Short Ruinous Poems

Strong winds wreak havoc
on everything in its path
this ruinous storm.....

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callous, ruinous world
depleting ...hoarding
spark earth's blazing fury
running on empty
chasing the sun....

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Being indulgent with oneself 

But intolerant with others

One, inevitably, 

Succeeds in imprisoning himself

Within the walls of ruinous hypocrisy!







© Demetrios Trifiatis
     12 February 2019...

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Long forbidding fingers dig deep in,
Appearing black contrast on pale skin,
The puppeteer directs your gaze,
A brief view but the vision stays,
Ruinous renderings plague the brain,
His dark imprint now shall remain....

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If Man 

could ever learn the language of harmony 
 
that nature is speaking 

he 

would never feel the need for the tongue 

of ruinous cacophony to use!








© Demetrios Trifiatis
     25 APRIL 2020    
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Low and lonely, but not to succumb
Through warring thoughts a pitfall deep
Ireful, rueful, contort
This speaker’s blunder deemed

Subdued with met solution
Devil’s plot decayed
Ruinous intent aborted 
Blithe courage keenly resumed...

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November morning
who needs their socks mended
Remember inside my shop
the ruinous rain pouring in
we blessed the cement we bought
The moon swallows us all
each new day is like the old
Im wearing out my rod 
November morning you bring me down
...

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The Other Side

The day looms tall 
Crushing the hopes 
of every budding reed
with ruinous strikes 
of harrowing memories 
raiding the mind
See the broken rubbles
of shattered Dauntless desires
dancing with the blustering wind
bestowing bleakness 
stirring endless expectations
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My heart, rent and discarded

Banished to Heaven's yawning wound

Ruinous words moisten your lips

And drip like poisoned honey ...

For now you love ... another. 





~ 1st Place ~  in the "Strand Select J Any Form Any Theme" Poetry Contest, Brian Strand, Judge & Sponsor....

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Taliban advance

Ruinous darkness follow-


Freedom's sun eclipsed!








© Demetrios Trifiatis
      20 August 2021

* Taliban fighters killed the relative of a Deutsche Welle journalist in Afghanistan as the group steps up its searches door-to-door for people connected to or who worked for the West....

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Face Chewer



The reek of desperation

Exhaustion

Can barely speak

A ruinous confrontation

No sleep – over weeks

Violent situations

Arise – in they creep

Like vermin

Human varmint

You spent what’s reaped

You kill every moment

Reeling to Invent

A life of abscission

A world terminable and b...

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Pressure swelling in my head
Straining behind my eyes
Tainting the world with scarlet red
Reason starts to die

A flashing, soundless, fiery storm
Screaming in quiet alarm
Descending in a poisonous swarm
Causing irreparable harm

Violence, now my only desire
Smoldering self-erosion
Burning like a white-hot fire
Terminating in ruinous explosion...

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The mighty eagle feasts
The sleek swift fish leaps and steals
The lovely meat for himself
Bless the fish who did not base the
Flawless beauty of his faith on doubt

The mighty eagle circles low for he seeks revenge

And I am the widow of elegies
I go back to the follies of my youth to see
How ruinous my last move was against your love...

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Can’t we bury in The Sky
One who is A Genius
And simply cry
For The With-Ideas Ruinous?

Bury in The Angel’s Sky
Minds brightly lit
But cheaply cry
For ones like dark pit?

Inter in The Azure Sky,
Whom his ideas weren’t split
But drily cry
For facts that wouldn’t fit ...

Genius we bury in The Sky
To show that we aren’t as high....

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A slice of sea whisked its way up as wave
Spinning  sun's refulgence whithin its  whirl
The trouncing wind lashed it with ruinous rave
To toss and tear on  shores its lustrous swirl
Silhouettes interred in silent sand grave
Reeked of ruddy remnants of comber  brave

Date Jan 24 2017
Contest A Rhyme in 60
10 syllables each in six lines
ABABAA Rhyme scheme...

