Short Crackled Poems

Crackled leaves and vines,
Plants tangled, flowers dead,
The forest was ill...

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We combed bushes
for dirge singing birds
foliage crackled 
 crickets feigned death
 retired broken shell...

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The crackled chandelier,
Lies under the staircase now-
No tender repair exists for it’s careful amber glass....

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Stabbed subterranean with a feudal dart
Crackled, corroded and combusted on every part
Heart is the only part left apart....

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flaming fire crackled
ranging venom of cruel souls
thousands of hope dashed
burning ember raised its hands
the world united in grief...

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The campfire crackled
As old friends tackled
The problems of the day

The problems weren’t solved
But everyone involved
Felt they had melted away...

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A remnant of light
crackled in my solitude.
The disdain of departure
bare my soul...
an atrocious silence
accomplished his intent
by perennial shade
in our love!...

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Herb
In glass
Window sill
Oregano
Spice


Dead
Crackled
Brown curled leaves
Completely dry
Passed

Sick
Woman
In the home
Can not water
Green...

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Energy crackled, it danced in your heart
Start shackled, a pony show to start
Always heckled, danger to the part
Inside freckled, riddled with bad art
Unleashed, cackled, daggers to your heart
Freedom, tackled, killed you with mine...

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As the sun filters through branches
Brown crackled blooms exposed
No longer hidden by bright blossoms
Which spring had just transposed

The sunlight's angle is now changed
Revealing hidden parts
Only the dross is bad_ grotesque
Secrets deep in one's heart   ...

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These stone eyes devour
chiselled by the empty rain
buffed by the dust of histories remnants
Touching life with crackled fingertips
The portent unformed smile
that labours at the stone hearts
that drift forever by
Punished wings that mock
at feet unmoved
Pass me with your time
Unfelt this obelisk heart of mine...

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Did anyone say vegan 
oh you mean Meagan 
No she died ears ago 
eating a pulpit 
wat !!! she ate wood chips !!!
Yes Mima ,her intestinal tract 
blew up like a big balloon, splintered and crackled
her cel phone gave her miiginites ringatitus  
what a turd,... stay away from dah freakin' cel phone
or you'll wind up limp,  like a piece of lettuce...

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Here from the womb of a grave rose a carcass 
Stabbed subterranean with a feudal dart
Crackled, corroded and combusted on every part
Heart seems to be sizzled and left apart.

All mighty above started crying in the clouds 
Tears geared up the grimness and went gloomy 
Smiles sacrificed their superiority, 
saluted that venerated veteran of aspiring life....

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Its shape was humanish
sounds and gestures could convince
the similarities could confuse
but echoes travelled through
slight was less than before
could have been so more
but nothing at its core
still it filled the space
the paper Mache puppet
twists and turns
bends and breaks
crackled and crinkled
looking in the dead doll eyes
nothing in here
no surprise...

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The flames
leaped and laughed
and licked at my skin.

And yet you didn’t save me.

The house
crumbled and crackled
and around me caved in.

And yet you didn’t save me.

Unclean!
Unclean! you cried
and watched the ashes spin.

Now it’s too late to save me. 



In response to “A Short History of Judaic Thought in the Twentieth Century” by Linda 
Pastan...

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He threw at her the black of night
And then the fire of day
Roared as of a hurricane
With avalanching speed

She crackled as a lightning bolt
Within a thunderstorm
And then unleashed – in torrents
The cyclones of her wrath –

With violence they wrestled long
And raged the heaving seas
Hurled the stone of Sisyphus
At Scylla and Charybdis

And in the tempest, tooth and blood
Together bested love –...

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Clouds swirling, bird circling
The Heavens rumbled, heaved a sigh
Ventured forth a lad, he bore no Cross
Through angry streets, refuse-tossed

Flies buzzed 'round him, fetid friends
Night air crackled, 'neath ammunition's lens
The lad strained hearts for a crust or crumb
Hope lay dormant, her voice struck dumb...

Bled dry, they covered him, face down in a gutter
War's verdict sealed, its unutterable utter...

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Sweet escape into the mountians 

Forever high the top of the earth
 
Vilently snowing atop vally's below 
 
Sweet escape into the ocean
 
Raging waters 

The coral reef
 
Never ending
 
Beneath the sea
 
Sweet escape into the forest
 
Bark on trees marry magically 

Filled with smells of pine and oak
 
Deep between the crackled ground
 
Sweet escape into the jungle
 
This is my backyard play ground...

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The sun persuaded the earth to move

and slip, 
                slip, 
                       slip from her summer groove

as we climbed to the top of the autumn trees

and swayed with the sway of the orange breeze

He held in his hand a bouquet of leaves

all crackled in crimson he gave them to me

      Their scent lingers still on nostalgia's page

               for I laid them to rest,  as the season's sage......

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The Manzanita clacks in 
gelid breezes
like the clap of clacking bones. 

Reddish painted branches 
reach their grey, bent shadows 
on stone from

hulking, brewing
drifting welkins.

Peeling, crackled, weathered 
bark 

grasp,  grind and intertwine
gnarled fingers as they rasp and clonk.

Silhouetted by the yawning flame  
dipping low, 

dances the macabre branches, 
on a stage glacial white with 
winter snow....

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addded a d as i please
mispelt misspelt
carrried an extra r
mispronounsed mispronounced
elongated should be longer
shrinks don't reduce the poem
they just show you what you didn't know
in every dictionary its always spelled incorrectly
drew your eyes to a drawing drawn of dawn dawning
the parts of light split are so pretty
will i tell you something
something whispered low
the crackled cackle of smirk
the taste of apple candy wrapped...

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She simply stared at him for a moment
                              Long corridor
                       Dust and abandonment
                      New resolve in her eyes
                            The fire crackled
                               Human skull
          Her eyes rolled back and saw nothing ever again
                       The faceless was walking
                      All was right with the world
                                    ****...

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We have walked together in the Australian desert at sundown
And we saw the nestling eagles in the trees settle down
When the blazing sun boiled the distant air of the horizon
We travelled towards this mirage on the bitumen run

On sparkling white sands and a cobalt blue sea
I have raced my love into the cool waters with me
At night under a chandelier of twinkling stars bright
We have laid together as the campfire crackled with delight.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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Stalks crackled
where cars threaded the slow-burn.
Straw, insect legs and fumes
got into the lungs of trucks,
made them talk backwards
like the devil on Sundays.

Long dead farmers leave their tractors,
run across the highway
into abandoned barns.
Eventually the fire ate itself.
Hay wisps 
floated away into forgetfulness.

No one burns the stubble now,
but the smoke can be seen
moving still under the corn 
where the devil sullenly forks over 
long-blackened reeks....

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Steady in the arch of an old oak tree,
Where limbs have crackled and fallen,
Lives the North Star, saying “hello” to me,
As I wander and watch the night.
There seem to be stars circling around you,
But they roar with the motors of planes,
And I imagine their tired weary passengers,
Sleeping, dozing, longing for their destination.  
You meet me each night on my walk,
Though sometimes hidden by a passing cloud.

You remind me of that Holy Star,
And Hope blinks down from above....

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