Short Murmured Poems

arpeggios of murmured whispers...

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A poet once tried to rhyme “turmeric”:
he ate ten big jars, and then murmured “Ick!”
His taste buds murdered,
poor dear old Bernard
bolted up three flights of stairs to be sick....

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Your home fills a rancid life
Yesterday was very refreshing 
But agonizing voices murmured
Through the shivery cold
The moon's sight peers through
Your bloodstream zapping it
With a vinegary feeling...

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Drac, Wolf, Frank, and Claude

Bela to Lon, doubtless psychosis,
Karloff insert he needs hypnosis,
those three murmured on,
awe night till scared dawn,
Rain unseen flights for diagnosis.

2020 October 09...

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Colors arrive with pageantry
On canvas represents artistry
But outside make up existence 
Although can become meandering 
Literally murmured of course
The controversy with cerulean hues

© 2011 Kevin Stock...

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The sword  sat on Brigadier’s table,
thinking how she ate flesh of enemies
in the battle-field in bloody front-line

“I wish I could have change of diet
or just fast for  a few months to come”
She murmured to herself....

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A Grinch in a hamlet of Whovilles

Stole credit cards, ringing up big bills

     Without checking price tags

     He murmured, “Bah, Scumbags”

For this is how grinches get their thrills!




*January 3, 2015...

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So simple and so sincere
are the flow of meaningful words
spoken with infinite tenderness,
and these have ultimately changed me...
restoring this faith that was of another sphere;
murmured with and convincing tone so astutely....

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He wrapped his arms on her
Crying, "It's too late"
beneath each tears dripping
Thoughts say, "It's too late"
She was his diamond on the rock
And the summer on his winter --
O sweet metaphors  
Murmured on her grave.
"It's too late"....

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In spite of the despot, I reached there
like an obstinate roaring lion
to  strike the crystal ball, in vain
they laughed at me, my passion.
In the glimpse of light, I murmured
to myself, not to fear, not to tremble
for, this is the sky of your life!...

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Grace,
she sang
as she danced
in slow circles
her voice of rich gold
Held the babe in her arms
kissed the wet blossom-lashes
and cheeks that glowed of plum and rose
With her song of murmured tunes she wove
a coat of stories that she wrapped around....

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You whispered in my ear,
a breathy secret, hushed.

“I love you”, you murmured.

I said nothing,
lost, in your arms,
I found a home. At last.

“I love you”, you said,
I said nothing,
lost in my thoughts,
I found peace. At last.

“I love you”, you said,
words failed me then.

They still do....

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Two friends went on a weekend tour
All night one of them did snore …grrrrrr
The other sat up
She could not put up
She murmured “What awful bore!”…rrrrr

Nov.18.2022
A Fun Holiday Limerick
Syllables- 8-8-5-5-8 ( HMS )

Sponsor- Tania Kitchin...

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The earth trembled and all felt fear,
Some murmured a prayer.
Most ran out. oft tumbling the stair.
Faithless led to despair.

Apathy led to bars,
Others caused some crashed cars,
Most escaped to watch stars.

Sin dissembled.
The earth trembled.

15 September 2021
Quietus
...

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Wanting to cook
the catechist refuses to use fire
because every fire smells  hell

She made for herself
A snow ball with a core
Inside was hot red charcoal

“Possibly I will now cook”, she murmured
But hot charcoals melt away snow
 Face to face she was with fire

The rejected became her master...

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A spider disgusted with itself
murmured: Why do I trap a harmless fly
on a web of my dark devising,
spin him a shroud, then suck him dry? 

A frog listening below, feeling pity 
at the spider’s predicament so grim,
did the only merciful thing he knew  
when the spider fell through – he swallowed him....

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It was one  of those 
Kind of afternoons
When ball games were heard
From open windows

And houses had porches
And porches had swings
Where voices murmured softly 
Into velvet humidity

It was the most precious of things
In the most treasured of times
It was a root beer float…
Kind of afternoon...

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Mind has many doors
At times it's an unknown peninsula
A labyrinth at closer look.
Move scum slovenly
Or else you'll lose yourself
Dreams,swarming feelings
Make a slough of despondency
A slog of sorrow
Marshy land
Squirm through closed doors
Of turbulent mind
Hearken, mind murmurs
And get lost with 
The way of the world....

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How rainbows covet lily bells
that chime the dulcet birth of May
with murmured notes in fay pastels.

How rainbows covet lily bells,
mellifluous in shaded dells, 
to mime in tranquil bloom manque.

How rainbows covet lily bells
that chime the dulcet birth of May.


5/3/18
Celebrate May with a Triolet
Andrea Dietrich...

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Chicken on dry sliced rye,
at his neat
office workstation,
no garnish.

Suddenly she was there,
her chair roller wheels
squeaking.

"Next time get a 'footlong' sub
with Mayo and all the fixings.
We could share it."

'Messy' he murmured,
studying his monitor.

A sigh,
as the office angel rose upward
on chubby wings....

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Two drunken gentlemen
Holding each other up
They sang drunkenly

Drunk-and-disorderly
In a mood of melancholy
They murmured words of glory

Thinking that they got mad
The cop couldn’t understand
As to what they actually had

It was the pungent odour of wine
Along-with a cup of margarita and moonshine
They had on the full moon night....

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voices, this tapestry sewn of broken threads
murmured words  that now spell confusion
attempt to smile, a troubled mask we see instead
voices, this tapestry sewn of broken threads
all those chapters that will now go unread
the way it was now only our sad illusion
voices, this tapestry sewn of broken threads
murmured words that now spell confusion...

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Tear fell down,
Another welled,
And slipped to surface,
It also fell down,
Before I could contain,
The well sent in a train,
Each fell like a healthy grain,
One concerned softly murmured,
What has gone wrong are you hurt,
Another joined in to soothe,
I looked up and said,
Folks do not worry,
And look down here at the onion,
That I am trying to cut....

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Twilight , stay with me
in hours between wrong and right;
when confessions are  murmured
upon this life half done,

that past mid-life, I ask for reprieve
to settle unsolved  desires
those which enable  my fears
a choking of seasons’  absence—

Northwinds  may be  cold , cruel 
but now I hold  eventide’s  fire
with passion unbending.




26th Apr 2018...

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In the night
what a dulcet delight
where we lay after the love we made!

Whooshing wind fluttered whispering leaves in the glade.
Nature’s creatures of night crooned a sweet serenade.

Where a stream murmured past us, we found
a melodious sound
all around!

Written 8/24/12 by Andrea Dietrich

Inspired by nette onclaud’s 
NIGHT MELODY - - - TROIS - par - HUIT poetry contest...

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