Short Submersed Poems

Have you ever been drunk,
and submersed in a funk,
as if trapped in a trunk 
but then asked to write junk 
in a poem which stunk
though your mind has been shrunk
by a psychotic monk
who’s been beaten punch-drunk
and if not a slam dunk
as a poet you’ll flunk?...

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Thick
Surrounding
As though you were alone
On stage

Swallow
Your whole world submersed
In white

Hills 
Shrouded in suffocation

Water
Covered
Like a giant Lilly-pad

High-ice
Like teeth
Baring down on the Earth

The sun
Painting
Different shades of hues
Spectacular, like the Clouds...

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Light is mornings eyes;
and as they open, so do mine.
 
I watch the sun watch me through the window.
 A submersed dream , floating to the surface of the water.
 Just visible enough to see through hazy ripples.
 
My eyelashes; a pair of soldiers working on a compromise.
 Shuttering in protection.
Holding back the day;
and what's left of a dream....

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Broken buried bond
Regretful recurring rain 
Pouring putridly passionless
Provocative priceless pain

Falling furiously fast
Ominous oath to obey
Torrential teary torment
Conventional course conveyed

Submersed soul stammering
Darkness deadening distantly
Drowning deep disarray
Methodically mocking me 

Laughter lingers lucidly 
Submerged suffering sight
Treading thoughts tenaciously  
For a fruitless fearful fight

© Stacy Lynn Stiles...

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You shroud an ache in drips
of wavering replies,
Immersed in memories
of
a futile time

You think in 
twisted inflections of submersed pride,
a swirl of beliefs 
engrossed in avertable rapture
 
You swing around
a fusion of disparate passions
And dictate 
an end that scarcely counts

You call me in
to tie my soul 
And cram your sins 
inside my fractured will

You pin our welded bruises
to prickling discretion
And drive them deep
as if to hide...

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