Short Hardens Poems

A chain of fools
Thus, hardens
The soul...

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Sharp hemp splinters
Cement warms as it hardens
Keep holding my breathe...

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people

locked inside shells

shell hardens

molding itself

becoming

host....

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by Michaelw1two

 substance: woe hardens 
 even the most kind of hearts 
 against all the rest

May 2013...

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Days pass
Wrinkles grow
Skin ages
Eyes dull
Heart hardens
Memory fades
Spirits wane
Broken bodies remain...

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A child's brittle like porcelain
  Please handle with care
As she hardens like a diamond
  She'll sparkle everywhere...

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Snow wind that 
       burns me the forehead,
      hardens the paths
      of my boots and the
      plumage of birds ,,,...

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Desire hardens to 
Points of obsession,
Irremovable urges cupped with anguish.
Laughter through the blackest hours,
Exhale soften and cushion the end....

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swallowtail unseen
amidst pungent garden green
whilst darkness hardens



1/31/2020


Poetry Contest: Strict Haiku  
Sponsored by: William Kekaula...

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Looks good
Tastes sweet
But rots in the belly

Turns to poison in the veins
Travels to the heart
     Corrupts it
     Hardens it
Dead inside

Need a transfusion
Type Christ-positive required...

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Candle wax dripping down the face
While at the bottom hardens the heart
The wicks fire has burned dark
Once lit with light to see the soul
Now sits on an empty table alone
Tears of wax no longer drip
This candle has been blown out...

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Depression is that
wicked beast who
sucks your soul from
your body.

It feeds on your
brain until it seems
not a single cell
remains.

Worst of all it hardens
your heart so that no
love may enter
or exit.


Total words=40
written 12/05/2016...

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pick flowers
drink while nectar flows.
sap is bitter
when stem hardens into wood.

the bumblebee sees not the world
with the petals that surround.

the hive hums with discordant sounds
and empty clamorings.

tomorrow's season is fall.

(28 may 79)...

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A masterful foe
  This ego of ours
  It clothes itself
  In arrogant guise
  We know not
  From where it came
  But it chokes our lives
  With its pompous game
  With cruel intention
  It hardens and binds
  While we cower behind
  Our fickle minds......

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Self-portrait:
Undressing- 
in moon.

Drinking: 
from the eyes, 
in city of words.

The shadow: 
of something unthought, 
falls on my earth.

I become: 
a ceramic Buddha. 
A seed hardens.

Grain by grain:
I dismantle myself 
to find the water.


Satish Verma...

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A moment of silence, a breath.
The biggest relief, possibly air.
It's swelling my denatured alleys,
It hardens my lively grains,
Like helium freezing the time
For a weak and abandoned child,
Who regrets and tried to get out of a cage,
That was built by roots
Which are way higher, breathing....

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Solid and sharp
Dense and clear
Emotional change
Warm without touch
Touch with pain
Brightness that sting
Sting with a brush
Smooth with roughness
Shape without forms
Growth that is green
An aim for brightness
A fineness that rivals
Claws with sight
Drips when pulled
Hardens when dried
Textured with time...

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Sunlight shrouded in stormy clouds
Innocence all too fleeting
Callow trust hardens bitter but wise
Sunlight shrouded in stormy clouds
Fools blinded by love don't see the lies
As we embrace life, naivete' dies
Sunlight shrouded in stormy clouds
Innocence all too fleeting

Written 1/17/22

First Place Winner
A BRIAN STRAND (1075) CONTEST
2/16/22...

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Icicle hardens; Her prisoner wails.
Soft dripped; Resentful his seasonal sun.
Clung tightly winter, her grip again fails;
Cheeks slip on puddles where four start to run.
Years of denial their story entails –
Captives held hostage by starry travails.

1/27/2017
Submitted for: 'A Rhyme in 60'
Syllables checked on howmanysyllables.com...

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“REPUGNANT”



new love 
approaches.

recent wounds 
drips less
as the 
circumference 
closes in.

the bees 
disappear 
from the hives

as children 
from the land 
fall to the 
root inside 
the dollar.

you live,
you laugh,
as life 
laughs
at you.

the dog 
barks and 
the 
butterfly 
hardens.



By: Chicano Eddie
10-27-2016...

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Clank . . . Clank 
Sparks fly for the first time 
across another frigid day 
black chunks with shards of clay 
thrown anger out the way 
 

Softness hardens amid decay 
the midnight's all tucked away 
the red, the grey, the blues still play
with one foot in the grave 
 

Deep below the frost line 
where Lucifer waits alone 
this shovel's getting heavy 
lay down in fields of bone...

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Lost in this quicksand of serenity 
caught in a death grip I begin to sink; 
Falling deep inside I can’t find the edge 
trapped within a web of thick emotion; 
Is it me or is it your residue 
staining my face with this outlandish smile?
Peace feels foreign and uncomfortable; 
I kind of like this paper mache mask,,  
each layer hardens applied long enough 
to change my face into a serene state....

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The Blizzard falls on this chilled day

But with your love it all melts away

The wintry frost hovers in the air

But with your love I have no care

The cold does bite while your sould does grow

But with your love I have no care for the snow

The Ice hardens with its interval spell

But with your love I am conten t and well

The freezing rain does halter my destinys start

But with your love I am warm forever from your heart...

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dayspot caskets introduce the introductions... 

....parenthesis with nothing in between them.......
.. patterns and builders in the open fields 
destroy what little was left... 
... ..... ......
..waiting for the explanation.. 
the reason for the hesitation....
 the papal heart in the wreathed skin 

of a divine second guesser.....
skips a beat.. skips a line..
 forgets the need to forgive 
and hardens to the touch......

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I can’t use just any cauldron
To cast what I behold
The core must be made molten
As my legacy unfolds...
Adding substance to the fire
Heats my precious ore
Impurities trade flames entire
Soul until no more...
Courage added to the mixture
Hardens into gold
Add morals and a holy scripture
For the house he holds...
When he stands without the frame
I start to pour again
So he can pass more than his name
To copies after him......

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