Short Corrugated Poems

Needs dry cleaner
With electric iron
To make it pretty...

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(An Addingham Poem)

quivering breeze coax
ripples across the surface
corrugated clouds

© Harry J Horsman 2020...

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It's unleavened bread
served at Passover seders
symbolic of haste.
Square-shaped and corrugated
it looks like a big cracker.
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I'm getting old,
I have a suspicion.
How do I know?
Corrugated skin
and sunspots

of road map
composition.
If multi colored
would paint
a rainbow....

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Truly named Acme

We fed cardboard sheets
into a machine in steady flow

corrugated boxes the result
boxes to be filled with wares
endless capitalism perpetuated...

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aisles of antiques
corrugated with named streets -
cups, saucers and book bindings
…stomach’s churning. i’m paying,
booking with dog-eared treasures.

7/27/2021...

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Sparkle beautiful sun
Corrugated ripple mountains run
 Violent blue skies embrace 
The pearl white sky in tangent winds
 Blows from east to west 
Bright lights dispersed the shadows crest
Translucent emeril horizontal vision quest
Somber viewed hue, such an embossed view

10/16/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2023...

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You are a partner in time
(You are not the victim. You are the director.)
Moving along the corrugated line.
We must live in the heavens
(Love is everything.)
As the inner compass becomes your entire world.
But then there goes the cannonball.
(Oh, how you watch you move as cannonball!)
The mighty dense thought, 
The fatal blow
Rushing along 
The corrugated line....

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Please strike
the piñata
i have made for you
out of the  stripes of paper
and the glue,

In  the midnight hour
i have labored long
on this plump pig
of collaged letters.
with  corrugated metaphors
Sightless Find the weakest point.

let that guide 
your hand
the transparent rose
cellophane
wrapped candy
shall flow
in libation of sound
pour down
like a quirky rainstorm
bouncing 
like silver
coins
on the sidewalk
of your mind....

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You are now standing 
at epicenter 
of violence.
It was an original trauma
for unknowables.

You intend to stride
straight through frozen limbs
cuddling the statement in love
with  slaughter.
The alveoli will speak
for corrugated windows.

Going nowhere from here 
to find the answers for fallen truths.
I have not understood
the concept of lying nude
in terror.

Musical chairs
will decide.
Who wins the bomb ?



Satish Verma...

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He was a raised hand,
Striking down his past. 

Delivering sutures 
To each of the futures 
He touched.

Braying of donkeys 
Echoing in his background.

A passing cloud, 
Thundering loud 

Smatterings of thought, 
Like intermittent rain 
On corrugated tin.

Ridges of grey matter 
Rising, then falling 

To the beat 
Of felonious assault 
,
Hard, soft meeting

Life, entering death 
Arm in arm, 

With rage....

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I grew up in a one roomed shack
a king size Coca-Cola space
crammed like Marlboro cigars in a pack
a place I ran to for defense
my home which some see as a plight
where my family had to find the right way
it was my bedroom at night
my mother's pantry by day
a lounge where my dad like a doc upon a cadaver dissected
The Star while his kids goggled at Luxor television
I grew up in a shack protected
by corrugated irons walls of a mansion...

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The horror of it
Fear that is ingrained in me
I saw a dire man
Wanting to take out my eyes
So that he may see again

The terror I felt
Even as I did wake up
Pain enveloped me
Corrugated through my soul
I had never felt this way

Fear instilled in me
As I checked my eyes again
They’re still there I see
I hope to never feel that
Never see terror again

Russell Sivey

Entrant into Leonora Galinta's "Waking up" contest

11/22/2012...

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Inside this temple made of brick and clay 
the many shades of your heart 
are the prisms of my soul 
Pinioned and shackled to your fires  
we are vaulted by our own desires 
two lovers breathing as one

Outside this prison of hell stands my nemesis
buried behind its boulders I am decaying 
like a rotting apple de-pitted then discarded 
Bitwise assaults to my soul,  
I summon courage and finally break out 
of this ridged corrugated pas-a-deux. 
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Would not stay put with tether cut,
would leave its corrugated hut
to feed on berries and the nut ;
all mackintosh with string waist,
split boot on the open road,
worn leather from the tarmac's goad,
lover of the aimless fork
and the wayward milestone ;
drawn on by life, surpassing
as the sky-line constantly recedes,
supine in a fungal dell,
high on cloudless night,
receiving there through venal wires
tomorrow's bearing from the stars.

(From mysticseed)...

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Completed desire to like delight:
Corporate classified diligence prism pilot life;
Corrugated formed indulgence;
Wondering sold bought reverent;
~
Darkened patches lights;
On your night tried strife;
Such is the way plight;
Garnish seen eyesight;
~
Delighted life indulgence reverent;
Lit lighted strife eyesight plight;



10/30/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr  2023...

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