Short Chip Away Poems

Resting bitch stink eye
Ice picks that chip away pride
Well I hate you more!!!...

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wheelbarrows of grief
chip away, shred scars, spread wide
nurture renewal
...

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With chisels, carvers
Chip away bits and pieces
Sinewy fibre;
What emerges from the wood
Is the essence of its soul....

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Image in my mind

Who is it that I can be

Chip away future.

 


(January 16, 2011  Wausau, Wisconsin)

 
(c) Copyright 2011 by Christine A Kysely, All Rights Reserved...

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Smooth voice; and rolling tongue with words like the fog.
Sweet melody caresses my ears, 
Every time her lip whispers a tune.
It’s old,
It’s new but so good.
O sweet Melody wont you sing for me once more,
And chip away at this heart that is as black as night....

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This is all in my head, I'm merely dreaming, eternally dead

They say the dead can't dream, I say bullshit! We may be buried but we retain our heads 

Stop time and start over again, don't worry, we'll follow through; we'll do it the same

We'll build empires and fight as we perpetually chip away at the human reign...

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Sledge hammers breaking
Through the invisible walls
Holding me hostage

Chip away the pain
Moving toward releasing
The bricks and mortar

Where is my power?
My strength is dissipating
My resolve so weak

Needing to move on
Two heavy feet are throbbing
My balance is off

Summoning courage
I swing wildly back and forth
Expecting a change...

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though seasons come and go 
like defrosted ice and snow 

i stay blinded by the sun 
because my head is never hung

no wasted water no salted tears 
not a wasted heart nor wasted years 

the sculpture is already there all we have 
to do is chip away at the unwanted pieces 

and with every chip of a broken mold 
a vision of the truth increases...

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You were the rock
Of the family 
You held us together
And kept us strong
You were like a lion
When you roared
Everybody listened
An stood at attention
That’s how powerful
You were
But father time
Begin to chip away
At the rock
Who begins to crack
Into small pieces
Chipping and chipping 
Away at you until
You turn into dust
That flew away with
The wind...

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Love Today...God Is...

What once was...was...
what is...it is...
what is to be...will be,

We can't take 
pieces of yesterday
and trowel together today...
nor chip away pieces of today
and fit together stones of tomorrow,

We must know 
each day is its own now...
won out of its own,

God is...can never be was...
will always be now...today:
thus is His love...is He...today....

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I am just water
But I surround you
I help you float away
I can easily drown you
In my subtle ways
I will chip away your heart of stone
I will give you comfort
When you feel all alone
I will rush onto the sands
To try and tempt you in
And I will try to take hold of you
But you will never give in
My intentions are never cruel
But my will is strong and true
I'm just water, but you need me
And I dear friend, need you....

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Saturn
I will paint your name in lunar blue all over my bedroom wall just to chip away at it until my nails are gone.
I will burn dead stars into my skin with your favorite brand of cigarette until I feel something.
I will soak up the moonlight until I shine even half as bright as you do.

And I will get your favorite planet tattooed on my back to remind myself that everything beautiful is always out of my reach.

April 2, 2019...

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By her prose a palace built;
Dioclesian, marble-carved.
Every verb sinks to the hilt
And settles there, trailing silt

And I chip away grammar,
With us in museum-lull;
Statuesque, sans what glamour
Was burst by the sledgehammer

Of Distance (Your best defence),
In cautious doubting tiny taps
Around the surface. Nouns tense,
Tasting such salt-permanence.

I dust your indelibly-
Sung radiant cadences
(Me still now in minor key).
Ever monumental - She....

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I miss you old friend,
gone but for a year.
You were always so sure
that math and fractals were
the secret.

I was not so sure but
your surety gave me something
to hang onto, critique and
chip away at.

Both acknowledged seekers with
never an argument between us,
we often reached different conclusions
from the same facts, and
concurrence from the differences!

Now our conversation is one sided
and I have no one to bounce off of.
Is it the same where you are?...

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when wind blows a gale 
leaves pushed pulled tempest tossed
I see life fleetingly aloft and 
gone in gasp and gust

when clocks chime and chip away at time
inevitable and intangibly present
it’s the fool’s errand to be angry at an hour

when cars zip like bullets
when plugs crackle into life
when scissors snap too close to skin
when fragile chick plummets from nest

death darts ahead of life 
a promiscuous predator circling 

circling even as you say you’re leaving...

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the 20th hour awaits 
and she is crying
because she is still fragile 
like a expressionless china doll
the paint is starting to chip away
and she can't believe that she is
still in the same place as before
She is still looking at that closed
door hoping for more
ding goes the bell 
and its to late to run
the girl is most saddened 
by the fact that she 
is going to bring the same 
problems into 09.
The ones she thought would 
be gone by now are still
lingering in the shadows....

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