Short Stiffen Poems

It fills, it feeds
It kills, it breeds

It posions, it sickens
Limbs stiffen, blood thickens

It is nothing,
It is everything.

It is made clear
And it is fear....

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Slap my wrist
And it's aching
But I'm calm
Show me danger
Call it quits
But I'm calm
Stiffen up
Struggle loosely
But I'm calm
Undermined
And determination
In my palm,I am calm...

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Risen
Stiffen
It fears the drab air
That pounds on sleek ice—
In the night.

All
Fall
Apart; tip taken—
(The crush)
Atop the ebbing—of chills and ocean.

Lark
Dark
Will be the morning—
Holding up, down
I melt with it; lest I drown....

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Slowly quench yourself 
When you sip from my nectar
Drenched sweat and scent drips
Muscles stiffen erector
Gently taste my lips
As you search for the sector
Bliss connecting hips
Contraction of the pector
Fiercely horde the dips
Enmeshed musky trifecta...

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keyboard
chasing ripples
through notes’ interludes,
pounding, drowning crushed love…
ebony

fingers
like tendrils
stiffen from refrains,
despair on moonless halls…
blistered




Dr. Ram Mehta's Cinquain Contest
by nette onclaud...

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With you, this veil spreads 
across my face like ice. 
Cheeks stiffen, aching 
lips pressed together
white as lies. 
I hold back words so 
they are cooled, blank,
before I free them. 

Alone, when I dance, 
face soft and my heart burns
in my cheeks; pure
gold, yellow, red —
why can’t I show you this?...

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Lord, stiffen my back
Let this soul grow stronger than an oak tree
Let me walk by faith and not by sight
Spread the branches, the wings of night
Catch the leaves, the falling stars
Your kindness swirls in this wind parade
Yet, I cherish this day
For my good, every breath that I take
I choose joy over doubt...

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After fifty years plus my old friend
could take years till he gets on the mend,
when he's testerone free
he'll be harder to see,
but, also much easier to bend.

As the side effects continue to evolve
there is a problem I still have to solve,
for when i'm all alone 
in the libido-free zone
I find it difficult to stiffen my resolve....

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Contest
Been n had a look,
the anonomesian's
aint much crook,

lotsa lovely touching verse,
lovely entries looking for the worse,
where are they:( AT

drat frat n starve the lizards,
 stiffen the crows,
 stuff the little black ducks,
 in the long grass,

 not in the short grass, 
you be caught short:) 
put on the deport.
Way south:) sport.


johnson waffles lots 22-july-11...

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Time to think but not to sink
Time to reflect but not to neglect.

Time to work but not to shirk,
Time to play but not to stray.

Time to share but not to despair,
Time to look but not to block.

Time to help but not to yelp,
Time to Listen but not to stiffen.

Time to read but not bleed,
Time to talk but not to gawk.

Time to love but not to shove,
Time to hope but not to elope....

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Immigrants immersed in snow
Flakes of dreams slip from their eyes
The dark forest stands behind them
And ravenous red-eyed wolves howl
Their necks stiffen in thoughtless fear
The night shines stars in the horizon
The cold freezes their frightened fingers
They chant prayers in desperation
But the old blessings never arrive
The wolves strike their trembling faces
The moon mutes their coughing cries...

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Branches

Seasons passing stiffen gnarly fingers
alter once subtle softness of time’s touch
scatter the shady spots of summer’s rest
silence the morning song of empty nest.

Roots, now scattered, take hold in fertile soil
descendants of a fading memory
bloom beneath a distant family crest
await the morning song of new built nest.


1.22.2017

submitted to – A natural metaphor – Poetry contest...

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From the high peak of the middle years

We walk downwards slowly but it’s clear.

We lose our parents siblings other kin

Who will now agree we are born to win?

Our bodies stiffen while we’re yet alive

Who will die,atone,does God decide?

From the man he takes the caring wife

The heart itself will harden in the strife

Last Man standing is a bag of bones

In his grave the king decays alon...

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Baby, O little baby
Why is your feet so cold
And your hands clenched
O what a stomach to be empty
Why doth your beautiful eyes dilate so
Those innocent pebbles
Why doth they carry such pain
Baby, O little baby
Here does come the rain
But do not fear, do not flinch
For now no cold shall I allow
To stiffen and make pale your little body
In my arms may I take you?
As we sing away our former pains in a lullaby...

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Her voice is grating. It comes through the walls.
Loud and gritty, it gives me a backache.
I can barely tolerate it.
I am so glad she is only assigned to this school for two days.
Every single word of her day comes through loud and proud.
And her voice never stops talking. She talks all day long.
The entire seven and a half hours of it.
I feel my neck stiffen up.
Wishing it was Monday, a day she does not show up....

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If only to her  heart she would listen
She  could end up with a love that's true
But she always chose the road still driven
Now she felt lonely and blue

If she chose love instead of lust
she might end up with a love thats true
But her bitter tears of disgust
left her with a gloomy view

Would her broken heart ever mend?
or would her heart stiffen
Perhaps she should  listen to her friends
But she chose the road still driven...

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Water-lily,
Floating on the ice-blue sea,
Away from your homeland.
Leaving thin, red, trails as you go.
Steering among the foreign, black-seal-dotted icebergs.
Electric-white lightening flashing,
And the chill of the Arctic winds,
Bombarding from all directions.
As you long for,
The lily-pad life,
Its comfort and kinship,
Now, but a past possession.
I, do, too.
Let us stiffen our lips,
Tighten our collars,
And dream....

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