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I loathe the sound of modern life
man made machine, electric knife
chainsaw rip through old oak bough
it seems so inhumane, somehow

give me peace, tranquillity
the robins chirp, the creek of tree
buzz of bee, or croak of toad
maybe I am getting old

not for me the the whirr of drill
tranquillity and air of still
is all I ask this gorgeous day
take your ruinous things away...

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F  -  Fighting 

R  -  Ruinous 
 
E   - Enslavement 

E   - Established  
 
D  -  Destiny  
 
O   - Of

M   - Motherland *






© Demetrios Trifiatis
      25 March 2019 

*On the 25th March 1821 the Greek revolution began against the tyranny of their oppressors  after four centuries of enslavement. Today is our National Holiday! Long Live Freedom! God bless Greece!...

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They make marriage a priority, 
And forget the necessity, 
Love fade, love vanished 
 
Money radiate vivacity, 
Make money, marry your equal,  
Let it be superfluous, it command obedience 

Don't marry in poverty,
is disastrous, ruinous and lethal,
It tattered your soul and lead you to pang 

Don't believe in their motivations,
Money is happiness,
Make money and see obedience....

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The barren feed the barren,
and empty hearts a like in manner seek 
to satisfy a sadness, stuck deep 
within the marrow of the meek.

They blame the cheerful, and cast
them far beyond their realm of consciousness,
while coddling the joyless with sorrows 
that would spoil true happiness.

Faith will master self-deception,
reduce to ash the flame
of ruinous self-interest, and sow 
the seeds of gladness once again....

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The barren feed the barren 
and empty hearts a like in manner seek 
to satisfy a sadness, stuck deep 
within the marrow of the meek. 

They blame the cheerful, and cast 
them far beyond their consciousness, 
while coddling the joyless with sorrows 
that would spoil true happiness. 

Joy will master cruel deception, 
reduce to ash the flame 
of ruinous self-interest, and sow 
the seeds of gladness once again....

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The barren feed the barren,
and empty hearts a like in manner seek 
to satisfy a sadness, stuck deep 
within the marrow of the meek.

They blame the cheerful, and cast
them far beyond their realm of consciousness,
while coddling the joyless with sorrows 
that would spoil true happiness.

Faith will master self-deception,
reduce to ash the flame
of ruinous self-interest, and sow 
the seeds of gladness once again....

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The barren feed the barren
and empty hearts alike in manner seek 
to satisfy a sadness, stuck deep 
within the marrow of the meek.

They blame the cheerful and cast
them far beyond the realm of consciousness,
while targeting the joyful with sorrows 
that would spoil true happiness.

Strength will master self-contempt,
reduce to ash the all-consuming flame
of ruinous self-interest and sow 
the seeds of gladness once again....

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The barren feed the barren
and empty hearts a like in manner seek 
to satisfy a sadness, struck deep 
within the marrow of the meek.

They blame the cheerful, and cast
them far beyond the realm of consciousness,
while coddling the joyless with sorrows 
that would spoil true happiness.

Faith will master self-deception,
reduce to ash the all-consuming flame
of ruinous self-interest, and sow 
the seeds of honour once again....

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The barren feed the barren,
and empty hearts a like in manner seek 
to satisfy a sadness, stuck deep 
within the marrow of the meek.

They blame the cheerful, and cast
them far beyond the realm of consciousness,
while coddling the joyless with sorrows 
that would spoil true happiness.

Strength will master self-contempt,
reduce to ash the all-consuming flame
of ruinous self-interest, and sow 
the seeds of gladness once again....

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The barren feed the barren
and empty hearts a like in manner seek 
to satisfy a sadness, struck deep 
within the marrow of the meek.

They blame the cheerful, and cast
them far beyond the realm of consciousness,
while coddling the joyless with sorrows 
that would spoil true happiness.

Strength will master self-contempt,
reduce to ash the all-consuming flame
of ruinous self-interest, and sow 
the seeds of gladness once again....

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