Short Marred Poems

Marred by loneliness 
afraid to get cut again,
be open, be brave....

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picking ripe plump figs
each one marred by pecking holes
~ pleasantly plump birds...

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A copper vessel
though I'm humble, marred and
scarred please use me Lord

Simple 5-7-5...

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Scratched Scarred and marred
Remembers times and schedules
Tarnished yet ticking

By Robb A. Kopp...

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Imperfect pain
Marring us all
In warped rooms
Parchment calls
The pen to write 
Perfectly
©2016...

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Come fly with me on eagle wings
Forgetting all pain and life’s confusion
And I will show you wondrous things
Not marred by present or past pollution....

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Melancholy men meandering many muddy miles. Marred minds, muffled moans, marked madness. Minimized merciful miracles;  morphs mans’ magnified misery.

           W01282021...

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Had Cut Up My Card

memory was marred
and my eyes were even starred
cut up my each card

Jim Horn

My poems are not supposed
to make any sense or should 
they really be....

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Business May Be Booming

We heard business may be booming;
Overhead many rumors are looming;
Times are hard;
Scarred and marred;
So much sin seems to be consuming.

Jim Horn...

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Listen to poem:

Mumbled murmurs emerge
Marooned rumblings wake up
Madcap mayhem threatens
Maelstrom rattles the room
Marred peace sinks in chaos
Moment secret is out
Mad how fast rumors spread...

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Desert sand a windswept skies
Marred my view tear drenched eyes
Delirium and sunburnt skin
Scorching heat no relief within
Broken down and almost there
A vultures treat without a care...

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I realize now that the body you live in
is no longer the body I know
The scars and tattoos I once traced in my sleep
marred by age and time
A house with an attic
holding secrets I'll never know...

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Sharp and branded was the hunger
Thundering within my paunch
guised as the quintessence
spearheaded by life
‘twas the claw cast
from death’s marred teat
Heard within yonder valleys
Whence I sought freedom...

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Great tree / strong limbs jut
Storm comes / hard wind howls
Marred lawn / haul vast bits
Sad view / folks wear scowls

May 18, 2023
For  Let Us Rock Five - Wujue Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Suzette Richards...

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Once beloved
is now forgotten.
Once cherished
is now despised.

Once a beauty 
is now marred.
Once loving 
is now hurtful

It is a tragedy,
started by lust,
morphed by lies,
ended by hate.

It's a broken love....

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Slicing through bellowing winds,
Cracking the mirror in two;
Black silhouettes cascade down the glass,
Catching the golden hues
that stare, deceived by their own reflections
marred in the murky depths,
never to see truth....

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I tried so hard to warn you.
Tried to make you see.
But your broken heart beats ragged,
As you try, so desperately, 
To hold it all together.
But the pieces fall apart.
Marred, by all the scars,
He shattered your naive heart....

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The chagrin is profound,
A heart is marred,
And bane mushrooms diffuse spores ---
But they deliver elation,
They all deliver pacifism
For which the weary
Spirit yearns.
They deliver elation
In a trivialness
From where
No spirit returns....

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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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After a bath, i feel clean.
but there remains other unwashable things.
Spots and stains by many kinds of sin.
After a bath and a prayer,
inside and out, It is like being ,
one half clean and the other half 
marred and soiled by sin!


(07.01.2022)...

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MACABRE 

Mayhem like flotsam wood.
Metropolis types out:
Murder. Victim floating -
Marred, strapped to slot machine.
Macabre tourist sight.
Mountains blue, green and RED,
Malice toward fellow man.

2nd Place
4/19/2017
Pleiades Form - M contest...

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Time waits for no one or so I'm told 
Under the weight of the world i begin to fold
Vixens and vagabonds mix and mingle under the stars
Wishing and hoping they'er not marred by their scars
Xenodochial but still cold, time waits for no one or so I'm told....

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Our worldly obsessions
have marred and blurred 
the glorious vista of the Sky.

They've stifled our urge to go
far beyond what lies beyond,
to doubt what is, to ask why.

Though we have strong wings,
we've lost the desire and will
to leap into space, to fly high....

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Troops fought kings sunk, and nations fell.

saga is marred by our staunch deed. 

grace sounds thru ages, but who tell?

It traps us with stern bars and Greed.

Written: June 21, 2022


Greed Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Margarita Lillico...

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A drunk man stumbles out of any bar 
Looks at a sky marred with stars 
Inside looks he, a void he spys 
Tears brim fragmented eyes
He feels it-- 
Bestowed burden cumbersome

In the hands of man-- 
The brand,
To think  
To be  
To become 
To not... 
Is him  
Is we...

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