Short Cringing Poems

election fears
icy beers soothe
old ears cringing...

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fawns flops, flatters folds,
cringing cowers to comply
sycophant lackey...

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peach skin with wrinkles
turning white with cancer
cringing knuckle pain...

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cringing in fear
dreading the day
then surviving it



posted on August 26, 2018...

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Cringing in pain
Ruining my day 
Absolutely awful 
Moaning 
PMS
Snap its that time again....

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Nothing's worse than a needle in your eye
Cringing is unavoidable as I try not to cry
Open them up
Wish you luck
It won't hurt a bit, well at least you won't die...

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Eh, pal what are your chances of winning?
Ah, you could have banked all this saving
for an early retirement...
to cherish that sentiment!
When you're completely broke, start cringing!...

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Ah...
bemused,
bountiful,
belligerents. 
Covering caskets,
cocooning, cringing cracks
doubting, desolate, dodgers; 
forever fishing, finding fist,
that will always swim before they hit....

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when i'm feeling
like i'm falling
my wings
fell off

when i'm cringing
as i'm crawling
on all fours
on the floor

trying to find 
that fake 
make 
shift

halo 
that i lost
when it lost
it's luminosity...

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His believers 
were seen leaving
their earthly bodies;
then He turned to go.

Others marked intransigent,
never desiring more than
their own fragile beauty,
were left here indelibly
cringing in shame
to die among their own....

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Still as a whisper
Small as a mouse
Creeping and cringing
in a large house
Screams echo daily
Cries in the night
Deaf eyes turn blindly
Away from the sight
Who then will listen
Who then will hear
The cries of the children
Echoing tears...

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All is black;
and you cry as 
darkness
overwhelms you
cringing all alone
in the dark;
helpless,
confused and
frightened.
Do not weep,
I'm your friend;
let me strike a match
and set your doubts and fears
free;
as we share its light. ...

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Prickly green crow with fuzzy eyes crept into the meadow last night
Purple thistles cringed when they saw who it was, they knew him.
He was notorious for swallowing their buds and shoots in gulps.
Does he have a name? A cringing wildflower asked. Scared shootless....

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So inviting of the scratchings on the wall
Hang gliding fingernails scraping you can hear the noise
Screeching and crunching
Cringing face smudging ears popping
Consciousness wondering when will it be stopping
Porous walls
Scratching itching claws...

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My loss, not to notice
With whom coexist I.
My shame, not to think twice
On these fellow creatures
With their cringing natures.

Looked down of their maker
And my accuser-God!
In that tread space, number
Invites too night's lone view.
Love's rued; Life's in review....

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She was kind
Who hummed beside my bed
Who sanctioned every whim
     of feverish thought
     racing through my head.
She nursed me
Through cringing hours
Grasping every fleeting strength
I was too weak
     to hear her
     speak a prayer
Yet I know that she was always there....

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the sheer notion of extorted kindness 
buried beneath a sorrowful note 

of racketeering compassion 
above a silent whisper throughout 

the queerness of being wise beyond 
a tarnished silver spoon of tangible 

lessons shattered throughout 
blind faith cringing for life after death...

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Another slow snail day of healing  
Carefully I walk and breathe 
Hoping soon I'll feel better  as the 
Electric pillow warms my aching back 

 Bulbous pain that I cannot restrain 
Amasses and attacks my lower back 
Cringing I sit as straight and can be
Kenneled with discomfort and ache...

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9/24/12


Cringing
Letting the comatose spill
Absent of rational thought
Scared into confusement
Scarred
Malevolent darkness
In the bleeding whiteness of vision
Unseen incision
Cutting into the heart of it all
Cult
Crushing under lies thereof
Spilling deceit and death
I will never forget this mess...

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Reflection

Staggering out of the maze
his mind still swaggers
Mustering up his wit
he shored up his faith
Sulking his present state
he craves this cringing hope
Bemoaning the looming darkness 
he detest this fate 
Yearning for a reprieve
he is caught 
napping on the trail 


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female collaborator,
passionate romantic lover,
despicable and unforgivable traitor
or cringing victim of horrendous war-rape
they know not.

shave her head
in a grotesque ceremony 
of humiliation
they do
nevertheless.

such are the ways of the human,
despicable morally 
in group
as she is....

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Winds whip and whistle
past bark of branches bare
collar-cringing cold
winter's whipsaw wares

Frozen faces, fingers
tingling, trembling toes
shivers, shakes, sunken eyes
signal endless woes

A-howling and a-knocking
the nasty night unnerves
the gentle dreams of lovers
nestled in their curves...

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Do you feel safe
Or just feel such a waif
Cringing and afraid
Of another escapade 
To react or find
A resolution in time

Will you stand up to it
Finding a place to fit
Does it wrench you
Taking part of your heart too
And how will you return
After your stomach does a double turn.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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cringing
beaten
slumped over
nightmares 
of revenge --
STRANGLE him
hug mother
for dear life!-- 
startling awake
nauseous
sweaty
woodpecker foot
relentlessly taps
not my fault
don't hit me...
dinner table food
spasming 
mangled by 
screams, curses
roars its way
back up
undigested
will I die first...

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The pain of night, where my heart cries
Into the darkness my eyes wander
The pain of night, of being alone
Is oh so real any given night.
The pain of night, how the silence tortures me
My soul, cringing when the lights go out
Oh the pain of night…
Why do we frolic so?
Pain of night… can’t wait til tomorrow!
3-5-15...

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