Short Ominously Poems

Of the cold night, am I,
Observing with each eye.
Overhead, I explore.
Ominously, I soar
Over the forest floor.
Oops, what nixed Mousie's life?
Only my talon's knife....

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He whips up a furious 
thunderstorm 
of seething acid 


Looming above 
an ocean black, 
ominously placid


He snorts out thunderclaps 
and hurls down lightnings 
deathly white


The god of the oceans, 
once again, will show 
his turbulent might.


....

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She asked, "What does your painting mean?"
I said, "Nothing really. It's just a portrait of a peaceful evening scene."
She said, "But I sense something ominously stark,
there, lurking behind those two figures in the dark."
I said, "Oh, yeah. I see exactly what you mean.”...

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Sunbeams breached the clouds like searchlights panning
    dark clouds looming above red sky flaming.
Lightning flashes with sharp cracks of thunder,
    as storm marches ominously closer.
The wind whips the waves up, terrifying
    the crew huddled, cowering and praying....

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Lone lookout
Guardian and protector
Peggy’s Cove
Raging storm brewing
Lighthouse distress signals
Late for dinner
His chair sitting ominously empty



Submitted on March 16, 2019 for contest WK 3  MARCH 19 sponsored by BRIAN STRAND  -  RANKED 1ST

Originally posted on July 24, 2018...

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patch of blue sky
behind acacia foliage
turns ominously black,
winds wail, winds blow,
impatient, agitated,
flipping up undersides
of shaken leaves;

deluge comes,
crack and dazzle,
ripping away twigs,
tearing down branches,
lightning blasting away
at everything standing
upright in its way....

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What is this creepy thing
Infecting my body?
Busily digesting my flesh, melting,
The first stages of the blob.
End of my extremities
Swell ominously, wriggling,
Undulating like giant worms
Busily digesting my tissue
I’m becoming what I fear most,
Mistaken for castings
Shoveled up and thrown
On the compost heap....

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A contemptuous shimmer in his eye.

His body coils along the trunk.
 
An empty stomach fuelled only by anger.

Looming ominously from the sky.

He hangs from the branch,
lolling, staring, waiting.

Waiting for a victim
to constrict and inflict.

He stares.

He waits.

He starves.

Too late?

No. Not today....

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Nether Light

Light shrouded in surreal fog
Glows dimly 
Casting eerie shadows
concealing danger
Masking the reality
of the darkness
Light enshrouded in the eerie mist
shines ominously
Casting a cloak of doom
 over  our perception of well being
Stealing away our peace
destroying our solace
Leaving in its place chaos and anxiety
mayhem and confusion...

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Ominously yellow
Tranquility shatters
With its explosion
A hanging threat
Against my spirit

Energy saturates
My body
Excitement builds
A dash for
The intersection

The engine races
Spurred by my
Heavy heel
Flight begins
Stampeding forward

Yellow changes
Danger Red
Breathless now
I speed underneath

An alien horn sounds
But safety once again
Restores my judgement...

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Absolutely surrendering to the amusements of fate
Benign benevolent sentiments within bring bodacious bait 
Abiding austerely into the ageless absurd fits and starts 
Never negotiating with nature's nebulous nuptial new arts
Divine decorum dazzling dawn is what the environs drive at
Obscure oasis of the omnipotent ominously pat
Nefarious, nauseous nostalgic nemesis kneels as a gnat

25 February 2023...

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Listening to obscure music on a cloudy, Sunday afternoon... 
Christmas is all but upon us, and the new year ominously looms... 
Will next year be better than this one, or will the bottom just fall out? 
Trying to see my glass half full, but the empty half I doubt... 
Despite the typical problems with this desperate time of year... 
I still wish you a merry Christmas, even if my voice is hard to hear......

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Creepy
Oozing
Pimply
Witchy
Ominously lit by bonfire
Grabs me to throw on hot coal pyre

I run
I jump
I yell
I scream
They drag me back kicking and hitting
I refuse to stop, never quitting

Drug her
Mug her
Smack her
Crack her
Alert, I refuse to go easy
They let me go, my stomach queasy


Owlish
Foul-ish
Smelly
Bad stuff
I feel quite grateful, big and rough
Glad Mommy taught when to be tough....

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Daffodils of gold wind their way through heaven's green pastures 
As angels whisper through the meadows of my mind 
Fragrance forgotten through the passing years 
Forever dormant, lingers in sphere of time  
Ominously transparent in the shells of life
Done now are things I cannot change   
If only I could return the fragrance that I stole
Letting you know that I seek forgiveness
Soon all seasons would shower daffodils...

