Short Crumple Poems

Laugh a lot
Because when you do
The edges of hardened problems
Crumple away to dust... Smile! 


Akkina R Downing...

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trigger fingers flex
innocent victims crumple
questions unanswered


For the "Gun"-o-ku poetry contest sponsored by Gwendolen R....

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You're just a badly drawn character
Made of pencil led and paper 
I could crumple you 
Toss you in the trash bin
But I color you in
I give you some skin
And now I've got a friend...

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On her unfortunate face,
Expanding with grace;
A tyrant of a pimple,
Looking to be simple…
But with cohorts, an ample,
Intending her young skin to rumple
And her peace crumple:
All- too- overshadowed her dimple....

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She

Her skin
is bruised
so easily,
leaving layers
of itself
like calling cards
Soft old bones,
prone to breaks
Lungs that 
no longer
suck in hope
A girl inside
an envelope
of worn-out flesh
and bitter dreams
No one touches her
for fear she
will crumple
and be blown away
by some callous wind...

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Slit slice open
cut carve enter
rip rape start
pull power enter
unfold unveil reveal
secrete spilled shaken 
explode embroider envelope
grope grip fondle
pull pry panic
stab stun bomb
decapitate dunk drown
shove sharp fall
skin slink spray
steam stream stumble
jeopardize jump jilt
cream crumple capture...

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Time
On its conveyor belt
Moves me
Past the cherished things of life
That waits
Other spectators on this path
To yawn
And crumple with their desire
And then
To come behind my voyage
Conquered
By what we thought we would
Conquer
Until age halts us, and the belt
Waits
For death to board and select
Those
Shrinking from the gate....

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one wooden chair
dark and contemplating..... 
I sit
a single tear falls from my cheek
many years of triumph 
all has vanished 
an echo calls of yesterday....
empty walls dull and bleeding regret
I slip in agony from one wooden chair
I crumple on a vague floor of blue
gone...
gone...




CONTEST ~EMPTY APARTMENT...

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Love is a state,
in a burning world,  
with so much hate,
violence, and cruelty...
Angels fall...
to crumple those flames...
They struggle in pain,
but die in vain...
Their faces, their memory,
All fade away...
As if they were, 
sentenced astray...
"The Prince" lives on!
He overtakes!
And history forgets,
but his name!...

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Weighted with troubles and abuse faced through the day. 

Wrote the painful emotions with anger and tears. 

Read them over to see if I missed anything; 

Crumpled the sheets and set them on fire with no cares.


1/12/2021

Dear, 

Bitter tears smeared the ink.

Fear you whispered in my ear.

Tears, sneers for years; too late for repair....

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Tonight feels just right
  though the moon is uptight
Still the stars do shine bright
  There's plenty of light

And perhaps way out there
  roams a big grizzly bear
a wily fox on the prowl
  or a macabre screech-owl...

No, I tell myself, do not be afraid
  only cowards mistakes haven't made
I crumple up my paper, put down my pen
  sneak under the covers ~ fast asleep before ten!...

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Don't create competition,
Create collaboration,
Collaborate to celebrate, 
Celebrate copious currency, 
To correct your current circumstances..


Completely cease competition..
Cuss your contempt..
Its contaminate!!.
Its Crippled and crumple your credibility 
Cultivate collaboration,
Constantly Connect & converse,
Certainly, the crowd will crown you
         & call to congratulate you.....

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Misty dawn opens its arms
Silent street not a sound
Flowers spread some exotic charm
Honey bees all over abound
A sinister killer is just around
The silent streets weave and dance
The trees rap in a mystical trance
Bridges collapse to the music of seismic waves
They burn, they crumple, not a chance
As exotic flowers swing on lonesome graves

09/3/2012

By Tahera Mannan

For Nette’s “Let’s dance” contest...

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They live in an iron nest
and have begun to dream
the way threadbare drapes will
in too much sunlight.

Scorched by sky
blooms crumple like straw hats.
Water has no effect.

Any time now,
I expect to see stringy stems
swell into aqueducts
but the newly doused
droop the more.

The fancy blooms cost me $74

Stupidly I yell at them:
to revive, to live, to thrive!

Nothing.

The buggers have also gone deaf....

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Without revitalization nor remedy I strive on.
Long-said promises fade.
I worry for my own soul.

Without revitalization nor remedy I strive on.
My eyes search for light.
This darkness cannot be endless.

Without revitalization nor remedy I strive on.
I fall for the umpteenth time.
Has everyone abandoned me?

Without revitalization nor remedy I strive on.
Now I crumple onto the pavement.
Accepting defeat, I quit....

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Flaunting a brand
Succinctly,
holding the horizon between his teeth
he was not taking a bite.

Nobody can open the vault
under the gaze
of black cobras
extending the crumple zone.

Sweet revenge,
he was stepping out of the bright skin
in deep shadows. 
A grey sky was going to melt.

Pouring out the innocence 
which was not so subtle between the words.
Something falls out from your lips
beyond a reasonable sound.



Satish Verma...

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You act as if my life is a book,
You slam it on the table and open it to see what's inside,
Your rough hands rip out the pages and crumple them between your fingers.

The sun shines within my eyes,
Sometimes it warms you,
Sometimes it burns you to the core until you wither and die,
Sometimes it is as sharp as a razor blade,
It cuts you, and it slits your wrists,
But then you remember that you were the one who held the knife...

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Hollow puppet dancing on her strings,
Fear, fear please don't trim her wings.
Crumple down to hard dirt floor,
Never, never to dance any more.

Limbs this way, that way thrown;
No movement truly her own.
Dark, empty all around,
No purpose, value anywhere found.
Meaning escaped,
Fear evaporate.

Hollow puppet dancing on her strings,
Begging, desperate, please trim her wings.
Pain, pain go away,
Let me dance no more this way....

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You are our neighbors
We are your neighbors
and we hate you
You do not belong here
You are different than us
We don't just want you to leave
We want to kill you
We want to eradicate you
We will attack you
When you retaliate
we will crumple to our knees
and cry to the world
Look at our neighbor!
Our neighbor is trying to kill us!
Then the world will rush to our aid
because the world fears us.
The world fears what we might become
You must learn to fear us....

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I stare at the pristine white blank page
She intimidates me, I know she feels my fear
I am not the enemy I say

If you crumple me up, I will bite you, she says
I remember my last paper cut.
It was not fun.

I need to start typing
But fear holds me back.
Come on! My muse says. Don’t be a pussy!

I am intimidated by her too.
She can be demanding, commanding.
And crazy? A voice whisper in my ear.

Damn fear!
She is here in full force today....

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they live in an iron nest
under a back window

they have begun to dream
the way threadbare drapes will
in too much sunlight

scorched by sky
blooms crumple like straw hats
reach up bent by an internal smolder
as if the air were a cistern

but the sky is a dry bed today

sprinkled water has no effect
i expect to see stringy stems
swell into firm aqueducts

but the newly doused droop the more
as if water were a flame
in a beached throat...

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Words don’t flow when they need too,
Thoughts crumple to a halt.
I sit by the window feeling blue,
Telling my messed-up brains ‘you’re at fault’.

Looking down at the little piece of paper,
It’s still white as snow;
I feel more miserable
For what I adore is now a foe.

I try again; it’s one last shot:
To pen down my thoughts, on that little piece of paper.
My hands shiver, moves slow
But ceases to a stop, refusing to go beyond that dot.
While all my thoughts vanish like vapor....

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