Short Wrenched Poems

dungeon imprisons
crestfallen wrenched loving heart
lovelorn gentleman












4-20-2016...

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Miserable

Minds wrenched
Hearts stung.
Pennies pinched.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
March 3, 2010
Poetic form: Senryu...

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There is bounty to be amassed,
wealth to be wrenched from the earth,
power to be wielded over nations.
Go forth.

24th March 2005...

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DISAPPEARED 

Wrenched 
Disappeared
Gone
 
A heart left behind 
Forever bleeds 
 
No comforting words
No nearness 
Assuages
The horror 
The loneliness 
The despair...

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Whether I will wither in the warmth
Or wilt with the weather,
I worry wildly!

For I'd rather,
    Weep with wounds when wrapped into a wreath
Than
     Get wrenched (plucked) away worthlessly!...

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Fallen flower
By my back you kept a watch
Snatched from life
Wrenched mark decidedly contrived

Knot in my soul
Untied, I stumble in the night
Our time dissolved
Rejoin ahead our fields of light...

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Ogden Nash begets the Nasher
Humored couplets somewhat brasher

Seems these rhymes are wrenched in nature
Clenched, this nomenclature impure

Odd end Ogden, gnashing nashers,
Hence the wincing grimace assures...

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Just do it.
Whipping lash,
hot, cramped pit.

Odor, stenches
still working.
Cash coins wrenched.

Wealthy, rich
sitting back
pulling stitches.

Dollars drop.
No more wages,
still won't stop.

Sit, knot, knit,
broken wrists,
just do it....

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Do you have the key
  to unlock a new door

Do you have the words
  that will heal an old wound

Do you have the eyes
  that will share in the tears

Do you have a heart
  —not yet wrenched from your soul

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2013)...

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I pluck the petals of a flower
Each pull like a dagger wrenched into my heart
What will fate lend me
As each petal floats to earth
Will my quest be my desires
One last petal clings
I know the answer I asked of it
What good is luck from a dead flower...

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Do you have the key
  that will unlock a new door

Do you have the words
  that will heal an old wound

Do you have the eyes
  that can share in the tears

Do you have a heart,
—not yet wrenched from your soul

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2013)...

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I stare into a puddle
where a man is staring back
he has the look
of my father

I speak into a cavern
and hear my voice returned
made less in itself
folding inward

I am wrenched in my soul
by instances of rapture
taking my hand
calling me brotheri...

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Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile
                                                Lived and reigned Egypt style.
                                         Her kingdom wrenched from her grasp,
                                                She took her life with an asp....

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Come on she urged me
It will be fun
It was. Three hour drive each way
I am not looking forward to it

God pushed me down on concrete steps
I caught myself with two fingers 
Wrenched my back

There was no way I would go now
Too miserable though 
To be grateful...

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Oh little quipster
Come dance for me
Embrace upon me
Wit and humor
Hypnotize me 
With alluring charm
Unbreakable
Fill your performance
With moments of regret
Whipped and wrenched
Upon my spirit
Do me this favor
One final time
And I shall forget
Your debt to me...

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My brother went to limbo
Stillborn and unbaptized
Faultless but Original Sin
Status unknown
A soul in liminal space
Lost between heaven and hell 
Damnation spared 
Salvation denied 
Consigned by papal decree
Resigned to the Mercy of God 
Wrenched, a mother's heart...

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Why am I here?
I am not living but I exist,
A meaningless existence,
I feel nothing, I am hollow inside,
I'm empty,
My heart has been wrenched out,
I just don't function,
Without you.
I want to go to sleep and never wake up,
You were my everything,
I'm dead inside,
Without you....

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Moments that count, are those bliss drenched
Joy makes us feel complete
Both fear and desire, from heart wrenched
Our head’s laid at God’s feet

Rapturous and aglow
In tranquil stillness slow 
Ceasing seeking we flow 

Horse of love mount
Moments that count...

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Traitor.
She’s a traitor.
She brought harm to me
and unto my family
And I won't forgive her 
Not ever
Never

But I won’t stop missing her, she
Loved me and loved my family
And we loved her.
And I will never 
forget her
The warmth she brought us
And the cold when she wrenched it away...

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Thunderstorm-wrenched night
hit dark rains on window pane,
stuck alone in blackout room,
heard knock on creaking door,
sense shook in shade of leaked lantern.


May 21, 2020
Syllable count : 5/7/7/6/8
Checked on howmanysyllables.com
Theme chosen : Lantern
Contest : Weaving A Wayra
Sponsor : Nette Onclaud...

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Saša Milivojev - ICE AGE

 

An endless plate of ice

The camel carries me

Treading heavily

Icy tears from sobbing splutter

It stumbles

Over the tips of the pyramids

Weeping

The soul is wrenched

My firefly is not here

At nine

As it once was

 

 
Saša Milivojev

www.sasamilivojev.com...

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I pick things up and feel their power again
As their memories flood right in
For some have happiness entrenched
While others find my tears are wrenched

Just simple things you may say
But I will never give them away
Carefully I wrap these things with each fold
For later when their story will again be told.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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A nation divided, its fabric ripped to shreds
Like a clipper ship’s sails in a hurricane
Its rudder wrenched from its stern
Leaving its course to the mercy of its abuser
The fate of its crew dependent on its strength
And its ability to weather the storm 
To once again sail proudly and majestically
Over the treacherous seas of public opinion....

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A nation divided, its fabric ripped to shreds
Like a clipper ship’s sails in a hurricane
Its rudder wrenched from its stern
Leaving its course to the mercy of its abuser
The fate of its crew dependent on its strength
And its ability to weather the storm 
To once again sail proudly and majestically
Over the treacherous seas of public opinion....

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will e’re i see
what used to be
afore the days you left

my one beauty
was wrenched from me
i am become bereft

i wait on thee
as you do me
lone cries die in the wind

our souls in need
to be complete
desire each one again

once Death plainly
took you from me
and left but pain’s embrace

yet patiently
Death waits for me
then pain shall be erased...

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