Short Withdrawing Poems

So quiet and grey
The bland swirls of fog surrounds
My mind withdrawing...

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weary walls whisper willfully while withdrawing



Sponsor’s Name: Nette Onclaud
Contest Title: Monoklitteration Poetry Contest
Date of Poem: May 31, 2025
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Withdrawing from the Rat Race,
  my fortune reappeared

The fog now gone, all clouds pulled back
  —direction free and clear

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2018)...

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We perish
from all those around
fleeing
disguising ourselves
disappearing
hiding beneath facades
dematerializing
withdrawing within oneself
while others
continue reaching out...

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sunlight
warm, brilliant
beaming, nourishing, inviting
summer, life, winter, death
creeping, withdrawing, intimidating
cold, blind
darkness

TLH  ©  06-12-2012...

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I walk alone
Far from life and home
Searching to find my way
Through a world polluted by grey
Not knowing where I began
Withdrawing to find who I am
Lost somewhere deep down
My place is yet unfound...

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boldly rushing and retreating,
plodding in and withdrawing,
unsure making up its mind,
pushing and then hesitating;

in the end nothing remains
of its brief, sorry existence,
but for the noise it created
with no difference made....

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Coffins cheaper by the dozens
The French
Are withdrawing a thousand troops
From Afghanistan
Before the end of the year
But only if they are not killed
Too many coffins
Don’t look good
On the French president’s desk
People can count...

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The French are withdrawing a thousand troops
From Afghanistan
Before the end of the year
But only if they are not killed
Too many coffins
Don’t look good
On the French president’s desk
People can count
Especially the dead
Dumped on foreign ground
Without a body bag...

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Chilly atmosphere has made me rigid
No longer flexable or able to bend
Teflon heart
Longed for heartfelt whisphers 
But got concrete and steel
Built a fortress around my tears
No one can penetrate this broken shell
Withdrawing into solitude
Residing in my own private hell....

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Though, in the mirror, you see a scar,
We see the light form your inner star.
Your vision of you, like ours, full of shame,
A heavy shade with no need to remain.
As you stand alone we stand around you.
Our arms are yours, they protect and surround you
To assist in withdrawing  the shade...

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With shrug of shoulders, roll of eyes in head
We accept our failure and resign.
Reluctance and revenge agenda
Hidden behind a cheesy grin smile
Made while stepping back, withdrawing out of range.
Disconnected, disengaged with bitter grimace, unseen
We wave goodbye with a sigh, nigh silent within....

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The sublime elixirous fragrance
Rose exuding it's sublime essence
Teleported to nirvana, presence
Jarred by piercing pain of a thorn

Withdrawing not, holding opposites
Frozen in time, in the palm of our hand
The pain too transmuted as bliss
Dissolving all inherent contradictions

03-November-2022...

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And because love passed quickly,
I like less and less
of everything that reminds me of us.

I'm withdrawing,
away from the noises,
of rumors and pain.

now is that time
where I can't stand anything.

I just want that table over there in the corner,
a glass of water
and the least of the world, please!...

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Late afternoon and the day
is withdrawing into a chill. 
So much more now 
lays abandoned
in sad pools of absence.

Overhead,
a tattered spiders web sags 
under the weighted
remains of the dead.

Today marks the start
of autumn for another year
and already 
a growing emptiness
is being backfilled
with fear.
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Exacerbated with thought
by the subtraction of calculation
a frustrating calibration
Tongues twisting and turning 
Computing images of relations
extracting time and patience
withdrawing from allegations
telemarketing frustrations
With calls of aggravation
Irritating the mind, 

Hanging Up

" a light tongue twister lol"...

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A forest path does wind,
All shrubs with love entwined
Atop trees, monkeys live,
Another deathly strive
Abhorrent humans lie,
And trees, grass, shrubs will sigh
As oxygen will die

Unfortunately misread the rules for this contest, so I am withdrawing

Entering contest 
The " Pleiades 3 poetry Contest
Sponsor Joseph May
2020/10/25...

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Worn strung out shoelaces; 
Hostile human remains;
With ceramic faces; 
I'm withdrawing; 
Beaten up by the law;
Where is your God;
Help us all;
Replace my shoes; 
With the wing around my neck;
Gives me purpose;
He's tested the sweat of my feet;
He says I'm a sinner forgiven;
Mercy's Grace has risen;



8/18/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020...

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Honor the Purple Triangles,
Who put their souls on the line.
Courageous unwavering ordinary folk,
Infused with spiritual power.

Standing up in face of evil,
Against impossible odds.
Enduring unmentionable atrocities,
Upholding what is right.

United and bonded in peace and love,
withdrawing from man’s war.
The Purple Triangles: CONQUERORS,
We follow you in awe....

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Wake up! snow’s a thawing
      Robin’s eager, getting dressed
Wake up! wind’s withdrawing
      You’ve now had your winter’s rest

Bless us as you flourish
      In your colors, every hue
Bless us as you nourish
                 And you blossom into view

Sweet bloomer, by my pardon
        Wake up! you sleepy head
Come now and grace my garden
                And do make my flower bed...

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Sinking through wispy clouds
On wings of amethyst 
I design the sky
Refracting light to royal poise
Essence of purple blankets the sky

I take perch in a crystal prism
Resting on the end of the spectrum 
Eminent land 
No salacious rumors to be discerned 
Void of transgressions

Here, I shall make stead
Periodically withdrawing to illuminate mortal sky
My grandeur, I shall share to all...

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Is the occultist aware she’s daring,
That she carries the shadiest orifice?
No.
She just defecates and scars remain.


Akin to the likes of an unmarketable comedian:
passion on one side, narcissism on the other.
‘Twas unforeseen.


Enemies working together,
Exchanging callous banknotes.


No one had foreseen this.


Eventually, she’ll cripple
from depositing and withdrawing.
But no one knows.
No one can ever know....

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NOT QUITE MORNING


Early tide not quite 
 
Out, slowly withdrawing

Just enough water to slop around

Jellyfish and mud ripples.

Too deep to walk. Shoes
  
Uncertainly gripping a shallow sand bar.
 
A watery beach can ooze

Loneliness : grey sky not quite filled with
 
Wetness.

Windless, moveless clouds, flat horizon,

Unclearly drawn dawn.

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I am lost without cause to hold, 
Down came the shutters; 
All I see 
Your face 
Behind windows, streets apart, 
In other dimensions. 

I reach out to touch you again, 
Failing bitterly, withdrawing; 
Your back is turned 
Your back 
Seen this before, to others 
In final closure. 

I am left alone with my gridlock, 
No care from you; 
And I ask 
A question 
For which there is no answer: 
What am I to do?...

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Canvas 
Paint 
Words. 
Canvas 
Paint 
More words. 
Like paint 
Like Picasso's Work 
On canvas 
Is the art work of words 
Painted 
By the poet's 
Words. 
Pretty pictures 
Pretty words flowing from the vains 
Like drawing blood 
Withdrawing suddenly those words. 
Breathing words extracting 
Words 
From the very soul 
Words. 
Pretty painted pictures 
Withdrawn 
Words. 

April 2004 


(C)2004 K.C.Colt...

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