Short Damming Poems

a diamante

water
aquatic, liquid
bridging, damming, subduing
oceans, pools, / yards, continents
digging, tunneling, conquering
solid, terrestrial
earth...

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Canyons of loss
emotional wastelands
Spires of hope
grasping for sky

Riverbeds bake
 mountains are damming
Feelings once deluged
—barren and dry

(Dreamsleep: June, 2022)...

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Although it is spring,
Cold political raindrops
Continue to fall:-
But do not worry,
“God’s gon trouble tha water…”,
Damming injustice:
In the renewal of spring,
We shall also overcome:-
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Pebbles those thick drops of hard rain;  earth hail skittering
At the front of your mind growing, sloshing marbled and felt in your teeth
Scratching ache and unbalanced weight rolling forward to escape

Mud mouth soil that packed downslope; viscous vicious 
Damming down rivers the chest, collected tunnel tailings pressurize
Expanded space and collapsed place resisting to make face...

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Deep within the wooded thick of a coniferous forest's vascular limbs,
A chorus of loons cry in mosaic croons which echo from where they swim.

They swim in a lake, the sixth of eight; a link in a mountain chain,
Forged by the damming of rivers filled by the gathering of rain. 

As the birds' words wash across the polish of water sitting still,
Moonlight melts in speculum upon this lake of swallowed ichorous swills....

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No Happiness Here Either

She loves me, she love me not, knots
As he picked the petals of her heart
Why the cold chill your heart sought
Your petals cold, damming my start

A river of tears cries from the sky
Mine, forever a rainbow lost a pot of gold
You, a commodity richer to my eye
Than blossoms of bosoms a smile behold

On your surface I lie in your meadow
Wandering sweet dreams held in lost escrow

connie pachecho

8/5/17...

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One moment after
you get,
that your self-image of yourself,
is just a concept of a concept -
that you are in reality,
a scripture yet to be written -

only then
do you become a holy person.

Beware,
let no one eat your promises
as truth,
for they only want their beliefs
to stay pure,
and if you humor them
with other well-meaning myths,

you may well have to take holy orders,
and hide behind a whole lot more
damming words.


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My life is a tragedy.
Filled with pain and calamity,
Seems like the who worlds damming me
From one thing to another
Not having a mother,
And turning around and not having a brother. 


My brother who was slain. 
He was suppose to obtain fame 
But I guess people took his life for a game.
Now his death is just driving me insane.

Then there is my mother 
Someone I love like no other.
A woman who struggled to take care of us 
A beautiful woman who died because of her mans lust...

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