Short Starkly Poems
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paths lead to sorrow
rooted starkly in the heart
repeal out desire
Written May 3, 2021
Categories:
starkly, allusion, desire, sorrow,
Form:
Haiku
The man I once was
is a visual echo
fading into naught.
There was a time
I felt achingly hollow
and pressingly weighed.
starved and stiffed by doubt,
gone far past the sunken place
to deeps starkly dark.
Eventually,
time did thin the choking void,
eventually.
Categories:
starkly, allusion, angst, anxiety, confidence, depression, how i
Form:
Free verse
through my window I watch for signs of her
but my muse cannot be seen
in starkly barren trees
I thought I caught a glimpse of my beloved
in a winter dove’s white breast
but then she soared away
Written 1/20/14 by Andrea Dietrich
for nette onclaud's Through My Window poetry contest
(double kimo)
Categories:
starkly, longing,
Form:
Kimo
So starkly silent now
So bare
The branches of the tree
In nakedness
It stands not shivering
Despite the winds
Of shame
It is immobile
Inert as death
And deathlier pale
With nothing to let to hide
And this oak
So formidable before
In the merest cycle of his love
Stands finite and frail
Amidst a brown trash heap of leaves.
Categories:
starkly, allegory, nature
Form:
I do not know?
This Poem is for the referential poetry contest and was inspired by Cotton Pickin' Paradise by Tim Ryerson
Well north of the bustling city
before the crackle of nights winter fires
hard hats, black backs and frozen fingers
shiver starkly in time with their iron picks
sharp strikes upon the icy earth,
shattering the frozen northern stillness
Categories:
starkly, home, night, paradise, peace,
Form:
Free verse
As the geese flew north
Their honking cries
Could be heard
In clear Autumn skies
Heading home
For a winter
At Heartstone
Filled with stories
From the south
A gentle wind
Pushed them ever northwards
Grey wings, beating with ease
On a starkly beautiful day
Forty two geese
Flew through winter sun
To Heartstone
Where they will stay
Categories:
starkly, animals, imagination, seasons, autumn,
Form:
Ballad
scarecrow’s pale shadow
moves across the brittle corn…
harvest moon rising
<<**>>
autumn’s fiery dawn
gently stirs a caldroned lake…
mallards flying south
<<**>>
frigid cobalt blue
starkly frames a weathered nest…
leafless maple tree
non traditional haiku
Categories:
starkly, october, sky,
Form:
Haiku
I did not bid you come
Nor will I call again
The door to freedom
Is the privacy of pain.
So what stirs me awake
In dead sweat of night
What convulsions shake
My memory from flight?
These walls cannot prevent
Images repeating
The predator do not relent
Me, starkly fleeting.
You come and go at will
From nightime to day
On streets or on window sill
I cannot turn away.
Categories:
starkly, lost love
Form:
Quatrain
Quite overlooked...
Such lovely things
So fragile and quickly fading, they are...
Into precious forgotten memory
A candle flame,
extinguished by a breeze
A petal
as it flows gently upon the wind
A flock on geese
starkly silhouetted,
against a white cloud
These things that leave us behind
And in their passing, how soon we forget
The wonder of it all...
Categories:
starkly, introspection
Form:
Free verse
When distance circles the shoreline
Painfully , a numb breeze decries
How our lackluster glance mirrors
Frail changing of hesitant eyes.
Across night’s starkly blunt edges
Fondness dangles like threadbare reeds;
Knowing warmth is not forever
When moonless summer’s rapture bleeds.
~
My spirit homeless now admits,
This fleeting affair… love resists.
10 Lines, 5 Words: Rhyme II
Sponsor: Laura Loo 1/17/2018
Categories:
starkly, loss, romance,
Form:
Rhyme
Lady of the Night
Blessed be the ardor
of violet words
uttered in the heat of night,
whispered untrimmed,
urgent as convulsion's
approaching strains.
Where is the one
who tricked in heels,
turned on the lathe
of the procurer's sloth,
with waxing age?
Truth dissolves the mists,
banishes yesterday's lies,
lifts the curtain of darkness
to starkly reveal
the procurer's delight
is no longer there.
The lady of the night
at last is free.
Categories:
starkly, addiction, poetess, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
Bell re-rung
lit bag of dung;
no treat, so
a smelly trick
stomping makes
a foot quite slick
serves him right
the cranky old prick --
Horrid Ghosts
shrieking goblins
bloody sacks
creepy maniacs
it's all sick fun
Halloween on a
bun~ icky worms
and spiders -- backyard
pool with a couple
gators -- replacing
guardian angels with
starkly arousing satyrs --
a night of celebration
hosted by
the monarch of
Evil Contemplation --
Categories:
starkly, celebration, evil, gothic, halloween, power, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
William had a whinging wife.
William was a fool.
When she begged him for some water,
For too wet her whistle.
William tossed her in the pool.
William’s wife Wilma,
Looked at life quite starkly.
She whimpered and she whined.
While William was the whimsical kind;
Full of whigmaleerie and malarkey.
William had the wherewithal,
Which made them quite wealthy.
Wilma was no whiffler,
And didn’t merely whinny.
She whinged about her William and his methodology.
Categories:
starkly, humorous, husband, relationship, silly, wife,
Form:
Alliteration
Cosmic mystery trails the midnight sky,
you flare bright, dissolve without a trace;
we who witness you gaze up and sigh,
you leave a look of awe on every face.
Ghostly portent from the mists of time,
aglow with starkly silent icy light;
wonder that dances 'round reason and rhyme,
the stuff of dreams and fancy's fickle flight.
Dawn settles gently on the window sill,
displacing thoughts of stellar eccentricity;
but in our hearts and minds we ponder still
this sacred, quiet electricity.
Categories:
starkly, nature,
Form:
Quatrain