Short Clawing Poems

Clawing at the edge
Pushing my set boundary
To be limitless...

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The darkness angered
The shadows of the house wail
Clawing at tenants...

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pussy galore it
seems these damn cats keep clawing
at my old screen door...

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Dancing down my spine.
Stealing all my sleep, it is.
Clawing at my soul....

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She's sixteen years old
and clawing at the door,
"Help, I can't get out of myself."...

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Dog
sitting, watching
Scratching,clawing,window
Anxious to be outside
           clawing...

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Lost Youth

pulsing memories
clawing beyond youth's veil
harvesting regrets

deborah burch©
07/12/2012...

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Kittens,
Multi-colored,
Purring, dancing, clawing,
Drinking milk from its mother's nipples
Felines....

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Life clawing at 
Life… fragmented-
Wounded universe

Global heart bleeds 
Seeps into dry 
Riverbeds-
Sleep...

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lined the rubble
stained and smiling

i staggered in
the low dark tide

clawing the rocks
hunting for morning...

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clawing for freedom
to express how much
i love you



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on November 28, 2021...

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Smoky walls, proliferate
an impregnable thought
a lustful journey, lingering
fingers clawing at remnants
of secrets; 
shimmering in the shadows, memory....

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Sky-to-land flashes,
                             Bright boughs clawing through blackness,
                                         Nude tree dives headfirst....

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Death.
Dark, longing.
Crying, sufficating, screaming.
Grasping hands tight on ones throat.
Clawing, choking, bleeding.
Blank, heartless.
Gone.

-Kallie Mason...

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The black cat kept following this man
Who covered him with a bag of black sand
After clawing his way out
He stood there and pout
Then planned his revenge firsthand...

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I am a poet 
Turning the ones i’ve loved and lost into poetry
Hoping i will come to understand 
What was and what is
Hoping to heal the hurt I have sitting inside me 
Clawing at my very heart...

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Birman clouds gathered
To bury the top
Clawing their way down
to the dale below
White and grey cloaking
Short and sharp showers 
Bitingly icy
Enveloping all
Felinely smothered
Now invisible...

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Need a break from my brain
from the demons clawing 
on locked doors.
My depression is like a sinking
ship on still waters, 
calm before the storm
Wanting to break free from 
This smile I've built...

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Stuck in traffic, the impossible 
stream, people stuck in cars 
clawing at freedom, the 
money-hungry American 
Dream, arms and legs escape 
out the window, reaching for 
clouds and dust. Can't dig it....

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Running from the beast inside 
Wanting to fly away & hide 
From the monster lurking deep inside 
Panting, clawing, burning from the inside 
Needing to release the darkness that resides 
That is the beast....

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During Sermon No One Seemed Inspired

During sermon no one seemed inspired,
Were almost sleeping while being tired;
Hemming and hawing;
Pawing and clawing,
And up congregation finally was fired.

Jim Horn...

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Branches clawing at the sky
Leaves from their tips so high

Sturdy brown bark
Riddled with stories in their marks

Roots buried so deep
Waiting for water to seep

Lapping up rain
Wanting more, all the same...

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Nails
Tool box
Where’s the hammer?
They take a good pounding.
Nails

Nails
Women speak
A good salon
Painted, polished, and glossed.
Nails

Nails
Lone tool
My worst nightmare
Clawing out of coffin
Nails...

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Bearings lost, just like that, dark---can't see
  
  Tide's pulse doth quicken...

    Moorings unpinned, in a flash---at sea

Reaching / stretching / clawing / panic-stricken 

   Tide's pulse doth quicken......

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I was clawing at the cost. 

Breathing in monster’s breath on me is lost. 

I had lost my abilities in my sleep. 

But I earned something new to keep. 

Sympathy lives in me in knots. 

In my blood, sympathy clots....

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