Short Gaunt Poems

The cabin.
Gaunt and weathered
was the grave.
The old man
crying inside....

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Countless
gaunt faces
bewildered and pathetic
staring while passing in
droves...

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James Thomas Horn

would be rather gaunt
letters were in a weird font
which would have to haunt...

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one kiss from you like a heroin high
a gaunt shadow hull without
love the key to cure all  ...

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A friendly poet RavinNVRmore
Writes poetry that you can’t ignore
A Poe fan I wonder
A phrase she did plunder
From the gaunt and ominous bird of yore...

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Dream leaf “fall” usher
motley hue cascade unfurled
dull grey sky gaunt sun
mud strewn pockmarks on limp moss
wet nabs ripe fruit orchard splurge 
...

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Its transparent and I can see right in and deep,
there is nothing of substance,
its an unending creek,
an unusual light illuminates it,
beating the dark,
this is crevice in my soul and heart....

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Autumn leaves
in the color of the sun
feed the Earth

Branches bare and gaunt
decorate the sky...
life in disguise

The crow descends
and observes
humanity in winter

Spring whispers;
crocuses stir
and meet the sun...

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She's tough.
Ana's tougher.
Barely seventeen, five stone
Gaunt and battered, she stands alone
Dependent on the lone knife that slays her.
I wish I could, she tells her food.
But Ana says I can't.
One day, she'll win.
She's tough....

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Quiet descends on the town
  The horizon deepest blue
Tufts and wisps of clouds long departed
  Shadowy forms in their wake

A gaunt figure threads his way
  through deserted marketplaces
All too aware, indeed
  of the onset of Night...

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D~ormant this volcano was; a rock face,
E~ver cynical and mute, gaunt and cold
S~now covers the peak and the hollow place
I~nside a burning heart is kept on hold.
R~esistance fails; love like lava's trace
E~ruptions of emotion, rare as gold....

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Grief
gnaws at my aching heart
greets my awakening,
grins within the sunbeams
gathers empty teardrops
garnished with memory’s
gaunt unfocused vision
goring life’s bloodied bull.


11/22/2015

submitted to – Pleiades, Please – poetry contest
sponsor – Kim Merryman...

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Hunger sails the horizon,
Like a ship lost at sea.

The cast of castaways,
Drift slowly past me.

Hollowed and gaunt,
Empty orbs that pray.

The faces that haunt,
Just another sad day.

The blind lead the blind,
For the scraps we amass.

Does anyone notice,
As they suffer the past?...

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smile seeped'n acme
crushed by punctured
moaning metamorphoses met
rustic switch rent

grotesque grips gaunt
tumbling twain taunt
oozing odds sprout

saucy sauce swell
damped smirking dressed
felon fosters fell
 
smile's salient reincarnation
spanked saucy alakazam.
    20:01:18:11:11...

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in the icy darkness
beyond our garden 
foxes are screaming
framed by air frost
stars sparkle above
the clouds of my breath
the moon is weeping
the gaunt branches
of winter trees
framed by the night sky
agonised silent cries
a long note of a flute
wails away into 
the darkness of eternity
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track mysteriously tarred
gaunt gold grasped
training taunting gaze
coarse crumbling create
bewitching trait basked
in taciturn trail

as sagged sun
seeped'n dawn's lust
pokes fiery tongue

or callous colleen
treacherous tits gleam
though saucy spree

so and so
grotesques'n glimmers glow.
    20:01:17:06:51...

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face like string
gaunt guitar split
rustic rhythm bleeds
gaze gore breeds
hoisted hollow dug
by leering lust

limbs like sequoia
bounty breeze's destroyer
nocturnal nature's lawyer

callous curves canvass
attention into trance
stark emotions spanked

I, punctured priest
porous puke spree.
      '20:02:16:09:56...

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eerie eyes etched
mystic melody's crest
munching mass sighed
callous contractions thrived
lusty luminescent lurched
damped darkness athirst

then chubby cheeks
gaunt guts greet
aiding airy optics

then sprout neck
melody's mud melt
felon face fetched

i-bahn ileum illusion:
music's mystic transition.
19:12:20:05:00...

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mystic mind moaning
voluptuous veins vying
hoisted heats hankering
squeezing salient sanity
girding gaunt ice
veiled by vice

hollow joints jangling
eerie echo smirking
felon fun flickering

drooling darkness dances
drooping over vices;
salient silhouettes sketches

on and on
smeared space gnawl.
      19:12:23:09:18...

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bleeding blushes ooze
damping dessicated drool
punctured passion puke
nauseating nocturnal nude
felon feelings fostered
gaunt gazes murdered

fiery smirk smote
undaunted gift grown
on fervent flow

salient soil pulsed
leering lanky lust
foaming feelings gulped

on vying Valentine
gaunt gazes dine.
      '20:02:14:14:52...

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callous curves smirk
leering lanky lurch
seeped'n saucy seal
bounded by breach
smothering furious frown
delicate draws drawn

tuning tits trail
tactic trend traced
through tampered space

legs like onyx
pulpy pulchritude polished -
glimmering gaunt gifts

vying voluptuous structure
loving lust punctured.
'20:02:06:19:17...

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whirring warning whooshing
gaunt gores filling
damped darkness dug
pulpy pair's lust
tactic twain tumbling
over hideous heels

airy atmosphere puking
voluptuous vile vying
per punctured pelvic

skeptical soles shuddering
la-de-da limbs lustrating
felon nature's priest

war met will
one other killed.
       20:01:09:01:02...

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promiscuous pear prunes
saucy strawberry slew
nosing nimble nude
gaunt gasps grew
lanky lust lurches
outruns vying verge

felon fruits featured
pulse flavors punctured
aiding sassy structure

moaning machine's pleasantries
slays saucy stances
faddy fruits fling

tasty taste trained
clutches emotion's crave.
     '20:02:26:14:19...

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lusty lips loaning
punctured passion pruning
hoisted pairs hankering
drooping damped drips
ace tactic tiers
gulped gaunt tears

pulpy passion plying
per lips lurching
turbulent war whooshing

bounty boobs blushing
ferocious fingers fiddling
damped bridges puking

lusty lips lurching
clipped bodies crunching.
     19:11:24:09:26...

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leering lusty labium
felon feasts fear
hoisted hankering shivers
taunting tactic trigger
bounty bullets bleed
gaunt gore greased

alchemist aura punctured
pulsing portrait structured
smiting lousy leisure

fiery gaze tunes
mystic melody pukes
pulpy passion prune

bruised feelings fixed:
saucy smirk whipped.
      '20:02:18:13:03...

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