Short Thickly Poems

golden leaves drop--dead
frost forms thickly all around
winter bares its soul...

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Coffee

It thickly pours

Down into my blue mug

I savor its velvety taste

Awake...

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honeysuckle heat

thickly drops from sticky skies

slow simmered sundown


6/28/21...

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Plump clouds descend thickly to earth
They shroud the hills with ashy smoke
I hear they call it fog...

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I ply the blame like varnish
thickly, it lays down
as long as it is still tacky
I think it best not to love again...

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Smokey air
thickly hanging in

silence chains
down the total 

sanity of
anyone who

may enter like 
a dream....

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Calorie counting
Overly aggressive
Understated
Never satisfied
Thickly disgusted

Oppositionally
Nervous

Ticking time bomb
Heaving 
In secret
Now a days...

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A succulent prime-rib roast

thickly sliced, blood rare,

a baked potato topped with

sour-cream, chopped chives

and melted butter,
 
a gourmet

feast!


(Epulaeryu)
05,02,2019...

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We would like to
eat steaks in Alaska
or fry battered mushrooms,
but the there is money
to be made
in the Southland.
The irises bloom here thickly,
and roses bleed,
while tinkering hands
use up the day....

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My Mothers home made white bread
warm from the oven
thickly sliced and smothered with
rich, creamy butter!
Baking scents the air
Comfort food
Bliss!



For contest  'Eat Me'
8th place...

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The water-pool was 
thickly covered with
roses;
a decoration for the
marriage.
The fishes in the pool
died after some time
due to suffocation.

Some days later the
roses rotted.

Long live the
newly-weds!...

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Sleep eludes me yet again this night.
Sitting in bed
numb, lost, unable to cry.
Worry and fear course thickly through icy veins.
Prayers sent out this night from all who care
Sleep comes slowly,
dragging me away....

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smooth lies spread so thickly 
with the flat dullness of a butter knife 
the pain inflicted by their sharpness
enough to surgically remove your heart
droplets of your essence left to bitterly lace your morning coffee...

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A continuous haze covers
my monotonous days, thickly
spreading layers over feelings
well-felt.
	Pretty birds fly by, choke
and sink to the ground, eyes
crossed, beaks open, the death a
sacrifice for my ongoing oblivion....

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One summer I bought husband and I shirts that matched.
Not one or two, but rather ten or twelve, all thickly thatched.
We rode around in them puffed up, as if just hatched.
Looking like Tweedle Dee and Dumb, distorted, and insanely batched....

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This harsh light, back on you
Piercingly cruel aimed
Is of no sun, though it burns
In heart, as hot yes?

And however thickly
Shaded, walled off are
For protection, there's just no
Hung bough, cloister, right?
Unless counter-eying bright!
Love's, for that loveless!...

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There’s nothing like the smell of baking bread,
Made simply with just five ingredients.
A thickly buttered slice of crusty bread –
Unique, this sensory experience.
A timeless recipe, easily read –
Strong flour and water, sugar, fat and yeast :
For rich or poor a veritable feast....

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Crimson flows thickly
over cobbled stone,
running like water
so sickly smooth,
the irony smell is
filling the air,
making it hard to breath,
as it pools around my feet,
i can feel the warmth fade,
finally noticing that from my
wrist it trickles,
i collapse, as my vision
fades to black....

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What is your favourite smell?

There's the smell of the sea,
The freshly mown lea.

The smell of fresh bread,
And a new laundered bed.

Summer rain is really good,
And the smell in a wood.

A cooking Sunday roast,
And thickly buttered toast.

Which is the smell that you like the most?...

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Toxic haze curling thickly
In your lungs, my name
Exhaled, dripping in smoke.
An escape of breath, another drag.
Your lips on mine, regret,
The flavor of the night.
Smokey and bitter
And filling my lungs.
On the verge of emotion,
You pull away, eyes glazed,
My soul following, vaporous,
Thin and second hand....

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I don't hold a grudge
against what wouldn't budge
the words stuck in your throat
till you thought you might choke

like a layer cake that cracks
when taken out of the pan
forgiveness the icing
spread thickly with a knife

what you couldn't see
happening between you and me
will haunt with the traces
of our yesterdays...

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Up on a rocky foothill
I could see the canopy
of the forest,

a wind was pushing
green waves through
the thickly knitted foliage.

Not satisfied, I climbed higher.

On the high beak of a peak.
I stood,
peering over a wing-flying sky.

Between the winged air,
and the verdant waves below,
mind walked,

across God's heart.
...

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The softness is what spellbinds us.
Outfacing, overall
A day-view and a dream-vision!
Earthly and idealic.
Thickly misted; for what's pink hung.
Sky-boughed. Sky-romantic!

That, just now, shadowing across
Unforeseen, in a breeze?
Our life's short-lived fragility!
None over this would drool!
Who's look, barely has time spoiling;
Fuji's eternal cool....

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find. keep. love.
some like to chase.
capture.
then chase away.
some enjoy the chase.
some chasers become the chasee.
Find love. Lose it.
chastity kept none safe— really.
for the target matters not— flesh or no.
But the mind and all
it’s manifestations of love 
permeates, even the thickly girded heart.
when the chasers intent is to
find and keep love....

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A sky’s pasty pallet, 
thickly stroked
with a heavy brush,
lends pale shadows
to the earth below
while a filament  
of a memory
improves the dreariness
with joyous rays

Soon to follow
comes the rain
as the clouds lessen
their laden load
and the day brightens
as remembrances lighten
and sorrow steams away
on the pavement 
of a renewing heart

© Debra Squyres...

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