Short Interred Poems

Wint'ry coats mingle
With dirty roads, revealing
Mankind's civil sin....

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It's bewitching time
moon is fleeing from ghostly
couple's interred vows 

Written: October 14, 2022...

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Hearts and Flowers
  The Eiffel Tower
An engagement ring
  Reason to sing

A wedding planned
  Passion's quicksand
Soon afterward ~
  Romance interred...

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Jo King loved frothy tankards of beer
Which she drank every day of the year
Interred in a keg
She swallowed each dreg
So her tombstone reads, "Wish you were here!"...

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Tearing at the roots
of what life is about,
science strips us bare

To wilt in description,
formulaic interred
—ivy walls that snare 

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

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I heard of a lady named Carol,
Whose hubby’s interred in a barrel,
He died due to drinking,
So it was her thinking,
He’d adore his final apparel!

07/27/21...

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all love died with you
when your coffin was interred
my heart built a wall

Senryu on sadness
Sponsored by Laura Loo
checked with how many syllables

09-01-17...

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Itching
itching
nowhere
to scratch

Rambling
rambling
balling
the jack

Freight car
open
voices
interred 

The brakeman 
singing 
"Turn 
"Turn 
"Turn"

(Dreamsleep: April, 2024)
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The present ,so easily we forget
Our yesterday's,interred,remembered
'neath leaves of regret;
Often exhumed,wahed bright
with tears of delight;
So clearly,our days past,we see

For tomorrow,....may not be...

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The body interred here:
    A famous bed wetter.
More could be said,
    But less might be better.

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for the Bite Site Poem No.38 Poetry Contest
sponsored by Line Gauthier
Written 03/03/2022
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Where is the wildflower,
where does it wander
in the time of nearly Spring,
does it dream of the sun?

Time is such a tiny word
for that which keeps us interred
in waiting for the perennial 
paradise of the soul. 
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Literal is not,

the fake climb is aunt,

and a stake in the attrition not an alimony as you can see clearly in me...I do not assuage an empire-

I follow in the most economical exigencies,

as one is up, another is down my friend....

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The monstrous spires uprise
But never touch the skies,
Vain, earth-foundationed monuments
To Life’s impermanence.

Expensive markers war with Time
Where lichen mosses climb
And cover up each hand-carved word
That tells of those interred....

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The monstrous spires uprise
But never touch the skies,
Vain, earth-foundationed monuments
To Life’s impermanence.

Expensive markers war with Time
Where lichen mosses climb
And cover up each hand-carved word
That tells of those interred....

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Stealing fire from the gods
Prometheus would yearn
And pass it off to humankind
whose banishment interred

Their feet into the glowing coals 
but faith out from the dark
Enlightenment a powder keg
—uncareful wishing sparks

(The New Room: September, 2023)...

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I spied inside walls to much surprise.
Sometimes with smiles, then tears, into rise.
Sometimes, some things, unheard,
Are better un-interred,
Truly this will never provide prize.



Written for

Sponsor Michael J. Falotico 
Contest Name "A FLY ON THE WALL"...

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Caesar preferred to be quietly interred

  But to Antony his friend he deferred --
 
With Rome's citizenry Antony conferred

  Spurred them on with the passion of his words

Masterfully, did he their emotions stir --

  They'd hunt down and kill the conspirators, sure...

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An album filled with photographs
of Christmas Day five years ago.
I still see smiles and hear the laughs
when my mom's face was all aglow,
now interred beneath winter's snow.



December 13, 2022
A December Memento Contest
Sponsored by Andrea Dietrich...

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I have died by sword, by pox;
in my dotage years, at birth;
interred in many a box.
I eternal roam this earth
in one form or another;
I will forever be a
child of another mother.
With this soul, I play, replay;
constant will until I find
that for which all men do search;
inner calm and peace of mind....

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Pictures interred

deep into gray matter 

shatters delusion

except from time

no moorings holding them in place

to past or future

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6/12/15  For the "Through Your Eyes" Contest

(Requirement using 21 words)
Resubmitted for Brian Strand's Contest #221...

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Stones

Granite blocks of stone
Stand vigil all alone
Lean as if in prayer
Forever
Where seldom footsteps tread
Here among the dead
Memories interred
Forgotten

Faithful through the years
Where long bereft of tears
Remnants of a past
Lay silent

A lifetime etched in stone
Name and date alone
In loving memory of
Whomever...

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Once long ago 
You made the sun shine
Now you cast
A septic sulphuric shadow
You came and stole
My heart and my happiness
And interred them
In cold grey granite stone 
Days once so brief
Now linger, last too long
As we must sit
Separate in the same room
And listen to
The silence of hurtful hate

For contest * Jaded Love*  by John Heck...

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In the empty house 
of snow,
though, interred a blade of grass
when I was searching one
midnight flame

in frozen night, on
parting lips of darkness.
The art of delusion
churns the sea for an untitled
arsenic,of a blue throat.

I am dynasty and I am 
the king of million whites.
Fatherless sins
in rusted boots
were having a last laugh.



Satish Verma...

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China reaches out for power
Over land and across the seas
Raging fevers crush the flowers
Of fragile weak humanity
Nothing known can quell the wake
As ripples drown the soul
Visions of this tragic fate
Interred as church bells toll
Rest for those no longer living
Under a blanket of broken sod
Sins without forgiving.. left to the will of God...

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I knew an old woman from Greece
Whose whinging words would seldom cease
She’d constantly whine
When drunk on red wine
Her husband’s in dire need of peace!


How much cash does a Grecian earn -
such questions I tried hard to spurn
Her husband went mad
and did something bad -
she’s interred in a Grecian urn!

8/20/19...

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