Short Deadened Poems

In decaying fall,
They, deadened colours abound
Leaves granted leave, gown





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the cacophony 
of self-importance
has deadened our soul
making it insentient
to bliss humming
within our heart

31-January-2023...

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Smothered beats shimmer in the darkness
Echoes hold their resonance in pride
splintered fractals of light
bounce from deadened eye
and oil draped feather
with unfurled wings
master of the dark
absorbs the night...

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Fleeting Victory


Bleeding hearts
With deadened glare 
Sullen faces
Staring at the darkened phase
Looming keenly ahead
Staggering at the eloping future
along the sneaky passage
As the future elopes
Without a trace
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The guy might be a pickpocket
But he is my brother
One of the sons of the land of Asia
A weed of the populous part of the earth

In a bottled dark he keeps a dragonfly
and tells himself: greetings to you, the deadened morning....

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Mundane matters occupy mind,
which deluded heart does rewind 
in a make belief world of thought,
a web in which, we are then caught,
veiling our innate soul presence,
since deadened is our sentience.

03-August-2022...

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Hollow words have beauty
Hollow words are dead
Life has had no meaning
With hollow words' Godhead

So speak your lies
So scream in tongues
Your hollow cries
Are not enough
The world will turn a deafened ear
The world will turn a deadened fear...

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Something changing, shifting, fading...
Lackluster, the heat has gone cold.
Open portals closing, drifting, dreaming...
Trepidation, the eyes to the soul.
Someone wishing, reaching, feeling...
Imploring, a quick and tantalizing grasp.
Deadened passion, avidity, and lust....

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He tread the path                
Trudging and grunting 
Toward a deadened hope 

Vesting on his armour 
While taking off
His own honour 

Unsheathing his sight 
As his trusted sword 
He doubled his drag

Then with a  song
Sounding his faith
He made a silent plead...

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We speak of love, yet acts are coarse
Self-blocking divine grace
Cold deadened heart, knows not remorse
Hermit, learn to embrace

Tread gently, weary soul
Love alone makes us whole
Playing our earth life role

Looking above
We speak of love

05-March-2022
Quietus ...

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Indifference, plague of our times
We’ve befriended darkness 
Stuporous heart deaf to love’s chimes
Our soul’s barren starkness

Enmeshed in ego snare
Dark dungeons of despair 
When hearts with hearts don’t pair

Deadened conscience 
Indifference

27-November-2021
Quietus ...

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There is nothing more to be realised 
When God’s Grace is invoked and 
His mercy doth flush and cleanse
A carcass so parched that
 Its once beating heart stops
Dormant Broken Empty Nothing
To be replenished just in time
Malicious ego deadened
Fear of its return a dread.
Please God never leave me.





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Here at the end of June
North of 49,
Dying galaxies
From 
Far off parts
Of deadened
Sky 
Whisper,
Fight the deception!
There are no 
Brisk or fervent 
stars 
All that 
trembles
And weaves
Through
The atmosphere
Has long since
Burned
And
Buried
Myth uncovered.
all 
that glitters 
Has
Taken your tongue
And made it paper...

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I can't weep the sadness from me
it trickles inconspicuous
and never quietens the volume
Blurred sight making passing vehicles
headlights spayed and sprayed
across the oil black asphalt
like orphaned sprites in the deadened night
Looking for myself in the periphery
Looking for the moments when the pain
can be felt
Just looking to feel...

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as swans slide across lakes - sunset rays sway to autumnal reveries

ambling across swirling helix - of deadened cinnamon foliage 

mocking greenery framing skeletal bones - of lifeless roots crackling 

the warmth of your deep saffron gold aura - harvests the depth of our love

eclipsing rippling mistrals - simmering amidst auburn horizons...

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I breathe in
And out
I wheeze…I pause instead   

I breathe in
And out
I wheeze…I can’t

Breathe…
My lungs are deadened
Breathe…
My voice box is tattered      

I breathe in
But unable to breathe out
And I feel restless
Without a doubt

I breathe softly
And heavily 
I’m upset…I scream in an instant 

I breathe violently 
And heavily
I fret…I gasp in dread...

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Oju Ide-- Brass eyes

Flashing across the scene

Witnessing the many sins

Unveiling men

As hollow beings

vile vibrating vehemently

Sounding like brass bells 

settling in a place of inert

nesting like fallen logs

in a deadened hearth    

repelling the usual

charming the unusual

while grappling with the curse   

of a woven heart...

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Married to a number,
Set aside for posterity.

Marked and laid out in an open grave,
In everlasting humility.

Look and behold as I grow into the earth,
I never asked for and do not want any pity.

Young life, hope, tortured death ,
And yet, I welcomed it all with untaught piety.

I lie in unmarked graves around the deadened land,
I am sorry I never said goodbye....

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Dead's he who binds himself in his own cage 
Who lets his love consumed by his own rage 
Like withered pile of leaves in yellow wood 
Where flies flocked to tear its flesh where it stood 

For, deadened heart is as good as the dead 
Like a log that just lies in its own bed 
Like a flesh filled with aches but does not bleed 
But inside, worms of pride gather to feed 

1st place...

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The Empty Man


Saddled with the darkened years
Fogged with broken thoughts
Chasing crooked spirits
Drenched in ethereal fire
Deadened to raging emotions
Sentenced to a deafened silence
Dreading the coming phase
Of fleeting victory and bleeding hearts
Thus, seeping the dredge
Of frothing suffering
He strides along
With the brevity of thoughts
Floating to a hollow future
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Time is ticking by faster

And the clock hangs off the edge

But my mind doesn't move as quickly

It's blocked by a deadened hedge

You say that time is precious

And I believe it all too well

I wish I could make things more certain

But some things God will never tell

Eyes as bloodshot as roses

And ears that are prickled with thorns

I await the coming sunrise

Amidst my body's scorns...

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She leans whispering,

whilst black deadened eyes stare back ~~

Amidst translucent

reflection, she now reflects ~~~*

In compassionate sorrow.


Her sibling taken

having disappeared years back ~~

Background beauty blooms

in ignorance of her loss ~~~*

If only they knew the truth.









*This is James Fraser's entry into Constance's 'Reflection' contest...

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If there is no reason, is it okay to cry?
If hope is but a season, is love a cloudy sky?
I drip, melt, drown
In the endless depthless dark
I stoop, fall, down
A deadened lifeless spark

The sun turns dawn to day, but does it always die?
Night creeps past all stay, so does the light but lie?
I break, crack, end
A fracture in the shadows
I scream, weep, bend
You cannot stop the echoes...

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I walked with an Angel

her breath drew life,
into my deadened core 

I saw myself in her eyes

reflected Love

Oneness was a power
of unforeseen serenity
 
I felt like a child
cradled at her breast 

a strange feeling of peace 
with the universe

her touch was electric
 
a being of Passion

I knocked on Heaven’s door with my
heart & met my Creator with open arms

magnificent...

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I sank into the depths of marbled 
Frustration.
Canonized in furrowed gasps,
I claimed my own footsteps were thieves.
We all skulk slunk-shouldered to the same sorrowful shore.
Though it ain’t all that bad.
Look through the lightened leaves
The maple glow will warm your 
Foiled, flagrant, tired eyes.
If you are not your own era,
Bring your illusions to the foreground and
Castrate your deadened pride....

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