Short Swamped Poems

Swamped up to my throat
Retching on passion’s residue
Every last drop spent...

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where's the greener grass?
swamped with agony despair
in these troubled times...

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Swamped up to my throat,
retching on passion’s residue-
Every last drop spent....

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Surrounded by indifference,
Swamped by ignorance,
Suffocated by illusion,
Starved by idiocy,
We stumble on....

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The hurting verdure 
Has swamped my mind completely 
With lingering past 
Do not know how to endure 
Haunting union in meadows.......

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Lately I feel like Igor with a hump,
swamped with work a continuous pump,
running everywhere,
yes master I care,
Frankenstein warehouse giving me goose bumps.









12-17-16...

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This old sea-rig is swamped and don't float
I TOLD you we'd need a bigger boat!
Now you are HIS prize
Sure ain't no surprise
That you're fish-food, you hard-headed goat!

"Jaws" - 1975...

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Very Rude Haiku

Winter? 3 lines?....Right! ....

5-7-5 cadence, meter 

I don't think so!...Blah!   

               -or-

Table by brook swamped

Consume fish, tail, heads, water

No soup for you!...Tip!...

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Of all an up-cheered rippling
The one constant
Watercourse. Thus vowed, strays not.
Nor turns stagnant.

Soothed of which thought, instinctual
Reversed cant be
Whilst swamped, this lil' craft of being
By life's rough sea!...

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amazement
     appears
     to outlive
the commonplace
     to exhaust
     in the pre-shock
of existence:
yes,a forfeit
      to float
      unchanged,
discreet
&
sincere
if
    distilled
becomes
a needless
scarcity
'til
swamped again
by
excess...

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TRUE MEANING

Easter’s a time of faith at least for some
But others may just take it as a holiday
Its significance today is at risk of fading
Swamped with fancy gifts and parading
The word holiday is actually a holy day
The One having risen, again will come
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Jesus will lead you into a storm
Do not be surprised
Not matter how big your boat is
You will be swamped
Be not afraid
Is different from 
There is nothing to be afraid of
Many things are frightening
But be not afraid
For don't be asking how big your boat is
Be asking who's with you...

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To eat when hungry and sleep when sleepy,
at first sight sounds simple enough to do
but when swamped by thoughts, fearful and creepy,
we’re bemused by puzzles we need to sew,
so know not that peace graced on but a few.
Oh, to be a child again, free from strain,
frolicking carefree in the monsoon rain!...

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Speaking Your Mind

Every time you 
don’t speak your 
mind these things happen:
snails do 
aerobics, flamingos update their 
details on
important apps, palm trees spill 
out Amish hats, combs beg to 
eat 
lemon pie, stools memorise 
flame thrower literature, and
gravy animals, who live in 
the clouds, help out 
swamped midwives.
...

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swamped by illusions 
immersed in delusion
a strange darkness 
thoughts in confusion 

‘tis the magical way 
living light is caged
its pride demolished
by cravings upstaged 

demi-gods powerful
choosing paths unjust 
on falling from grace
turn thus to dust 

a mere wisp of straw
can turn the tables
love alone is real
moral of all fables 

27-February-2023...

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On the edge with a few pegs down the gut
Hideous images to see in mirrors
Must you shock others to this reality?
There is no scrimmage between our talents. 

I was looking for my whiskers to twitch
Powder the facial turf to gloss the lips
Darkness swamped my mind with timidity
For I murmured my thoughts to hear you roar.

Lord help me for today I saw a Lion
What if I see a Dinosaur tomorrow?...

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Thank you Lord for walking with me
Through the shadowed vales and valleys,
Holding when I blindly stumble
Until flagging spirit rallies.
When you take the larger burden
Relieving me of its great heft;
You ask only that I carry 
The modest portion that is left

Now that I’ve survived the danger
And have now safely swum to shore,
I know big waves would have swamped me
Had you not lifted me once more....

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Jesus fell asleep while they crossed the lake.
A gale nearly swamped them. “Master awake!
     Water's filling the boat
     and we can't stay afloat.”
Fearful of drowning they wouldn't escape.

He awoke to rebuke the furious storm,
restoring the calm the scene to transform.
     “Where is your faith?” said he.
     They from peril set free
were in awe at the wonder performed.

Luke 8.22-25...

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Hers was the wishing well of magic and moonlit revelry
Joined within a mastery of domesticated wizardry
They say she was a powerful soul

His royal handsomeness mounted the vehicle of glory bellowing on thick hind legs 
ready for war

Kingdoms confront years of anger, streets swamped with vigilantes as children hide.

Tears and blood mix amongst the common tax payers

"Warriors take aim"...... Jerusalem cried...

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I am eighteen months,
to the day,
younger than he.

We have two sisters,
both younger than we.

To lose our only brother
leaves three sisters
cast adrift in a head sea,
swamped in waves 
breaking tight
against the course
of our ship, poised - 

to grow old together,
reminiscing,
sharing,
laughing about the past.

But he longs to be free.
We are left with no choice,
but to step aside,
and allow him leave....

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Marietta Georgia the beginning 
and the end of poetry soup as we 
knew it today we are swamped by ads
investors buying web domains inventing 
shenanigans amidst their very own 
motives creating fake accounts all 
under the same foundations gathering poets
to allow poems to be featured in anthologies 
now is the time for all great poets to come 
to the aid of their country to write or 
not to write that is the question...

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Do boughs feel pain when vicious winds rip gnarly bark?
Does tiny cry pierce clear sky when hawk talons a lark?
What visions do the dying see as they ready to depart?
Is it possible to heal muscle, after destruction of the heart?

How can a person, once loved almighty, destroy a friend?
I knew it true, as her words made my tattered soul rend.
Floods of sorrowed anguish swamped disoriented world.
Emotions floated free---like dust from a flag unfurled....

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Yellow pollen drifts converge,
adorn nude logs in gros point lace;
red veined, orange campfire strings glaze
blue-gray above my lover's face.

I succumb to reflected eyes,
greening hazel like wise old frogs,
feel black water breast swiftly swell
against a quickening white fog.

Swamped, rose-gold tinged moments,
rocking red boat danger portends;
I glimpse distorted, fear-gray image . . .
his eyes foolish and young again.

Copyright, July 29, 2014...

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Paratroopers stealthily slide unnoticed,
chutes deployed, small blazes of white obscured by
fog that lingers lazily, til their numbers
    cover the meadow…

Faster, faster, not just content to cover,
reinforcements filling in, words unspoken,
synchronized with perfect precision, ever
    picking up tempo…

Occupation utterly overwhelming,
swamped defenses, raising a flag, surrender.
Long, the arm of conquering winter, brings a
    lengthening shadow…...

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