Short Reft Poems

  Ro manse languages were once all the rage
  But Mandarin's now taken center stage ~
     Flankry, I can't stand it
     The Chinese are bandits ~
  It's rike leceiving kick in reft libcage...

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Leafed to be reft
Ashen greys in bleak surround
Cover of night dies
It's stillness, in cry, out loud 
My life, will be skeletal









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A soul stands so alone
sodden, trodden, left so reft
darkening shadows
amidst dim streetlights, now angst
what was before, is now never









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one or two missing
maybe I'm a tree
be a reft they always look so sad
all d's are pressed
Miser are able
s nothing to ad
So row fully
-D
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-n hear Ted
Des and ing are paired
Do w and n
Is mel an c holy
be lue
Dissing the mal
full of
woahhhhhhhhhh...

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Conflicts and troubles
Continents and tribes
Tomorrows left reft
Children, their future
In wanton describe ~~~~~

Maiming to kill
Shooting to thrill
Crimson will spill
Genocidal ~~~~

Soldiers they
Boys and girls
In whose world ~~~

These young
Bloodied ~~

Souls ~







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The News is my woman
I hate her for sough
She lies to the wind dough
and fakes what she'll guff

She's proud of a lege_up
and drowned for a britch
She's bred for a bastard
and brash as a bitzch

She's faulky and nasty
and bled to stitch
She's heddy disgraceful
and reft for a ditch

She's all of the words
I lied for a heart
When all the the times
were fake and apart...

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Doth if not thrill thee, Poet,
Dead and dust through thy art,
To feel how I press thy singing
Close to my heart?

You tell of a forlorn maiden
So much out of time,
Diminish stance, witless mind
Reft, with thy Rhyme.       

Alas, it is so simple to dictate
With prerogative quill of pose,
Upon life’s inflexibilities
Cast upon a wretched ‘Old Rose’ 

© Harry J Horsman  2011...

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I thank you trump
Your trumpty dump dump dump
Has taught me to thump sump and 
Shown me the runk of the junk of the world.

Your ravings have released cravings
Mavings, havings on all who have stavings
Belavings us into redravings
Leaving all to flap in the torrents

We see you go, flow, mow
Unhitching your ego, fleego, steego meego
Amigo in torrents of pleegos and stum

This is where you left me
Heft me, reft me...

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Through life, reft with emptiness
Drifting deepless from pillar to post
Wondering if it'll ever end
To extinguish these reoccuring ghosts

The feeling of awakening each day
Seeing loved ones there then gone
Afraid of the evening ahead
Knowing tomorrow's a different song

With closed eyes I sit in wonderment
In appreciation as to what life brings
Being blessed that I can look back
I must be worth a little something...

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He stares into the lighthouse fire
an ant in the hole
Against his throat rests the wire
a life that his beloved stole
When suddenly the sparks' igniter
is pieces of a whole
Far from his ancestral shire
he digests the mole
Betrayal for something shining brighter
he takes time to patch his soul
She stole from him his final lyre
but he will regain control

After all that's transgressed, there's nothing left
No longer will he be drowned in the reft...

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Lots of hands held over a candle
In angst fuelled bravado this Winter
No prisoners taken will there be
For many young and old will splinter

Knowing this sadness could delve deeper
With our horizon blinkered by greed
To boost the coffers of the rich elite
Whilst others struggle with daily feeds

Is there going to be a way out of this
As the inevitable carnage that'll be left
Or will anarchy be the nail in the coffin
It's not nuclear that'll leave its reft....

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I am the sky
Orator of my skeleton rain 
Magnet to the meadows
Blowing your smiles perfume 
From autumn edge to spring wings 
Hearing your frown thunder down 
A palpable twinkling thought 
Of revolutionary present sound 
Azure gown of twilit flames
Weeping over thistledowns sneeze 
I rain for me! Bereaved 
Into parting streams clung to the seas 
Which blew your wispy kiss of death
Upon the wobbly leaves, reft of Pan
Viscosity of departed love 
Chokes the hand of sands breath...

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