Short Distressing Poems

Subversions of expectations.
Settling for the least of distressing....

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Difficult and distressing
       living in this defiant world
       it becomes a super action...

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In my distressing moments
               only your striking affection
             accompany solidarity my solitude...

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stains and paints a deer
after distressing the wood -
husband’s a hunter
her encounter with the wild
finds a buckshot in deer’s chest...

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It's unsettling when a friend stops posting
With no advance notice or explantation of closing
The thought of passing
Is immediately distressing
Tis human to think negative a natural emotion...

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It's unsettling when a friend stops posting
With no advance notice or explantation of closing
The thought of passing
Is immediately distressing
'Tis human to think negative a natural emotion...

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It's unsettling when a friend stops posting
With no advance notice or explantation of closing
The thought of their passing
Is immediately distressing
Tis human to think negative a natural emotion...

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Nothing is so distressing as a sore aching back
Perhaps, a bad cold with a harsh coughing hack
Both can interrupt a long, well-planned excursion
Frankly to both, I have a strong personal aversion.

Written April 1, 2022...

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emotionally draining 
distressing encounters
became the norm
highly emotionally 
volatile situations
would erupt with
or without any 
probable cause 
try as i might 
i was never able 
to douse the emotionally 
driven flames...

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Looking though
the looking- glass
peering, wondering
when will this end?
Duplicates swirling without hindering
my imagination
the colors, fox trotting
across my eyes
When the mountains laugh
their belated laugh
and when the birds cry
their distressing warbles
will the looking- glass mystery
ever
end?...

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Something in the air
Atmosphere 
Something in my mind
Depression 
Where am I
Confession 
Addressing 
Distressing 
Testing trials and tribulation
Descending from atmosphere
Something in the air apparent 
Coming down from heaven
To relieve us.. 
JESUS 

2/14/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2020©...

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Bats are flying again.
It would not be distressing to me.
But I have a twin.

Bats in the house.
Swooping down on creamed cheese.
My twin screaming in a kind of wheeze.

We used to agree on most everything
But I like my bats. 
They have plenty of zing.

My identical twin is the prissy one.
Her idea for bats
Is in no way fun…...

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Deep are the questions, like quicksand sinking
Seeping into a restless mind pressing
Weeping with release, yet overthinking
Sleep comes uneasy with dreams distressing

Heaps of concepts lead to faulty linking
Steeping upon words without expression
Sheep are miscounted with rapid blinking
Leaping to conclude a wrong impression

12-10-2020...

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TROUBLE NOT THE BIRDS
Trouble not the birds, ye little children
Know ye not they're things by nature given us
To further funish every garden
Lovely, and to give us joy by singing?

Are you deaf when ever these
One are chirping
On that almond tree that spreads branches
Like a huge umbralla?
Its distressing
That in this land Birds aren't sweetly chanting...

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a throbbing ache emanating from the heart
infecting the blood that runs though its veins
pulsating a malicious toxic venom
contaminating every thought
distressing and impeding psychosomatic pain
mind over matter in a dark defeatist manner



AP: 3rd place 2020

Submitted on November 23, 2018 for contest WORD VISION POETRY IV sponsored by VERMILLION SCYTHE...

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Break me with madness
Kill me with sadness
Destroy all my love
Fill my heart with pain

Leave me to cry
Leave me to die
Alone with my thoughts
The world has turned to gray

Pain is a blessing
Love is distressing
Solitude is nice
It makes my thoughts much clearer

But when you are there
The state of my mind is in tear
Somehow it is much better
Feeling like I’m about to die...

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Stress is stressful. It stresses me out to be stressed.
It is distressing when we go through so much stress.
I wonder what life would be like with no stress-
Dead, asleep, dull, unexciting. Life is stressful.
We love life, so we must love stress, right? 
It is a necessary part of life. For every action there
is a reaction. The opposite of stress is inactivity,
no interaction, and BOREDOM....

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Make his bed he needs to sleep,
Undisturbed and in peace,
Brown sheets should be washed and clean
Laid out without any crease.

Take care to check the bedspread
Those pillows do not ignore,
For he’ll sleep much longer now
Than he has ever before.

Ensure no mellow sunshine,
Sweet birdsong nor worldly din,
Stirs him from his slumber deep
Distressing his rest within.
         ***********...

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A Man and his Song
Such were the booming cheers
The hailing and dancing 
That heralds the melodies
daily Meditations to the lyrics
Has become a harbinger of hope 
As the musical fire 
Ignites every distressing soul 
With each soothing tunes
Healing long lasting wounds 
While setting the pace
For enthralling thoughts  
as the lyrics 
causes a twerking away 
of the darkened clouds



 
...

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Into an opposing mirrored world
That is not always what it seems, 
I look for a pattern near or far, 
That reflects my fate and dreams.         
But what I see is not me,
It is something vague and vexing, 
Something mysterious, something lost, 
Something so distressing--
That I step back and look away 
From my reflected life’s reality
Before it seizes my soul in a vice-like grip 
And makes me face mortality.
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The deluge of the stream of life
floods my soul with distressing strife.
I feel my sense sink, and my plea, 
to divine bliss, O God, take me.

From the eroded shore rolling
I hear the distant bell tolling.
My essence crumbles in debris,
to divine bliss, O God, take me.

Away from the domain of sin,
my soul searches for peace within,
and seeks holiness to be free.
To divine bliss, O God, take me....

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it only takes a sideward 
glance 
to see you wave; my 
peripathetic mind 
takes in that sight of you. 
pain is but a stroke of luck 
and the decency of the hour 
id just a sideward glance that reminds 
me of my nature 
today i awoke with the consuming 
knowledge that i would 
abhor every passing minute 
you, so far up there, and i, 
alone... 
it makes me wonder, such a 
distressing thought, 
if by any chance you think of me too....

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French emancipation 

French women are free, well-educated and elegant,
but spend much time to attract men.
Easy of virtue, yet frantically look to get married to
a wealthy man, who can free them of distressing liberation.

They will intellectualize their misery, see themselves
as Sagan Melancholic, ye yarning to me middle class
housewives worrying about the price of garlic, meet
other wives and talk endlessly about equality....

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Sorrow overwhelms us as we think of you
Antics entertainment Heaven took from us
Sweet and kind and loyal knowing just the truth
Suddenly and unjustly without care or fuss
Agony continually storming upon us 

For You always grasped the Tone of Human Soul
Restless, curious Needle Lengenthing our Gap
And Above in Heaven angels still behold
Still the Shadow of Your Presence Haunts us 
Silent grief distressing more than moaning cries...

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A man so afflicted
Must divert distressing thoughts
And not combat with them
To attempt otherwise is madness
To have the compliance of the mind 
Is a great profound art
It may be attained in considerable degrees 
Let him take a cause of solidarity
And not fixate on the exclusion of normality
Let him reprimand his mind for it's indignation 
Let him contrive
To have as many retreats 
For his infinity of littleness 
That militates against aspirations...

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