Shortened Poems | Examples


My breath shortened

for the first time I allowed the closed courtains.
I closed it,
without noticing it.

By that the sun still shines in stripes, 
it will not leave burns or blindness,
but like that I won't get rested easily.
Categories: shortened, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberShortened Hope

No worries they uttered
as the times streams by
The people don yari
Yes, they are irate
Everything don para
Plenty things don spoil
Yet they are still visionary
envisioning the now
to the coming years
Even as we are laden
with more burdens
reversing our journey
shortening our hopes
as we now live life
in bits and pieces

                                 To the Heroes of Lekkigate     20/10/2020
Categories: shortened, betrayal, conflict, heartbroken,
Form: Narrative


Shortened Tranquility


No mercy to the poor was shown,
only hard sentences given
Chained souls to the grindstone

Ghetto grief is accepted living,
hope shot dead by cold concern
Survival is a day-to-day thing

Revised history leaves a paper burn
... razed trail of abandoned factories
Modern plantation owners didn’t learn

Urban smoke cresting on the breeze,
smoldering oppression on the rise again
No reparation, no restitution, no relief

Uncertainty is the poor’s fickle friend,
but their closest companion is misery
Injustice, like a tide, keeps rolling in

Ruling class don’t wanna fess up and own,
their decisions such suffering do bring
Time weaving spindle’s on a rapid turn,
fashioning a cloth of shortened tranquility
Categories: shortened, conflict, perspective, society, truth,
Form: Terzanelle

Shortened Days

Creeping morn's damp coats fen and fair
Shrouded pond exhales its steamy breath
a solitary crow observes the creeping cold
finished fields of golden rod wave and nod
beckoning yellow tailed corn, farmer's friend
ripe stalks stand, a season's offering
air is still, undecided rain or shine
languid warm memories of summer fun
blown away by change
crisp shortened days end before dark
blossoms, trees blush with fall's brush
wind shaken trees orphan their young
loosed leaves, whose days are numbered 
lost, looking for a place to rest
whiffs, windrows scampering breeze blown
pungent reminder, yesterday's youthful glee
night scatters stars over changing skies
dawn surprises with frosted vision
overhead winged formations wheel, spiral
turn south, their frolicking days now near spent
the radiant belle has left the ball
weeping soft tears against my window pane.
Categories: shortened, nature
Form: Light Verse

Shortened Bridges

There won't be any shortened bridges,Lord
I'll keep on loving him in pain
No more wave riding on endless seas
More of a parched throat love,Lord
That's what it will be
Categories: shortened, angst
Form: Free verse


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