Short Illy Poems

Kristy
Mother, daughter, friend, and lover
Sister of Leerie, Illy, Brook, and Cindy
Loves My family, friends, bears, and mystical beings
Who feels pain, loss, and fear
Who fears rejection, failure, and snakes
Who would like to see my kids, Ireland, and Australia
Resident of Commerce, Georgia
De La Keur...

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Desperation to breed contempt
the moment shattered
time illy spent

Choices bartered and freedom gone
the reaper chanting
old righteous wrongs

Panic stricken the nights repeat
the days long orphaned
abandoned sheep

One promise lingers in chastened air
the font of Angels
— baptism’s prayer

(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)
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Sweaters known as “ugly” are worn by some in the Christmas season.
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Special socks – often fuzzy – are also worn for whatever reason!

Such socks, though mostly green and red, can also be hues like white and blue.
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Silly though they may be, I wear Christmas socks; each has a jingle bell too!

For Kim's Acrostic Play 2 Holiday Version Poetry Contest...

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Festival Of San Fermin

Running the gamble
— living the dream

(Pamplona Spain: July, 1977)



‘Pathway To Hell ...”

Money is to promises
what bureaucracy is to care
Chasing lost indemnity
— uncertainty’s despair

(Dreamsleep: August, 2024) 



The Lost Garden

A bad seed
illy planted
Fallow
—and alone

(Denison Iowa, September, 1967)


Au Chante

The pathway 
to happiness
Goes through 
—the open heart

(Midway Airport: August, 2024)

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Addiction,  
reality,  
non-fiction.  
All is dark,  
out of the shadows,  
eyes of a  
Great White shark;  
Blank stares  
beyond glass windows.  

Syringes,  
false smiles,  
glass vials.  
Void laughs harkend  
therein the  
presence of death;  
'Crystal Death'!  
Intoxicating moments  
illy starkened.  

Much dysfunction,  
such malfunction  
thereof mortal robots.  
Of flesh  
and of mind --  
so rots  
mortal robots.  
A touch of  
self-destruction!...

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