Short Desiccated Poems

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Premium Member As If Waiting

a pallid pool
  leaves and flotsam
lethargic, desiccated
  as if waiting for 
a giant spoon to stir them
  what if it all freezes
Form: Imagism


Premium Member Recondite

  
     arbitrary… random… 
        … deconstructed…
     … holocaust … whatever… 
       …disemboweled… 
           … desiccated
Form: Other

Cold Winter Is Here

Cold   winter is here  
 
 Radiant   snow   covered   ground  

 Desiccated   air  

 Candy   cane   fragrant   aroma  

 Winter bringing out the best
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Drink My Oasis

DRINK MY OASIS
In life, morphed desert Desiccated, you chase mirage My heart melts Come, drink my oasis.
March 2, 2019

Premium Member Life


Life desiccated derelict in the desolate desert
Infuses perennial peace of placid oasis in heart 
Feels in serene essence the spiritual sublimity
Emanating from the heavenly horizon of divinity.
Form: Acrostic


Our Love Is

Like the last leaves of autumn
Scattered to the four winds
Our love is drifting away

Like a desert river
Long run dry
Our love is desiccated

Like the winter landscape
Stark and bare
Our love is Barren
Form:

Premium Member I Won'T Stop

I won’t stop trudging
on the desiccated last mile  
till I reach the embrace of bliss 
waiting for me in the niche 
of the promised oasis.

July 14, 2021
Contest : Bite Size Poem No 12
Sponsor : Line Gauthier
Form: Verse

At a Crossroads

Leveling up on serpentine curves —
Dust-coated and desiccated — crossroads:
Inebriated with floods, one length;
Darkened with fumes of a puking mountain,
The other stretch;
Gale-powdered face of one breath stares at the
Rumbling belly of the fourth.

Hole in my heart

A suppurating crater
festers and gapes
in my heart
desiccated by hordes
of plunderers
who gorge on marrow
enshrouded in crevices
where love pleads
for refuge and succour
before gelid goons
controlling a pedigree
of sycophants
reframed to shield
their masters
from imagined devilry.

Premium Member Desiccated Life

DESICCATED LIFE
Life desiccates you My heart melts on your hot dune Drink my oasis. In surging sand storm Sun scorches your slim shadow Recline in my arms. If clouds burst in mind Torrent of rain you can’t hold Flow it in my eyes.
April 3, 2018.
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Oasis

In the sordid sky above my wasteland life,
clumps of gloomy cloud hovered glossless.
In their lengthening shadow, 
a desert grew in my desiccated being.
In the dune of my devout desire, 
God made an oasis for me.

______________

April 26, 2023
Contest : Bite Size Contest No. 62
Sponsor : Line Gauthier

Premium Member I Miss

I should have when I could have but did not, 
In retrospect I missed a chance or two. 
I see it now! If only then I knew -
I would have given life a better shot!

But who has time to waste on reminisce?
Past's desiccated dust settled by Now, 
Long overdue wholehearted weary vow - 
Time in and of itself one should not miss.
Form: Rhyme

Sadness Grows

I see you little flower
Bright and quick 
Spiralling in your own
Desiccated gown
Of earth and dust
Sadness grows 
In the crack of broken
Concrete
Calling to 
My pedestrian
Tendencies 
Careful
Once 
Meted out 
I will 
Trample around your 
Petaled face
As I lumber through 
The 
The streets
In the 
Cold light of morning

Fall Flowers

The flowers have died back,
back into a darkening sun.

I did not see them wither
they fell between the light.

The blooms have slipped sideways
the way dead things do
when not tied down.

I did not see their passing,
I only saw the knuckled joints
of the dry stems
opening desiccated florets,

a last unraveling
of the no longer there.

Confetti

"Confetti"
Dreams just dreams; Sweet Neapolitan Ice cream cool Blueberry eyes Strawberry Crush Smiles lick cherry ripe red lips cheeks flushed burning blushes desiccated life toasted before stealing a long kiss you’re burning supine Mine velvet skinned all mine (LadyLabyrinth/ 2020)

Myth of Suicide

Be laid:
with your private wounds 
beside me. 
For otherness. 

Can you come out from? 
your flesh, and watch 
the ribs, becoming 
infrasonic ?

