Short Crippling Poems

trust
loyalty
betrayal
twisted crippling
spin



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

posted on March 9, 2019...

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The mouth opens 
the tongue lashes 
crippling loved ones 
friends

inferiority despises opinion 

we defend...

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Detritus alleyway
A destitute
Blinkered soul
Regurgitating
Crippling, clichéd
Thoughts grounded 
With a loaded  tongue....

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Primitive mentalities corrupt laws and nations
Destroying hopes and anticipations
Crippling future jubulations
Ushering in our devastation...

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Crippling fear
When I won't hear
A word could heal
My endless hell

Removing smear
I would swear
A heart could swell
Beyond its shell...

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A young star athlete in Tokyo
Was born with crippling polio
He overcame the stress
By swimming his best
He now has gold in his portfolio. 

written July 24, 2021...

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Punitively regressive are 'Progressives'
Defunding charter schools 
Crippling the academically aggressive

Denying school choice
to gifted students
from poor families ~
               without a voice...

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Mike's bike had broken down on the street
grassy ground supplied him slipping greet
songs and bonnie girl
smile stroked cutie pearl
crippling waist ran with torn cloths to creek


-July 31, 2018 Chattogram...

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Grand father said, " Aye! come here, here bean!" 
Grand child- smiling toothless and peeing 
stretching old wabbles 
crippling child bubbles 
One for another powerless twin!


-September 23, 2018 Chattogram...

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Risk Adverse
Written: by Tom Wright
9-9-2019

 Adverse life events, 
Often carry crippling effects.
They sometimes reveal themselves,
As collateral damage,
And make casualties of others.
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S - Subjective to the feeler.
C - Crippling to the ego.
A - Alarming to the thinker.
R - Relentless to the heart
Y - Yearning to no longer fear! 


Written 30th October 2021
For : The  "S" Contest
Sponsor : Constance La France...

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Expecting nothing
But hope for respect
Anticipate love
We move through our lives
Helping our children

Guide them gently
Admire them
Aid them without
Crippling them

Sacrifice
His own needs
Or her dreams

Daddy
Mommy

Baby...

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The world loves crippling
particularly if weakness
applies to a manner of spoken language
mouth that does not squeaks
is like a hoe with no claws sunk in the ground
only combing and stroking
instead of tearing and crumbling the stony grass...

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Despair is a crippling emotion of defeat
Accompanying the dread onset of depression,
Making its victim feel less than complete.
Those who suffer it have a lasting impression,
And those who overcome it want no repeat.

written January 24, 2022...

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Fall in love with me, 
Please.
Or don't.
I'd take whatever scraps you gave me, 
And I'd make a fairy tale-
Enough to last me a lifetime.
As long as there is something in your eyes when you look at me.
Instead of crippling; 
Unending,
Nothing...

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deaths queen reaper
sold at auction
bought by
non
belivers
crippling me
beyond wings
hear them sing
singes feathers
weeping leather
cobweb effet
affections
wreck
drove me 
off a cliff 
breaths so obscene
blowning 
deaths queen reaper
?...

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Love can be wasted 
Bittersweet not tasted
Given or taken
Rejected or forsaken
True in a moment
The minds worst opponent
Blind and crippling
Often rippling
Good and bad
Unwanted and undeserved
Always  there
When push comes to shove
Either in abundance
Or lack thereof...

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Paranoia 
Crippling me
Slowly 
Consuming my thoughts 
Erasing my existence
Dividing my light
Transforming so into 
The dark 
Splitting them
Lowering the voice
In my ear 
Serving me more
Downhill 
Terror grows inside the brain 
A way out of it for me 
A soul refrains...

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The Cross is our crutch: we are lamed and maimed,
Crippling sin in our soul,
Defiled and scourged, our faith defamed,
Golgotha our gloried goal.

The Cross is a bludgeon for smiting down
Death in his sable gown.
It’s Roman-hewn and Jesus-borne,
Encircled with blood-flecked thorn....

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The Cross is our crutch: we are lamed and maimed,
Crippling sin in our soul,
Defiled and scourged, our faith defamed,
Golgotha our gloried goal.

The Cross is a bludgeon for smiting down
Death in his sable gown.
It’s Roman-hewn and Jesus-borne,
Encircled with blood-flecked thorn....

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For a brief moment, she waits 
Patiently. Laughter stagnant ~
Paused in crippling depression, 

Crouching in sunken despair,  
Imprisoned to this moment 
Melancholy deeply impaled 

Withdrawing from isolation
Contentment blooms, sorrow lifts
In clusters of mere moments....

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A familiar sunshine
Fragile grins and warm hugs
Wilting trees
A shifting decade

It starts to rain
Strange conversations unnecessary
Youth decayed and childhood dismantled
A slow shadow play towards the end

Crippling wind
Monotonous basics
My Truth is an anomaly
In the end, we are all a dying story....

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Vast are their numbers,unknown their names
Staring helpless,with needs unseen
Their screams silenced their sighs;
Hungry,helpless their questioning eyes

Drought,destruction and crippling disease
Perhaps a few pounds now will appease
Those silenced sounds and sighs;
Hungry,helpless questions with piercing eyes....

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Next to the toxicity 
Of childhood complexity 
And growing into the monster
The worst of the ways
We pass on these days
Are the crippling anxieties we sponsor
Next time you dine
At the table next to mine
We should speak with only our eyes
If they all saw me
As I’m meant to be
They’d forgive me for all my lies...

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Howling winter wail
snow covered mountains swell
tis but it's season time to abound
when cold shapes with ice to surround
branches breaking down with twig's 
falling unto the ground
lake water's frozen and crippling stream's that sound
valleys of evergreen forest beneath the moonlit night sky
these are all but winter signs...

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