Short Imploding Poems

Watching with a glass of water in case the clouds
are thirsty
when they stop...

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Tormented
In darkness
Of dead dreams
Imploding silently-
No vision
No sun
No song
Broken...

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Condensing
eternity
into one word 
Imploding
time
—and verse

(Dreamsleep: December, 2023)
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You’ll never be sure
until you might die
Power imploding
—rebirthed in goodbye

(Dreamsleep: June, 2022)...

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cruel are whispers
          imploding our fantasies 
       more so ~ when soft spoke 

By
David Kavanagh...

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Vacant
Of thoughts
Imploding
Cannibalistic
Feeding on past lives
Losing self-consciousness
A state of oblivion
Transforming...

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You know it’s the end
when shadows abandon

Memory fades
as light is recalled

No longer master, 
 time is imploding

Wishes undreamed
—then nothing at all

(The New Room: April, 2021)...

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Instinct flashes
  past the speed of light

Intuition imploding
  Zephyrus’ delight

Detached from its fuel source
  tale on fire

The comets direction
  —reversed and inspired

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)...

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Pills that are swallowed…

That feel like shards in my throat. 

Every step leads me endlessly inward. 

As if this nightmare is imploding. 

All I can muster are wavering steps. 

Until the meds paralyze me for the night....

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Sharing space with myself
  replaying ‘what if’

Symbiosis conjoins
  the jazz in the riff

The progression regressive
  separation be damned

My shadow imploding
  —in a joyous ‘I Am’

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)...

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Tear me down and rip me up
throw the carpets out
all my wires and plugs disrupt
scrAPE AND clean the grout
  wrecking ball ,imploding
brains
drano down in all the drains
bleach my soul of all the stains
cleanse my heart of doubt....

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Timber, Timber
My mind was imploding inside me

Until one day i flew away

Away to where the Tree's kept growing
The Sun stayed shinning
And the Mountains knew everything

Now I thank Timber I am alive
Timber taught me to Survive...

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Truth
a heavy burden
speaking loudest
from exile

The distance
and confinement
like a magnet
to iron

Imploding
within you
when ready
for travel

The weight
of 
delivery
— the roar of the lion

(Dreamsleep: February, 2024)
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without a denial
life is brief and sticky sweet
tobacco claims me
ingested, it now eats me
still, it draws me, my lover  

malformed cells heedless
spread diminishing myself
imploding, anxious
still I rise blessing, loving
cancer is not me, I am...

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With each tick of the second hand
  the immeasurable on trial

Imagination deposed
  all parameters set free

The Poets acquitted
  the logicians suicidal

All reference and syntax
  —imploding at light speed 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)...

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The paradox
of self-awareness
near and yet so far

Looking out
to see within
imploding like a star

The door that enters
exits free
its threshold bright then dim

Allowing what
the psyche fears
—to pass both out and in

(Dreamsleep: March, 2023)...

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Insatiable Human Obsession



        It is time for that insatiable human obsession for destruction to expire

           And vanish amidst the darkened realm of an imploding distant star




05/22/2021
7:20 p.m.
Lake Worth
Florida USA

Edited: 05/25/2021...

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You know nothing of love,
nor it's secrets, the yearning 
of the body, the breaking 
of bread, love is of sacrifice;
love, unyielding
as the dead..

To make peace, I swallow myself,
like a bottle or a star, I am broken,
imploding, when you are far...

You are far...

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How veracious this despair in my wretched hole;
A mass of rosy red once filled, emptied! Masticating me whole.
Collapsing within and imploding without. Skinless in icy cold.
Extinguishing my Sun, leaving me only in darkness so bold. Behold!

Fariq Yusoff
23rd September 2015...

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we all came from one black mustard seed
exploding into billions
blowing into every
concrete crack
jungle leaf
burning cay
mountain top
ocean wave
fiords and caves
expanding stars
speed of light
 -U-turn
imploding
back into
one black mustard seed from which we came from...

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Can time survive in purer form
  devoid of reference 
  future—past

Can the present become
  a bible 
  for every sage

Like a black hole
  compressing within itself
  imploding front to back

Its enigma leads 
  to an eternity dark 
    —lost candle to the flame

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)...

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Autumn moon moods taunt my soul
as satirical jazz rocks locked, untold
gory stories of defeat, retreating soulless
untold joys, imploding screams unblest.

As a season, I reason stages of reproach,
storms of normalcy, winds of encroached
feelings reeling to hot to handle scandal
remissed, unkissed; insistent rare mantels....

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Staying up for three days
inside of one night,
the walls come crashing in

Compression imploding,
my mind exploding,
all memory suffering

Each hour like three,
as day becomes night,
the reaper at the door

Waist deep in the heartache,
his presence a warning
—my exit unsecure

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)...

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~Grace~

Amazing grace travels soul trails through wind and rain -
 When brittle stars shatter with love exploding
 False walls of lies, choices and self-defenses, imploding -
Amid the rubble and the ruins of self-inflicted pain.

9-5-20
From: Amazing Grace Inspired 8-8-20
Contest: Rithimus Divisa 5
Sponsor: Gregory Barden...

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who has that much power
to make the very foundations
of our castle crumble

the towers are imploding
the nightmare so déja vu

there’s something sinister
treading amidst our halls
wicked mischievous ghosts
conniving our demise

what machiavellian plot
a ruse to what avail



AP: 3rd place 2020

Posted on March 6, 2020...

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