Short Drying Up Poems

starfish sacrifice
sitting at the waters edge
softly drying up...

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drying up stream bed
wet cracking sun heated stones
deer lick minerals...

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Black gold is unearthed
Because the stream's drying up
No fish for my dish...

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A saving grace from
The stormiest weather 
A sun to shine down upon
Drying up my sopping tears
To place them in a basin of
Your love...

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You are the rain seeping through my skin.
You are the lighting that struck my heart.
You are the thunder pounding in my chest.
You are the sun drying up the rest....

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Lungs filled with water  
Salt drying up your mouth 
The pain feels like fire
Every muscle in your body 
feeling like your gonna explode   
Dieing for a last glimpse of the sun
Wanting at least 
one more moment of life...

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All the gold in Thomaston
Is in fancy banks uptown, hun
There are two on the square
Just waiting to use lair
To capture your funds then you're done


(Our town is drying up
Today I noticed that
it only seems that
the banks are prospering.)...

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Never alone in a make out world 
with her face pressed upon a window pane 
her breath exhaling a misty dew 
with a finger letters she writes 
drying up once a shine glass 
inhaling the air 
deep into her soul 
breathing the letters of your name 
on her heart....

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Oh, wow! 
How pictorial
You did paint 
Your painful plight 
Made so attractive 
As picture with 
Stinging tears 
Drying up. 

Frowning,
I so admire 
The sad art of 
A great thousands 
Of little thoughts 
To still spare 
Till the moro 
Daybreak....

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Rows of sprouted thoughts have withered
dying of thirst, drying up in a field of grief,
and I, their neglectful sower, helplessly sit
as time elapses, watching them expire.



November 1, 2021
Liberum Divisa 8 Contest
sponsor:: Gregory R. Barden
Excerpt from 'The Bereft Poet' 1/24/21...

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There is a distinct fuzziness in her mind
Her dendrite highway is drying up, cracked like broken concrete.
Cloudy thinking keeps her off the path of clarity.
She dares not let the others know.
Wait!
They are also using drugs; perhaps they already know?
She breathes easier.
Happily lapsing into her final coma....

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Oceans become warmer causing winds to blow warmer.
Glaciers melt and subside making the oceans rise.
Less snow less rain drying up the rivers and planes.
Fires wild do roar burning forests to their floor. 
When the rain does come violent floods do run.
Landslides result when parched and scorched grounds are soaked....

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Let the trees grow strong
Without fear of being chopped
Let our oceans be clean
Without fear of being polluted
Let the animals roam free 
Without fear of death
Let the land be plentiful
Without fear of being barren
Let the earths water keep flowing
Without fear of drying up 
Please let our precious earth 
Just be…....

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Flashes of bliss
My littles soul bless. 
Allowing my cheeks a blush
And my heart a rush.

Letting go of sorrow 
And accepting a blissful morrow.
Drying up my tears,
Casting away my cares.

Flashes of bliss,
Showers of happiness,
Torrents of bleessedness,
Moments of bliss.

Now and forevermore,
Bliss shall my soul bless....

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A nameless pond is drying up
lily is showing off her green wooden leg
extending a green cup toward the clouds
green glass frogs are chanting in the shallows
a square dance caller flashes a red bow tie 
red eared sliders turn the potter's wheel
around a muddy dime.
Death square dances with life
in the middle of this nameless pond....

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Summertime hot, bright yellow star blazing. Day after day suns rays relentless.
Heatwave in full swing, no rain in site.
Bright blue up above, no clouds in the view.
Everything drying up turning brown and crunchy.
Crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch.
Crunch, crunch goes the brown crunchy grass as I walk.
Crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch....

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We are burning?
the boats.
Freckled in the sun.
The river was drying up.

The stupid moon,
will not listen, was 
in love with lake. One 
day the water 
will flow.

Do you believe in 
rebirth of a universe?
from the fallen
debris of life ?

The dead man will 
walk out from the shroud, 
to reclaim, 
the lost integrity. 


Satish Verma...

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Can't you believe their watery eyes.
Can't you hear their muffled cries.
Not getting enough to eat,
The flicker of hope they shall keep.

Water drying up in the Savannah heat,
For help, they will pleed.

Little children snatched away,
From the one who has not
..Yet decayed.

Families suffering drought,
Asking America.. "why can't they help?"
This. Is. Africa....

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Smell the summer air
Blowing everywhere
Drying up the drops of rain.
In this seasons breeze
Wheat fields grow with ease
Barley, corn and sugar cane.

Sun is beating down
Warming up the ground.
Dandelion seeds float free.
Wild flowers with grace
Daisy’s happy face,
Waiting for a date with bee.

Written by Brenda Meier-Hans 
08.30.2014
For contest A Lovely Alouette
4th...

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Brick by brick
I build it up.....
Brick by brick
I'm working at forgetting
Brick by brick
This pain keeps returning.....
Brick by brick
My fear is choking me
Brick by brick
The tears are drying up
Brick by brick
I realize my heart's broken
Brick by brick
I hate myself
Brick by brick
I only think of you.....
Brick by brick
Why can't I say.....
I Love You..................

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My days are passing by
My hairs are turning gray
I wait for you to come
On a blessed happy day
My smooth skin is wrinkling
Like a crumpled paper 
My hopes are vanishing
Like camphor in the air
My beauty is fading
Like a drying up rose
My dreams are being shattered
By many tornadoes
It makes me hot-tempered
Like a lion of zoo
I know you are out there
Why don’t you want me too?...

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In your eyes I see the world shadowed lost, and cold
Reaching out for the comfort of someone to hold
In your smile I feel the sun 
Drying up my tears until there are none 
Every touch of your hand
Seems more than my body can withstand 
Can you feel my love for you
Even though I'll never break through
Never will I forgive you or ever pretend 
That your iridescent soul doesn't have me until the end...

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                              whizzing through the grass

                            with sun and wind in her hair -

                                         unique vehicle

                              world's rivers are drying up

                              watermelon quenches thirst








10.07.2022
Tanka - 5-7-5-7-7
Sun :) - A-L Andresen :)
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Old age is bound to come knock at our door,
And knock us right unto the floor.
Once we have woke who we were...
We are no more.
We have let time slip out of our hands,
To caught up in life demands.
Not noticing our lives Fading away like a rose petal,
Drying up and flying away like a feather.
Once all the things we have done catches up with us,
We will wish there was something we could have savored....

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The sun rose in the sky. 
Day temperature was rising. 
All noise stopped. 
The wind started to stop. 
The intensity of the sun spread around. 
The streets were empty. 
The leaves of some trees were shaking. 
Excluding warm air from the south .
The sun was burning in his heart. 
Body almost burnt The river pond was drying up. 
The day was hot All the animals returned home. 
Morning passed and noon came....

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