Short Depleting Poems

we’re incomplete
cravings bleating 
depleting joy...

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voting depleting
they would suffer a beating
then started cheating....

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Economics
money depleting
wall street crashes 
I'm scared for tomorrow
debt...

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callous, ruinous world
depleting ...hoarding
spark earth's blazing fury
running on empty
chasing the sun....

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In the commercial age,
money captures time

Depleting awareness
—a prison unto itself

(Dreamsleep: August, 2019)...

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Darkness is
Energy depleting
Penance with no
Residual happiness
Emotional
Serenades
Sifting
Inside
Overcoming
Nothing...

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Warning

Death knocks on earth’s door
Resources used for profits
Cry, depleting…all.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
February 14, 2010

Poetic form:  Haiku...

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Dawn
Brisk, New,
Beginning, Growing, Being,
The sun moves across the sky to leave until tomorrow
Ending, Depleting, Going
Cold, Old, 
Dusk
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I thought that a friend's need
Was to me a depleting circumstance
Rather than a call to heed
And a fulfilling chance
To feed
Their fallen countenance
With a virtuous deed
In the Most Eminent glance
Of Christ of my creed
At every available instance...

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rich, 
                opulence, prosperous
    acquiring, amassing, accumulating 
affluence, luxury, insolvency, pauperism 
      squandering, depleting, repriving 
                    destitute, poverty
                               poor


Date posted: 07/28/2021...

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empty 
                           hollow, void 
             depleting, nulling, vacating 
abandoned, nothingness, capacity, plenary 
                  filling, imbuing, hilting 
                      brimful, complete 
                                empty



Date written: 01/20/2023...

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Life is great
Life has meaning

Life is misery
My soul depleting

Life is colourful, shining with joy
Life makes me feel like a broken and used toy

Life is worth living – 
A journey I am eager to complete

Life is a battle I am currently losing – 
Ending in disappointment and defeat…...

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Pandemonium 
Pandemic

Frightening
Forest fires

Polar bears dying
Climate change

Depleting ozone layers
Exacerbates cancers and cataracts

Mask versus no mask
Political parties fighting harder than ever

Black lives matter 
Versus The police

Fox news
Versus all other news stations

Chaos 
In America now...

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Can’t function without it
The conjunctional life
And punctures confounding
A subjugal strife

My endurance depleting
My inevitable fallacies
Determined to beat this
Chemical malady

but

Deep down in the ditch
Is where I feel safe
Weak in the grips
Of insanity’s embrace

You can’t lift me out
Try as you may
Insipid, I pout
Is this where I’ll stay?

(Written 09/17/2018)...

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Who Pays?
Miracle Man
10/25/2024

Many drift through life just depleting their days,
For any unforgiven sins they’re the one who pays.

If they’ve given scant thought to their life eternal, 
at death they’ll take their place with hell’s infernal.

We each go through life seeking peace to please us,
But true peace is only found in our knowing Jesus.

 



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Scattered quacking,
rolls of thunder, 
magnets shaking,
earths big wonder.

Volcanos aching
clouds of ash.
Tsunami making
all beaches clash.

Ozone leaving, 
a solar flash,
planet heating,
Gods mighty wrath.

Wars emerging
day and night.
Oil resurging,
endless in sight.

Foods depleting,
No jobs abound,
Water's needed,
though nowhere found....


The Applethoughtrotten...

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Lost in worldly darknesses searching for my light,Depleting every day only to reflect on the emptiness within stale daily routines,I weep for the lost and almost found,chaos has its own agenda,Time afflicts an unforgiving penance just to keep up with humanities pace, I struggle to find strength in blurred Instincts,Let my roots to my soul stem blessings upon all,For hope can grow higher than woes.....

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Sand
Miracle Man
3/18/2024

Sand appears to hotfoot through an hourglass,
unrelentingly depleting our precious time.
Without discernible deviation and no impasse,
plays no favorites betwixt aged and prime.



Life is not a “brief candle.” it is a splendid
torch that I want to make burn d torch as brightly
 as possible before handing it on to future generations. 
“Bernard Shaw” 

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I am gonna continue walking
While my faith is faced with status talking
Depleting my finds of those things I've listed
MY CHOICE IS HIS LOVE ABOVE ALL THINGS-
Loving life depicted my Lord host
I voice
My choice
MY CHOICE IS HIS LOVE ABOVE ALL THINGS-
Is His love above all things
In this life
MY CHOICE IS HIS LOVE ABOVE ALL THINGS
Hallelujah

11/27/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2022...

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Dark Times

Draining me, dragging me, down into your dungeon 
The same black hole that you keep on plunging into
Falling, pulling me down there with you
I can't stop the thoughts that are depleting you
I don't know how to stop you from descending but I can't stop pretending 
The black hole is not where I want to be
I have no reason not to be happy
Other than the pull of gravitational force 
That the constant negativity has caused...

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Just to breathe the cool clean air is a blessing
The sun hits my face, fear is quickly deplaced 
Battery in my phone is depleting,  which I like.

Just some time to myself is truly wealth
I hear the birds singing to one another
A brother down the street laughs with joy, which I like

A truly beautiful day, for once atleast 
Even with this warmth I begin to feel cold
Then though I quickly remember,  all the things

Which i like......

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Sitting silently
Motionless 
Emotionless 
Stagnant thumps from my heart
Barely a beat

Slumping sideways 
Dialing my way 
Nothing can save me

Lonely 
So lonely 
So tired

                                     Mirrored by scars
                             Curvaceous figure 
                      Blade in hand
              Daggers deep deploying pain
       Depleting my heart of what was
Severing Love...

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On the carousel of meaning,
An anxious but content woman refuses to accept defeating,
Even though her health and sleep are slowly depleting,
She puts her faith into the universe and on the carousel of meaning.
	
Meaning is another way to say that you’re meant to be alive,
Fearing what the future has to hold but reluctantly still choosing to dive,
Yet still remaining strong willed and refusing to be bribed,	
For you see the point is that this is MY life....

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Crystal winged hourglass flows muted gold sand
as time turns red dawn to pink dusk once more;
 life’s tapestry fades as years so expand 
but love in the heart gives youth to restore
when embraced with so much left to explore. 
 Crystal winged hourglass portrays such fleeting
finite life as time slips by depleting;
with love reborn, awoken from sleeping
so shall heavenly days be accreting -
 when sand flows no more - just joy, no weeping....

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Warm inclinations, 
One off conversations,
Unquestioned accusations,
Endless limitations.
 
Frustrating drama,
Devastating karma,
Countless lies,
Tearful goodbyes.
 
Hidden treasures,
Forgotten pleasures,
Forbidden temptation,
Lost in translation,
Blind realisation.
 
Unchartered oceans,
Half cocked notions,
Chance meeting,
Designated seating,
Bank balance depleting.
 
Emotional prostitution,
Computer revolution,
Positive solutions,
New year resolutions....

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