Short Harrowing Poems

The conjecture of cause
The evolution of effect
Harrowing my hypothesis
Like a wasp without a nest...

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The harrowing woe
Reigns upon me—
Why must it be so? 

And my trembling heart
Burns intensely—
How does it still grow?...

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Sighs and tears escaped
From an enamored couple
When both realized
Love had withered forever 
Lacking of fertilizers












6-10-2016...

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From the dark depth of the ocean
and the harrowing pit of the abyss
to the blazing nadir of hell,
Nothing is deeper than 
the deadening pain of a broken heart....

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Harrowing Experience Was To Me

Had thought for a while;
Harrowing experience,
Really was to me.

About politics;
All of the idiots there;
None a friend of mine.

Jim Horn...

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Trudging through  
a tangled path of ruin,  
dragging the weight of 
harrowing hopes and 
oscillating oaths, 
I shout into the empty sky—  

give me Love,  
or give me Death!...

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They built an abattoir for man                      
In the heart of the land                          
Where rythm of catridges played ballad      
To hapless P.O.W. of the ballot....

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Hazel mirrors glisten

In pages of tribulation

Taciturn apparitions moan

Designing rueful brands of sin

Upon the shaken sands she weaves

As she is forsaken

To drink of harrowing memories...

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The war-dogs chew at the throat of Man,
Killing as canines can,
With drooling jowls and fetor that fouls
The air, with harrowing warrior-howls--
They herald the End with their yelps and yowls....

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Remembrances that are unique
Each one crafts a life-harrowing story.
Maintain a firm grip on them.
Sustain them in your spirit forever.
Retrace your steps every so often....

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Angels bright call dangerously,
Eventually fulfilling grave harrowing ideas.
Jarring kindness lies masking now,
Otherworldly persons quietly respond.
Silent turmoil underneath volatile waters,
Xes your zest....

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A sharp, harrowing burden
Fashions mirrors of fear
Virgin pages designed 
From white nothingness 
Tattooed by black teeth
Eyes everywhere
Bold, brave, and daring 
To decode the freakish nature
Ascending from duplicity...

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Red tears,
And black filled fears,
Of all the harrowing years,
I held in my diseased heart.

Does my excruciating soul even know?
How deep my self pity flows?
How much my torture grows?
When will my yellow really start?...

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Particular Reason

Reason for doing did not find particular
Car rolled over and accident was vehicular
After begging nd also borrowing
Had experience which was harrowing
Believe in God and cease to be secular.

Jim Horn...

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At night I dream,
To be a poet.
One whose words flow as smoothly as a pen,
That eyes would graciously glide along.
I would write,
Each and every thought,
Exactly as my mind saw them.
Harrowing,
Frantic,
And full of you....

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From the dark depth of the ocean
To the harrowing pit of the abyss
Or the fiery scorching nadir of hell,
Nothing is deeper than 
the numbing pain of a broken heart.




~Fragment of Life contest by Broken Wings...

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it was a harrowing goodbye
his body still warm 
when they took him away

the cold embrace of death
was not to get a hold of him
until i was willing to give way 



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Posted on April 12, 2025...

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Fringed by putrescent dusk
Fingernails dig beneath graveyard wounds
Fostered by lexical warfare
Within the harrowing fiascos of tomorrow
Nothing but bated memories
Braided by skin, coffee, and cigarettes
Branded by concrete whispers...

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Is sweet karma
A colored horizon
Or a safe haven
Of dream and passion
One high ego that disturb
Of harrowing tremor of echoes
Of tenderness touch
Happy mind and prying eyes
Libido of luscious tongue
Or a joyous of conscious mind....

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HOLOCAUST
    

           Cruel catastrophe
           Violent virulent vice
           Barbaric brutality.
           Hateful holocaust!
          Harrowing, horrifying hit.
          Civilization condemned.
          .
  10/13/16...

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My well-seasoned heart seeks love’s light
Years of heartbreak, thwarted romance
Harrowing each eternal night
A wall flower in life’s last dance

October 2, 2020
Rithimus Divisa 8 Poetry Contest
Sponsor – Gregory Barden
Original Poem – Love’s Light...

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Life is like
a blank page 
roughly wrinkled 
in withering white.
Begrudgingly 
bearing it’s 
abandoned
brand of 
belittlement .
Which only can
be broken 
by the olden
unspoken truths 
lying in between 
the written words 
of humanity’s 
harrowing hand ....

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A long winding road-life,
Harrowing filled with strife,
At times rocky hard to follow,
Other times strait and narrow,
Where will it take us, to what end?
Dont know, cant begin to pretend,
But- while you are by my side,
Roller coaster of life take us for a ride....

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Here, there is a surfeit of spam,
Fed to us by government man,
Democracy's harrowing tale,
Setting us up to fail,
Pollies' synchronised team,
Is all this what it seems?
Total cant and hypocrisy,
A merit myth of futility,
Spam surfeit, no caring beyond duty.........

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I’m always reassured when
I see them in the morning
waiting patiently by my bed
to receive my feet after 
a harrowing night of running 
wildly through strange fields
of dreams. Snug in the hug 
of their comfort, how comforting 
to be back on home ground.

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