Short Roils Poems

Fresh sand roils 
As the turbulent tide breaks  
Old grains wash away...

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Turmoil
God awful gut wrenching 
nightmare riding
turmoil.

Throat clenching
acid rising murder of crows,
False importance on the trivial grows.

A gag reflex of learned fear
turmoil roils hurricane high
calms counterweight on the psychic scale.

Taste the bitter bile of discontent.
Far fetching fowl…
fouling the content
eating the brash bits of joy
Turmoil....

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When I met earth
She was solid
felt good between my toes

When I met fire
He was hot
crackly and exciting

When I met water
She was swell
cleansingly refreshing

When I met wind
He was cool
always on the go

Signed up
Time passed
Found out that

Earth quakes
Fire bakes
Water boils
Wind roils

Scared me

'til I real eyesed
I 'm scary, too.

Now we try to remember
to hug eachother
frequently....

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The wind picks up, the clouds roll in;
A storm, real soon, may yet begin.
The river roils, the birds steer clear,
Confirming that it’s coming near.

And still I sit, as others stroll,
The day still firmly in control.
The forecast may, in fact, be wrong,
As some suspected all along.

The blue’s receding from the sky;
A single boat goes chugging by
And if, indeed, some rain we’ll get,
The worst will be I’ll run home wet....

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A snow bound silence descends now
upon my hallowed home,
the traffic's gone, the streets unplowed
and I'm engrossed in tomes.

A ribald tale of myst'ry roils
the knights have charged the breech
the bard sings tall tales of old
of maiden's love's unleashed.

The pendants mark the battles course
as Saxons face the Celts
unarmored men fought Saxon's, Norse
in naught but paint and pelts.

And so it was, and so it is
as men live or die for a kiss....

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Perversion.? ?Hidden deep inside
it roils and coils?; ?wrestles and writhes
screams,? ?gnashes,? ?gnaws and cries;
longing to tear the wings from flies

No volition to kill-? ?not the aim.
Rather,? ?to punish,? ?is the game.
Ignore deathblow,? ?purpose to maim;
in the wake,? ?leave broken and lame.

Pain persitent, ?it seeks to bring.
Perversion.! ?Lusts only to inflict suffering;
it insinuates to you?; ?it whispers to me
"make them hurt,? ?then you'll be free"....

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Sentinel, steadfast on the shore,
Entrenched in solid rock.
Neptune, enraged, rumbles and roils
Throws bolts to stun and shock.

Iredescent, the greenish glow,
Nodes of Elmo's fire.
Endures, unshaken the Keeper
Laugh at Nature's mad ire.

Lost on the pitch-black, tossing sea
Eager eyes scan the dark.
Nothing to warn them of danger
If not the distant spark.

Thus saves the Sentinel the ship. 
No mariner's at ease
Except when succor he has seen -
Sentinel of the Seas!...

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