Short Curdle Poems

inherent bloodline - curdle into nepotism...

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Smashing waves curdle
Pines cling to clear orbs
The home fire welcomes...

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black shapes ghost the night
distant sirens curdle dreams
crickets soothe my fear



08/17/12...

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Words
clamor
and curdle
into ripened, 
red embolisms
of vulgar syllables
that dam fresh inspiration
with futile, vagrant dissonance.
I diagnose my swollen fingers
as unfortunate strokes of distraction....

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Eyes mirror shined
holding unborn tears
and thoughts of past
curdle in the throat
as if to kill
its source
Wrap myself in sadness
to stave the cold of the
numb
Darkness does not surround me
it is what i have become...

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retched, a stomach twisting curdle
sour, the bile that rises from malcontent
tearful, yet, tears are futile, a waste of water
understanding seems never to come or come too late
all one can do is suck it up and try to love again...

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McWhirtle me is what I read
Another contest sublime
Curdle of knee is rarely fed
The icy hot heat in time.

McWhirtle me is what I saw.
A contest that made me look up
McWhirtle now I think I know.
It might be my kind of cup....

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Last night in the dark,
while in the restless curdle of old dreams,
I thought I was a fish-bird
then a bird-fish.
Even now
millions of years away
from those slowly evolving days,
if we gulp the air too fast
our hearts flutter,
wanting to swim or fly....

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Listen to poem:

The force that filled this sail
blew dust off crest of desert dunes
howled sighs in forest tree-trunk array
whistled a tune in rampart rafters
lulled a wheat field to shimmery shivers
chilled bones to curdle 'n crack
tired,
seeped out a crack, 
and blew away....

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Among such smog-soaked folk
As curdle-coil in cloud-spun smoke

Along the grain-cut naves
Which, God-heavy, lie stiff as staves

On sad-strung ouds, yet creep
In concrete-crumbled static sleep

Over cambered cities.
Whose peaks and troughs ebb with pities;

A ring-road tidal flow
With human crest now sunk below......

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Daydreams curdle in a summer heat.
He walks back from the park
dragging a wandering mind behind him
like an elderly dog.

The day gets warmer
he sends out for a margarita pizza,
wonders if lately
he has been dancing too closely
with sidewalk walking ghosts.

When the take-out arrives
it tastes as dry as kibble pie -
refried daydreams bark on....

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Is someone profiting on your wishes and dreams,
renaming your parade

Like a thief in the night they steal every wish,
their own life at best a charade

Is someone else cashing the check you just wrote,
to pay for their larcenous schemes

Has your good name been kidnapped, indentured, enslaved
—as you curdle in search of the cream

(Rosemont College Pennsylvania: March, 2020)...

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Destined we are curdle together by nature
Though at the twin rivers shore
Believing same will provoke harmony 
Bridge on the rivers and wall of our minds 
Let the power that be Strike balance  
Sweet home now wilderness exile
King, Obis, Emirs, Pastors, Imams and likes stoop to stooge
Politicians dictate tune of bomb
And never wait for tone
When shall we learn to live Siamese like these yonder rivers?
I wept for my darling country...

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the secrets of the dead tell the stories of lies

and the serpent slithers through hollow bones and flies

painful screams echoe through history and over time

the blood in my viens curdle as i listen to my forefathers voices in my mind

gestures of love seize the moments in time

but longevity and tolerance love refuses to define

in darkened night you can hear the wind through the trees

but the abscence of love can be heard by the cry of the leaves...

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