Short Quells Poems

By
design
to comfort-
mother quells the
tears....

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Shimmering pools of water.
Amisted a forrest of green .
Mother Earth in her splendor.
Quells my restless soul ....

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The greatest weapon that Conquers all
The hatred is the seed of all wars from time
Love is the weapon that quells...

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A mother's love is like a stream 
that quells the cry of a broken dream. 

February 21, 2023 

Your Choice Again Poetry Contest (8th place)
Sponsored by: Brian Strand...

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when feelings rage
to fever pitch
and seas rise
to tortuous,
the simplest
open arms, loving embrace,
with puppy pats on the chest
quells and dispels
the fury
quite unexpectedly....

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Scorched
By gloom
On burnt dunes,
A  rippling  curve
Of fresh oasis quells my arid heart.


For Language of Water Contest
Posted 7 Dec 2015, by Ashley Conte
--Oasis--...

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Completing
The page
Quells the rage
At the courts
Misunderstanding
And unfair bail
But on we go
A train
Off
The rails
Digging in
Asphalt and
Concrete
Right down
Main street
In the summers
Rain does so
Much for 
The pain...

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Sound is the music in my ears,
a magic symphony of spheres.
It calms and quells my greatest fears.
It can bring tears. It can bring tears.

An orchestra, in its full sound,
causes my heart to leap and bound;
Releases my soul from the ground
and joys abound and joys abound....

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Horizon of knelling bells
Adequate feeling bestowed
Hue, odor, sound, sensation
Harmoniously dwell
Tangible gnosticism
Catharsis
Potency yells
Largess
Ample satisfaction
Darkness, Thy power quells
Allah, family, thought

Camelot...Freedom
 
Allah: Arabic word for God...

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clear
waters
ripple down
like lace  finery-
circling hedges bathed by sprays of pearled mist

how waves' rhythmic symphony grants relief
as  gush of  calm
quells pained soul--
healing
me



For Eve Roper's Contest: Double Tetractys 3
Visual 1
checked via howmanyayllables.com
9/29/2020...

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Anxiety
Like a beat
Under the stairs
Quells no fears
And brings
My childhood face
To tears
When home
Is no longer
A haven
For my head
For my head
Feels uneven
(someone else
Up around the bend)

(Excerpt from the ebook "Jail Poetry Vol. 1" Available !!NOW!! @ Amazon.com)
(100 poems $4.99)...

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Power of light, darkness dispels
As bliss mist, we’re immune 
Tender divine caress fear quells
Heart sings the divine tune

Hold steady faith, dear soul
With God within, we’re whole
Love and light, our sole goal

Our souls delight
Power of light

17-January-2022
Quietus ...

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Quarrelsome Questions

    quickly quirky quips
    quash quandaries quietly
    quells querulous qualms

    Right Results

    rapid repartee
    repress rhetorical rants
    ribs rabble - rousers

    Sweet Success

    swiftly satires skill
    silences sophistries spin
    stuns subversive scorn

    8 / 4 / 2020....

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I know the land where the lemon-trees flower
Where dew-drops shower 
On the pure lily-flowers! 
There flows a glistening life-giving river
On each wave a sliver 
Of light that delivers
Glorious warmth that quells trepid heart-aches
Every eve a dawn-break
Every breath a keepsake. 
Do you know the land where the lemon-trees flower?...

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Rotting thoughts,
Decaying with a vile stench-
In the corners of his cranium,
He sees,
It means null to win,
On the contrary sir,
You must re-enter society some day,
Wills thrown aside,
He masks himself from all that is rational,
He must ration the air in his lungs,
It quells the blood seeping from every orifice,
When he lies down....

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Despite the noise of harsh and loud debate 
Rhyme nor reason quells the argument 
Nor breaks the smothery sounds of temper flair, 
And dares dispute the platform proudly sworn 
By proof he wrests the premise by degrees  
The scholar wins the highest trophy earned.


Entered in "All Yours" Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand
February 24, 2021...

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Days of sunless set the less of soul
 
Life in madness round a black of hole
 
Fog upon a bank where darkness quells
 
Drowning out the sense, amid a world of wishing wells
 
Bottomless depths within fathomless deeps
 
Endless torments, end in murky keeps
And all too quick, sands falling lost and fast
 
Grasping hands, slipping slowly further into black...

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Two sets of three words each
  Each sets forces in motion
Mighty as mountains, vast as the ocean

The first set, "I give up"
  All momentum it quells
The future, disrupts

The other, "I love you"
  Walks you out on a limb
Your destiny magical; alternatively, grim

Utter these three words with the utmost care
  Never with a wing; always with a prayer...

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The raven’s cry bellows with twilight’s grip
Echoing the staggered  throb of a dirge;
Where grief’s murmurings become unheard
Down the walkway of crushed expectations.

A strained lullaby  becomes incoherent amidst wreaths
As a young mother quells a song for  her child,
Interred through  the icy pause of birds’ refrain, ebbing.


Nette Onclaud Contest: 6 TO 8
25 Oct 2017...

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My mind wanders here and there,
It has no bounds or limitations,
It keeps on thinking,
Various thoughts,
Sometimes ridiculous and at times,
Crazy and idiotic,
 It quells my sleep,
And bothers my peace,
I seek solace in prayer and meditation,
Which gives me temporary ease;
The erratic thoughts come back,
To me, with incessant worries,
Which sap my energies,
And keep me  hankering for serenity....

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To sacrifice my time of fate,
inventors urging's commonplace,
the nudge ~ inviolate, but grace,
invention seems to win the race!

That stark inviting quells replace
Lord, nothing else give me to case
this being my worthwhile, my space
and ne'er refusings' stymied trace!

The idea thriving, wholeness ace
at last surviving, millions pace!
I am Invention ~ no escape
Necessities remaining . . . chase!...

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Our void centric soul
knows it's always whole, 
so no urge remains
to break free from chains.

Feel bliss beats assuage
fear forms on rampage,
that tend to arise
when we weigh and size.

Choice of cessation
quells oscillation
of our fickle heart,
adding love to cart.

Head and heart love inked,
our soul's with God linked.
Fulfilling life's aim,
we become the flame.

09-November-2022...

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Through age and infirmity,
  my voice cries loud

With feelings still timeless,
  eyes not to cloud

The Reaper waits patient,
  his claim has been filed 

From outside he savors,
   inside I smile

The music has changed,
  with my heart still in step

My vision most clear,
  no lens to correct

As days take their toll,
  on what’s left of this shell

What spirit embodies,
 —death never quells

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2017)...

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A terrifying ordeal,
Not only is my mentor gone,
My lovely Rosie,
No longer does this grandmother’s;
Heart beat,
Tears have flooded my evenings,
Heartache captures my soul,
Day by day,
Improve,
Update letters,
Left at the proper sight,
Whilst time of daylight,
Quells the pain within,
My medium moves me,
To succeed and move on,
Achieve all that my Nonny,
Would have desired me to,
So I push onward toward my dreams,
I no longer feel the need to scream....

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Feeling sluggish, shelled.
Lithely lingering in the dust and grime.
Palette grey and dull, devoid of crisp bright hues,
Brushes all furry, frayed, blunt, incapable of fine detail.
Apathy and complacency palls to gloom and doom in my room.
Inactivity and being non-committal, chokes the creative urge, to be stillborn.
But then, words and poetry flood into the brain during sleepless nights.
There's no stopping it. 
Its spell, dispels the squashes, and quells the squishes to splats....

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