Short Gloated Poems

Steel and gold coated 
The full moon shines bright
Beams coolly floated
Gently hits the height
Trees surprise-gloated 
Silhouette the scene...

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Tornado Jim was an unruly evil F-5.
He barely left anyone alive.
Threw cattle and tractors into the air.
Crushed combines and backhoes; he did not care.

Gloated that he had destroyed more farms than his sis.
She gave him a mean finger and snarled with a hiss.
Next time she destroyed, she vowed to be worse than him.
She was always in competition with Tornado Jim....

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Newly built scenes
Rise in my eye
Erected lovers playhouse
Mine spirit floated
As day call came night
Bodies work ne’er done
The splendor of your dreadful hours
Yet you sing your joy soft and right
Ye have no more other desperate plight
Putting up your flag and tower
Now we two face solitude alone
Every bit of your smile a sight
On your loveliness I gloated
Cheeks like a little mouse
Breath from your mouth just sighs
I stand so close to you, shadows I cling....

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My Heart was crushed, the pain was real
I couldn’t breathe, I couldn’t heal
felt so powerless, belittled and small
my world was dark, he made me fall
the lies he told, could not be undone
I wanted to die, of course he had won
each day a struggle, I felt so blue
each day he gloated, the more I withdrew
I hated the monster, he took my soul
twenty years on, I’m still not whole
but at least I can breathe and hold my head high
for I told the truth and he told the Lie....

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