The desiccated dreams, 
inhaling the fire, 
drinking pain. You have 
come full circle.

Can you describe the 
journey of dead souls ? 
Without tears ? Are you 
going to reject the end ?

The ruins are always a beauty.


Satish Verma.
art
Form: ABC

Premium Member The Room at the End

And now we come to the special cases:
You know, they are at the edge of the living,
Questionable that they fit the classification

Just a little red gristle at the articulations
Very desiccated, like pampas grass
Flopping like straw umbrellas

Non-speaking specimens, 
What can they be thinking -
If anything?

Cradle one in your arms;
Isn’t it sad
What you think of them
Someone thinks of you

Autumn Boughs

I have heard the autumn boughs cry
    Handling over their love letters to white wind
    Letters they wrote to spring during ageing winters
    Spring busy in flowering gave a brief glance
    The green poems inscribed were left heart-broken
    And abandoned to rustle upon desiccated terrains

   Date-1/04/2019
   Contest-Writing Challenge 6 ,March 2019,-6 Lines Poetry     Contest
   Sponsor-Dear Heart

An Inflammatory Condition

Hours nibble at a back strain. Tenuous strings were tugged lifting water bottles. You wonder how weak and fragile you are. How vulnerable to those ancient red tides within that can bend your iron like plasticine, turn you into a crooked question mark. Quartered by straining horses, neural fibers alliterate a thrumming fugue upon a desiccated elastic band; one now stretched far too taut.

Fair Weather Friend

Fair weather friend,
Thou art a beguiling trench
So deep your carvings burrow
That the gorge, like a ghost's cravenly respite,
Stares at my face every morn and night,
And I, a childless brazen woman,
Wander along the narrow path of servility
Of fear and pain,
And the nuances of passion
Has desiccated my body
To a state of apathy
That is forever succumbing 
To what is known as the murderer of happiness.



Copyright © Iman Roy
© Iman Roy  Create an image from this poem.

Din of Decadence

I posed no questions 
before my erroneous conception
I never asked to be or not to be
Serenading deserted streets with dirges 
exploring absence in back alleys
reciting Ophelia’s soliloquy from memory
my words wasted in a world poisoned by apathy 
Wearily I lay myself down 
in the dust of desiccated dreams 
whispering the single syllable 
of your name so sweet 
like black cherry bourbon and chocolate
hoping you might hear me 
amid the din of decadence

An Aureate Sunset

Above the desiccated desert an aureate sun sets leaving the sky glowing cherry red as if an endless fire burns through the night lighting the parched world below rejuvenating new life into the land to survive the next's day's torturous heat desiccated: thoroughly dried out lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless preserved by removing natural moisture aureate: having the deep slightly brownish color of gold 7/12/2017

Dry Summer

DRY SUMMER

On Harcourt Hill the summer grass is parched and desiccated 
All dry and flaxen neath the beating sun, its message carried
To teachers’ throats to give a thirst, a craving unabated
For College now is designated: ‘campus dry’ and arid

But when this season’s over and the sun’s becoming mellow
And classrooms echo vacantly with words select and wise
Then, temperance repealed, with soft tones as a solo cello
Some sweet and blest libations will restore, revitalise.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Gracious Oasis

In my deserted life emotions desiccated desolate,
but I knew in you was nestled a calm niche of bliss,
in the recess of your remote heart I couldn’t locate.
In my deserted life emotions desiccated desolate,
I knew with a gracious oasis for me you would wait,
soulful serene solace in sated measure I won’t miss.
In my deserted life emotions desiccated desolate,
but I knew in you was nestled a calm niche of bliss.

November 20, 2020
Contest : Graciousness
Sponsor : Mohan Chutani
Form: Triolet

Some Love Story

Unlike love story 

Sweet dawn you are not
in your embrace I`m not reborn.
A night with you gives birth to bitter regret. 
A promise to not seek you out
will not help,
I love you more than life itself.
Nightfall brings long shadows
irresistible your allure,
Our lair is not feathering of tenderness
but thorns of demanding ferocity.
A pact we made in a church that reeked of burnt wicks.
desiccated roses and the redolence of death.
Our love is agony, 
we can´t but clawing us asunder
© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.

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