Short Spattered Poems

Blood spattered on car
Squealing tires instant panic
text message sent...

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It
had
started
to drizzle-
drifts of white blossom
spattered the coffin bearers boots....

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red-haired poltergeist
in a spine-chilling boneyard
a blood-spattered cape

10.15.17

Third place
"Halloween Senryu"
hosted by Laura Loo...

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Drink away the blues of blues...
that have been spattered over the canvas every single way.
Today come rain, come art, come relations, come friends,
come everything....

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The Earth’s a speck of trivial mud,
Thumping with a thud
Some other planet presently,
Spattered in Time’s spacious, stellar sea.

The oceans and the rocks will splash--
The stars together smash—
And will our species splatter, too?
Or, will it escape—prevail—anew?...

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By Gail DeBole
Updated January 13, 2019

Thin shards of time spattered about 
Mis-wedged into spaces that add to our doubt.

Echoes of time vex and puzzle our souls
May overlap boundaries with science unknown.

Slivers of a girl’s laughter with no girl around
Sound disturbingly eerie and deeply profound....

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Sweltering tears incinerate gorgeous eyes on the way to drown perfection
Vocal tendons shredded from poignant packed reverberations
Blood-spattered limbs clutch tightly touching the intangible 
Beating hope trickles through a gentle heart stroke
Lips leisurely curve and I thank God for letting me grasp life once again...

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Bombs and guns scythe through the innocent
writ in spattered blood evil intent
from youth's garden, saplings gone.
But staunchly rising from the killing floor
Liberty retakes the tricolour
strides a nation, marches on.


25th November 2015
For contest ' For Paris', sponsored by Debbie Guzzi
Written in Rime Couee form....

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Joyful child runs to the sea
 following footsteps
 in red,
 spattered 
 sand

 She stops mid stride,
 a gasp 
 deflates her
 as blue 
 turns to
 red

 Blood soaked devils
 stab 
 and slash 
 and 
 laugh

 Tears fall 
 and she runs
 away 
 in terror.

 The teacher, the neighbour
 and the whaler 
 kill innocents...

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Horizontal Vertigo --
amongst the wet raked leaves,
Gazing into gorgeous blue; 
where clouds --
Are passing frogs or horses;
In a pair of grass-stained Levi’s.

A subtle wind --
Tickles all the colored leaves,
So drenched in spattered sunlight;
Still falling --
As she rakes the cooling leaves;
So brilliant --
Over happy giggles....

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this is actually a rondolet, a shortened form of rondeau, which does not have its own category on p.s.


My cotton sheets
Like a blue ocean on my bed
My cotton sheets
Where you and I used to retreat
Before I went off of my meds,
Before your blood spattered them red
My cotton sheets


9/19/11

Received 1st place in Nette's "Weave a Rondelet" contest...

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In one moment, the night shattered
27 years of dreams.
In that moment, my love mattered
as little as my screams.
The moment your blood spattered
across the torn seams
of my heart, empty and tattered;
was the moment, my schemes 
and grand illusions were scattered
as eclipsed moonbeams.
In that dark moment, as the gun clattered
to the floor....

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Rapidly, my thoughts decayed,
in an ever linguring hopeless dream,
a fantasy already unravelled
mystically . . . & enhancing the
idea that twass an out thought
through thee onto a
spattered page of reality,
twas what had I in the
twassed Ire . . .  less a
reality, hinder, heed fantasy
rightly, I do so, vigorously,
& become'eth twassed theeof....

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I began the day we first met. Pebbles clattered. 
I picked and hacked, my mud-spattered mattox.

The first layer of earth was smooth, cool, compact;
hard to break. Once breached,
easy to up-heave.

The second layer, malleable;
my pick penetrated in even sweeps.

The third, a clay core; 
years spent mining,
I reached the heart,
bipolar as a planet....

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You shattered my heart into pieces, 

They scattered around, as time ceases, 

Now tattered memories left behind, 

What mattered has vanished from my mind, 

My battered soul now dreams of love lost, 

Thoughts spattered as heart's covered with frost! 



