Short Shambles Poems

Bigots for Trump have
Republicans in shambles;
UnAmerican....

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my deep set self doubt
means I take myself away
in shame and shambles...

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Love twisted my mind
and left my heart in shambles.
But whose fault was it?
Life is full of accidents;
can this be true of heartbreak?...

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“till death us do part”
thus I trod into a trap,
why did I say that?
now I wail to no avail,
oh, my life is in shambles.


Tanks contest by Rick Parise...

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the house in shambles
                                  dead moon struggles to show up
                                                                      vigilant spiders...

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"Till death us do part"
Thus I stepped upon a trap;
Oh, Why I said that?
Now I wail to no avail,
Lo, my life is in shambles!



~A Brian Strand 1 to 14 line contest....

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 Earthquake
ominous, tragic
crumbling, exploding, mocking
destruction, ashes, horror, shambles,
ruining, flagging, pulverizing
unmerciful, belligerent
tremor


Select 3 Contest...

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Hell is awaiting, it's closing in on me
No more birthday cakes which set fire to trees
Eighty-four candles
Leaves forests in shambles
But in spite of it all, I still sing when I pee...

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Hell is awaiting, it's closing in on me
No more birthday cakes which set fire to trees
Eighty-four candles
Leave the forest in shambles
But in spite of it all, I still sing when I pee...

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Too Many Rambles

Tiger Woods
Seems to have spread his “goods.”
His life is now in shambles.
From his extra-curricular rambles.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
January 22, 2010

Poetic form: Clerihew...

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My full name is Mickey Charles Mantle
Adored by baseball fans, left the records in shambles
Born in Tupelo, Miss
A real phenom I is
Always wanted to be a ballet dancer till I broke my ankle...

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I 
am
alone
heartbroken
I am still shattered
you left me in shambles again
and still I hold on to hope that you will come back
I see a future where we are still together I see you running back to me dear...

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Crackle lacquered faceless form
in our head a family warms
as child shivers mothers bones
above her shambles love
eyes are drawn to ambers glow
as steam forms clouds
in blue azure
Hope lost or found
which do you see
for it is lost in me...

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Disgust for Trump

Trump had to do what he must
Which is no one ever trust
Does poor when he gambles
Whole business is in shambles
With him do have much disgust.

James Horn

I am beginning to believe it.
What next will he select to do?...

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The scales read a  destiny .
 Couldn't infer if it assembled wreckage.

Living is dying.
Love is still assaulted in those wooden beds

Ecstasy emanates from  grotesque faiths.
They define and lie .
Revere the paradox and feed the lust
nothing exist ..
Ahead lies everything in shambles....

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Dragon gnarling gaze
The fire mouthed beast gurgling
Deluges of flood

And creation cringe
Before the broiling fire, razed
All things with desire

Toppled thrones, doomed kings
Mangled and twisted in wrath
Shambles to the bone

Melting citadels
Smoke choked lungs screams sin's silence
We crumbled to ash...

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Theologically unpigmented now, a whore
Hoarded from tongue to tongue, that will not kiss
Eternity in the shambles of the mind

Whole universe and Holy God dispersed
Omnipotence in us and primordial fragment of dust
Redemption as creation from silence unmeaning
Designed my soul to speak of awe where nothing is seen...

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Nookie
Bookie

Cookie
Shnookie

Staring 
Daring

Her smile
Beguile

She winked
I blinked

Staring
Erring

Undressed
I’m blessed

Amazed
I gazed

Caressed
Her breast

She punched
I hunched

Gambles
Shambles

June 9, 2015

A Gambler Tries His Hand(and eye) at a Strip Staring Contest...

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Our back cupboard, the one which lies above 
the microwave, houses backup coffee
cups, with faded image of turtle doves
or like the camel cup just unwieldy.
Others with flaws, cracks or broken handles 
patiently waiting for someday repair
holding memories some might say shambles
patiently waiting for someday repair....

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Cry my eyes out
See me fall to pieces
Scattered across the ground
Hear my voice 
You find hearing the crack painful
But you haven't even seen the crack in my heart
There is no way to describe
I am deep in this hole
And there is no way back
I am scarred
Left in shambles
Scattered across the ground
Crying my eyes out...

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Please help, they screamed
As Katrina impact their lives,
The floods gave no mercy,
They lost children and wives.
Families in shambles,
Thugs run the streets,
Cops took their lives,
For nature you cant defeat.
For everything there's a reason,
I know god has a plan,
He used this to open the eyes
and changed the hearts of man....

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it takes a slave to crave,
to watch destiny devoured-
hiding in a tree she 
scoured the shambles, sucking 
in air as though choked-
sun stares, casts light, stood
smoked- just out of sight.
it's okay, alright, touch-
the vague force of presense-
naked dance- slithered through
electric fence. intent collapsed,
well spent- dust in the sky....

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Shudders the hill sky
Blood shed in Darjeeling on
The larks have vanished

Tea gardens are sad
Vultures jab among green leaves
They chip snowy peace

Gunshots in blue wind
Woodcutter birds make no holes
Hill dress torn to shreds

Intrastate conflict
Native ego reddening
Snakes out in summer
_________________________________________
June 23, 2017...

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Happiness cascades sorrow transpires
mind's oblivious to unfulfilled desires
The day I woke up and cleared the shambles 
guilt was a stone tied to my ankles.

Ponder should I keep moving on, 
cause I have come a long way
gone the whole hog.

Its a misery of sorts
when I try to complain,
it kind of retorts,
reap what you sowed, repent but
keep moving on....

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My life was all in shambles
There was so much disarray 
And then I see the one Face
That gets me through the day.
My world is crashing down
The walls are closing in
That face keeps me from crossing
The line that is so thin.
When I think that I've hit the bottom
That I've lost all that's true
I close my eyes and see that face
And I thank God I have you....

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