Short Festered Poems

First I felt the pinch of pain 
and it festered in my oyster brain
till it became a pearl...
a poem dropped into the world....

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Less lustered now, the once proud sheen
Of that silken-petaled rose,
As from the wilting touch of a hundred hands
Its fragrance, festered flows....

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the Wuhan bat
we've already seen quite enough of that
the Baseball bat, sadly sequestered,
closeted now, we cannot bear to look, it festered....

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Mister Custer developed a blister
Then the blister just started to fester
He fostered a fluster
the faster it festered
Flustered Custer cussed the festered blister...

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Circles

You fall upon familiar, years later,
circular pathways to festered beginnings. 

If only a good thing formed a circle.
You could trust it,
returning to a familiar that was OK.

5/7/2018

'Charm me ~' Poetry Contest...

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Once I had the opportunity
For hard-earned, sweet success
But I yawned instead and spurned my chance
To labour and progress

And so my potential festered
Scorned sourly in defeat
Now I am left with vinegar
In place of honey sweet....

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*Image of Kid Tears by Pixabay.


Teardrop


A vision plummets
atop a face carved of stone.
Living waters confession ...
pools festered regrets.


2022 May 08
*1st Place*
Naani
~~Joseph May: Judged 2022 May 23

*HMS: 5,7,7,5 = 24...

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My bigotry festered and grew
then out of control it just blew
but I just couldn't see
since you're different from me
surely I must be different from you

(A kneejerk reaction poem about the man who abused then
tore the Hijaab off a Muslim woman on a local train , last weekend)...

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All around us
Has to go on
Us, we humans
Should sing the same song
 
Where we are
And where we be
Its the same rules
In any country
 
To treat each other just the same
Sing together, play the game
Banish the grief
End the pain
 
Eradicate 
Our festered parts
Unite neighbourhoods
Restart...

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fondue's folksy fiendish foolish fiery Phoebe
fondly followed foppish fish foraging fibster Fee
ferocious foggy falls focus folklore fancy-free
fifty-fifty finnish fish foisted fiddle faddle fantasy
foolhardy footprint festered foofaraw foxy
feuding French fowls feverishly fighting fibster fee
fortunate footstools fostered finished folksy Phoebe
folly of finding feverishly fertile f-words is forever up to me....

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Vultures vomit scraps of my festered heart
as they feast upon bodies of the past.
My mind shakes as I watch their souls depart.
The luminescent world now overcast.
Alone with corpses, wishing I wasn't last.
My conscious is frozen here for years.
I pray to escape upon vacant ears.
Yet the universe has decided my fate.
My memories with them turn into smears.
Now I can only wait by death's gate.
~
12/13/19...

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Framed by mankind her voice turned raw.

For toxins had tainted ambrosia

and festered in her child to gnaw

framed by mankind; her voice turned raw

in grief for deaths to come. She saw

in court why she must fight inertia. 

Framed by mankind her voice turned raw

for toxins had tainted ambrosia.


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Date: 23 / 11 / 2016...

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Your Destination 
Will Be By Choice
Written: By Tom Wright
5-24-2006 

Many are they who’ve departed my past
Some have taken that Heavenly flight.
Forever they dwell in God’s arms at last
In a place where there cometh no night!

But death found some not to be as sheep
Their soul festered beyond blemish or blot.
Weighed and wanting, their eternal sleep 
Found distress where the worm dieth not.
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My battered razor cut tormented heart 
So tender so heavy and full of tears      
My heart sunk into the consuming unforgiving fathoms
Of the darkest deepest coldest sea
The waves never washed the tears away
The crimson blood bled and dispersed diluted
Eventually vanishing into obscurity
The pincushion remains of my tender heart
Just festered and decayed
Under layers and layers of silt
Never missed unloved, out of sight
And out of reach....

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DARKER   SHADES.



Have you known some darker shades
Ever bitter vested in hand held grief
Like bolting of steed in fast uplands
Onslaught of undines in yelped streams.

Ancient roads kept in disturbed sleep
Under dripping afternoons of grey storm
There banishment of hope and despair
An adjustment in some vespered norm.

To make physical pain less lonely
A loneliness like sceptred face of time
A fresh start in some polluted airs
To purify festered strains of the mind....

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Too fiery breathing at point zero oh so it seems
baked I feel roasted my heart to blink once and out goes day
my knight and shining armour words bleed out of my mouth pouring like angry fumes of a festered wound
I ran a little too fast
I walked a little too slow
the ground knows me well
on it I lay me to count the passing of tear 
to water me a shoot of love
lay me down to sleep dangling in the mist of air
written "I was there....contorted heart"
I was there!!...

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Smitten


He was smitten with love for her;
by that arrow deep and sure.
A gooey warmth between them;
filling the heart all within.

But, loves shaft, festered, stinking foul;
to gangrenous, aching howl.
Through steamy glass his love moaned;
as he stood outside alone.

Those barbs cannot be reversed;
holding fast in a soul feeling cursed.
 Longing for the lost one gone, 
to the breast of a different one.

Love hates separating pain;
so forgives again and again....

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Tears stained my little sheets, my soul aches,

Fears was I knew as a child, I was so scared,

Cheers were foreign to me, didn’t get breaks,
 
Spears of hate festered within, life unprepared,


Why did I suffer such unbearable pain, and hurt,

My experience as a child scared me to the core,

I wondered why I was even alive, I felt like dirt,

By the time I‘m grown my existence was a bore,








Contest: Let’s Write A Lento
Sponsor: Dear Heart
01/11/2020...

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Hate! what a word
In this world of ours
Festered to our core
Oozes from our pores.
 
Religion-ed neighbours 
Harbour Hate
Why?
In this worldly state.
 
We can only pray
It's not all around
We can't all be
So dumbfound.
 
Neighbour to neighbour
Friend to friend
When it comes to Religion
I can't comprehend.
 
As each new generation
Comes along
Hopefully the word hate
Will be long gone
It should never have been a word
For this world to take
This word Hate should Abate....

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