Short Sullied Poems

storm concentered calla pink lilies sullied — only one stands upright...

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The disregard-er
allows the martyr
to die for their sins.
Another slaughter.
A sullied daughter.
Time and time again....

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Old
love note
sullied mood;
roused feelings thought
past.

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(C) 3-Jun-17...

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The soul
Stained, soiled, dirty
Mucky, stinky, coated 
Deeply corrupt, sullied, ruined
Redeemed  ...

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she holds to her eyes

two lovely white daisies

window dressings

that conceal

a sullied soul


For PD's Photograph #1 -under 10 lines- Contest...

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demon allure coaxing me near
to a place inhabited
roadside flare

with ample provisions
action follows suit
distress, undressed with motive too

rustic claw piercing
tetanus thighs
sullied my hands and bolstered a lie

absolved of blame
i return unchanged...

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yes mein friend
i like the muddled wasp
to only feel the spinning
whirling breathing
that the buzzing fiend sure sculled
to breathe and steam routine 
around sullied crawly roads
constructing measure
as my paper takes off

yes mein friend
i like the idea
of being like the wasp...

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Darkness descends as shadows scurry,
and a dying, scarlet sun silently sets.
Ruby-red and crimson-colored
clouds coalesce into a sullied shroud.
As dusk darkens, daylight dims.
And while sullen silhouettes slip-slide,
black bats blacken the air; in full flight....

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An aesthetic bottle garden
is a living, phantasmagorical jewel.
A treasured, ostentatious gem,
intricately designed,
artistically arranged and sustained behind a shield of glass.
Encapsulated perfection,
a splendiferous garden of paradise
juxtaposed with a sullied polluted Earth....

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Staring through the sullied glass
Ever present…

A transom of silent reflections
Standing amid us…

Dirtying with every irate grousing
Thick and hazy…

Our windowpane painted shut
Always locked…

Gazing through at one another’s faces
Slowly fading…

Eyeing the desperations of moving lips
Hearing silence…...

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Love’s Sullied Rose


He emptied the trash and his heart
the detritus of loving’s pain,
vain attempt to erase the start,
He emptied the trash and his heart
of sullied sweetness turned to tart
of loving's roses gone to stain.
He emptied the trash and his heart
the detritus of loving's pain.


9/2/2014
for the Zeugma - Poetry Contest...

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Never meet your Hero's 
Never revisit your past young Self

History or Ancestry 
Like falling from a Tree
Scar's and broken bone's remember 
Pretending words never hurt me
Are woven into our medical records 

Like the sullied places our brain goes 
When we desperately do not want to be alone 
But friends are few and have more pressing things to do
Than recant the blues of old news...

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Emotions did not give the reason ,
                      Unfortunately not.
There are no borders to seek ,
                         not given ever .

Who , when my ego ,
          You 've melted .
What is there to express it?
                       Oh shame ..

We sullied body ,
                        Who does not mind .
do love, did love , will love,
          However lovefull life .....

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to succumb to the allure of temptation
is to sink into the abyss of damnation;
there is no road that will lead us back
to where we started and be pure again
for the stain shall remain forever within.

oh, morality! many souls lost in thy altar,
well-meaning folks sinning despite you;
like teeth guarding the gate to the core,
either we remain clean from start to end
or be sullied, then fall off, unredeemed....

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Groaning  rain
Mumuring sky
Mumbling  cloud
Raging thunder
Broken - straight - loud
Sullied roofs
Filthy earth
Preempt bathing
Fragile feet seeking haven
What about indigents 
Tilling  holes like ants
Whistling kettles - inane cups
Painting their bellies brown in tea 
Scared snails remain doggo
Beneath their shells - until the land is wet
The rain will never know
The earth is thirsty
Just give birth to your lines...

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Grey skies
Dark tones
Enclosed by cold

Dark soil
Dulling peat
Around your feet.

