Short Ravaging Poems

Unveiled world
Antics out of control
Tangles of darkness
Ravaging souls under
Cold craterous moon...

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Metaphorically they are
As rust to iron
In the fields of
The hunger demon
Ravaging timelessly
Small potatoes
Are like
The Grace of God....

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Rolling thunderclaps;
angry gusts whip through tall trees;
ravaging the land.
icy globules beat the ground;
winter thunderstorms play rough!...

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Will pin you down in savage holding
Making aloud growls like moaning 
Whilst ravaging your flesh as its feast
Love’s mask be worn by this beast…...

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Thoughts
tumble
unfettered,
ravaging my
mind.

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22 October 2017

For the "Mania" contest, sponsored by Lewis Raynes....

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Winter is dying out to warmth that will suck the moisture out of us all
With ravaging water wars 
the earth succumbs to death grips that man has placed on earth. 

I only see what I have seen...

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She wraps around me
With her eyes delectable
She wafts of pure lust
And I ravage with delight
Love is our waging passion

Russell Sivey

Contest: One Tanka- Theme- Love Note
Sponsor: Rick Parise

6/16/2013...

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Depression is a great white shark
who navigates the green sea of my emotions
ravaging parts of my aching heart
with his teeth absorbed in bitterness and loneliness
leaving behind shipwrecks of life struggles
and broken relationships in his wake...

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There is this fire
Burning inside me.
A ravaging hunger 
I need to be next to you
Your magnetism is pulling me
to seek you out
I need your touch
Your smell drives me insane
My head feels twisted inside
With memories writhing
Come to me now
Oh man I love...

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I see a swirl of lose ends
urging me to tie them together
Like taking a trip
  along the Milky Way
           of Illusion

I see fingerprinting eternities
ravaging the Hourglass of Man
Through these areas
     of Space uncovered
           by my Third Eye...

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Hate 
is a vulture
It flies down to eat the dead of prey
In and on the desert plains 
Hunger mounts
It's this environmental biological job to cleanse
Stinking cotton dead flesh
Yum! Carcass
Taste
Hate


3/4/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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Thunderous , twisting, torrential force,
spiraling, suddenly changing course,
ravaging everything  in sight,
sinister, ominous threat  in flight.
Savage, swirling, deadly wind,
destructive fury that won’t rescind,
Devastatingly she seeks to destroy,
savoring the wrath that she deploys....

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War
cold, brutal
frightening, devastating, ravaging
guns, blood, soldiers, heroes
forgiving, loving, calming
warm, gentle
Peace

6/8/19

Contest: Sparkling Diamonds

Sponsor: Joseph May...

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rampant and deadly
eating up the red blood cells,
leukaemia on course,
Fatigue,pain,profuse sweating,
uncontrollable symptoms.

It has many sibs
all with pure killer instincts,
one attacks prostate,
others the breast,skin and brain,
scientists in prolonged battle.


CONTEST:"Cantankacerous" sponsored by Joann Grisetti...

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Scary night sky streaked in shades of indigo mysteries.
Blazing light explodes - Sudden air strike unravels swooshing surprise
as ravaging bombs destroy slumbering silence with shocking sound.


Date: 08/05/2017

Note: For the contest (Form - S) by Broken Wings.
          *Placed Fifth*...

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Roaming over the wheatfields
     their joints a-cranking
   insecticide fog blankets the air
     Oklahoma dustbowl bleeds 

   Relics of a bygone day, all angles they move
     ravaging fields and pests, pests and fields
   wheels of progress a-churning away
     blackening golden grain
                 ~ pests' entree, noonday...

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There is nothing like the melancholy
That lives deep within me
At times I struggle with this ravaging beast
As it tries to consume me whole
But nothing could ever overpower a soul
As the battle ends
And the defeated beast
Crawls back into hibernation
I wonder how long until
Its next cyclical appearance
And the level of its intensity...

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Discouragement besieges my certainty like
clear blue skies swallowing up the noonday sun.

Anxiety trespasses with spears aimed to unguarded 
thoughts like water rising on deck from an unruly blue sea.

My syncopated language scat of failure
like a night of blustering blues.

Pillaging my ears and ravaging my mindset's goals and dreams....

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Grows like a weed
Strangles my mind
Takes over me
This evil vine
Planted in madness
Sadness it's seeds
Watered with fear
Sunned in mediocrity 
It's ravaging, savage
It twists things, it lies
Pain's it's photosynthesis 
That's how it survives
I have to break free of it
Hack off it's leaves
Pull it out from it's roots
Before it overgrows me....

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Why do I feel that something so bad has happened?
That is because it has happened
The virus ravaging the world
Just like the old films I saw as a kid
Jubilee Videos has the best films
My mum got them for me
Not one was happy or love story
All were war horror death or sex
As Frankie said Relax and Two Tribes
Ultimate sex or total ing war
Nothing but the year has changed...

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Ah! I do know the winds shall blow, 
And the same old Titanic will me row, 
To the distant promised harbour, 
Where were placed my dear parents, 
And grandparents long, long ago. 

I shall complain and tell them the tale, 
“On the Earth, on each dale and vale, 
Thunder thunders flaming the lands, 
Ravaging the green or purple peaks, 
Each tree you planted is dry or pale.”...

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RAVAGING MY HEART
TIME WORE ON
LIKE SANDPAPER ON MY SKIN
MOMENTS LIKE SNOWFLAKES
NEVER ANOTHER THE SAME
I DIDN'T, I WOULDN'T, I COULDN'T
IT'S ALL TOO LATE FOR REPAIR
YEARS DRUG MY HEART
THROUGH MUDDY WATER
AND INTO THE FIRE
NEVER A REST
HOLD ON TO THE DAYS
WHEN NOTHING WAS SOMETHING
AND A LITTLE FLICKER 
COULD RAGE
NOW NOTHING MEANS NOTHING
AND EVERYTHING IS NOTHING....

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How time flies!
Yesterday has come and gone
Leaving behind
Mountain of memories.

The new year is here!
And everywhere
Hope of good things to come
Arise let new dreams be born!

Sad memories of yesterday
Are but destroyers
Ravaging steadily but surely
The state of sanity

Divine providence be praised!
For life being lived
For hope being restored
God let this year be good!...

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Looking onward... yet to ponder a poets yesteryear
Of remembred  Antiquity 

So close a ravaging storm to match
or perhaps a gripping novalistic story with a sweet dance 
to accompany

Nevertheless breathless I ponder his yellow streaked pages of bewilderment 

O' how the river wild tumbles in a drowning symphony
O' this dulcet love he proclaims
As an orange fire sun come to rest...

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Who
are you who
shatters
my dreams, awakens
my senses and holds
me tight while you 
carefully
devastate my mind?

Who
were you back then, when
you broke into 
my life as gentle as
a hurricane in a chilly day of 
autumn, as ravaging as 
a Baroque melody, as intense as
a rainbow, as enticing as
a nightmare?

You
were, are and will forever be 
made of
the stunning mix of opposites 
I'm made of....

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