Short Leaden Poems

Natural attire, 
Iridescent canopies;
A leaden wardrobe....

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Cathedral of limbs,
Prayers from a leaden pew:
The butterfly prays....

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That leaden feeling
Where all of the uncried tears
Take up all the space...

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With a leaden heart 
not a word spoken just kissed
to keep the heart warm...

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straight low above,
         formation of war
            Black clouds dump ...love !...

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a nippy zephyr
gently blows with steady speed
in the leaden sky















3-8-2016...

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leaden bows scour quavering cellos – lithely lilting violins

                                28 Dec 2017...

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Pencil Pushers

haiku can hurt you
juxtaposition jousting
upon leaden steeds

John g. Lawless
©6/6/2017...

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leaden half-light sight
torrent of raindrops falling
weeping from heaven













4-18-2016...

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Now I lay me down to sleep. 
A leaden heart is mine to keep.
If I should die before I wake--
Now there’s an offer I’d gladly take!...

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sodden vapors cling
drench my soul with thoughts of you
leaden in the night 



01/14/11
11:27 pm
© All Rights Reserved

For SKAT's contest...

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The chalice you drink from
is leaden with spite 
and the poison is eating you up 

Step down from your throne
where you languish alone
and sup from a healthier cup...

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I leaped on board
A passing train.
Caught my fingers
On a fleeting refrain.

Pulling up hard,
And fell back, leaden.
For a kiss that lingers,
I would do it again....

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Coarse and contrived
Sterilized pride
Deaden

Absent and aloof
Formalized spoof
Leaden

Surly and wry
Hostilities nigh
Redden

Distrust and dissent 
Predestined event
Armageddon...

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My mind is leaden with the crush 
     of pain—a numbness of the soul
that's not an adrenaline rush;
     but leaves me feeling yet unwhole.
Unwhole! Unwhole! And afflicted.
How goes this night unpredicted!?...

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Overcast sky,
brings a rainy sky
to earth ...
In pronouncements of
gray and silver the leaden voice
call us all to
the contrition prayer showing that
the tenderness of the Lord
is manifested in many forms ...!...

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Pouring from leaden clouds
Flooding houses and gardens
A constant dark rain


Aus bleiernen Wolken
Flut in Häusern und Gärten
Endloser Sturzregen


De nubes plomizas
Inundando casas y jardines
Continuo aguacero...

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Formations fly, two vees silhouetted 
against a leaden sky, winging their way
to warmer climes, according to flight plan
scheduled by nature, primal instinct, geese
programmed, heed the call when leaves turn then fall....

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Years melted away
like raindrops on soft white sand
Thoughts are crushed
I follow unknown tracks 
in my returning dreams
Sadness has reached ma heart
and paralizes my mind
like wilting autum leaves
falling from a leaden sky...

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There is a callus on my finger,
it is where my talent lives.

Growing wiser with each stroke,
it feeds on tantalizing inscriptions
-
which I meticulously sculpt
-
as I transform my inner reflections
into leaden-inked realities....

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A heavy, leaden winter sky 

Oppressive, grey as slate.

Biting cold, stinging cheeks

As my weary way, I make.

Autumn had paid a call,

All the leaves, now litter.

Still though, it won't be long

Till all is snow, and glitter....

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Olden wordsmiths surely got it right,
one syllable to express the pain,
foggy heaviness clenching lungs,
razor-sharp edge gutting cleanly,
spear point piercing leaden heart,
weary shoulders, arms drooping
and all because of sudden rejection....

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A
dash on
excitement
tender passion
warm my leaden mind;
lavish,  pungent perfumes
drift thru torn, intimate halls;
chuckling from the cookhouse table,
our constant, unique, only junction,
drown me amorously…and I am near!...

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The way I feel about it's this
There's mercy in your leaden kiss
You never call-not day or night
This love's not fair but there's no fight
No tapestry,no pride nor zeal
In fact I think we hardly feel
I feel-your presence gone today
But I don't care much anyway...

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at the peak of health,

   fame or wealth,

      there's always 

         an echoing warning

            no one ever hears...


that in due time,

   all conceits

      bow and break

         under the leaden burden

            of the passing years....

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