Short Gnaws Poems

Now it gnaws again
Growling to be satisfied
Pacified with food...

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red teeth open jaws
on a monkey's head he gnaws
content licking paws...

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Gnaws the soul within
Center, calm, control it well
Poisons will release...

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envy gnaws the soul
                 ever left dissatisfied
                 ends its days hungry...

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Gnaw Barriers

linguist gnaws 
through barriers of culture
with teeth of voice



27th Aug' 2013...

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SOUL SNATCHING JOBS

Tall Power forks pray-full tongues

Chews the tender will

Gnaws bones of  fragile spirits...

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i could simply stand

but inaction gnaws my bones

to my great expense


July 12, 2017...

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hunger gnaws haplessly
harvestless, stark, earthen womb
sparse amniotic fluid
vacant calcified corpses
emphysemic ether blooms...

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sun
  gnaws
diamond
               smiles
bird flies
  moon covers
skidding
    down
pierces
   encircles
sparkling thought
in
   pursuit...

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Where the ice gnaws a brook,
black Ash trees sink waist-high
in the smoking frost.
A chill wind chatters,
my dark coat flaps
like a rook's shadow....

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monsters groan hair in wrinkled gnaws…

hell chews hope in gnashed cash… 

greased volcanoes sire rising screams…

burn of cyanide and bunkers reich…

flags star stud the roar of flames…...

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Fear
Gnaws deep
Like sharp teeth
That cut and chew 
Eating up one's self
To the last thread
One can hold
That's called
Hope.

All Rights Reserved ~~~Cynthia Buhain-Baello~~~03.24.14...

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Let’s give him the nickname of Sayles.
In suit, he does chomp at his nails.
Preoccupied schlub
gnaws down to the nub.
A shame as he chews at details.

7/14/2022

Wow! True story!...

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Penchants of dusk,
Forever inflamed in my heart.
Slowly gives rise to incredulity,
And perpetually gnaws away at my soul.
For this indignation,
Even conflicts between the distraught beings inside of me....

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my kitty plays with
my yarned ball it scratches gnaws
prepares for the mouse


2019 September 13
howmanysyllables
5-7-5
*5-syllabic title, novel content of nature, no capitalizations, no punctuations....

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Your seduction gnaws at my soul...
It crawls through my defenses...
Mystifying my senses...
Bamboozling my thoughts...
Down is up...
Right is wrong..
But worst of all,
Wrong is right...
Because I am in love with you......

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I don’t know
Why love grows
Why hatred gnaws
Why empathy cares
Why envy snares
I don’t know.

I know
Why the clouds melt
Why the sun sets
Why we come and go
Why curtain falls on show
I know.

Time carries all in the flow....

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W What slithers in the mind, gnaws at my peace
O Other people's words, to which I assign a motive
R Rather dwell on verses of Scripture, sonnet or verse
D Deliberating on sounds cast awind, torture me alive...

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There is a deep longing that gnaws at my heart, 
The passions so wild for the joys of love;
How far is the charm my beauty my love,
And the touch of her form in the twilight glow;
Somewhere she is there and she yearns for me,
To calm her desires she haunts me now....

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Joyful memories carve
a forever-space in time.
Impermanence clips at our heels
with Luciano and Beverly's last songs.
Complacency gnaws at our life-rope
as wild strawberries
go unnoticed,
until the rope snaps
and we hear the cries of Rigoletto
ringing in our ears....

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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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To the unseen Source!

Without knowing and feeling Divinity,
Boredom sets in and I scream,
Without feeling and knowing sacred purpose,
Inertia gnaws away at my soul,
Without awareness of who I am,
A wanderlust without direction ensues,
Without YOU MY LOVE,
I am rendered impotent!...

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silent ache 
oh in heart; 

silence gnaws 
passionately! 

ah injured there 
deadly! 

silence in love 
groan of pigeon couple 
while we think this 
sound of love 
where the rhythm of momentary separation 
brings unsolicited burning scar inside!


-October 06, 2019 Chattogram...

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In making seem true what is pretended to be,
     hypocrisy can be unpretentious
          in fulfilling itself in ways grim
               and hideous.

it is a mask that eats into the skin and flesh,
     so quietly gnaws at the bones 
          and sinews of the wearer's 
               face....

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Somewhere, stark in lunar light,
A werewolf wakens from a wight,
And creeps throughout the sleepy night
To give his fellow creatures fright.

Somewhere, hapless sot alone
Through forest stumbles toward home,
Types panicked text on shaking phone...

Somewhere, werewolf gnaws on flesh-ripped bone....

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