Short Trenches Poems
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Terrible tornados toppled trees tearing trenches through the terrain,
“Took my tonsils,” told Timmy Thompson, “like taking a tongue twister train.”
Categories:
trenches, funny,
Form:
Alliteration
Twenty and eight days in the dungeons
Munched in the guts of darkness
Nearly forgot what I was
Paralyzed by fear
Burning in fever
I longed for love
Buried deep
Inside
Me
Categories:
trenches, longing, love, pain, peace,
Form:
Nonet
Trenches failing, sagging and crumpling, falling
Dad jumps down in, holding a sheet of plywood
Quick lads scramble out of a filling tombhole…
Who will save Dad, now?
(fiction)
2/28/2019
Categories:
trenches, analogy, appreciation, courage, dad, depression, earth, father,
Form:
Sapphic stanza
We have moved mountains and dug deep into this earth to find gold
To exchange for paper notes, while burying our brothers in filth.
We call development the trenches dug between us for wealth.
Categories:
trenches, society,
Form:
Sijo
the match seems
to be going well
but what the hell
she just pulled
my hair from
behind and
mind you
i want
to
fall for you
like a soccer
player does to
get a flag against
the other team Member
Categories:
trenches, muse,
Form:
I do not know?
Canyon
Hazy, hazy, hazy, till the ground grows close
Fingers of rock yearning for the sky
A jagged horizontal line runs forever and ever
Rain carved trenches form majestic castles
Giant chasms swallow infinite sight
Categories:
trenches, nature
Form:
I do not know?
Gaping
premature graves-
trenches of war,laid waste,
generations,for whom hope was
no more
Inspired by Paul Nash 1889-1946 Enflish painter
http://www.mystudios.com/artgallery/P/Paul-Nash/We-are-Making-a-New-World.html
Categories:
trenches, art, war
Form:
Ekphrasis
Disgruntled troops fall in line
when the head honcho appears
Long-time rebels go soft in the mouth
Seems they now value their paychecks
as they retreat to the womb
of a company experiencing a boom
Categories:
trenches, business, money,
Form:
Rhyme
An onyx ink impression
spirals in unique form,
from the dizzying loops
etched in soft flesh--
where furrows weave
like trenches in the earth,
dotting the surface
with ridges and islands
that protrude in
evidential patterns.
Categories:
trenches, allegory, science,
Form:
Free verse
GLACIER
Silent boasts
The mass of coldness.
Its grim whiteness
In slow-motion anger
Tears and gouges the land
Into trenches and holes.
Its deep claw marks
Show a cold-hearted deliberate
Desecration of the land.
The massive coldness
Of a salient beast.
Categories:
trenches, metaphor,
Form:
Verse
The willful solution of nature's passion
Catapults fury past sun-barched pride
As singular bodies receive awakening
Watery trenches press all debris
Nature resurges from infinite give-away
Making her case for elements unrestrained
Life blood plentifully arranged
Categories:
trenches, hope, natural disasters,
Form:
Free verse
war be no game
war is men
in the trenches
on the line
up the hill
downwind
flying colors through the air
blue sky and rabid sun snapping
pictures of flapping angels
falling off a cliff
digging a deeper hole
amidst the powdery musket-mist
12/19/2019
Categories:
trenches, war,
Form:
Free verse
A black hand.
A shot fires out.
Blood on the floor.
The spark of the great war.
Bang! One in the neck.
Bang! One in the abdomen.
Bang! The trenches are death.
"Our shadows will be walking through Vienna, strolling through the court, frightening lords."
Categories:
trenches, war
Form:
Free verse
SURF'S UP
It drug the beach sand making trenches
causing lightheaded fainting of wenches
the ocean was icy
he stood out quite nicely
even after allowing for shrinkage.
