Short Craven Poems

amid silent bells
craven cacophony
Poe-less ravens

John G. Lawless
©7/25/2018...

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Craven Cockroach

Cockroach ugliness, unfair
Nukes cannot kill you
While mere heartbreak buries me...

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Quiz 12)- He'd probably like Wes Craven.

Quiz 11)-Maybe he's a member of Sgt. Pepper's Band

Quiz 13)-Strange eyes he never denies....

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Too craven to take his own advice,
he stumbled over time

A distant echo of what he proclaimed
—an alien unrhymed 

(Dreamsleep: March, 2020)...

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Halloween - Senryu

Death stands in silence
chaperone to innocence
craven beggary


©10/18/2017

submitted to – Halloween Senryu – Poetry contest...

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A raven, so craven;
a bit like a raisen. 
Once sweet, now sour
with no source of power.
He stumbles and grumbles;
puking his guts. 

Oh man what a drunk... 
I better get home....

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Contemptibly craven 
Oratory obfuscates
Never nuanced
Gerrymandering guile
Readily reacts to roaring rabble
Egregiously expects economic encouragement 
Smug, self-righteous and self- serving
Slippery sounding sound bites...

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Books are
Good company
A rainy day's refuge
Filled with the brave bold and craven
Landscapes and seascapes imbued with drama
A blithe jaunt with a thousand laughs
A blissful excursion
My best of friends
Books are

7/31/22...

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To speak the words of famous lore
He backs away forevermore
For he’s afraid to quote the words
He dares not say them, “Never more”

So timid, he, he trembles true
Though black as night, his heart is blue
He dare not draw attentions light
To hide in shade, he means to do...

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Rod Humphries was raging
As Keir Starmer came staging
You covid conniver!
Such lies lit this pyre'
Neath the sign of the Raven
He inferred of Keir coward craven'
Undeterred by a minder
He barred the sidewinder
Now more are wiser
We await a decider'

©Joe Maverick 22-4-2021...

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Transylvania twilight's, blue blood bridal box....
Nightwing sorcerers gathering at, her ravens dark 
Pond crimson silhouettes his dagger pleads; of butterfly 
Witches their ouija board breeds ? Spirits, this material world
Craven kings entombed these, conqueror worms: Love's, red rabbits....

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To wallow in a hollow,
Strategical defence...
From fear of being eaten-
Suspense can be immense.

To wallow in a hollow-
Does not mean that one is craven.
For every living thing-
Needs a safe haven.

So wallow in a hollow,
T'is wise to seek disguise.
For it's nearly dinner time and
On you there's hungry eyes!...

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A path fraught with fear
    craven cowardice
  trembling, dissembling unsettling

  Hovering high above the highest hill
    beyond Imagination's borders
  Out of reach, out of touch, unaligned

   Hope's lost highway hesitant
     arriving ahead of time
   illusions intricate, impotent
     'Home' - why do we delay...

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Oh, beautiful for racist lies,
And Amber Heard on trial,
For TikTok fueled insanity
While twerking Gangnam style.
Ambivalent dichotomies
Now shred my faith in thee.
And guns are good, 
Not brotherhood.
It’s plain for all to see.
We are free to achieve 
Our American dream
In the land of the craven,
The home of the AR-15....

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Black the raven’s wing appears
Poised for somber flight,
Black the craven soul who hears
Demons in the night.

Black the rose a witch has kissed,
Black its withered frame,
Yet the man-made devil-mist
Puts the rose to shame.

Be the magic what it will
Black as chimney stack
None so black but blacker still:
Armaggedon-black....

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Let's turn odd to even
By binding count of seven 
Hold the soul of eleven 
Let's make it heaven 

Let's embrace the blaze of oven
The glaze in the manner of solemn
Go go- getter from the craven
Let's make it heaven

Let's make the mash proven
Continue as radiantly woven
Etch the amour, was graven 
Let's make it heaven...
.....

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Let´s meet the happy-go-lucky man;
full-blooded,
neither craven nor valiant,
taking life as it comes with a touch of indifferent air,
good-humored, easy-going,
careless and not jealous.
Just It wouldn´t be bad to beam him a bit of mundane grandeur to be a perfect partner.

If it was not because...
We are actually referring  to a dummy...

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Punctured psyches leak their essence out,
Seized by fear, diminished by the lees;
Courage, perforated by the brain’s fool doubt,
Unreservoired, cascades towards Death’s black seas.

Dyke your valor, dam your pooled-up will!
Panic breaches sea-walls in your heart.
Brave the craven ocean’s salty chill
Till cowardice recedes, its tides depart....

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Oh the sham and serious shake,
  Earthen crust erases land.
Upset moon mourns its men.
Uplift of craven shore and ben.
  O the Winter its downer tanned.

Of creature great and downy lost,
  The surgeon’s fissure quite abrupt.
The baby’s tears from the bright sun -
Befallen stars say it is done.
   The crude ovalis corrupt.
   
2/5/2020...

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Christopher Black: with his big back-pack.
Liam Short; ironically he was.
Aiden Craven: his names almost matched
Simon Pal - and he was a pal!
Stuart Grove; didn't know him much
Matthew Huss; he sat on the opposite side to us
Adam Ponder, who used to wonder,
Terry King, the class-clown
Eddy Wilkinson, the deputy clown 
Should all be friends for life......

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Cloudy sky hovers with thick humidity
Finches and jays are seeking a haven
Against the summer weather’s perfidy
Seems the sun threatens ever fervidly
While the small critters scrounge avidly
Heat provoking them to be more craven
A cloudy sky hovers over thick humidity
Finches and jays are seeking a haven. 

Written July 25, 2022...

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out on the porch
listening to nature
does the owl hoot Sara?  

From the book entitled "I Heard the Owl Call My Name"
By Margaret Craven
Kwakiatl native American tribe's belief
when death is imminent that the Owl 
calls one's name..

Sponsor: Richard Lamoureux
Contest: Questionku
Last line a question..
I bet you were not expecting this......

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The Pillar Falls
the pillar, an act of craftsmanship
solid, festooned and decorated
beautifully designed and plated,
its each brick hooked and slated,
stood as proud attraction in the chapel.
then, aged with seasons and weathers
craven, cracked and dilapidated
dreadfully deserted and haunted,
its each edge blunt, surface perforated,
fell into a pile of shapeless rubble...

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An impression can at times last a lifetime
Where time fails, it is etched in memory 
To flicker and perish among my unlit wicks
The darkness tempts me to strike a match
I dearth to start a fire to burn away my past
However, you are a craven light switch
For someone to divert my attention
And guide me to the glory, I rightly merit
That's where it belongs.

Writing...

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A new genus of poetry I shall pen
that shows the splendors of life,death, and rebirth,
the heart breaking hardships that challenge us all.
Where the Gods were born, there were born the titans,
the giants larger than us which we must duel,
for craven it is to fight those weaker than us,
but much glory in becoming giant slayers,
after the example of Thor the mighty,
who fells the thurses with his hammer Mjolnir....

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