Short Hardening Poems

Peeling away raw
Emotions ... pain
In fear of festering - 
Like candle wax
Seething, melting
Hardening....

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This little sound of words know the magic of softening the hearts harder than rock and hardening the hearts softer than silk!...

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Naked in the shower,
Water flowing over me
As hot as I can bear;
Scalding my skin,
Masking my tears,
Drowning my cries,
Hardening my heart....

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Coal
dirty, grimy
shoveling, glowing, burning
smoke, soot, heat, pressure
hardening, shining, dazzling 
brilliant, beautiful
Diamond...

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Your coldness is like
a heavy frost
crusting the earth-

Cool, pristine
crystalline covering
delicate yet unyielding
hardening the surface-

A thin disguise
over the muddy mess
we were before...

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hardening presents
 my own secret mind loving
 enjoying the soul 
~
future tense waging
 and open love is not broken
 broken is mind heart

1/21/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2022...

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I can imagine
The Mount melting into a fount
And the fount hardening into a mount

I can imagine
The earth squeezing into a ball
And the heavens rolling into a scroll

But to imagine
You out of my sight
I’ll rather die than imagine...

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Faith
fervent, bold
searching, hearing, obeying
Moses, David, Saul, Goliath
hardening, rebelling, questioning
lukewarm, haughty
Incredulity

6/13/2019
Sparkling Diamonds Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Joseph May...

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Memory
 becomes the reality 
 of all that was.
The hardening or softening of the arteries of the heart
 that place where love grew or died
 in the errors and missteps of our lives.
With sleep,
 dreams revive
 visions and images form
 true false memories
putting everything to right....

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Hot pancakes in the thick of things;
Wet cement hardening in the thick of things;
Hot fudge sundae chocolate sticks to ice cream; 
in the thick of things;
In a combated war zone surrounded;
in the thick of things?/

7/10/20
written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2020 ©...

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Desolate,prideful,terrible and sick
People have created themselves a new brick
Sinful bricks have planted a wall
Wall has brought a major fall

Pride eyes are seen every where,
Hatred is blowing and flowing no care
Hardening their heart is enjoyable for them
Staring eyes is nothing but pride in them....

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Bodily

We are looking for in the universe.
In the hardening of the liquid.
Crustacean particles in the oceans and seas.
Fat that can be formed by proliferation of oxides in space.


Oil in grasses and plants.
The bodies of ocean and sea creatures and insects.
The oil of soil sand and water.
And the human and animal body....

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When bitten by the poison of a trusted friend's betrayal, there are but two choices: let anger and bitterness flush the poison further toward your heart's hardening end, or with forgiving lips suck out the poison and spit it into a place where it can never be retrieved, thus allowing healing, growth and peace.


FOR ONE QUOTE CONTEST...

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a hardening mangosteen
with wounded white seeds
increasing into rotten arrogance
of monstrous'  velocity

sentimentality-
rises slowly to the skin
emitting cerebral poison
flavored with the sourest 
and most bitter condiments

as troubled being 
devours senseless hurt
sentimentality’s lava
flows drifting soul into sin


June 4, 2022      9.52am...

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I have felt the sting
And the joy of the rain
Soaked in its confusion
Watched
As it turned cold
Bitingly cold and angry
Upon a howling wind
Frozen rivulets
Pelting the helpless
Becoming a more friendly
Soft fluffiness
Drifting into mountains
Burying all hope
Smothering 
Isolated thought
Shaping the future
Of a sunrise
Hardening the resolve
Of life...

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During enduring winter rain
the small bird cheeping

his only wish of certain warmth
ducks out of the sheeting rain - each
 
grain aimed an icy dart poignantly
tipped with a hardening past -

into the chimney duct through
too-small a hole for use again,

tweaking his wish to certain flames,
some sorta luck, and, suddenly drained,

              to sync with the rain...

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a child gos hungry
shoes falling off his feet
the poorest kid he knows
needing a new winter coat
and boot to boot
a hardening process 
strengthening his will
for he knows not
what is to come
the trials, the screams
the faces to boot
the pain in his gut
preventing sleep
still he knows not
he will grip talons
with the devil

no way in hell
i came through this sh..
to lose...

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my former self lurks in the shadows
Watching others live the life I wanted
jealousy swirls into my head
hardening my heart

shadow me is angry most of the time
looking for the bad in people
perpetually finding it
proof the world is a scary place

my former self hides from the world
her talents are unshared
lying helplessly dormant and smelling
i do not evolve until I become a mother...

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The vagrant beggar in seeming drunken stupor
Clumsily staggers about hither and thither 
No one truly wishes to lessen his pain
Turning backs on him with disdain

Now and then a half hearted benefactor 
Presses into his hands unusable note in tatters
We watch from a distance, ebbing flame of conscience 
To glowing heart hardening resistance by our egos indifference 

15-May-2021...

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Amidst the fallen leaves
 creep gray fluffy tailed chubby bubbs.
Fat and burly squirrel thieves
 stealing seed and nut but not as grub.
They dig and scratch the ground
 chattering to wake the town
and in the hardening earth
 they bury seed for all their worth.
When their hungry and ready to eat
 they've forgotten every treat.
In the spring the earth will give birth
 to germinating seed from the dirt....

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In full chiffon skirts, I sit, waiting impatiently.
Wishing I could be more kind and more willing to wait.
Life passed me by years ago; my tutor is trying.
She has a good heart, but I am hardening mine.

Why should I learn these life skills? I ask her.
Embroidery is for hope chests; I am long in the tooth.
What about the violin? She asked me. Could I teach you that?
I doubt it, I say, feeling sorry for myself. Old and alone....

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By mistake, I have fallen for you
Never thought I'll be blue
Why you didn't give a clue?
Why you keep quiet so mute?

Stirring my emotions on high
Awakening me not be shy
Yet, you are a facade, deafening lie
Hardening my heart's might

Silence screams release reverberates
Everything dulls doesn't rejuvenate
Spare me, do care alleviate
Wanting more not to depreciate

By: olive_eloi
10:40pm
01/14/2014

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Reaching for air I feel like
I am being crushed by
A thousand tons of
Wet cement and am 
Going to be 
Buried alive.
Swimming through
Wet gray I still 
See only black.
I wish I could
Lay beneath the
Stars once more.
Constantly bumping into
Slowly hardening gray
The black grows
Dark and thick.
My lungs feel as though
They are to turn
To powder.
No small gasps could
Satisfy under such pressure
And I fear this darkness
Has no end......

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Looking out from inside, the sun's rays are deceiving. Upon stepping outdoors, one sees themselves breathing. 

A cool crisp air clings to everything around.  Shedding trees dead red leaves dance the hardening ground. 

There's a scent in the air; a musk of earth's decaying attire. It Brings to mind thoughts of wood stoves, hot cocoa, and cider.

Autumn has taken hold, its colors so beautiful and bright. But nipping right at its heels is winter's steely bite....

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Tears fall by,
There is no wipe off.
The Limited joys too,
Seem stumbling.
Why?
'cause I am begging for happiness.
What is Demanded from me?
Tears? or my hardening?
There is no answer,
There is silence.
And the silence speaks-
"You don't matter."
The sun rises again
The leaves fall again
The flowers blossom again
The clouds rain again
Thy desires continue,
Thy thirst remains,
The crying ceases with death.
The suffering continues ahead.
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