Short Paled Poems

big dark clouds hovered over my tiny house,
it paled to the storm within due to an unfaithful spouse....

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There once was a raven haired Shrink
who had orange Juice Tequilas to drink

     while her scarlet souled Beau
     sucked her tinted red Toe

and she paled when he tickled her Pink....

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A foot alone
tries the water that ocean lays,
A foot alone
on sand placed within God's tears moan,
where the massive skin paled away — 
forgiven in tide's passing spray,
A foot alone...

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Faded Love

In the paled morn
of lingering lost love
a mangled heart 
cries due damp dew
upon rusted blades
once envied 
with green glowing glee:
time mourns the passing
and resurrection breezes away....

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Tightened muscles tweak foreboding trills marking his silence

while aches of shrill shadows pit my paled bravado against loud fears -

my love etched heart would bear any truth hit to free us both.





April 30, 2018...

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Bleached
Melon
From a vine
Growing upon earth
Individuality owned
Upon conception of lurid pulchritude fashion
Designed scarcity subsequent to generations of procreation in essence




written with a picture of a white pumpkin in my mind....

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MY HEART
IS A WOUNDED BIRD
WINGS QUIVERING
IN SILENT PAIN
WITH STIFLED BREATH 
UNABLE TO FLY
PALED FROM BATTLE
MY HEART 
IS AN ICEBERG
WEIGHED HEAVY
IN MY CHEST
FOGGING MY THOUGHT
WITH COLD MIST
RAINING DOWN 
MY SKIN, INSIDE.

AUGUST 2000...

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the flowers have grown
taller than the tree remnants.
the rocks have turned to sand
blown into the sea.
the grass has paled and peeled,
the sky is beginning to crack,
releasing stars to be glued to the earth.

we have become ether,
mere floating objects behind the clouds....

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The word sprouted
from the brute
matter
breaks out...
Through
the  paled
disguise
of the throat,
instigates one
creative reaction
in the nebulae
of mind,
and by reflex
emits a signal.
And by metaphor
allusion,
 arrives to the ropes
of the larynx
in shape of
sonorous  signal we call,
word...

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Treading long on rough road, 
take rest at edge of dusk.
Tired time will stop awhile
tracing known footprints lost
to the storm at sunset.
Twilight still gleams paled hope,
time to rise from the dust.

April 27, 2021
Syllable count : 6 per line (howmanysyllables.com)
Contest : Pleiades T
Sponsor : Kim Merryman...

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“...like small Cherokee children, torn from freedom and
the mountains, paled in faded lodges by rocky Oklahoma streams.

Bettie M. Sellers Westward from Bald Mountain 1974

LIBRARY CLUES

Ms. Bettie Sellers’
bald mountain of poems
subtly lays dormant
until a Cherokee chats —
voices commune together

3/1/2020...

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The sun set like a fireball but invisible
Clouds had the it hidden from view
So the sun won the battle 
Casting the whole western cloudy sky red
Even clouds wrapped to the northeast paled pink
Beauty for humans ~ animals? to behold
Blessings to end the day, excitement at God's paintbrush
Thank you God for your love and bounty

Cody came home yesterday!...

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Somewhere in the fog is Chaucer's prologue
to those Canterberry tales.
Ms. Layton I must thank for storing it
in my memory bank which of late seems
to have paled.
No offense to Mr. Chaucer but it's way past
time to toss her before this old brain is derailed.
For some day soon I may stutter with so much
extra brain clutter but Chaucer's prologue
it  seems I have nailed....

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Within her eyes
   the sky was forever deep indigo blue
   the trees and flowers in perpetual bloom
   the air scented sweet light perfumed rose
   the space between us 
non-existent.

Within her eyes
   the stars blinked singular blinding white
   the moon blushing in a paled harvest fall
   the universe pulsating rhythmic songs
   the black vortex drawing us in,
forever one....

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Whiskey at hand
Thoughtless...
Burdens to lend
Weightless...

There is no need to think
Needless for dreams
A simple taste is all that matters
Paled with the dark
Shadowless is art
The simplest of word bothers

And it burns
The hiding flame i earn
I am my mind consumed
Did i yearn?
Never i will learn
Beyond the fiery fume

An empty glass at hand
Weightless...
Whiskey to lend
Thoughtless......

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the pain that i doeth suffer

it hath paled in compare

to agony of youth 'twas lost

and naught there was to share



for i possess such memories

that youth will ne'er see e'er

and there be love upon this earth

'twas beautiful and rare



for not i mourn just for myself

but for all the souls in grief

remember we share common pain

through Lord there is relief...

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Rudolph paled because his nose turned brown
He couldn’t smile so he wore a frown

Santa wiped a tear from the reindeer’s eye
He hated to see poor Rudolph cry

Santa sprinkled on some Christmas dust
The nose is now red not a dark shade of rust

So look out of your window on Christmas night
You will see Rudolph’s red nose shining bright

Jan Allison
6th December 2014...

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His longing
Held him captive
To your beauty.
Your eyes 
Matched only by the cosmos
Of the night sky.
Your lips that bloomed
Like a red red rose.
Your hair silky
And soft
Like that of a petal.
Your voice greater than a mocking birds.
Without trying
You'd stole his heart
And as his vision blurred
For all who paled to you
You gave your heart to another
Whose demons
Danced with your devil....

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Long ago I had a coroner friend.
Wasn't long before he shared his dark stories...
People passing away in strange ways-in strange places.
Distorted postures-a maggot's buffet.
People going for a bite to eat-never returning...
his confessions never leave me.

I shared my stories with him.
but they paled in comparison to his.
I doubt if he remembers any of them...
Does anybody remember a twig beneath a redwood tree....

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Moon spills over like expresso coffee, 
withheld in a pitch pitcherlike corset —

Where long her skin's lantern once mothered me,
over tonight are but marble shadows,

Craters' paled apparition in my sky —
those cold breasts now an invisible blur;

This adrenaline dark when light's in wane,
virgin drinks in her cup's phase finally;

Still through a kohl tongue she kisses my hate —
this moon reads newly with every pause....

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Mourning face
In the twilight
Untimely sleep
On brow and eye

Propped breasts
Like crown of tree
Resting, untrimmed

Doubting whispers
Low murmur
Of unwanted issue
Behind curtain wall

Silenced by dictates 
Of profession
Secretly planning thrust
With age
As only time-
Forever blessed
With life
After paled memory of yesterday
Will tell.

Join the carnival
Brothers and sisters!
Memory may falter
But none can claim a nobler birth
Though they proclaim us
Bastards!...

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Over the moon I threw a rope
to drag it down to give to thee.
This I did with a hope
that you would come to love me.

I pulled two stars from the skies
to give to you to show my love.
They paled compared to your eyes
and so I sent them back above.

For your love I would do
anything you asked of me.
If, my love, you only knew.
If, my love, you could see.

The stars, the moon and heaven, too.
There's nothing I would not give to you.





~~~~ form : English Sonnet ~~~~...

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