Short Tarnishing Poems

How to live
By: Tom
8-12-2019
Haiku

Christians, live your life
Not tarnishing your witness.
Always honor God!
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Tarnishing through timing
Three times trustingly
Triple traps tripping too
Trounced twice tingling 
Telepathically trudging 
Teaming tremendous tasks
Tell Timmy to take tally 
Tarnished Through Timing...

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Black
                  Dismal, Dreary
     Shading, Darkening, Tarnishing 
Candlelight, Shadows, Twilight, Gloom
     Bleaching, Decolorizing, Snowing
                    Pure, Clean
                         White...

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Wrapped in woe
Here is a gash to sow
Pierced by bow

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Struck in woe
Here is a boat to row
Sunk by blow

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Scorched in woe
Here's a soul to mend
Seared by woe

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Slashed by woe
Here is a wound to sow
Bruised by woe......

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My heart has accepted every piece of furniture
you have brought in and hoarded, polished and stored, 
for show or hidden in the attic of cerebral storage. 

Cobwebs draped the entrances I walked through
without wincing, chasing extinguishing light…
gold tarnishing possibilities that I found invaluable....

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Splats of red take the plunge,
Right below her screaming eyes 
Tarnishing her white pillow case 

A foster mother in rage 
Cheese grader, as if that is the solution

Time truth conquers over her gripped hands
Dizzy in fear, she takes the child

Hides the truth behind those white walls
And leaves her 

Not one look back...

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Last night I cried
realized no one will understand
This is for only those
Who have seen the fire
No longer trying to explain
Sleeping, Knowing I would run
Into that storm again
For the protected children 
Tarnishing my soul 
But I give this heart
To the overcomer
To the eye whose apple I am
Wake to the sound of reveille
Time to stand from your slumber
Who can stand against me
For the tallest stands within...

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Blocked

Immaculate
Like virgin snow
Untouched
By human hands
Or pen
I stare
At the stark white sheet
Where are the words
Not a clue
No words in my head
Words
Like bricks
Tumbling out of
A muddled mind
Building structures
Tarnishing
The white carpet
Beneath
But hey!
What's this?
A page full of words
Forming a pattern
Coming from within
Gracing the chaste white paper
I am blocked
No more.

By Carol Keys...

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HE walks slowly
along the engorged path
of midnight madness.
Spilling crude pain
each crippling step 
of the way.
With angular eyes
a fertile grim heart and
an infinitely defective 
MIND...HE
quietly steals 
the innocence of 
glossy blossoms
who unknowingly 
sprout or roam 
HIS gritty black trail...
Forever tarnishing
bushy roots 
and buds once pure,
mutilating their body, 
their growth,
their essence
and more.

Leaving behind Midnight Madness spores...

Lay...

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Torrential rain dipped
The beautiful land in tears .

Rivers roared , tarnishing the obstacles in its growth .

Floating tree in water 
Carried an half broken nest .

Love bird cried in search of its beloved .

Decayed corpse scattered around ,
Revealed  how liveliness drowned in carnage .

Poet sung the song of cessation .

Saint preached the sermon of severing .

When sinful mind susceptible to grim ,

Inner being still in search of eternal ....

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The weight of the world
gently pressed against
slates of ivory
plated on an ebony tomb
sheered in jet black polish
as it hums minor seventh arpeggios –
the melodic malady of a refugee
exploring a cyanide denouement

Phyrgian staccato strikes
percussively stabbing the oasis
Lucifer's cello delivers
from the basal epidermis
skin deep sacrilege
surfacing as scars
blitzed blisters
tarnishing the portrait we seek,
as it hides behind
panels of bulletproof glass...

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