4th Jan 2023

For Line Gauthier's "Bite size poem no. 58" contest...

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The nights are winding,
 Twisting,
   Turning,
Never- ending
The spirals wrench my heart to pieces
 as all of me becomes spattered paste,
   on the floor beneath my feet.
My blood soaks into the soles of your shoes
Just to show I have always been a part of you
 As you will always be a part of me
I cannot say goodbye.
I do not want to
Why do you want me to?...

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Under cracked ceilings and calloused hands
My pen does a waltz to invisible bands
A clever allegro and ink covers white
A lithe ballerina on premiere night

The bare floor is spattered 
With the pattering feet
Of my words wooing rhythm
'til the page is complete

Watch this step, read this twirl!
And with a tip of my pen
A new line is born in verse...
And again!...

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Fought for freedom,
Fought each other,
Divided in two groups,
Never to be one,
Never at peace,
Always away from home,
Nations all combined in one,
Hate,
Love,
Sadness,
Confusion,
Murder,
Death,
Blood spattered on american soil,
Never will be clean,
Never to have the right cause,
Never to be forgoten for the devstation caused, created, and continuing....

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Burning Soul



My shaken soul,
burning as coal,
Beyond console,
as dreams shattered !

Emotions stance,
yet beats enhance,
Ecstatic trance,
and tears spattered !



But with all these smashed and dashed dreams, world is still a beautiful place........

Written by Dr. Upma A. Sharma
On December 9th, 2014
For nette's desiderata contest 
On theme-3 

Awarded 7th place...

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Moonlight glistens on snow 
and he's stalking, 
slyly slinking, belly-cresting 
coverts to the coop.

Silence his canopy,
hugging the hedgerows
to safeguard his cover,
there's death in his eyes.

Silence is shattered,
the virgin white snow is blood-spattered;
no mercy is shown,
no quarter is given.

Silence settles again,
he retires, hunger sated,
he'll forage again as 
his craving dictates....

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Moonlight glistens on snow 
and he's stalking, 
slyly slinking, belly-cresting 
coverts to the coop.

Silence his canopy,
hugging the hedgerows
to safeguard his cover,
there's death in his eyes.

Silence is shattered,
the virgin snow blood-spattered;
no mercy is shown
and no quarter given.

Silence settles again,
he retires, hunger sated;
he'll forage again when 
his craving dictates....

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Moonlight glistens
on snow and he's stalking, 
slyly slinking, belly-cresting 
coverts to the coop.

Silence his canopy,
hugging the hedgerows
to safeguard his cover,
with death in his eyes.

Silence is shattered,
the virgin white snow is be-spattered;
no mercy is shown,
no quarter is given.

Silence settles again,
he retires, hunger sated;
he'll forage again when 
his craving dictates....

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Moonlight glistens on snow 
and he's stalking, 
slyly slinking, belly-cresting 
coverts to the coop.

Silence his canopy,
hugging the hedgerows
to safeguard his cover,
there's death in his eyes.

Silence is shattered,
the virgin white snow is blood-spattered;
no mercy is shown,
no quarter is given.

Silence settles again,
he retires, hunger sated,
he'll forage again as 
his craving dictates....

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Moonlight glistening 
on snow and he is stalking, 
slyly slinking, belly-cresting 
coverts to the coop.

Silence his canopy,
hugging the hedgerows
to safeguard his cover,
with death in his eyes.

Silence is shattered,
the virgin white snow is blood-spattered;
no mercy is shown
and no quarter given.

Silence settles again,
he retires, hunger sated;
he'll forage again when 
his hunger dictates....

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Moonlight glistens on snow 
and he's stalking, 
slyly slinking, belly-cresting 
coverts to the coop.

Silence his canopy,
hugging the hedgerows
to safeguard his cover,
there's death in his eyes.

Silence is shattered,
the virgin white snow is blood-spattered;
no mercy is shown
and no quarter given.

Silence settles again,
he retires, hunger sated;
he'll forage again when 
his craving dictates....

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