Wand’ring eyes
Raised heads
Heavy hearts of lead.

Sullied Gold
Sullied Hearts
Seeking Sapphire Love

Sapphire, Love.
Downcast, love.

Surging into an array of emotions:

Violet feelings 
White Emotions
Beige Thoughts 
Hazel feelings
Reclusiveness
Resilient, yet filled with loneliness 

Fading light
Diming Tones
Barren Void...

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Within a catcher, dreams do scream
feathers redeem 
man's sullied soul
sweet dreams the goal

Within their vanes they transfix
each demon lick
each channeling's
imaginings

Within the web they flutter, curs
nightmare mutters
beaded offerings
each feather sings

Poet: Debbie Guzzi
Contest: Just a Minute!
Date 10/20/12

*It is believed that the origin of the Native American dream catcher (or Indian dream catchers) is from the Ojibwa Chippewa tribe....

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Awake in the ash
A soul sullied like trash
I felt so very brash
But I was destined to crash

Before my demise
I saw a way to arise
Adopt a new guise
To help me realize

And in the darkest night
My heart began to fight
For all I know is right
It's time to take flight

Like a phoenix in ash I awake
Knowing life is mine to take
Depression may be an ache
But I'm ready to fight again for my own sake


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Lies told from a broad, bold base
Strain and constrain relationships
Painting impressions that cannot embrace
Confidence in frayed friendships

Lies can’t leapfrog
Despite webs of subterfuge
Digital or analog
Concocted in a deluge

Flooding platforms
Hitherto serene
Grown stale when sullied storms
Gather momentum to clean

Fragments of laments
Swimming in rivers of regrets
Sealed in hearts and garments
That break free of sleazy secrets....

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She pressed on tightly
Gripping her cloth
Dusting all the dark
Arranging all the packages
She clutched at the years
At all the stillborn frozen dinners

Half parasitic blood
She shrieked at allowance
Thinking she could control
A golden son she never knew

Still, with her napkin
She went to wipe his face
Which had changed considerably
Though she clutched the image of her baby
Deathly afraid of loss

Clinging terribly to sullied napkins
Though for no apparent reason...

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I do so enjoy it when my reputation precedes me.
The humbling jest of it all seems to feed me.
I need not worry about delivering much,
My history gives little evidence of such.
If there’s a chance that I’ll be late…
Then figure that I will.
If I’m not, then enjoy the surprise
And call it a frill..
If I forget what I am to remember,
Be not angry,
But to my reputation surrender.
And if I don’t meet your higher expectation..
Smile: It’s all there in my sullied reputation....

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Shifting Shadows sculpt ebony edges
Inscribing boundaries of light and dark.
Light contrasts with fragmented flowing forms,
Highlighting converging differences.
Out of chaos structure seemingly takes form,
Utilizing rays of a setting sun.
Etched upon the fringes of night and day,
Trees merge with backgrounds of liquid black as
Time pauses, almost standing still, while dusk
Erases Twilight's sullied silhouette....

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His eyes held the opaque aura of vagrancy
immune to the generosity of strangers
offer him dubious fulfillment,
reflect a scene without ever seeing it
his eyelids a blinking metronome
counting coup on times tenacity.

This blindness, this long sullied sight,
devoid of compassion, empathy
tarnished in the blackened light of day
denying what once was seen as beauty
shuttered visions shadow dancing world
gray forms in silhouette half life.


©11/22/2019

opaque poetry Contest...

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I am a virgin! A virgin! A virgin! Carlistica sang.
Her melody was offensive to many as it loudly rang.
I have never been sullied, trifled with or abused she allowed.
Which made her highly unpopular in this diverse teenage crowd.

Her body was found a week after her song rose to a number one spot.
On the pop records in the USA, a dubious place for this snot.
Police ask gawkers for clues while searching for the murder weapon.
Carlistica was a virgin! A virgin! A virgin!" sang everyone....

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