Short Wrestled Poems

kinky colored coils
sumo wrestled afro comb
red baby dreadlocks...

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My hands stumbled through the wire
choppy, noisy; I wrestled 
over distance of long miles-
straying from her voice...

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Tell me that you think I'm Special,
While I'm hog-tied to the trestles
As I await the train to crush my pain-
Too many Demons have I wrestled!...

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anticipating
imagination’s fire
she began to write
seriously wrestled muse
charging up the helm
an automatic response
spirit controlling her pen...

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You bought a baby lion
And you didn't tell
Then you made me watch as you wrestled it
You laughed and blinked

A fateful blink for that was your last
Off you fell to your chilling lust....

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I opened the can
to throw the garbage in 
and the stuff in it jumped out at me 
and wrestled me to the ground
and covered me all over 

to breath
to be heard
to be seen 
to love
no more...

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Gone into the night,
She stood to a fight,
She wrestled the assailant,
Who was prevalent
on people of her age and time,
All she gave with not much a dime,
She fell into his hand,
And went to forever land.




July 13, 2022....

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strange, I vaguely recall

the sad joy of returning, 

of being back to a place

I can't remember 

leaving...


where I must have writhed 

in pain with the ache to stay,

wrestled with, but lost to, the  

urge to leave,  and stay 

away....

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From a threadbare reverie
Of nights disheveled
An aching solitude grates
Betrayal wrestled--
Howl endures love’s  stain
As rage bears cold quietude
Words cannot explain.


Seguidilla Contest of nette onclaud
Sept 13, 2017
7- 5-  7- 5- 5-  7- 5 ...

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In his science
 he wrestled

With my verse
 just the same

As his numbers 
 refigured

The words
 I renamed

Two roads
 to one place

Distant windows
  one light

Time still to 
 confound

Albert’s shadow
 so bright

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)...

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You were holding me so tight,
I could’nt  breath
But in a crowded room I did’nt want to be
I struggled and wrestled against you
As I pleaded please release me let me go
Finally you dashed out into the foyer
Whoosh!  Yippee!
 I am a naughty little air bubble that just got free
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In his science
  he wrestled

With my verse
  just the same

As his numbers 
  refigured

The words
  I renamed

Two roads
  to one place

Distant windows,
  one light

Time still to 
  confound

Albert’s shadow
  —so bright

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)...

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Flowers bloom within garden of hearts
Lovers swim through sea of tears
One and only One Light liberating
We wrestled with Poseidon from oblivion.
Enter zephyr breeze of rebirth -
Roses or arrows, we choose the clearing, as
Song of rain beneath skylight, forgave.

(Inspired by: Miley Sirus', "Flowers"

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He's such a cute little dog 
enjoys it, when you play around 
his chew rope he loves to hog 
loves being wrestled to the ground. 

Copyright © Cynthia Jones 
Jan.27/2013 

We've had Scamp now for almost 6 months. We adopted him from the SPCA, just down the street from where we live....

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When I wander my steps you guide...
When I am sad you comfort my furrowed brow.
You have wrestled men to submission and placed them in the belly of a great fish.
Hope beyond all hope to be a servant of our gracious king.
He is worthy to be praised; He alone can save!
A comforter and peace He left us by His greatness....

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Running
6-14-2016
Tom

I wrestled with darkness, searching for light,
Having worldly things housed in my coffer.
At next cockcrow became my last flight,
My broken heart was all I had to proffer.

Then all at once a conversion came about,
I began to weep and didn’t understand.
But immediately knew I wouldn’t bail out,
My heart was stirred by God’s loving hand.
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then there came the fiery one,
red headed rancid Reeta,
she threw hot coals into his bed,
an flew on him the cheater,

they wrestled and they fought like dogs,
but she was fierce with anger,
the smoke n fire did billow, fog,
burning flesh ere the manger,
so they sprang into the icy sea,
made love till they were soggled,
Odin looking down, with  a tiny frown,
dubbed em hairy Gog n Magoggle

Don...

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I snapped decision in half to find
the other half of what was mine
to make, to break to slip knot twine
the future 'round my finger.

It wrestled me down to the ground
without a noise, without a sound,
and tangled me 'till tightly wound
around decision's finger.

I struggled with my mind and might
I chose to win, but lost the fight
and still you'll find me wrapped up tight
as indecision lingers....

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I've wrestled great whites,
plucked tail feathers
from swooping eagles,
stared down a Sumatran tiger,
laughed at black bears,
& with one punch
decked an angry hippo,

caressed to exhaustion
writhing boas,
pleased to punch
deadly black widows,
& overcome with smiles
protective lion mothers,

to spend the next four years
facing off
with that
deluded idiot-child
the great orange one,
will be
an
utter
breeze....

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I ache to return to where my soul 
may at last find my elusive self 
and once again be truly whole.

I must heed the old ocean's call 
echoing in my brain, telling me
so quietly, "I am one, I am all."

Vaguely, I recall the joy of returning,
of being back again to a place
I can't remember ever leaving.

I writhed in pain with the ache to stay,
fiercely wrestled with, then lost to
the urge to leave and be away.



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I have trained my whole adulthood for the challenge of this day. 
The toil and sweat and sacrifice, the monotony of drill, 
All those years of manning up to my ambition.
I have wrestled the beast and disciplined my will.
I mean to vanquish my opponent for the golden prize
I'll enter the ring and trust my luck to fate.
I have trained my whole adulthood for the challenge of this day. 
When I rise again come dawn, I will reiterate....

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The deep wounds and scars of the past
The rigours and torment of the present 
The blurry and scary pictures of the future 
Like a stampeding Buffalo have destroyed my morale
Leaving me in the cave with the serpent of risky thinking faculty

With depression I have struggled 
With thoughts of suicide I have wrestled 
Guess it is time to gain freedom from this burning and tormenting pain
Guess it is best to end it all now...

ABSOL...

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Strangely, as in a hazy dream,
    I remember the joy of returning,
        of being back to a place
            I can't remember leaving,

back where I must have writhed
    in anguish with the ache to stay
        and fiercely wrestled with, then lost to
             the urge to leave and be away.

Now I hear and must heed
    the ancient Ocean's silent call
        that softly echoes in my brain,
            telling me, "I am one, I am all."...

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Kitty Katy, bigger than holsteins
Killed a St. Bernard
Pretty Kitty scratched up my blue jeans
Left my legs all scarred.

My big kitty scares the bejabbers
Out of my sorry hide
Such loud thuds of her pitter-patters
The blood-prints of her stride.

What did she kill tonight?
Who did she rend and bite?
What did she eat?
What kind of meat?
When must I stand and fight?

Kitty wrestled an anaconda
Then ate just the head
I took off on my cherry Honda
Scared I'd next be dead....

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I wrestled with a devilish devil
Its eyes were red like tomato sauce
In an environment that was rainbow purple
I threw the devil under the table

At the Portland Island it came with Goliath’s strength
I was too small to be David
My voice was blunt
SKAT was on this devil’s hunt to skin it alive

Strong like a rock, the devil approached
Turner heard my cry and turned the devil
Destroyer destroyed the devil with hot soup
They freed me like their beloved son who was held captive...

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