Short Petrified Poems

petrified forest
stands stoically
in stony silence...

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affection and human heat melts  cryopreserved  petrified  heart...

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showing your oak self
tell tale petrified wood
saving your secrets...

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Hot volcanic flash
Large Triassic Cockroach cash….
Grey petrified ash...

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Petrified by snow,
Captive limbs...shackled by ice:
Prisoner of frost....

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doped up with caffeine - scintilla of sunshine way too bright

6/24/2018...

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small prey fled wolves and
hid under an ancient stump
both were petrified...

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I lay there petrified
As they began ripping,
Tearing the roof off of
My coffin...

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Blood moon cloaks the night
chilled winds, petrified terror
earth casts its shadow...

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petrified with fright as I awaken
to wonder who hears my pleas,
a cool cloth in mom’s hand...

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How perverse is this?
Missing that fear,
That shocked
That tasered 
That petrified
My limbs
My teacher standing with his cane...

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no one told the tree 
she could not grow there
and so she did, 
on the top of a petrified rock
where no tree had ever grown before...

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The shiver
 frisson !
the urge...
a look
that bends !
We became
petrified,
enchanted,
and breathless !
Oh! love
at first sight... !...

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A slough of moonlight
Singing lost love songs
A firefly playing rodeo
A lovers  reach in petrified time
Butterflies, take it on this Summer night...

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petty poet
                                    pimple popping potshot
    
                                               petrified







***...

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Spiders she can't abide.  Petrified, 
she applied insecticide inside; 
but then came all undone 
when a really big one 
tried for a ride down her hide outside....

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tea cup spring blossoms 
cozy color cocktails clasp ---
forerunner of spring 

rainbow petrified 
in easter egg elegance ---
salsa on soft snow 

16 February 2023...

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I emerge from glass
Landing in parallel world
Drifting with the midst
I drive on ballistic thoughts
Petrified by lava’s kiss.

"Tanka me a Dream"
By: Orlando Leach Jr....

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I ponder the

   Petrified Forest!

      What frightened all those trees?

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired

Entry for Richard Lamoureux's "Questionku Two" Contest...

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This rose will surely die
Just as surely
my love for you never will

Sad and dry
this occasional bloom

But I can still smile
knowing petrified love
is still absolute beauty...

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A slough of love
serenading moonlight
A snowball chance in a dream
Buffalo riders playing rodeo
A lovers touch in spring
petrified on time
Absent friends
on the wreath of time...

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In middle of Mediterranean Sea
Lies a petrified pirate ship
She froze in place during a fierce battle
Her secrets and treasures locked inside
Wait here.
Treasure map coming soon...

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imagery gained

petrified by one's own conscience
doth one dare keep walking forth
realizing all she bares to lose
or may have already lost

gained imagery...sure
but at what cost...

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inviting
enticing
decorative
        seemingly... 
     featureless
and strange    
        archaic 
           petrified
 in silhouette
 And yet
            ....resonant..
alive...

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Can surely remember back in the forties
Female drivers were a real rarity
My sisters took the wheel
So petrified. I squealed
Still remember to this day, it gave me the willies...

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