Short Perdition Poems

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 7/15/2021...

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Is this perdition,
   that I suffer so
In this inadequacy and 
affliction,
   Of sleep, woe?...

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What sparks hope in your breast is noble ambition
Having no goal at heart leads straight to perdition...

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Revenge…
  a desperate stepping stone
   —on the road to perdition

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2019)...

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Too much honor
kills with impunity

The intrepid among us
—perdition surrounds

(Dreamsleep: May, 2021)...

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The White Whale
Atlantis
or Holy Grail

Avarice and greed
destruction
prevails

(Dreamsleep: June, 2023)...

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A pat on the back,
smoke up the rear

Shake with both hands
—perdition is near

(Dreamsleep: August, 2019)...

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Killer of hope,
seasons of denial

Perdition in the wind
—damnation on file

(Las Vegas Nevada: January, 2020)...

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From the Devil’s stable,
I picked the fastest stallion

And rode beyond perdition
—through eternity’s flames

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2019)...

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immoral north winds 
locking jaws on shriveled souls-
sun starved perdition 

becharmed arctic breeze
winter’s kiss exalting hearts-
moon drenched nirvana...

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The bridge to Satan  
is paved with envy  
Voices collapsing
in currents below
Its height entices 
the moment fleeting
Perdition waiting
—with gate aglow 

(Dreamsleep: March, 2023)...

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Arresting the future
 as well as the past
Time the great jailor  
its prison precast   

A graveyard of victims
in temporal loss
Destiny preying
—perdition the cost

(Dreamsleep: March, 2023)...

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   The days fly by
     one and the same
   too busy to pause
     to earn their own name

   Unearthly winds
     sweep moments away 
   into dustbins of perdition
     painted colorless gray...

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Band of blood brothers bound for a mission 
To save the fair queen from great perdition 
Matters not if black or white 
They must fight for what is right 
Or their great king will hold them for treason 

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A Mississippi back road,
burns in my mind

Its memory twice buried,
resurfaces, reminds

That Mississippi back road,
you once led me down

Perdition, destruction
—damnation refound

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)...

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PERDITION

Guilt
Burns hot
In the soul
For all one’s sins
Known as perdition
As a permanent state
That can and will still persist
Of punishment and damnation
And there is no known recovery
So unfair, after one has repented...

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A Mississippi back road
  burns in my mind

Its memory twice buried,
  resurfaces, reminds

That Mississippi back road,
  you once led me down

Perdition, destruction,
 —damnation refound

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)...

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Stalking every dream
calling me from sleep
A Yeti of the frozen night
I drove the pitons deep

Climbing over hope
belaying every wish
The tracks it leaves — perdition bound
  to wander in the mist

(Haverford Pennsylvania: May, 2024) 
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Flames of perdition
Painting passion’s fire
Moaning moonlight
Squeezing sensuous desire
Lovers’ lips 
Speaking sun glazed sin
Tasting temptation
Beaded on sultry skin
Sweaty sighs
Restless for relief
Smearing seduction
On eyes of disbelief...

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Seventeen children
on a highway to hell

Thumbs out—noses down,
perdition rings their bell

Seventeen children,
their backs now fully turned

The piper calls them blindly
—their futures scorched and burned

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2016)...

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30 Days' in perdition
        Is worth
Five minutes' with
        The Lord
           -Fore-
Irrelevance and eternity
          Is 5 Times'
   More likely to be
              -A-
       End Result
   When you council
         Is with the
             Lord

GF...

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Horizon brings two paths
Heaven takes to eden
Hell brings the perdition
Hearing an inner voice 
Haunting the mind and soul
Holding the floating thoughts
Healing hopeless spirit








For Pleiades H Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Kim Merryman
2-18-2017
Fifth Place...

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Perdition is a lonely road
Travels on and on
No haven found
Hiding in the fogs of time

Purgatories gain
Has found the hearts loss
Obliterating glorious possibilities
In finding everlasting nirvana

Timeless hopes 
Engulfing a life in solitude
Lost in worthless abandonment
A savior yet to be found...

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You try to mask your given voice
in what’s perverse and then profane

But truth speaks only for itself,
your costume tattered—seamstress blamed

This great parade, a grand charade,
your song a flattened chord

Its final line to seal your fate
—perdition now assured

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)...

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You try to mask your given voice
  in what’s perverse and then profane

But truth speaks only for itself,
 your costume tattered—seamstress blamed

This great parade, a grand charade,
  your song a flattened chord 

Its final line to seal your fate,
 —perdition now assured

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)...

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