Short Erratically Poems

moral compass - needle moving erratically...

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brood
close by
sustain you
no matter what  
throb if they behave erratically.


Written: February 12, 2022...

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Like endless words
emotionally meant
Like tideless memories
erratically spent
Like dreams that weave
a few days content
Like flameless smoke
love lies dormant...

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I danced with the devil once

A frenzied dance indeed

Only had the one dance

More than enough for me


The devil danced the Fandango

Wild and erratically 

If ever we cross paths again

No more whooping it up with the devil for me!...

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I flit and flutter on the wind
blown as the spirit leads,
drawn by colour and intense needs,
my journee erratically unfolds-
I alight,spread my wings,
in still life,to make poets sing.

A sixain inspired by a garden view on holdiday recently and by Wordsworth poem 'The 
Butterfly...

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salt crusted fish bone 
caught within tangled seaweed... 
high tide offering

hermit crab scuttles
erratically on sand... 
waving eyes on stalks 

opened mouthed seashells 
coated with wind driven sand...
change in the weather 


22 September 2022 
syllable counter... poetry soup...

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The butterfly danced in the air careless,
silent, elusive, circling the room erratically.

Occasionally it’s iridescence
would reflect, as it floated by, 
on the blank white paper, long on my desk.

The soft breeze from the open widow,
on which the creature was carried 
now an invisible barrier to its escape....

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Nihilist :
Being observed,
makes you feel undressed, naked.
A linear, ramp rage
rises.

Pieces of time 
fall in your mouth. You start behaving 
erratically. Hawthorne effect ?
You know how sharp, stout
are the stings ?

Testicles shrink.
The unrelenting zero burns the fat.
The emptiness was howling.
Time was dying,
and dying was time.


Satish Verma...

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Stunted
Head bowed
He shuffles along
Scared he might stumble

Hesitant
Hands  twitchy
He drags himself
Terrified of all around

Powerless
Eyes nervous
He glances erratically
Intimidated by people passing

Haunted
By memories
He turns around
Glancing back at time

Staring at an incident, an act of man
That crippled his emotions as only a human can....

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What does the light ho for the vast u
Vniverse our spaceship was vflying erratically 
svomething was vrong
I attract the virus
Computer vucks vzzz, vrzzz
 
It was an epic
Vaga the song vooked on them 
My favorite band "confunkshun" 
Vell  vrr va a vzzz
Vwe all know what that vean
 in the desire of slime

Voon vogan crash lands 
Vo

2/28/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr  2021...

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Life has many ups and downs
many things can turn around
it is placing our faith and hope
on his loving grace.

Life can take you into darkness
where you feel no spark
it can lift your spirit high
as you soar into the sky.

Life is unpredictable
it will swing erratically
one moment up then down
eventually you touch even ground.

What lies ahead 
is an unknown factor
live each day the best 
life takes care of the rest....

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Creatures of nature
Nature’s creations of life
Deliver ingeniously
Call of the crow slow
Disappearing in a mist
Reappearing once again
Whipple wills whistle
Loud to soft they continue
Near but far they speak sharply
Wind flowing constant
Every direction then
Lazily departing up
Raindrops heartedly
Drift silently until stopped
Creating wondrous quick sounds
Bees flying so low
Flutter erratically
Creating sizzling humming...

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Erratically you 
 
It was by chance I came to Portugal.
I was a failure in Norway and a bigger loser in Britain.
I could not absorb a culture that makes the working-class
dumb workers and ignorant soldiers.
It was a day in May when I came here, didn´t want to live
by the coast, which was like living in Liverpool with sunlight.
I bought a ruin/stable got local workers to help me restoring the place.
One day I looked up and said: “I´m home.”...

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He rolled on the ground erratically, 
as though his body was filled with
embers. Villagers gathered around him, 
some whose mouths were agape.
Another child of the sun 
had been accused 
of interacting with a water
sprout, a domain which was reserved
 only for the gods. The elders had
initially agreed the boy would be excommunicated 
deep into the
wilderness, but his mother pleaded, 
in the midst of tears. Quitting
exorcism was out of question....

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Midnight

The clock strikes twelve!
The Hiding Hyde's wake up

Sleepless nights
With blank eyes wide open

The dead ghosts of your life
Don't let your eyelids droop

Actionable entanglements
Quake your damp pillows

Overinflated remorse
Erratically updates you at night 

These midnight attacks sadly
Terminate the silent sleep 

The days pass by peacefully, but
The midnight hours are unrequited 

November 12, 2015
Contest: Midnight
Sponsor: Nathan D....

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Love is not fully understood
Until you have a life of your own
“Fox in Socks”
One million times
Twenty shades of mud
After a long summer’s day
Energetic jumping beans 
Spilling erratically on the floor
Endless boo-boos to kiss
Invisible to all others
Premature voices calling out
In the still of the night
Tiny fingers probing your eyes and ears
Pinchers that never let go
Sleepy attempts to stay awake
“Play nice.  I stay up?”
“One more kiss, Mommy”
One more kiss...

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Translating some sentences a day 
I see words of sorrow 
roll on paper, 
feel my mustache 
and hair hesitate to grow, 
and fail to grasp months and days. 

Translating some sentences a day
I see the ink 
print deeply the sorrow, 
scattering on paper 
my millions of lifetimes in exile.  

Translating some sentences a day, 
I see my hand
hold the pen erratically, 
feel the pain arise 
from liver and guts, 
and let words of sorrow freeze my fingers.

By Phan Tan Hai...

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Dancer
                       Non-conformist
                     Delicate   butterfly
               Wondrous Bohemian beauty
              Colours dance erratically over
                The inanimate gardenscape
                      Capricious  frolicking
                        Unknown Rhythm 
                               Dancer





20th July 2022
Radical Rictameter Contest Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Caren Krutsinger
2 4 6 8 10 8 6 4 2  poetrysoup.com syllable counter...

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