Short Exacting Poems

tolls and trolls
the same
exacting a fee for passage
only difference
trolls go away...

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Ailing baby cats die exacting fear grief having inevitably just killed loving mothers not
only plainly questioning reasons some things understanding vile wrong-doing xanax yields
zealousness....

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REGRET

Resentment
Exacting its toll
Gouging the senses
Reexamining the 
Endless agony of
Tomorrow’s yesterdays.


10/16/2016


Submitted to  – REGRET – Poetry Contest
sponsor – Frank Herrera...

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She whimpers and whirs
She banters and she b****es
Tired of my abuse
She’s exacting her revenge
This may be my last message…

Look! She just censored my second line! 
This is total b*****s, PC!! What the h......

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Unum Carmen
 
Too many good thoughts
so many bad poems
The bridge to forever
exacting its toll
Too many to count
just one to remember
As beauty releases
—redeeming the soul
 
(The New Room: June, 2023)...

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Always            bore       condemnation,
but                 couldn't   deviate.
Circumvention   dared      erupt
Dad's              exacting   force.
   We both were very stubborn.


Seven way ABC poem...

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Broken bones, black and blue, bumps and bruises
Conniving, consticting, concealing, convincing
Demented, deplorable, disgusting,  distrusting
Expendable, expensive, exasperating, exacting
I am so used to being mistreated, used and abused...

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Ethereal enigma echoed empathic eel ‘s emotional elevation
Elongated elusive elephant-like Edison expected ectoplasm
Extrasensory efforts of exacting Ellis effortlessly eludes evildoers
Exasperating empathetic eel and elusive ethereal enigma...

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Another Beiderbecke
Compact disc
Exacting feverous,
Gratifying harmonious
Idyllic Jazz.
Kings, Lords, make noble
Obeisance portraying
Qualifying
Ratifications.
Some, tendering
Unqualified verity, when
Exuberant youth
Zonked!

© Harry J Horsman  2010...

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Take these thoughts within your mind.
One should know what suffering is.
Realizing if you are questioning the act,
Then it must be cruelty in some form.
Universally if it causes suffering at all,
Reality is that the act must be torment.
Exacting the realization, this act is, Torture...

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Fallacy....inappropriate fantasy

Fantasy.....anticipated reality

Reality.....imaginative stability

Stability.....exacting security

Security....forfeiture from fallacy......

Vain glory be hi-story......infamy be thy shame
baneful flourish from ruse historic,
enemies created to blame.........

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DEPICTIONS
reality
  identified
 the compact
entitled
reflected
 looking confused
a
deconstructed
  legend
 rendered
&proclaimed

perhaps a
 disconnect
 in retrospective
 on showing
the  perils
of verbosity
in
explanatory notes
exacting
a
symbolic revenge
in
unexpected
 directions...

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September’s serendipitous serenade
Evokes the ebullience of ecstasy 
Provokes a prancing promenade
Tingeing the torrid leaf tips
Exacting an elemental excitements
Monumental majesty
Blue-black horizons blending
Exotically enigmatic exigencies
Ruby reds rollicking in the Rockies


John G. Lawless
©9/1/2018...

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The sadness is amazing:
How wide its shores,
How long its darkness,
How high its' cries-
How it engulfs me, 
Pins me to the board,
How exacting its' target.
Then
How right is its moor,
Tied to the dock,
Settling,
No longer breathing,
Just staying
In its white and gray waves,
Just bobbing, sloshing,
Staying....

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He thundered the ivory
Defacing the melody
Lost deep within himself
He focused upon exacting
Icy surgical anguish
His digits stressing past
Mutilated bodies
Of tortured quarry
As silence fell
He inhaled his victory
Jubilant in his bloodbath
Those gathered celebrated
Calling for revelry
Praising the executioner...

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Once
Back in time
A life or two
There lived a loving soul
The words he’d rhyme
Where meant for you
To know when you were old
And in this generation
I find in veneration
Sweet exacting finite truth
Repeating to extol 
Youth’s  swiftly dancing  role
In this road there is a toll
And the travel makes you whole
Again...

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Fierce am I, and fearless
Challenging the shades of winter
Taunting its dreaded demise
Mocking the shadow's prognostication
Tickling the timid hearts
Of somnambulant lovers
Arising to a chilling challenge
I stand the guardian of March’s madness
Exacting a toll on all who pass
For I am February
And I hold no heart
But yours
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Take madness to good use
dawn of abilities tasty juice
threads of sympathies intension
possessions and its self-assertion
to reach the beloved in vain
and love itself as gain

loading the heart of another
subtle pain and dust cover
love that is a exacting pled
self-assertive reasons dead
living means to hope survive
hoping means to live...

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Immersion in a regal 
carnage. Ash colored dawn
was gang-raped.

A bullet-ridden sexism 
shuts out the fame.
Starts a chilling confession.

O, my orion
I adore your ruffled
stance. Do not make a kill. 

Sunflower, why your
seeds were participating
in bonfire of a moon ?

They came for a sexual 
encounter. But found a prism
exacting a gun. 



Satish Verma...

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The days of May were wrapped around my finger.
Love settled in as though it meant to stay,
Exacting joy as if pressed through a wringer.
The days of May.

In June and July love went a bit astray,
Living as a strolling minstrel singer.
Gone was the sweet contentment of our May.

Then as the cold winter days would linger
Love sought the warmth of that sweet early day
Before it tried that reckless time as swinger.
The days of May....

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He wrote four lines of poetry
before retiring to his bed
falling off to sleep instantly.
His subconscious was unperturbed
from any indigestibles
eaten earlier while writing.
His dreams were clear, limitable,
inimitable, exacting
like the four lines of poetry
he had meticulously wrote.
Upon wakening, his psyche
through these dreams began to take note 
of the images that hit home
and found the words for his poem....

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Contractions will come
Laboring actions are near
Even for life's end

Birth from beginning
Holds no exacting promise
Trial and error

Moving on the path
Silently moving forward
Looking back is hard

Rest is soon needed
Maintaining the stamina
For life's obstacles

Forgiving the past
Requires a steady heart beat
No time for panic

Freedom for being
All that you were meant to be
Is always so close

Time for holding on
Escapes with a little sigh
Letting relief in...

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