Short Weighed Down(P) Poems

grass weighed down by rain
springs up, splashing my shoes...
an april shower...

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Three hopeful receivers of treats
Went roaming the neighbourhood streets.
And, though not really scared,
All the neighbours prepared,
So they went home weighed down with sweets
...

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                                      weighed down with the snow
                                          multifarious springtide -
                                                  a sanctuary...

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this friendship 
it holds me
until i hold your hand
if or when i spit up butterflies
from being trapped 
in your warm embrace
soaked by heavy rains

weighed down by my most prized possessions...

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Searching for inspiration
I am numb by numbers
I've got a low wattage bulb
Where to begin
Letters don't come easy
shuffling selves circle liner
weighed down by desperation
yet old purveyors keep their vista...

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HE SMILES A WICKED SMILE.. 
AS HE WATCHES HER BITE HER BOTTOM LIP... 
WATCHING INTENTLY, READING HER EVERY THOUGHT..... 

EYES FLICKERING WITH INTENT 
SHE GAZES AT HIM THROUGH HEAVY HOODED LIDS 
WEIGHED DOWN BY LUST... 

SWALLOWING HARD........

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Honesty is an argument,
filters are roses and sunshine;
The truth is no longer present 
high on hot air as we decline;
Egg shell phrases but we aren't fine,
weighed down by the weight of phony;
Words and thoughts no longer align;
Can anyone shoot straight with me?...

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Be resilient is the mainstay
For trouble and strife can be a moment away
Don’t overthink or wonder too long
For strength in adversity is needed along
With you nose to the grindstone and not on the air 
Don’t be weighed down but show you care.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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Swallows
- for the morphologically inclined

No sheep 
to bumble about alone
weighed down 
with individuality
upon the ground
we surge 
in sweet 
and singing swiftness
across the sky
shape-shifting 
all as one
to sculpt the bright 
and empty air
with wings of light...

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Rustling leaves
Speak of lonely hearts
Weeping for lost loves
And days gone by.

Willows sleep the sorrow away 
Weighed down by broken dreams.

A whisper, a cry in the wind
Settles upon the branches. 

How can we know the thoughts of trees
Who carry the burden of secret nights?...

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This view, y'can see for miles
This sky of dark ages smiles

This hope of a life now gone
This tune without a song 

This wind sings in my ears
This mind weighed down in fear

This height invites the soul
This man has no other place to go

This life has broken me
This way 

I will be free...

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Life can be so much like a see-saw
one minute it’s down, then it’s up
then so still
empty 

some people sit at the high end
looking at the world from the top

others so weighed down
wish for the other end
Dreaming, feet always
on the ground, pounding pavements
where it’s always
so real
so concrete, cemented
too real...

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Weighed down by it’s skin
Pelt heavy, it sat.
Loneliness whittled it thin
T’was called the spotted cat

A mistake from long ago
Left it wounded and hurt
Now lives life on the lay low
Blood mixed with the dirt

Its fur was quite matted
Patchy it still was
Skills fallen out of habit
Closed eyes, tired paws....

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words fly in the air like clouds
crashing together with thunder
feelings reach higher altitudes  
rain fills my eyes with disbelief
lungs heavy 
weighed down with words unsaid
dripping wet with emotions 
swimming in yesterdays sorrows
waiting for the lightning that will awaken my freedom
the most imperfect storm...

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Spiders on my bedroom floor

Shadows knocking at my door

A thousand eyes upon me

And still no light in sight.


Shadows follow me

Like the voices in my head

Like a boot weighed down with lead.


Men fall victim to strife

Dreaming of a different life

Before I say goodbye

Remember me the way I am....

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As a young man,
I was always obsessed
By melancholy,
I saw deep sadness 
As glamorous and romantic,
The quality 
That so tormented my heroes, 

Such as Arthur Rimbaud,
Sergei Esenin,
And Montgomery Clift.
But it's not...
It's not remotely romantic,
When you yourself are adrift, 
And weighed down by a multitude of woes....

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I see you honey bee 
on humming erratic flight 

on route to the garden bed 
crash-landing on petals bright 

burying head first into a flower 
tumbling in the pollen white 

vibrating noisily with purpose  
then launching out with pollen tight 

weighed down with your sweet cargo 
buzzing loudly in delight 


9 August 2022...

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She drifts on a fragile boat 
trying to drown all of her thoughts; 
Wishing only to keep sailing 
along the peace inside her mind;

No need for a long goodbye note 
it disintegrates at five knots; 
Weighed down by heavy tears sinking, 
nothing within is left behind;

Crashing through clouds developing 
a vision left in waves to find....

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As a human I've found life can be hard
Feeling low, we let down our Guard
Negative thoughts keep us weighed down
Our faces show off merely a frown

Lately though, a changed feel to the Gut
Having kept my head down but always chin up
As a human I've found life can be hard, Yes that's true
But It's a whole lot better now with a Positive attitude...

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Once again I am alone
In this cold, empty house.
Just one simple night
Of misguided warmth and affection...
And passion.
Now love is finally dead,
And it was I who prolonged 
Its suffering,
And I who struck the final blow.
But I mourn its passing.
I am free, like a bird,
Finally free to soar...
Yet I am grounded,
Weighed down by guilt,
Paralyzed with fear....

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Your stone is heavy in my heart, 
weighing me down until I hit bottom,
a burden I carry with much grief,
ever since you left me on a winter's night,
like a bird flying away to warmer climes,
here today and gone tomorrow,
a seasonal getaway replacing frost
as your wanderlust seeks places unknown,
you travel lightly while I am weighed down,
your stone is heavy in my heart....

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What drives
the human heart
to chase and grasp
at fleeting high
living lives of shallow praise?

It’s a shame
the lies they tell
to carve a path
cheating to fill the void
disobeying to master a craft.

But when the day is done
and their name is called
they leave empty-handed
weighed down by thoughts
with not even a car
to keep them company
on the long, lonely road away....

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This fever starts without chill:
it does not sneeze, cough,
nor are there shivers, shakes.
Drink, tablet, witchdoctor all powerless 
against this most intangible malady.

It hovers like butterflies,
wings dancing. Floating air
weighed down in heartbeats,
expectant. A dull ache.

Fatigue from guessing,
rash by touch.
Love is catching -

this forever
fever untreatable.

Yours....

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there is average Joe Schmo
who seeks no more to know
than he exists 
and he goes with the flow of the show

others tell him there’s much more 
and he shows them the door
as the nation and it’s politicians  
go to war

there is average Joe Schmo
who thinks he’s in the know
and now stands in the middle of the field
wounded and weighed down by woe

wishing and waiting 
for a do over...

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I have no brillance
as decadent decades
drowned into dullness
whatever light as promise
to animate a rosy write.

I have no sparkle,
or swirling syncopation
to proselytize, legitimize
this fling towards
imagined immortality.

I have no positive
uplifting union
ultimately here weighed down
by reality dawns
that creak trhough bones
fortuitously flung
towards creativity.

I am lazy....

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