Short Encumbered Poems

Our days are numbered
It will end soon or later,
Don't be encumbered....

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With incubus and succubus entwined
Coitus tactic - keep up the spellbind! 
The product of deep slumber - once matured, 
Zombie, encumbered on us! Rest assured.

March 7, 2023...

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Huddled beneath the cherry trees, two doves
suppress exhalation yawn, both in love.

Darken encumbered clouds nudge falling rain;
they coo and listen together remain.

3/16/2023...

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When we speak
some whispers 
sense a hiss,
encumbered hushes
say nothing...
When we ask
how chances lost
remind us why 
Each sentence tears
a willing smile down
If by chance again we asked
...nothing good
would emerge...

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Satan’s Voice
By: Tom Wright
10-2005 

That reminding voice that whispers in my ear,
Rouses thoughts that long have slumbered.
But forgiveness has erased all guilt and fear,
Now by erstwhile deeds I’m not encumbered.
...

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It's been a mild winter;
grateful for this
in a light jacket
I feel unwrapped early
less encumbered
sniffing the air
like a bear
leaving her den

no cubs though
too old for that,
and have grown
far too wise
not to fear
the responsibility
of loving.......

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A season of brotherliness, 
Times of friendliness,
Cities and homes wear different shades,
Boundless joy pervades
the weary and encumbered hearts, 
Celebration is spiced with savoury tarts.



December 6, 2022.
Bitesize Poem No. 56 Poetry Contest,
Line Gauthier....

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“The strange is the inscription on the wall seen by the gifted. It’s the enigma they run from.”
                         - Quote by Poet 

Losing sight of the light,
Encumbered by the night,
The daylight is not freedom’s way,
There’s a strange for each day.


March 10, 2025....

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Life's subtle challenge;
A series of races
Between her pursuit 
Of painted faces
And encumbered, 
fleeting motivation,
Births an unprecedented 
Means of education.
What are friends for, 
If not a point in the right direction?
Look there, Alice.
What do you see in the reflection?...

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DESCENT OF THE GEESE

defying levitation,
they wangled wings in unison-
breaking over the cresting waves
as sundown beckoned loneliness

war, starvation, hypocrisy, 
nothing of man mattered,
only encumbered rest was real

no expectation, no disappointments
secure together, rest, assured...

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We put the urn aboard ship.
Excubant vigil by starlight kept. 
Cradled in a zephyr grip, 
distant, the desolate catacomb crept.
Homeward, encumbered vessels slip
adorned in the dreams of those who slept.

Preston Graham
Submission for contest: Complete The Lines
Hosted by: nette onclaud
07/25/15
Line 5 - Sappho...

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the sound of all thought
encumbered by self
escapes to freedom
unchained and released
with pranayama

in harmony
each cell listens
still-life poses
in hushed repose

asana
deep waves of
tidal breaths

centered
I am....

found





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For Tahera's Contest "Yoga"...

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Encumbered with the walker
blankets for the wet bench,
sheets of water splashing the cement.
I ventured to my smoking spot
face hidden inside my hooded coat.

I light my fire stick,

letting drops of water 
reverberate on my hood.

My angel came walking by
called my name;

gave me her umbrella and kept on walking....

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Encumbered soft with sorrow’s ghost
      Alone among the torpid souls 
   A shadow grows at evening’s host
  Your name dims gently with the sun 
   With every dusk, my heart undone
    Old conversations – sacred scrolls
    The night unfolds, our love rerun
      Sweet sanity returns - almost

                  ABACCBCA...

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Satan’s Voice
By: Tom Wright
10-2005

That reminding voice that whispers in my ear,
Rouses thoughts that long have slumbered.
But forgiveness has erased all guilt and fear,
Now by erstwhile deeds I’m not encumbered.


Sooner or later an ill wind blows for each of us,
We err in assuming that it will always be later!
Tom Wright
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When I awake  
My thoughts encumbered
I see you there 

As I sit in my favorite spot
drinking my favorite tea
I see you there 

Then before work
I do the every day things
one does before I take my leave
I reach for my keys
I see you there

The worlds beauty around me
No voice do I hear
No words he shares
He is nobody nowhere
and yet
I see you there...

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The Peace of God

Peace! You're blissful, we want you
In our hearts, on the planet
Truly, you will make humanity free.

Inasmuch as there is peace true,
This wide world encumbered with torment
Positively will always know upbeat glee.

The Peace of God is due
Primal, and excels all conventions, steadfast
It will flourish in us copiously.

©Lukman Nurudeen Adeniyi...

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Emerging early morn light, sated with vitality

Encumbered after a hard day's battling mundanity, 

mentality over humanity morality 

They look for signs and trusts yet straddle shade reality

unfailing urbanity, humour, and formality 

Inanity pranks, part volcanity profanity 

 unmistakable, undeniable, brutality

insanity resulting sometimes in fatality


1/22/2016...

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What's one to do when right tight finances
prevent travel, tipping and hot ballroom dances?

What's one to do when bureaucracy’s failures
bind innocent hours of time seeking court's favor?

What's one to do when the men who seem sweet
are encumbered by narcissism, women or weed?

Meditation and prayer move when weekdays provoke...
Friday night hot bath, red wine, chill jams. Let's get soaked!...

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I am burdened by the weight of three
One trudges while the other two watch
Hopeful for their destiny is tied to the one
Past becoming fat by his efforts
Future attempting to run ahead
While the encumbered toil over daily bread
Blood and tears sustain the two wretches
Nourished by their insatiable greed
Careless of their effect so long as they breathe
Past, present, future cursed trinity...

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Listen to poem:

I breathe in your out breath
exhalations spare from death 
mouth to mouth resuscitation 
my existence just a fabrication
   drumming on the optic nerve
   become part visceral part verve
   with electrical impulses sparking
   hand on heart as it's restarting
rebreathing hours they are numbered
time elapses become encumbered 
stop when world begins to spin
I regenerate as I breathe you in


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W inds whip  lassos of snow encumbered razor rodeo ropes

I ce glare blinding beauty stealing sane men’s secret hopes

N ever mind the sun has wandered down a lonesome trail

T ethered now to mountains so the twilight sky looks frail

E dgy nights attack lone hearts with blue brained Northern Lights

R iling men to suicide on endless time dead nights



V Anderson-Throop  Jan 2015
Valdez, Alaska...

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The way is clear and not encumbered. 
No shoving with my feet and labored, 
breath. 
I walk and smell no roses. 
I feel my life instead of death. 
The sky is blues and sunny. 
The clouds are white and far away. 
The snow is absent around about me. 
I sense the absence of the snow. 
It must be what Heaven will be. 
No snow or ice or death. 
I will kiss you all someday. 
When I am there. 
Gone away. 
To rest....

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Resurrection Sunday
April 16th 2017
Written: by Tom Wright

The passageway to Heaven is a toll road,
From which many a u-turn has been made.
But If you seek Heaven as your final abode,
From the narrow you can’t have strayed.

This is only foolish to those not knowing,
That sin’s assessment was paid at the cross.
And someday they’ll reap what their sowing,
If they’ve lived life encumbered with dross.
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the sentence,perdition
no move to acquit
on trial for offenses
hand tailored to fit

no pardon forthcoming
a curse she proclaims
then yields up her life
to the withering flames

and yet time never ending
as crime will avow 
forever impending
from then to the now

where in uterine slumber
a shadow appears
of a spirit encumbered
with malice and fear

and it's memory burns
like the devils own den=
God no!......NOT AGAIN!!!!!...

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