Short Dislodged Poems

A honeycomb dislodged 
By a hurled pebble
One too many angry bees bothered!


 
Date written and posted: 04/07/2016...

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Was blown away by a Nürnberg flash mob
Playing Beethoven's Ode To Joy, made me sob
So truly emotional
A joy irreproachable
The most stirring piece, that'll never be dislodged...

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Time turns on wrinkled canvas,
winter spider in twilight hour 
weaves senility web, 
empty eyes wander in wasteland. 
Hedonist psyche refuses 
to gauge the grief of loss. 
Face morphs into metaphor 
for the past panorama dislodged,
captured in the snapshot 
of narcissist impulse congealed. 
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Without pain or joy
Long time since soul dislodged up 
From this body out of favor
And without own activity

Long time that old days
Condense mixed nostalgia
In thick dissatisfied droplets 
In such modern home

Without pain or joy
Long time that equal distribution
Of bread crumbs was one day
To all it took...

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Deep regrets lying dormant in the mind,
Stifle the thought processes lodging there
They mingle not with concepts refined,
Unless dislodged, they foster grim despair.
Remorse for past deeds you cannot repair
Will seriously tarnish your delicate soul
And from your good life take a bitter toll.

Written June 20, 2021...

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             Past hern Labia
                 hern ither
       whence lexis cannot be
                 dislodged
                     Mine






*Sad to witness this second occurrence where
POETRYSOUP.COM would not allow me to use the
Word labia “laybia” i had to phonetically
spell  >>>>>>>^  (lips)  *smoocherz...

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Curiosity, you’re a sharp knife
You cut to probe deep, to see inside
The privacy,
The ego makes
Hidden behind the mask
People wear, … alluringly captivating :
The Sea of Mystery, with the rolling waves of
Undefined charm, does it break
Return to the sea? The uncovered sands 
Dislodged have no place to hide.

September 21, 2018...

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My Cynthia gone,
Now dead to me.
Wondrous beauty –
Eyes of an Angel,
Heart of Gold.

She knew her power,
I let her.
Beginning of the end. 

Skydiving from the moon to 
Hades itself.
Impossible ecstasy,
Unfathomable loss.

The arrow dislodged
from her alone.
A pawn to her whims.
But I have a new goddess now,
And the spell is almost broken....

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You and I 
 Are here and gone 
 In the breath of a lie
 In the space of a song

 Overturned and reversed
 By the force of a spell
 In the lull of a curse
 In the toll of a bell

 Instantly changed
 Sown or dispersed
 Our souls rearranged
 In a rueful dirge

 You and I in the rain
 Without eye or limb
 Dislodged and deranged
 We move like the wind

 Written by © Raven Drake...

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The banks are eroded by the swelling river
On surging water the dislodged soils ride
Unsure if they would disappear in sea forever
Or would build a new land somewhere with pride.
Lost love makes livid grief break the heart in splinter
On upwelling tears the distraught emotions glide
Unsure if they would disappear somewhere within
Or would build a new heart that won’t break again.

August 2, 2017...

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Ductile banks are eroded by swelling stream, 
on the surging water the dislodged soils ride,
unsure if they’d disappear in sea with dream,
or would create a new land somewhere with pride.
Lost love the broken heart can’t ever redeem,
on upwelled tears the distraught emotions glide,
unsure if they would get lost in soul opaque, 
or would build a new heart that won’t again break.
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Riffles, catching debris as it passes. 
Holding on to that which seems small
Only to be dislodged when bigger comes

Tiny and precious can dwell deep down
Only to be washed out by a flood
Disrupting patterns disrupting patterns

Then calm ensues, new patterns emerge
That which was hidden emerges
But with that a new path is forged

A new stream to wash away
Make a new place for settlement
And once again the life path flows...

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The river in spate erodes the bare banks,
in gushing waters the dislodged soil sails,
unsure if it would disappear in sea forever,
or would build a new land somewhere far.
The surge of sorrow splinters yearning heart,
in the stream of tears shards of emotion drift, 
unsure if they'd dissolve somewhere within,
or make a new heart that won’t break again.

July 13, 2020
Contest : Strand Completely New (9)
Sponsor : Brian Strand...

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While gazing at the sky
A gnat flew in my eye
Causing me to wince in pain

Using the faucet spout
I tried to flush it out
So I could see clear again

When the gnat was dislodged
It came out very smudged
Like a soggy wet wheat grain


When next I watched the sky
A bird pooped in my eye
So I had to flush again

I must be unlucky
For what happened to me
Because it had me in pain

So when birds are on high
And there are gnats nearby
Caution I have to maintain...

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The smile on my face,
That makes me tremble
Do I own them?
My love turned out to be as thin as a paper,
torn into pieces, and became fainter.
The drastic change it brought, 
broke something inside my vault
without any noise...ssshhh
You awakened this heart,
and later dismantled the emotions
leaving it dislodged. 
The broken fantasies,
that keeps digging cavities
destroys my vanity. 
Walking those forbidden paths 
that haunts me from time to time
why can't you just stay benign ?...

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