Short Hydra Poems

In
a
turmoil-
hitting out
in all directions,
in
a
struggle
with monsters
floating in the mind....

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Gently, 
the maple's 
veined hydra of a
tounge stretches out 
in fall to taste the midday 
mist, to sate its chronic thirst.
How like a baby in its mother's arms
is this rough-grained senior clothed in bark....

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I have a sweet little stomach and a mouth that sometimes glows.
Finger-like tentacles too, no eyes, no neck, no chin or nose.
Ready to guess? Okay then, I can live in your stomach or the sea.
Three hints. Hydra. Sea Anemones, corals.  A polyp is the name for me!...

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Still holding onto yesterday,
tomorrow calls my name

The comfort of what time has blessed,
my life within its frame

Those two directions—front and back,
a hydra running loose

Do I embrace what’s in the past
—or what is yet to choose

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2019)...

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In the PixiS climb to Hydra
Lynx is next just past the Lion
Take a dip into Ursas Major
Come and ride the Leos Minor
It’s a Primer she said…
Reading wheels inside your head
Stacking stones into pyramids
Merry goes round the ecliptic
Latitudes of a Long time cryptic
Marching two and fro…
Is it Zero or is it Nero
Inquiring our minds to know...

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Hydra-headed monster, corruption
The master of our nation
In our face and all facets
Our progress' pace, it dictates.

Now it's normal, by christening
Made formal by rebranding
Existing laws are bypassed
News ones? Not needed!

Clerics, step up your say
Teachers, justify your meagre pay
At home, young minds must be disabused
This game, it's high time it ceased!...

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For one who helps so many,
giving aid and relief,
to watch a loved one in need,
strains me to the core.

To be sidelined,
no longer an accessory,
reduced to normalcy,
rips out my soul,
one thread at a time.

To watch as you wither,
unable to combat this enemy,
that strikes young and old,
makes me feel impotent.

Unable to kill this hydra,
I silently watch
as you wilt away....

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O! Garnet star, what hydra-like,
	Immortality
How humanity doth envy,
	Thou vitality

What sayest thou of Man?
	(Surely he would say) 
O - but lowly Mayfly,
	That flutter for a day

What thinkest thou of Time?
	(Surely he would think)
A torrent inexhaustible,	
	I forever drink	
	
Lo, but I know a thing,
	Surpassing thou by far:
Eternal life in Christ,
	Outlives thou, garnet star!...

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Those two submarines are playing cards on their lunch break,
Suddenly a boiled egg passes and say:
-Hi five what you guys doing?
-We are playing cards
-Can I play?!
-This is only for members. 
-That's OK 
-I was going to the barbershop anyway,
- Ask Hydra for a Beer egg 
- I have been going to AA man are you crazy!,
The egg vomits 
The submarines laugh 
Hydra juggles

Dedicated to Professor Adriano Moreira...

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Heroin or Heroine?
by Michael R. Burch

(for mothers battling addiction)

serve the Addiction;
worship the Beast;
feed the foul Pythons
your flesh, their fair feast ...

or rise up, resist
the huge many-headed hydra;
for the sake of your Loved Ones
decapitate medusa.

Keywords/Tags: addiction, drug, drugs, user, heroin, needle, track, tracks, marks, pain, despair, hopelessness, mental illness, heroine, heroic, hero, recovery from addiction, uplifting, strength...

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Listen to poem:

Forged by fire, my burning heart
As the hammer pounds to shape
The sacrificial apatite of the gods
Within the delusory Dragons Den
And love hibernates in a Hellion hole

Where demons dine demanding death
A pernicious smell fouls the ambient air
The Hydra prepares to unleash her wrath
For love is mangled in the molded madness
Left to the ravaging ruins a statue appears.






May.26.2019
Pick A Tile, Vol 5 
Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh


Honorable Mention...Thank You...

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