Short Smudged Poems

smudged charcoal on a full page--the kettle whistles...

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Dirty
smudged glasses
should be cleaned
So I can see
Clearly...

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Now published at tankajournal.com




Inspired by Chris'tanka contest ~Now, for the contest :)...

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Chaste clad
Smile unmatched!
Gaze still...
Gentle breeze
Blush smudged
rhapsody!...

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RECIPE CARD

gravy stained from use
those lovely smudged words reveal
bellyful of life

Kim Rodrigues © 2017...

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I missed the rain
but the metaphorical hit
between the eyes
left me reeling
as I read the water smudged
calling card
of the wasting disease....

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The redness that caused me agitation;
being cancerous was an aberration.
A letter stated it’s lipstick,
that smudged on my dipstick,
so deeply regret my amputation....

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Love is dirty
And the corners are chipped
Its not pristine
Like the songs depict
The signatures smudged
It's a broken seal
An imperfect copy
Of a perfect ideal...

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I recall the old school desks,
Ink for fountain pens a pesk,
Ink wells with lots of blots,
Blotting paper smudged the lot,
There was ink on all our hands,
Ink monitors in history's land!...

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With a pull of the arm
the eyes started to roll
Sweat poured from the pits
as if nothing at all.
Tears smudged the rims
from the pull, roll, and ring
When the fruit salad face
Showed a lop-sided grin....

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As  promise of wish rides on sky

Hued dream-bubbles climb in her eyes--

Transforming smudged  night into joy!




For  Contest,  nette onclaud’s 3 BY 8 
Written by Norma Arana, Dec  30 2014
Visual 1...

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Dead grass,
smudged windows,
abandoned,
 a toy truck
glints a splash of red 
in the dry yellow yard.
A rust covered bell
dangles a cotton string, 
black from grubby hands.
Silvery ghost child 
laughter floats in the still air....

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Tears of love smudged the ink on the letter,
letter,I wrote, for his son in village,
his days of learning has not seen a page,
No father could have signed it better!

Sponsor: Charles Messina
Kind ink contest
Written 4/03/2020...

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Easter 2020
Written: by Miracle Man
2-11-2020


Jesus came as man to die for our sin,
Reputation, deliberately smudged.
His death on the cross brought other’s chagrin,
Held up in Obloquy, Jesus was judged.
...

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Petals
                                                yielding color
                                     to autumn’s panting breaths,
                             red lips brown-smudged by chill kisses 
                                                     of lust....

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Opal grandmother eyes,
watery milk glass veins
in stick arms
throb weakly,
tense tight white thread
into frayed, thin quilts.

There is a slight rustle
of desperation, a hope
of completion
as smudged pigeons
shatter wind
and winter gives up
its gin clear grace....

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A line smudged and fading
lies drawn in the sand
      tide and time ambiguous
unrecognized by this hand

A dim light scarcely flickers
      in darkest lonely void
beyond a rolling swell
      too far distant to tell
if it might have been your
      last farewell...

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the windows of her soul
the ones smudged
from people peering in
have clouds passing by them
the windows of her soul
the ones boarded up
when people wander past
have cracks in the glass
the windows of her soul
the ones painted 
in a black that peels
are tightly sealed...

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Quite white really not brown as first stated, 
olive skin, dark eyes only what i've created

Apply the bronzer, smudged charcoal lines, complete with mascara my personality 
defined

Nothing too bad beneath, but what peoples expectations command,
a prisoner, a slave to my artistic hand...

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Said touch, was warm as gentle
Behind shaded eyes, lips upon lip
In gestures there was an innocence subtle
No underlying desires or evil thoughts aspires
In their moment angel wings whist
And thus placed, a boy upon a girl kiss
Noses smudged and breaths
Like a dove's feather tickled...

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The estrangement of
a cruising day,
plodding onto the 
dormant senses.

Ancestral musings
strewn with monotonous
contours, 
faded into crevices 
of streaming melancholy.

Smudged against the
sugary tea,
dripping hair,
soiled feet,
the erroneous space between,
the cuckoo sang 
better....

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sex and hairspray,
its what her image screams.
her lips smeared with 99 cent gloss.
vodka and whisky lingering on hot breath.
fishnet stockings,
a hole in one knee.
eyeliner smudged by the humid air.
trojans packed away in her leather purse.
"well," she purs in a drunken slur.
"what do you think?"...

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charcoal-smudged heavens
distant rumbles edge closer
first spring rain welcomed

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(C) 29th April 2017

Includes the seasonal phrase harusame / spring rain.

Entered in "One Haiku - Old or New..." contest, sponsored by Rick Parise.
(10th Place)...

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Art of Ivan Albright
I hear a death rattle
feel gloom 
despise grayscale-ness

flat black paint kind of background
lecherous guy
creepy skeletal hands
craggy face

shirt looks dingy, dirty, smudged
tablecloth is dank, dour, dusty,
grays and blacks, morose, macabre
I run from his art, screaming pink and orange....

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Foreheads smeared with ash,
pass me by on the street,
smudge them, who came 
from ground and ground they
will return.

Earth to Earth,
Ashes to Ashes,
Dust to Dust,

Ash me please for I repent,
sweat of brow, my skin like
a miners face, like a soldier, 
smudged to make him strong, 
to announce a fearsome fate....

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