Short Smothers Poems

Feel like
Everyone's
Emotional
Life Line

Shirley Smothers...

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inhospitable
	fresh snow smothers sustenance ~
		wolverine greedy...

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~ A Brevette ~ 


   regulators

   c-h-o-k-e

  entrepeneurs...

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A swoop of gushing wind
Smothers my face in kisses
A phantom lover...

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When harm smothers grace
Notions of mercy remain 
Unheard by the soul...

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deepening depths take
gulp to indeed recover
such intake, smothers




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I am
nothing,
I was
nothing,
I will be
nothing.

I am
not,
I was
not,
I will be
not.


Shirley Smothers...

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Hot tears break and burn
thoughts of bitter things
Solitude smothers
empty broken vows
Is it love that I have known
Lonesome nightingales sing...

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This merciless heat
smothers the earth
with air-less wings
It creeps in by degrees
stifling life's breeze
gives Nature short shrift
until it lifts...

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Stifling heat
broods on the land,
smothers any impulse
to stir.
Sluggish afternoon hours
drip, 
stick 
to the skin,
steeping us
in lethargy.

7/12/2017...

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Life is like a flower
If you care too little
 it withers
If you tend to much to it
 it smothers it
But with the right mixture
 it blooms ever so beautifully...

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Winter chill in the air today
Smothers like a great weight on your chest

Russell Sivey

Entrant into Brian Strand's "SUCCINCT a single TWO line verse/any theme" contest!...

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thick blanket of fog
                                                       smothers visibility --
                                                            cars pile up...

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"When I'm with him,
his love engulfs all of the anger and depression inside of me
and smothers it out like a flame, 
but when he's gone,
it adds fuel to the fire,
and it burns again."

-Laura Bussey...

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Fragments of copper scatter; 
smothers an Opal kiss
the surface only matters; 
ardour does not exist,
and deserts of weary Chicory 
sway with limestone tips, 
swelling like the cactus
blistering our lips....

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Listening to the loud wild commotion
mom runs on to
the front porch
shock to
see.

Her
Johnny
back from the
service; stretches
her arms and smothers him in her bosom.

2/6/2021

example...

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  Whirlpools of loneliness
were pulling me down,
you were my lifeboat.

With all my effort
I forced myself
to push toward you.

Your kisses, your smiles,
your touch saved me 
from my lonely life.


Shirley Smothers...

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She is altruistic
Always taking care of others
Brightening everyone's day
Nothing but love that she smothers
She shines like a beacon
Always willing to go the extra mile
Very conscientious at what she does
And possesses a heartwarming smile...

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Political correctness…
  the new dirty word

Meaning perverted,
  excuses now heard

It masks and it covers,
  what it most tries to hide

As it preys and then smothers
  —with the vilest of lies

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2016)...

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Papa bee’s snores were getting the best of mama bee
If he did not stop all of that loud buzzing he would wake baby!
She put the covers over his nose and his mouth.
What if he smothers? An internal voice asked.
The snoring would stop, she replied....

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Do not turn your eyes
and pretend I am not here.
Do not stare at
me in disgust.

Laziness is not the
reason I am here.

Some of you are
but an illness, an
injury, a job lost
to be in my shoes.
I am not a threat
to you.

 

Shirley Smothers...

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Tears, they flow as giddy gushing streams,
and meddle with our facile sense of joy,
seamlessly they interface cod emotions,
whirlpool laughter smothers trite elation,
smirking bogus rivulet, weeping willow branch,
to that toxic ocean known as hollow mirth...

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Your flamboyant of a heart is of glass shards and ice

That stings like frostbite and slices like a vice

To your prey, everything seems like a perfect price

A beautiful contagion that swathes but smothers

Expels lucidness or causes demise amongst others...

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A CLOSE SHAVE

Shel married a wife with armloads of fur.
He was very unkind, he did beat her.

         Smothers - never quits.
         Makes her shave her pits.

Smirking, she sharpens her blade on the cur.

4/26/2017
Jan’s Limerick contest - back by popular demand...

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Crack of a whip and snap of a twig
Chop of a tree, performs a fire-jig
Lit up by fury of the heavens up high
Fire pours down, smothers the woods' cry
Clap like thunder and crash like light
Horses whinny, run away in fright
Humans want more but have yet to give
The earth below them, care not if it lives....

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