Short Thickened Poems

Mr. Charles Dickens'
  Plots always thickened...

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Frost of purple rays
Haunts the still thickened forest,
A frightened wolf howls....

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Prickly plant,
reminds me 
of my heart;

Sharpened, tough;
Time thickened,
weakening;

Falling for 
a flooding
cactus cry....

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The sea
the bay
now thickened with gray
from the death of the northern wind
reveals his soul
with heartless roll
and the foam on his grizzled chin...

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ACRYLISTA orozco daniels
fast
  drying
    polymer
permanence
water
  soluable
emulsated
transparently
      thin
yet
impasto
  thickened
&inert...

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Marking deep footsteps 

of a youthful antelope

along thickened woodland--

earth's glory is replete

with a creature in motion.




Brian Strand Contest...

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Burnt rubber
from grinding gears
awaken mine nostrils

Thickened fog
'pon darkened roads
embrace my sight

Four smiles leads a path
distance fades
as forty tons push me down Forty...

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Hot food for comfort in Winter’s the best; soups birthed and thickened with cream.

Steaming, thick chili and spice coupled with hot cobblers.

Sink into that…ummm…warm....

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.

 
           There
           Thrice

            The
           Thick
           There
        Thickened
           Then
         Thinned 

           That’s
        Theatrical







 ,)...

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Shears, indifferent where the fibers led,
She wielded innocent of dread,
Cutting what her sisters fed.
Slicing each fragile thread,
Thickened puddles spread,
steaming and red,
As he bled,
In bed.
Dead.





Rhymed Nonet...

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the old man sea

the sea
the bay
now thickened with gray
from the death of the northern wind
     reveals his soul 
     with heartless roll
                       and the foam
                           on his grizzled chin...

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Next time I will be stone.
I shall become the strongest wall of rock..
I will be born solid and hard.
This next time I will be tough to reach,
For I will had thickened in heart;
But like to those I never knew.
A time after this I will be silent
and set where I am built.
...

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Playing to clouds of DDT
the children ran screaming into it -
hurried playtime in the mist...

Ten minutes of forbidden fog,
forgetting that it was forbidden...
Glorious, thickened, smoky smog.





10/4/15

Poetry Contest  - Alliteration - Old or New
Sponsor - Joseph May...

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Clasping harder I pulled, 
though her hand slipped away,
And when I looked down,
In my palm,  it did lay...

Left only with blood,
Thickened with grief.
The dream stole my heart,
Nightmare was the thief...

+++++++++++++++++++
Finish the Dream Contest
sponsored by Matt Calari...

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Wandering in a pool of shadows
Lost my way a while back
Longing for my treasured meadows

Waves of thickened air
Color my bare skin, black
Wiping my mind clear

Not able to manifest 
All hope is bland
Sick and tired of this quest

All curiosity was wrong
This is my Shadowland
Can I really be gone?...

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Sometimes
I much prefer
the wind
in its wild fury
and roar,
its wave torn temper,
the wash
of a cooling breeze
on a summer's evening
and its whispered rustle
high in treetops,
in all of its moods,
to the fog still
and thickened quiet
of days
when the only
breath you hear
is your own....

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She bathes--
in the nighttime

in dream thickened honey.

Her mandolin cries
wrapping her chilled 
chords around the moon.

Hear the clocks ticking,
hands 
weightless on the surface,
as butterflies float away
to yesterday.

No effort required,
they sail on such 
sweet notes
that fall with the mellow 
mandolin rain....

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My Tears are thickened with blood
My eyes are darkened by pain
Numbness hides it all, so nothing more brings shame
I never show how much it hurts, I'd rather drink it all away
Drowned in unavoidable sorrow, like the cuts on my vain
But one day I'll be free, to never drink again
All that it really comes down to...
Sorrow's my only friend who really understands...

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The head and face broad and flat,
The eyes set wide apart,
The body-growth stunted,
The tongue protruded,

With squeaky voice,
The child is not wise.
The skin thick, dry and coarse,
The hair rough, sparse and coarse.

The thickened neck small and short,
With supraclavicular pads of fat.
The bulging tummy resembles a pot,
And umbilical hernia resembles a spout....

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In the night of the calm the reckoning of thee passing killer will walk right through tall like thee other side. I'm at nationally tuning nervously in thee night of thee calm. The skin on my arms are thickened and greatly right at his voice starts it completely goes away like I no longer have skin on mmy arms anymore, I was so scared tiny of this moment when his questions were flowing at mee....

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Yes, the one that pumps the thickened wine.
Craved by the creatures of the night.
Intertwined through complex lines.
Kept from a keepers sight.

O’ the centre of a lovers quarrel
In heaps of passion do they come!
Tearing the lining, for blood to be drained.

But in those slow moments of throttle
Through gaining beats of candied drums
Do two sides of each soul reclaim their lost veins....

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How is it that thy strokes amuse!
A lover’s canvas burning ooze 
and to all else you do confuse,
Except to us, a playful ruse.

Behind your lips I shall peruse
a blazing sun of thickened hues
Among your shades of reds and blues,
your splattered kiss I can’t refuse.

I pray that we may never lose
such swirled emotions that suffuse
Beyond shadows of scared excuse,
I remain devoted muse....

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Never knew i was trouble
til the doctor was seeing spots
never knew i was clearly seeing
the truth when the plot thickened
and the abstract was a blessing wild card

what saint uses paints and poems
to inspire the lives of prostitutes
and the poor

who knew a simple 9 x 11 picture frame
could save a life
a picture worth a million words
depending on which slide
or chainletter you are playing along...

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Existing
          -Within tormented branches-
           Rose scented thorns
           Uprooted
           Sand --- Stinging
           But still existing.

     Grasping
           -Through fog thickened air-
            Barbed Wire mask
            Distorting the sounds
            And keeping the silence.
            But still existing.

      And naked lines appear
      On withered satin flesh....

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You blend the colours
Mix then match
Converting our sorrows
Painting the plain 
Mending fabrics 
Of fragile minds
Soothing them with tender stitches
To befit the grieving souls
We sang you a tune
setting you in a calming stillness
As you blend thunder 
With peculiar lightening 
Striking a volcanic boulder 
Unraveling a blunder 
within a thickened tangle 
That has spread its webs of despair
wedging Freedom Street...

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