Short Discordant Poems

a discordant note...........
                         Failed Concert
                         the 'lovelorns'...

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God's world is in harmonious motion
following a perfect rhythm ~
save heart that's discontent

07-February-2023...

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Haiku 4/2/2018

a howling wind
speaks with discordant voices
swirling snowflakes


John G. Lawless
©4/2/2018...

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Tune frenzied
Not discordant
Fine tuned
Distance despite
Heartbeats synchronized
Lying in wait
For the union
When two become one....

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watered-down
yet toxic 
shadows shout

jarring notes
discordant
deafens soul

the witness 
eternal
is immune

09-March-2023
Tricube...

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Just when it's set to meld
Jumble shake makes trouble
Jingle crescendo clangs
Jangle bangle rattles
Junking love's blind assent
Jarring discordant doubts
Jostles our hands apart...

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Locusts and crickets rub their legs like mad
   Their summer night symphonies uniformly bad

Yet when chill breezes still these musicians' strings
   I long for the return of their discordant wings...

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Bells
with blues
play bent cup dinged;
discordant, dongs and dings.
Soft and raspy tones that mumble,
rings rung as fuzzy rumbles and grumbles,
rather than clear resonate rings.
Sad Bells
Blue
...

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I hear sirens of my demise
wailing in the distance,
warning me of impending doom,
their strangling tune
discordant and angry,
marching toward certain death,
reaper’s fingers, an ancient breath,
and I have nowhere to hide....

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It must have dazzled Free Will
To be jousting with Fate.
Clanks there no discordant
But armour intimate.

Dark, or roseate-crested, one of
Either the former's knights.
Sent out its castle wall, beyond
For the latter's world-fights....

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When
you have played
noteworthy moves
early in a relationship
                        and the harmony
                    becomes discordant
it's time to backpedal…
diminuendo.

             da capo
follow love's lead

December 24, 2020...

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Rearranging discordant thoughts
memories fall in place
Like keys upon a Steinway
awaiting my embrace

Sharp notes lead, the flats behind
as I replay the past
Chords when struck connecting all
—in harmonies recast

(Dreamsleep: June, 2023)...

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There’s a song of yours I really like
A metal power ballad
Discordant and seeped in yearning
It‘s best with headphones on
So loud I can hardly taste my gum
I let each line reverberate through my skull
As many times as it takes
To shake your memory loose...

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pick flowers
drink while nectar flows.
sap is bitter
when stem hardens into wood.

the bumblebee sees not the world
with the petals that surround.

the hive hums with discordant sounds
and empty clamorings.

tomorrow's season is fall.

(28 may 79)...

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Thoughts are ages-old
Well before separation, sorrow
Discordant, lavishly pompous
They blotted my past self out
sarcasm directed at man, I will be not
Timeouts Ignore
Promptly, it has re-emerged as a threat

Written: November 10, 2022...

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The air was not ok.

It was rubbery feeling.

Squeaking and sometimes churning.

But the sounds are my own voice and it scares me that I hate my own voice.

A weeping discordant voice.

Gritting and annoying.

I order my food online.

I order everything online....

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Empty soda cans litter
the side of the road,
as empty as the inside
of my heart.

Clocks stopped hide in shadows
of time counted and gone,
memories lie hidden
in dim corners.

Vagrant breezes stir windchimes
into a discordant jangle,
echoing 
the hollow silence....

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Sounds discordant around abound
We instantly react
Likewise for fearful thoughts that hound
Tranquility detract

Aversion and desire
Send to funeral pyre
Be free, aglow, afire

Crow’s caw mordant 
Sounds discordant

28-November-2021
Quietus ...

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There’s a grinding in everyone’s mouth. 
Something cacophonous and discordant
That resonates perfection.
It sounds like continents in your throat
Villages of little fluorescent bulbs,
Branding stories on your tongue
And crunching into you
Until you become the philosopher of the world....

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Dwelling
In the arches
Of dark corners that reach 
The entombment of my stale mind,
Frozen 

In time; 
Freshly scarred by
Unfulfilled musings led 
By stoic apathy singing 
Tunes of 

Friction, 
Fluctuating 
Amidst piercing thistles,
And crucifying vines flooding 
My core....

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too early to prite woetry
weary on this danuary jay
thoughts hidden in a gadow's shaze
between the lines no faces spound
no reasons told for vissing merse
lonely pen found dry leaves mo nark
discordant rhythm mo neter
words waiting to find listant dight
restlesness on this dinter way
a weary mind wants spristant ding...

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I hear a discordant harmony
As I smell the infinite sea
A myriad of dazzling jewels 
Jumble dancing endlessly.

Mmmm! The taste of mothers milk
Then a nice full tummy
Before a baby bottlenose burp
Bubble bursts from deep inside me...

Pop! You could inhale one of those
If you jumble danced with me.

24 April, 2016....

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Listening to music doesn’t help as much as it used to.

For a while, the rhythm would drown out the constant clanging and pounding.

But eventually, the discordant sounds become more noticeable.

And eventually more memorable.

So that I can’t tell what is music and what is simply a monster.

So that I can repeat my song, and they can howl along!...

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Listen to poem:

Constant denigration
wears you down
you feel so small
as your efforts are
downgraded with cast-off scoffs.
Your pearls bedraggled,
lack lustre,
displayed dimmed and dulled,
squelched by doubt,
smeared in fear.
Duet performance discordant 
sung in disharmony
with lead player out of tune,
tone-deaf.
Belittled, you be,
and bedraggled becomes you....

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Discordant scissors cuts a ribbon
Pleasure of a man destroys
Nature bows to indiscretion
Reality deceit deploys

With glee, they break the ground
To set an edifice to man’s ambition
Forever ruined with proposition 
Field and flowers sacrificed

Breached to bent insanity
Evolves a place profaned
Glowering graceless vanity
Imprisons the insane...

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