Short Graceless Poems

Today, they choose calm above logic
 
                   and hold scorn for education....

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Dear parents -forgive me
For my sheets are all sweaty
An’ I drink heavy…

I take pills –they change me
For some bad things
…they should be

In me and not you...

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As the tide rushes
forward, brown -black seaweed strands 
wrap the graceless leg.
 
Silver scaly fish 
catch the glister of the sun
as silken drops of sea

slide off the pallid  
hand lifting to wave to those 
on the retreating shore....

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Oh graceless, Old Age,

Your unattractive face the many despise 

But your company they desperately seek 


For 


How else, could the magic of life enjoy 

If they were not among those you pick? 





© Demetrios Trifiatis
    10 January 2016...

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Graceless facades---
The tiring age old game
Of mindless testing
Grows heavy beneath the brow.
The charade is hard to sustain---
Sometimes impossible---
Yet we must bear it
Time after time after endless time.
The cold fire keeps rolling,
Pushing testing the old confines
Beneath the eyes---

How much longer........

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Discordant scissors cuts a ribbon
Pleasure of a man destroys
Nature bows to indiscretion
Reality deceit deploys

With glee, they break the ground
To set an edifice to man’s ambition
Forever ruined with proposition 
Field and flowers sacrificed

Breached to bent insanity
Evolves a place profaned
Glowering graceless vanity
Imprisons the insane...

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let the world fall
let light extinguish
let the beauty of all 
truth, life, nature
decay & fall
in slippery chunks 
past the windows
let the world bleed it's self out
in dingy-dark water color
& slide like rain from the rooftops
our rooftops, our windows
our world
falling 
graceless & graceful
over the last edge of sanity
the precipice
of all finalities...

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Turned over to a sexual revolution,
evolved to hijacked rainbows.
Graceless hearts deprave the mind,
a diseased façade of freedom,
to redefine every right and wrong.
Prophesied last days ushering
the Bride of Christ persecuted.

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Contest: Unsayable
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Written: 11.22.17...

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There comes a point in time
Where nothing matters
Where your vision is blurred
Where there's nothing but darkness encircling you 
Where love has lost and Fear has won. 

There comes a situation when you realize your hopeless,
lifeless, faithless, graceless, breathless, and  mindless 
mind has taken over and won. 

Where happiness is feared and sadness is embraced. 
 
Welcome to living death....

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The horse, the horse has no stable
It ran straight out of our fable
The rusty lion has had to jump and shove
And is already sick of our love
The only one that doesn’t seem to dare
Is the graceless Swann
Who has long since been too tired to care
Therein lay the sign
The demise of our beloved shrine
A plea to stop this machine
It borders on obscene
And shift our gaze to the wildest of green’s...

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"Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, 
whom He has redeemed from trouble."
Psalm 107:2, English Standard Version 

The Lord’s redeemed will praise His name,
appreciation justified.
Though self-inclined wish favor’s fame;
the Lord’s redeemed will praise His name.
When admiration calls the claim,
those graceless souls with God collide. 
The Lord’s redeemed will praise His name,
appreciation justified.

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I heard the wind scouring trees
As around my head danced whirling leaves,
In the sky, the clouds they raced
Scudding, at some graceless pace. 

The wind gave voice, in manic howlings
As chimney pots surrendered cowlings,
Any hope of calm now cast asunder,
For in the distance, rumbled thunder.

A crack, a flash, blinding, bright,
Lightning sparked to my delight,
Who is not humbled by a storm,
For 'tis the day, being reborn....

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I’m waiting for an astronaut to save this place.
Like a detective from outer space.
An astronaut is faceless.
And strangely, graceless.
As he bounds over.
I ask what his laser is for.
Or why he’s shoving me through that door.
I ask if I could get a phone call.
He acts scared and almost falls.
It’s not how I expected.
He is someone I once respected.
I wish someone on planet earth would accept our pleas.
But red is all they seem to see....

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I've gazed out,
But was never set free.
I just wanna sprout
And draw you into me.

Cosmos pieces us together;
She flaunts in great lavish.
Sweet solitude in our tether;
Heart of trust grows ravish.

I've peered within,
Intercepted in the midst.
Will love ever win?
Like a gash on a wrist,
It pains to ever grin.

Graceless souls betrayed.
Love’s angels lack heart
Like a grand masquerade.
Universe rips us apart;
We will forever evade
Like these poems portrayed....

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