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Flawless
Her skin shone with radiance
Peach and rose in perfect balance

Flawless as the diamond on her hand
A sparkling jewel on a gold band

A black heart rested within
Ominously jet, a flawless twin

Flaws
Pretty she was not, had many a flaw
Chubby cheeks which needed a thaw

Fingers hardened with hard work
Was a simple wife of the town clerk

A kind and golden heart within
Helped one and all with a happy grin...

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up the slightly winding stairway 

                my fingers sliding on the varnished

                       contour of the burnished banister

                    that feels like an ominously 

               smooth, sinuous anaconda,

        but happily undulating 

       under my palm

            like a kitten purring 

                     gratefully at being 

                                   caressed......

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we’re all ticking time bombs
with activated fuses
sometimes doctors
will sit us down
and assign us some disease
ominously reminding us
about the ticking of our clock
but in the meantime
other bombs go off around us
often without warning

why would we need
reminders to live life
to its fullest
over and above all
remembering to ignore
that annoying ticking        



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Posted on May 9, 2019...

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Daffodils of gold wind their way through heaven's green pastures 
As angels whisper through the meadows of my mind 
Fragrance forgotten through the passing years 
Forever dormant, lingers in sphere of time  
Ominously transparent in the shells of life
Done now are things I cannot change   
If only I could return the fragrance that I stole
Letting you know that I seek forgiveness
Soon all seasons would shower daffodils


4/9/15...

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at high noon came the typhoon;
storm clouds, crisscrossed 
by zigzagging sparks of lightning,
cracked and burst 
as thunder roared
ominously.


rain gushed down in torrents
and, like furious waterfalls,
hit everything, anything below,
soaking the earth,
drenching all 
thoroughly.


after a while, it was gone;
in the fresh stillness,
wet greenery glistened in the sun,
insects frolicked free,
pleased, grateful,
delirious....

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The familiar burbon warmth 
crept through each vessel,
slow and hard the burn-
turning me out from the inside.
I closed my eyes 
and braced for impact, 
I always fall hard right here...
Long tendrils of silky-soft hair 
framed my porcelain face as I
lowered my head in defeat.
I'm clean on the surface 
but stained like church glass underneath,
a wrecked consequence 
of this beautiful life
that is ominously cursed
with the promise of death....

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at high noon 
came the typhoon;
zigzagging sparks of lightning
crisscrosssed storm clouds
that cracked and burst 
as thunder roared
ominously.


rain gushed 
down in torrents
and, like furious waterfalls,
hit everything, anything below,
soaking the earth,
drenching all 
thoroughly.


after a while, 
it was gone;
in the fresh stillness,
wet greenery glistened in the sun,
insects frolicked free,
pleased, grateful,
delirious.


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Grazing on the hearty lawn, Peacefully; even placidly.
Coming closer to the earth, with each mouthful.

Leaves gathered on the grass,
implying the nearing of fall.

Having few cares,
she munched along, blissfully.

Standing ominously near a fence,
nearing a tree, she fooled the onlooker

One would think
this steed was free.

Perhaps she was more free, 
than you or I.

Tugging, relentlessly on each blade of grass,
she was a mare of content!...

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As the moon passes over the sun
the earth to darkness is plunged
in olden times people were in fear
thinking this is the world's end

Pitch blackness covers the earth
day and night are now reversed
no bird songs now can be heard
just an ominously deep silence

slowly so slowly the light returns
a collective sigh of relief from all
today is not yet the world's end
just an eclipse of startling magnitude

05/07 2014

contest The Darkness at Noon...

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Neon fingers
banish the remnants of the day
Dustbins loiter ominously
blurry eyed
The Night people slide in between
Sailor doom bewitched by sorceresses
as heckled men face electric spears

Stet the occasion
A drawbridge opens
staining the gangster day
Outstretched palms
preclude the day

Jewelled ghost trains
ordinately take you
further away

Velvet dolls with a brainy side
watch stale commissioners slide
Star  clad ingénues infuriated evermore...

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Beyond the din of vexatious dogs that bark,
The winds of change blow ominously.
Foreboding signs that upon us make their mark
Bring unease and much anxiety.
There is nothing we can do in this dire state
But pray someone stops our dark, impending fate.

In history's pages are precious lessons
From which shortsighted leaders may learn,
Choose when to keep our peace and when to make war,
For lives lost,  we can never return.

Cynthia Buhain-Baello~~~09.27.17...

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