Short Splintered Poems

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My Monsoon Hairdos

Attempting to smooth and comb my hair 
My fist shatters the mirror-- splintered and bear
It shows how much I despise my hairdos
Form: Haiku


Morose

Mine of mind
Morose of mope
Flailing through 
The torrent
Beside but never near
Perched upon
Window's ledge
Splintered soul

Premium Member Splinters

I've heard it said 
love is many splendid thing,
But all I have found thus far 
is love is many a splintered thing.
Form: Verse

Splintered remnant of nostalgic suffering

May your pain erode you alike the touch of stagnation upon a rotting corpse- akin to a wilted rose stained with the stench of fear & longing.

Premium Member Sterling Splinters

with sterling pen in hand and splintered heart
the poems flow day after day
beneath the old white birch



AP: Honorable Mention 2021
Form: Kimo


Premium Member Domestic Scene

DOMESTIC SCENE

by the alley
paint bare and splintered
this leaning    green fence
inside    safe in their garden
two old women chattering
old
Form: Tanka

Requiem of the Rising Sun: March 28

Heaven was splintered when the ocean
Fell on it,
Pushed out of its bed by the raging of the earth, and the
Swaying of a blackened sky
Hide God’s face.

Sunny

Staring at the greys
as they hide the splintered blues
Close my eyes
and feel sunlight tendrils
wash across my face
and for a second
sadness is replaced

Premium Member Sanguinity


Splintered hope shards,
despondently adrift in tear stream,
reflect the remnant rays of resurgence,
designs the last lattice of dream,
lacing the listless life.

And He Fell

Once, a fellow was swinging on a swing
Which was elfin when comparing
Then the swing splintered
He fell and and fractured his head
And shrilled along with a loud ping
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Surreal Art

Splintered heart Contorted surreal art Crumpled canvas _______________ December 10. 2021 Contest : Bite Size Poem No 29 Sponsor : Line Gauthier
Form: Verse

Premium Member Silent Thought

My head splintered with silent thought

As I pondered over the crimson memories of you

Lifeless you lay

Like a boathouse wooden

Still as a frame

No longer in view

 

Lay

Butterflies of Beauty

Vermillion butterflies of light  
cathedral thoughts their aim   
as they race towards
a splintered ray, they reign       
as Sceptres of love, 
for flowers immersed in rain
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Conjoined Phrases

Art 
splintered  
pieces sewn
into patchwork;
Conjoined phrases decorate a soft quilt;

Words wrap you up lying on the sofa;
Warm and cared for,
poetry 
comes to 
life.
Form: Tetractys

Premium Member Broken Warriors

Broken soldiers
Splintered dreams
Huddled
The horror of now
Haunted
By the horrors of then
Scarred, sutured,
But as yet
Un-cauterized
Wounds
Forever bleeding
Into their present

Premium Member Splintered Cycles

slamming shut the door again reverberating in my heart again splintering all my love again locking the front door again opening to my forgiveness again
Form: Verse

Premium Member Town Children

They sit on splintered stoops
sun setting in the hazy dust
coated with the days play
drooping daisies awaiting a breeze.


©9/11/2019

Town Children Poetry Contest
Julia Ward - sponsor

Past the Try

A slice of nothing
sat upon the plate
nonconsistent custard dribbled
down its sides
Fudge cake black
Splintered chocolate stars
scattered inside
with a spoon
that thinks it me
kisses as it cuts
enjoy

Premium Member Old wounds surfacing

under the shade of a cyprus
my lover whispers sweet and tender nothings
revealing glimpses of a splintered heart
where wounds are still fresh
~ a healing process underway



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Premium Member Haiku 42 - 1,2,3

1
	a noiseless moment 
	he writes in his diary
	incessant snow  


		2
	every day he hoped   
	every day she avoided…  
	waning moon

		
		3
	his need for love 
	he opened his careless mouth 
	oak tree, splintered
Form: Haiku

Braven

Smothered beats shimmer in the darkness
Echoes hold their resonance in pride
splintered fractals of light
bounce from deadened eye
and oil draped feather
with unfurled wings
master of the dark
absorbs the night

Remains

THESE WOUNDS ARE FRESH
MY BRITTLE BONES
CAN'T HOLD THE WEIGHT
SPLINTERED LIKE GLASS
I'M FLIMSY
IN THIS FRAGILE SHELL
RELEASE ME
FROM THIS TENUOUS COIL
I'M BOUND TO THE EARTH
BY PAPERY THREADS
I AM THE ETHEREAL ONE.

Axis

there is no rest
in this spawning stream,
life given for life
touches the unformed
visage of dreams.
silver, splintered
separated from its whole,
united, resting,
wrought upon this axis 
the spiral staircase of soul.

Fly

The fly spits across my vision
cloud lost skies
a touchscreen world
erratic its journey
seeing the land in splintered
bond moments
jealous of its buttered kaleidoscope cousin
but enamoured by the torrid decays
of the left

Splintered

I splintered into a thousand brittle glass
You brandished a bamboo rag
And with one sweep
Wiped out my remains
To impertinent winds

I awoke feeling completely broken
But you've kept some tiny cuts
And will never return it.

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