of char
the war rages on,i can
it spends me up,but........

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Shards of ice
Stuck in throat
Burning sideways
Bitter char
Need to speak
Nothing rises...

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once a char maid Cinderella
had hard time finding a fella
	she crashed a party
	thought herself smarty 
outplayed Anastasia and Drizella...

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Simmer ember tiny star
Supernova from a far
Azure wave through the void
Shattering marbles like glass toys
Simmer ember tiny star
Supernova all to char 

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Char Chawani Five Athani hathoray pay,
Meri behan DOWN Bhai kay Loday pay..
SuSU has been Done.
Motar has been Done.
Peshab has been Done.
Note.BUs karo PATHAN....

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albino
bread
catches
tanning
rays

gentle
warmth
embraces

hot
hotter
besieging
heat

smoke
pollutes
kitchen
air

vitality
incinerated
no
bread
only
char...

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From my window morning arrives;

Bringing a flashed ray of sunrise

Along with gold lilies

And pearl-like carnations.

Darting out, I gasp heavily

Fiery beams of heat char my skin.



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Between The Legs
Hen Lay Eggs
Morning Noon Evening Night
Guru ghantal flying kite
Char dafa hud hud
Itwar peer mangal budh
Pak pavitr shudh ambud.
Note.We can't make an omelet from egg without breaking and shaking it....

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Birds fled from the sky
Cinder of clouds dry for rain --
The lightning forks night

The landscape is bare
The water recedes to deep -
Tsunami rises

The earth belches smoke
Thundering hooves char the leaves -
Volcano erupts....

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The story of life is brief,
Like that of a shooting star.
Brilliance flames as autumn leaf
On tree before winter's char.
Then fading in the distance,
It burns itself to dust;
Extinquished from existence,
Its brevity unjust....

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Bones hiss,
embers char,
flaming tongues 
lap heat.

Concepts coil
around my
burning mind.

septolet-

7 lines, 14 words, 2 stanzas ( 4 plus three or three plus 4) , delivering an image,
concept, idea in short, creative form...

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Here I am again,
A forgotten friend. 
Wishing I could be
Important to you,
As you were to me.

Now you love him...
Life's paradigm 
is shriveling,
blackened to char.

You are there,
He, with you.
I am lost.

Missing.
Wishing.

Gone....

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Our love still burns within
Great fire char black our bones
Enrage of inferno
Our hearts cannot contain
Blistering jealous pain

For blasts of passion's sin
Whose heat melt solid stones
Eruption's lava flow
Til quenching of the rain
Reveal our bodies slain...

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Char, his new wife
was a deadringer for his old wife
a woman he divorced when he met Char
she would not be accepted by his children
or his friends
or his parents
he and Char had one fine year together
and five horrible ones
before he discovered a younger deadringer named Maisy....

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HOH TELL NO VEMBER GOLF

al fah
  row me oh
you nee form
    eck oh
ecks ray

in dee ah
   see airrah
wiss key
yang key
    zoo loo

foks trot
mike
    tang oh
oss cah
     jew lee ett

pah pah
vik tah
char lee

keh beck
  lee mah
dell tah


        bra voh !

well said

...

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I will try and hide the
mushroom cloud and restore
the skinless bodies, I will
un-char the charred, reassemble 
the dead children, I will then
un-vitrify the rocks and the sand and
rebuild cities and cafes and hope; 

undoing your atrocities is high
on my list, just
leave me enough milk
for morning


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Artists work the hardest
Trying to start this
Its where the heart is
Being modest, don't know what the cost is
Should I toss this?
Or should I char this?
Reach for the farthest
It's a star quest
In the starkness
Bringing light from the darkness
You might wanna hark this
Before the spark is
Completely thoughtless...

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Water

Necessary
Relief
Quenching
Beautiful
Raging
Destructive
Terrible
Still
Necessary.
 
Air

Necessary
Cool
Breath
Warm
Hot
Humid
Stuffy
Dry
Cold
Necessary.

Fire

Necessary
Warmth
Heat
Cook
Toast
Burn
Char
Necessary.


Earth

Firm
Safe
Soft
Solid
Cracked
Gaping
Gone
Necessary....

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I've always been a simple man
But all  of that is long before
I found her name is Mary Ann
And she reads poems by the shore

I have written poems galore -
I'll write a sonnet in the sand
Then she will see down in my core
That I am a renaissance man


1-17-20
Contest:Oh-No A Twisted Char-Lay 
Sponsor: Charles Messina...

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World Brought From Afar

Wherever I am, the world comes to me.
I speak not of cyberspace but from connections much older than we.
Through the air I breathe with dust perchance from Nepal;
Water from oceans, as snow or rain from clouds it will fall;
Food in particular, even arctic char;
All these bring me the world naturally from afar....

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The city lights of neon flash
 To dull sounds of the traffic flow
 Upon the sidewalks footsteps crash
 As people bustle to and fro

 A city that never moves slow
 For time is money, in cold cash
 Getting caught in its neon glow
  They seem to be in a mad dash

 1-27-2020
 Oh-No A Twisted Char-Lay Poetry Contest
 Sponsor: Charles Messina...

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June 21, 2025

For the Beatles 'Lay it to Me' song Contest by Charles Messina


The old iron curtain came down
But soon a clown reclaimed the crown
Ruthless and hollow-souled he rose
Now a foul Soviet wind blows
From the east it battered Ukraine
Spreading such cruel and endless pain
The past returns in blackened char
“Back in the U.S.S.R.”
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In twilight hours I find my peace.
Day’s obligations have been met.
It’s time to find my soul’s release
while over hills sun starts to set.

Life’s trials will go on, and yet
with meditation, worries cease.
The balm of calm I wish to get
while seeing heaven turn cerise.

Jan. 23, 2020 for charles messina's Oh-No A Twisted Char-Lay Poetry Contest...

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The sun above us in the sky
provides for life on earth each day.
It’s like a big hot apple pie
that shines a slice of warmth our way.

We thank God for each streaming ray
that awakens the morning eye.
In sleep, in work, in rest and play
the smiling old sun passes by.

2/5/20

Oh-No A Twisted Char-Lay Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: charles messina...

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On paths of frozen ice and snow
With bitter cold air all around
I just seek to know, where to go
To make it work with what I found

To walk quiet, without a sound
Of cracking ice and things I know
Snow piled in burdens by the pound
Waiting for harmonious flow

1/21/20

Entry for Oh-no A Twisted Char-Lay Poetry Contest.  Sponsor:  Charles Messina...

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