Short Palliative Poems

Palliative to hospice,
I jump from stone to stone

The river waits in silence
—its waterfall unknown

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)...

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Palliative to hospice,
  I jump from stone to stone

The river waits in silence,
 —its waterfall unknown

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)...

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Cave
saturnine…murky
spelunking…painting…mining
Explorer…Caveman…Hideout…Monastery
praying…planning…plotting
penitent…palliative 
Cave

8/9/2022...

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Last year I thought I'd give 
  my 'eager' spouse a palliative

Whenever he was in 'the mood for love'
  You know where I gave him a shove

This year, sure enough, he's much improved
  ~ After having his you-know-whats removed...

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Positive attitude
Palliative soft touch
Painful hearts always seek
Prop of helping kind hands
People appreciate
Profusely thank me, and
Pleasure is mine, I say.

April 10, 2021
Syllable count : 6 per line on HMS
Contest : Pleiades P
Sponsor : Kim Merryman...

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Only palliative word crushes
Anxious  stress
To procure from
 all grief's and misery

 God of sky spread over us
 very fondly
 to make overwhelm
thy  weeping  heart

Quit out sorrows
As far as 
Choose  a path
 soon or later
Ever keep  fervor 
to find out destiny……
                                       -katheliyer...

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I am not fit
to love or contemplate
the meaning of a
palliative fountainhead
synonymous
with winter longingness
enfolded by
sudden wantonness
of scorched earth
in summer
which stems from
a strength I lack
derivative of vulnerability
exposed to the point of
frigid fragility
being how recently
I supper alone
unable to stomach 
such weakness
your absence has shown
to crave our collective
still perfectly fit...

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He was there recumbent like a log
Cancer has culminated,prevailing over him
Enfeebled all his shielding apparatuses
Yet spurned to frolic prolongation

Eschewed palliative care ministrations
He detected the vital prognosis was engaged
He had instead to plough money into God's certitude
For he realized HE implements nothing fortuitously 

Could he yet afford to acquit himself otherwise 
Engage in a battle lost right from the dawn ?...

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Falling darkness of feigning eyes
Upon orbs of virtue they arise,
Absconding the feigned
The righteous, reigned,

Palliative now malice
Grief now crystallized, callous,
Empowering construction
Of honor’s destruction,

The malicious address
O, their fallacy shall never impress, 
Spirit of dishonor arrays
Their plague, fallacy displayed,

The truthful now berate
O, their spirit of faith,
Emerging nobility
Of awakening ability…...

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You will find it
On an unremarkable urban street
But no signs will point you
Well-worn tracks
That lead to it
These are not made of steel
No people with teary farewells
Or Cheery welcomes 
Hugs and handshakes
Lost to antiquity
Unattended gardens
Surround it
An old squeaky gate
Guards it
Bland as bile
Its wall
Memories of institutions
That room
Waiting room
Filled with the palliative
Dying
Helpless
Unloved
Unmoved
Left waiting in
Absolute
At 
Black train station...

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A mind so small
But it holds it all
Could be a ball
Don’t you dare
Ease the
Fall
Gaze down the
Hall
Inform the
Judge that 
Knuckles are hitting the concrete
Loud
More than two or four
No one knows the number for sure
Open the door
Palliative measures must be taken for
Quantitative pain, that is coming down just like
Rain, rain, rain
Sizzles as the same sound of a
Train
Unadulterated
Vociferous
Whistle
Xeroxes pages white and
Yellow.  The 
Zigzags of life’s travels...

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