Short Smudging Poems

sense
smudging
wearing out
growing dimmer
grasp


6.30.17...

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in the mirror
smudging off red lipstick
her smile long gone



posted on August 19, 2018...

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White chalk vandalizing it
Words and numbers haunting it
Pens scribbling to reflect it
Eraser smudging
Knowledge forever encrypting its life...

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smeared wet ink

smudging letters on love-note

emotions half shown


Or


smeared ink

smudging last perfumed love - note

love gone green

Or

smeared black ink

smudging last scented note

love absorbs darkness....

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So inviting of the scratchings on the wall
Hang gliding fingernails scraping you can hear the noise
Screeching and crunching
Cringing face smudging ears popping
Consciousness wondering when will it be stopping
Porous walls
Scratching itching claws...

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those drudging blues
spat upon by smudging greys
pulsating with suns
sinking tendrils
rains might has bent each leaf head
and from its benevolent praise
nights perfume cloud
slowly infiltrates
rainbow slicked petrol inked puddles
show echoes of stars that were..once...

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Don't let the painted layers that were made to make up , stop you from questioning the feelings behind their costumes and gown.

The slightest smudging, by which sympathetic fingers smear, unmasks fear, and an underlying frown

At the end of every day, when curtains close and the lights die down.  Floodgated tears emerge,  from the sad eyes of a  person 

Perceived only, but a CLOWN...

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Using brushstrokes of her imagination,
She painted him beautifully..
Sometimes in a variety of hues,
Sometimes in colors that didnt exist..

Omitting the scars,
Smudging his arrogance,
She colored him to perfection,
Adding a dash of his desires..

In the thirsty, white canvas,
She trapped him into permanence..
Atleast,here he belonged to her,
Hung in a frame of unfinished love.....

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Orchard Smudging
Written: by Miracle Man
3/28/2024

When, heavy frost was forecast,
for all the area and reaches.
Orchards would burn smudge pots,
trying to save their peaches.

A northwesterly wind whispers,
through recently budding trees.
We pray the temps don’t fall,
and the peach buds don’t freeze.


Smudging is not widely practiced today
due to health concerns.
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Inside, the battle wages.
One step down,
I drown myself in the frowns
of a thought. Night sucks at my fear.

The rhyme of the fading moon
intends to fix me up.
I refuse to smell the breath
of the catch.

I bloom on the pain,
sweetened kill of the day. An empty jump
in void of a portrait;
shaking wall.

Watercolors were ruined
by smudging the reasons.
Clutching the bones of winds, falling
from the sky.


SATISH VERMA...

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early morning rain,
sound off insane...
  only rain,
a resounding parade,
frothing with power
for a few hours —
brought back the cold.
bleak sticks and gray stones,
wind and leafless trees again
colorless sky.
                   i may have to trade,
       once again,
thin shirt for warmer weather —
a sweatshirt or sweater.
  no snowmen
    smudging my window,
only twirling wet prints 
of birds, foxes, umbrellas.

12/14/2020...

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The mango grove hums,
insects sing in the scratchy thrum,
the wet-lead air.

Knee-deep, the water sweats
a dark smudging fear.

We are a party of four,
four machetes,
four slouch hats,
four men looking for
reasons.

Trailing tendrils snatch at us,
lacerate skin and courage.

After a few hours
we are drained,
barely speaking
just wading our way
inwards,

all four
longing for

that tropical beach bar
and the girl
we left behind it....

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My friend has gone mad
She is barking all over the place
She is making friends with ducks
And smudging dirt over her face

My friend has gone mad
She can't even think right
I know she couldn't do that before
But now she is a fright

My friend has gone mad
She looks like Einstein
She has bombed all her hair
They look like hedgehog's spines

My friend has gone mad
And it's all because of thee
But now that she is mad
She puts all the blame on me!...

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Like smeared from tears mascara 
Streaks of rain water stream down 
Smudging pigeon feces on embossed chipped bricks

Once green, now bare and whitened 
Naked brittle ivy cling on...
To and through; the cracks of the façade 

To the eave...I've climbed those old chipped bricks
Atop the old school that once taught 
Ahh, the teachers, the kids...the young me

 

Pick A Title, Vol 11 - Kimo ( 3 stanzas ) Poetry Contest 
Sponsored By Edward Ibeh 
11-18-2019...

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Meanness, he never got his way,
His subtle belittling, he dug his own grave,
With each pile of dirt he dug up for himself,
Had nothing to do with anyone else,
Smudging love in the face, he refused to learn,
He causes his own suffering, he brought it to birth,
He uses pain to feel alive,
He never gave love the chance to live inside,
Twisted up heart, why can't you see,
That you create your own reality,
Change your mind, Change your thoughts,
Find your way back to your heart.....

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