Short Paroxysm Poems

a paroxysm of 
applause in a crowd creates
a popcorn popping
reaction, but burst into
laughter you might be a clown....

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Paroxysm of the pupil
   Blind eye opens to dawn
Brightness quadruples
   Crimson-tangerine brawn


11/29/2019
Hit me with an Epi-Pen Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Maureen McGreavy...

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Love
Ardent, boundless
Caring, empowering, promising,
Paroxysm, veridicality, Anhedonia, ephemeral 
Trivializing, evading, weakening,
Tristful, lorn
Indifference 
...

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 Her anguish blasted...
It was a 
Wild paroxysm!

The tempest ends...
Relief quickly follows. Exhausted. Calm.
Now, she sleeps.


Written 17th October 2021
For the Lune (mixed pair) Poetry Contest
Sponsor: William Kekaula ...

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As twilight turns to dawn, something brings to memory

Of lovers’ laughter, hate, and banter out of spree

Like daylight, warm are the smiles and colorful as a prism

And as moonlight taints their skin, bodies go feverish in paroxysm

But they are now just in dreams, only in dreams...

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WAITING

From  here  my roost is not  far
Only   fogged.  Yet  paved  with tar.
I   am  that  teetered  beast 
Loose me , Awaiting me is a feast. 
I hear that drum of my hide rumble,
And  the flute of  my  bones  waft
Tunes not humble,
That  tune of my beginning
soporific yet ecstatic in singing
Sheer paroxysm!!!!
I am that carnivore,
This  forage  starves me…
Unbind  me, see home  awaits my return.
I’m  through with my first death.    
My second birth is close..

©Chikwado Nwattah. 2014...

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