Short Smoldered Poems

She wears
a dark façade -
a charcoal grey
once hot like burning coals.
Consumed by too much passion
she was scorched.

Too long
she has smoldered.
Her dark façade
is cold now. . . and brittle.
She fears that if you touch her
she’ll crumble.

Written 10/30/12 By Andrea Dietrich

For Nette Onclaud's VIEWS FROM A VIGNETTE Poetry Contest...

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whooshing wits woven
crushed tongue cloven
dark age drooled
felon fate fooled
haughty nature's nimble
foiling feasts feeble

salient seal bruised
callous crave cruised
vying voluptuous view

severed passion smoldered
crushed, crimson asunder
squashing lanky lethal

farcical fury fumbled
fiddling fostered fickle.
     '20:03:15:09:28

Note: Dedicated to Ovid....

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Open those hazel eyes so you may see,
You are becoming something you wish not to be.
Open your mind so you are able to agree,
My dream of the future was never a guarantee.
My heart has since shattered into three,
You have taken your game to a vast degree.
I am sure you realize, my love must flee,
You alone possess the unbreakable key.
Our love has smoldered into debris....

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hoisted hanker trips
cranky cause clipped
soapy sauce seeped'n
in taunted tease
smoldered spiritualism scribbled
on dark dwindles

gaunt gifts sieved
sumptuous seal retrieved
haughty hoists spilled

bounty beards blushed
surmounting syllabic touch
gullible phrases gulped

porous pen puked
drenching vying view.
     '20:03:03:14:21

Note: Dedicated to George Herbert....

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Sparks fly, flames ignite
intoxicated passion
follies of greenness.

Haste vows in wishes
rapid change adaptation
birth of an angel.

Smoldered brawl outburst
pen scribbles by gavel's call
Fire sizzles then drown.

Comes winter anew
tears of the lonely angel
token of regret

Dovey Annie


(This is my first time writing a Haiku poem. It is raw and lack shine, but hope you guys will enjoy.)...

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I saw you yesterday once more
sadness on an empty face
seeing though you never looked
hiding in some distant place
frozen as I slowed and passed
while memories sweetly smoldered yet
helpless in a misty fog
with all emotions turned to fear
no time left for you and me
my life beyond all lovers gifts
yours again were it should be
from then till now is just blank space
effort given up for naught
almost but now sadly lost


written March 25, 2016...

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A turbulent stream cascades on dry desert floor 
Foaming waters flow up the high dunes in spree 
Summer sun burns wasteland to green in the core  
The charcoal night lights up the daytime debris. 

Life is shattered by time’s smooth flow at its slowest
In chilled winter night I’m smoldered and in strain 
A wandering wounded deer I find a tiny bird nest
To lie on sweet dreams I make with twigs of pain.

September 11, 2021
Contest : Nonsense Rhyme
Sponsor : Charles Messina...

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