Short Infirm Poems

The story of a Poet,
more tragic than his words

What then in fact his deeds conscript
—his writing leaves infirm  

(Dreamsleep: March, 2021)...

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The silence of the morning work bells
contrasts the roar of modified Black Marias
to the old and infirm perilously weakened by the virus
it was the sound
of the start
of the beginning
of the end....

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There are many things that are trying 
to divert each one's attention 
that might endanger his life. 
There are times when study 
and work never help 
but hinder him 
from serving 
the Lord 
God....

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healthy, 
            hale, able-bodied, 
  exercising, healing, mending
sanitary, hygiene, infirm, illness
   puking, regurgitating, dying
            afflicted, queasy
                       sick



Date written: 02/07/2023...

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The words are still perfect
  as speech becomes marred

Intention unblemished
  delivery though scarred

The memories embedded
  all flashbacks infirm

Escape now for others
  —their light yet to burn

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)...

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It came to me infirm
  which means I had to care

It somehow crossed a line
  that wasn’t there before

It cast a light on something
  I thought I’d left behind

Reality now stronger
  —than fantasy reminds

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2013)...

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I am scared
of this heart so fragile
of this heart so weak
infirm
like an eggshell
frail and brittle is my heart
easily broken
quickly shaken
please do not nibble
blood will dribble
and the heart will break
and love will turn to pain.

Drencho POET Loads...

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Pride, you deceitful worm,
how dare you so viciously trick a person’s mind?
Pride, you deceitful worm,
your fine physique hides a tormented core, infirm,
mutable, and harboring only thoughts maligned.
Lord, save me from the vilest villain designed,
Pride, you deceitful worm....

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Lilliputian minds oft affirm
Delusional knowing
Unstable, fickle and infirm 
Thoughts debilitating

Becoming as we choose
There’s no valid excuse
To thus cook our own goose

The false ego binds
Lilliputian minds

11-September-2021
Quietus...

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I grew up
having never become an adult,
the years to now betray
My body infirm,
my vision impaired,
my hair has turned to gray

I grew old
while living within myself,
false promises to none
Retuning to boyhood
each night in my dreams,
my age still zero-sum

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

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I was in a dark room, with no light to be seen
No hands to hold when i become infirm 
Then you show up with the light i crave 
You save me from darkness and wipe my tears 

At last, i saw a light that could save me
I saw a hope that could set me free 
You become the light that guided me 
The hands that holds me...

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Excluded Trump for Being Excruciating

Making someone very weak and infirm
like a "debilitating back pain."
Tending to weaken something.

Again excluded Trump for being excruciating;
He never was humble and always humiliating;
Poor golfing game,
And him to blame;
Back stabbed with pains that are debilitating.

Jim Horn...

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I'm in pain, terrible pain,
My back has gone can't move again.
I tried to do a kindly turn
But it has left me quite infirm.
I did a poor, old lady's shop
But carrying it home my back went POP!
Now I just can't move at all,
To get around I have to crawl.
I did a good turn, but couldn't guess,
That it would leave me with such stress....

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An old lion limps,
bones crumbling with each step.

Hyenas must kill him.
The once strong cannot remain
to infirm the thriving.

Antelope reflexively run
from hair-triggering scents.

A young pride hunts;
death lives at ease with life.
Fawns and calves are born
into needy mouths.

Windblown dust scatters scraps
of sun-clawed pelts....

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From water into wine...   Change
We at His side will dine... Hunger
At a word,gives life.......Renewal
Calms fear & inner strife...Marvel
Frees up frail & infirm;.....Release
For the sight-less will see..Blind
As the dead are made free..Death

elf-ENDLINE FORM by HGD & Dane

See more about each line at  John 2:1/6:1/4:43/4:16/5:1/9:1 and 11:17...

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Life, an infirm spark, 
An unsteady flame, 
A powerful blaze, 
Increasing in speed and ability.

To be precise, 
The incomprehensibility, 
The knowledge gathered, 
The continuity and discretion;
The unity, and the strict subordination,
With the reduction of friction and of material at a personal cost,
These are raised to the optimum point;
It is in the strict functionary direction of life....

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Good Samaritan
There once was time
Visitors would stream,
When a person’s health
Was like milk with cream.
Now, that milk is soured cream
No knock-on door no visitors stream.
There were many to wine and dine
Any place at any time,
Now, they’ve vanished into thin air
Only calls to say they are there.
Sometimes a good Samaritan
Will come by with true concern,
With a prayer he’d join the infirm
Leaving, but I’m not now alone....

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War
so perilous 
when love's weak
but infirm
when love's resistant
when love's firm
war,
as a powerless constraint
fails
then love
takes its stand
like steel
on solid smooth land
unshaken
little wind cannot break
war is subdued
battle fails
love prevails
like a resisting seed
under dare-pressing conditions
love withstands
war's weak hands
love remains
love triumphs
against uneven paths
love survives.

Drencho POET Loads...

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God’s
   White light,
         That
             Contains
Purity
      to heal
              the
     infirm
shines forth from

    angel’s auras 

to answer
          prayers
   to
        bless us
              with faith in
  our hour
          of
             needful
                     light.

© Connie Marcum Wong

First Place Only 11
Sponsor Laura Loo
Fourth Place 6-19-16

Waltzing with Color
hosted by Kim Merryman
1st Place 7-18-2015...

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Listen to poem:

Closed Account
David J Walker

The uncertain
Decimal point is real yet
Unforeseen 
The last scene of the 
Latest dream of a 
Vague and future
 happiness 

The language is Pigeon 
And unfamiliar
An inspiration of 
Lukewarm winds
An overdrawn account 
Of promised future days
Compromised and 
Secured only in unsigned 
Promissory notes

And yet the plan is
To retire young 
While the infirm 
Await their turn 
To expire
To the tune of a
Closed account
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Listen to poem:

The end will come very soon
steal the beloved left behind
after fools have expired
sealing doom in aftermath

a fate none seek is ensured
by the lack of a pressing cure
when medicine is put aside
by the infirm who will die

before the worse comes to pass
leaving nothing then to last
sweeping all from the earth
reduced to beasts as a curse

still the fools have their day
staking comfort in the blink
living large in twilight years
before a hell descends to earth....

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