2/19/2016
submitted to – Limerick Contest II – for fun – Poetry Contest
sponsor – Jan Allison
Categories:
trenches, humor, men, drug,
Form:
Limerick
Pictures are changing
I'm alone again and alone
The sky is far off
Mute to shine
To envy to envy in darkness
Being the longest day in the day when the harvest is dry
It's been a long time ago
Like clay pots
The mortalities are in the trenches
And the goodness of the day.
Categories:
trenches, 3rd grade,
Form:
ABC
The bond of hearts in fervor
Arranges love to continue the silver
Fleets of night, the time is right
We have wandered the trenches of life
Garnering distant prose to capture headlines
Flowers flown by the seagulls of change
Movements emerge suddenly
Their thrust an unknown settling
Categories:
trenches, allegory, life,
Form:
Free verse
It was a dark and silent
starless night
I was hoping to see
just a glimpse of light
trapped in the trenches
of life's despair
praying that my Savior
would hurry and appear
the midnight hour
the cross over to a new day
just waiting for my Lord to come
and show me the way
Categories:
trenches, angst, faith, hope, mystery,
Form:
Rhyme
Listen to yourself.
talking in circles.
my.
GOD.
what a.
nightmare||
you did this to your.
-self.
Listen.||
Wow, they.
al.
-ways told.
me.
sleep was over.
-rated||
People aren't.
like.
they.
used to.
be, BUT.
their.
forced grins.
bear the weight.
of.
the.
new.
God:
Lies||
Categories:
trenches, people,
Form:
Imagism
snow
stained red
frightened eyes
tears scorch and burn
gas-filled bombs on Christmas in our trenches
Far from home dying and dead lay scattered
where bombs explode
on Christmas
with gifts
death
screams
anguished
silent graves
frozen in place
we may never see another Christmas
Categories:
trenches, christmas, world war i,
Form:
Tetractys
Hollow red brick walls
surrounding open fences.
Lost corridors to home
covering trenches.
A journey of
the mind Leading
me far away
from life & out
of existence.
Someday to
arrive &
Understand
why
Hearts cry,
souls die
trying
todefine
a love
twisted.
David J. Caldera
Categories:
trenches, sorry,
Form:
Diminished Hexaverse
deep in the trenches
a forest of cardboard trees
and stained glass windows
twiddling pieces through fingers
sizing up like private eye
a piece here…and there
like a long drawn out story
finally middle latched shut
and made the sign of the cross
now I aim for the quadrants
Categories:
trenches, angst, imagery,
Form:
Tanka
Controlling my heart like cruise control,
Manually jerking the gears of my life,
His crashing waves of love,
Determined to sink Hate's lifeboat.
The tissue of my tears,
Wiping the winshield into reality,
Honorable suits,
Wrinkled by Todays,
Ironed by Tomarrows.
Deeper than trenches is his love for me.
Categories:
trenches, black african american, faith, family, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse
I was
Pondering neigh in a distance
Got no one to hold on to
Grief is couching my heart
Devouring in perplex moments
Not in solitude
Nay intrusion
But in Orion’s distance
Once, even once
Perpetuates your caring image
That passionate smile
Trenches a loving hello
Oozing with life
A magic touch
I live
Categories:
trenches, adventure, allusion, analogy, art, beauty, birth, blessing,
Form:
Prose Poetry
whistles blare
gun powder in the air
lead pours overhead
I can't wait to feel my bed
I line up my rifle
breathe and squeeze
my orders are to strife
I run empty so I freeze
the quit nights are haunted
this conflict was unwanted
one more tally added; I can't mask it
make sure they spell it right on my casket
Categories:
trenches, anxiety, humanity, men, military, stress, veterans day,
Form:
Rhyme
Down in the dark
This is where pain grows
To kill the seed
Dive where no one knows
Swim through trenches,
Wet suit will only slow you down
When you've found the seed
Rush back up to the top
Before your lungs explode
Rushing back take note
Water will be bluer,
Sky clearer
Sun Peaking
This is the fresh air you've been seeking
Categories:
trenches, freedom,
Form:
Rhyme