Short Flattened Poems

crushed hopes

bitter defeat

flattened ant

disillusionment

all is lost...

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yellow butterfly
wingspan dramatic in sun -
a flattened raccoon...

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soft down
buttery
on flattened what grass
quick bird starts up into the sun
early dark...

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Black heap
Screaming
In silence

Nerves ripped
Heart flattened

Disconnected

Unblessed...

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Past the layby fly
Cars with petrol in their tanks
Going home for tea
We're not going anywhere
Pancake flattened battery

by Gail...

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So many cities
flattened by angry waves
wind-borne suffering.

[Originally penned as response to someone's poem here, but altered a tiny bit]...

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Washed and dried and fluffed and curled,
Sprayed to hold the look in place.
Into the rain and it unfurled,
Wet and flattened all over my face....

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Knowledge mimics power
Conquered falseness levels

Flattened social meaning
Stops as study strengthens

Smiles embedded surface
Mighty critics vanish....

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The wind
always gets things moving.

The flattened Marlboro 
cigarette package
cartwheels
across the street
before the light
changes.

But don't we all?...

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Lilies white,
Red, blue and yellow,
Jutting from out the pond, 
Pad broad and flattened out
But not one frog to sit.

Schools of gold
Some of white
With few of ebony....

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Hippo in a Tree

If you saw a Hippo, sitting in a tree, 
One thing is certain, as certain can be, 
Upon my word, then I’ll be bound, 
A tree and a Hippo, flattened on the ground....

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pillow pinched, plumped, plopped
pummeled, punched, flattened, flopped, dropped
at long last got up
french-press-boiled fresh-ground coffee
supplements insomnia...

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what am i doin in this bed,
what is that big shiela, Fred,
oh my God, just strike me ded,
she's lunging at me,
she's flattened Ned.... 

re:

Russell Sivey  'sweet sweet passion'

Don...

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Squirrel roadkill
       flattened by unheeding wheels
       No! He escaped!!




A note to readers: The squirrel escaped and wasn't flattened into roadkill. My apologies for my lack of clarity....

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Wavy
Flattened
Flying
To Kite
When in the sky. 
Thousands
Happy eyes
Saw cut. 
  
Hundreds of feet
Same number of high hands
Get help
On
Regret
With every help
Him
Seen plundered....

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BEAVER LOVE

I have always fancied a beaver me, but: I have this fear, as I live in a log cabin 
Out to town to get my groceries and coming home to find my house flattened

Indiana Shaw . . . ; )...

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Life’s on
The move
These days
Days go by
Like a flattened
Mosquito on eye
Can we recall
This life
Leave our 
Bodies behind
To be recycled
Rip out our souls
Off that wall
Of hate
Or will
We break...

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8 12ish #2

Decked out in gorgeous red,
Lilies white, violet, blue and yellow
Jutting out from the pond,
Pads broad and flattened out
But not one frog to sit.
Schools of gold,
Some to faded white
With few of ebony....

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Wearing her crown of dark cascades,
Her wooden staff with a flattened blade
Burying her secrets dark and deep
Of tri-tangos and bloody reaps
Adorned in shadows with reddened glaze,
All hail,
The Queen of Spades....

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Flattened and covered
In wicked water
A vindictive vision
Where disease diffuses
And people lose their words
And lives
I sit here helpless
As you feebly float, fighting
Only a true warrior 
Will win this battle...

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Tarquin wore a top hat
Sometimes called a topper
He loved to wear his top hat
As he was prim and proper
One day while strolling casually
Not causing any fuss
A gust of wind blew off his hat
Which flattened it under a bus...

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She was out there in the dark
A brooding, angry monster
She attacked, screaming in fury
Wind gauges flattened and futile
She came to purge, to cleanse...

*Wind speed estimated at 230 MPH 
Sumitted for: Black Eyed Susan's contest...

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an old man's mouth
nose dives

the slumping drawbridge
of an flattened fortress

rocketing obscenities fallout
fissioned lips as overtaxed
silkworms labor on

spinning cesium shrouds
to hide our dead
from presidential eyes...

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Here, but not touched.
Waiting...
for none but another ending.
Figurative pages are flexed, flattened
and shadows remain ungrasped.
Breath is unready for impact.
Staring at a stationary page marker stone,
I observe the outcome....

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For all you know
I could be hanging
In an all but empty closet
I could be flattened
Beneath a once moving vehicle
Or laid out, cracked and motionless
On a nearby sidewalk
For all you know
I could be gone
And for all I know
You don’t care...

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