Shriveled Poems

Bouncing Back Self-Controlled

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In the seamless sky of my fervent yearning,
I let the enraptured songbird of heart soar high,
glide in the spring-rippled amorous breeze
that carried your jasmine fragrance to me.

T...

Palimpsest of Love

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Written: August 05, 2025, for contest Marathon Mile 3 Poetry Contest / Sponsor- Mark Toney

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As it rises shakily, the aurora radiates,
 Shore gets ba...

Winter Violin

...Time seems to be picking up speed
a freight train without engineer
Hendrix electric guitar on amphetamines.
Time is picking up speed
children born yesterday
wobbling off to college the next. 

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Reptile by Birth

...Into the abyss
I look in to see 
Peeking over, to discern 
Her looking up at me. 

Reptile cold and slithe,
I slither through the dewy blades,
And writhley race across the glade.
A lumping cr...

Fulcrum of a Rose

...Underneath the earth, she starts
A budding, not yet known
A seed planted, unfinished, unloved

Roses grow best with bright sun and regular water
All of which she’s been denied
The fulcrum of a ...

Performing our Friendship

...What makes a person likeable?

How they look,
how they dress, 
or maybe who they’re friends with?
I think it’s about how kind they are,       
their willingness to be your friend.

“I guess w...

The bad

...I let him touch me.
I didn’t know him much
It was the first time I had ever felt that kind of touch
And it still haunts me now
Though I never thought it would
I don’t blame the wandering hands
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endless leisure hours as distorted time stretch before me

...endless leisure hours as distorted time stretch before me...

like the infinite vista
upon the midwestern plain
farther than the eyes of mine
(an ascetic and copacetic
shortsighted father of tw...

Ersatz Docent in the I Am Museum

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Welcome.
I'm the one they left behind.
An alter ego of sorts—
just the keeper, the inventory clerk,
interim ghost.

New items arrive every day—
spat out from my boss's pockets,
sometimes st...

Serenading Soul

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parched buds
in shriveled sapling
                    desolate
bloom dreams
          in 
desiccated dunes
as the aureate sun 
masks the mirage 
                    chased
taking the sco...

Bring back the sun

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At times I used to think life
was a luscious bowl of grapes
but since, in many weeks and months,
we haven't seen the sun ~
I've fundamentally shriveled up,
my mind's become a raisin.



AP...

Dwell In The Silver-Lined Clouds

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In the seamless sky of my fervent yearning,
I let the enraptured songbird of my heart soar high,
glide in the spring-rippled amorous breeze
that carried your jasmine fragrance to me.

The da...

Blue Cheese and Old Pickles

...Tasteless, puckered galoot,
suited to the cold, he has gout.
Shriveled up, with deep veins,
covering up his shameful ways.

She wears umbrella suits.
He wears rubber boots.
Puddles, of mold, p...

-I Will Always Be With You- 1

...“I fell in love with one whom I believe to be my only soulmate; she showed me the world-- she was my world. And my world was taken from me.
Love stories have never appealed to me, yet I have never b...

watching a blown leaf

...A soft breeze blows a leaf
It scuttles and scurries across the porch
Brown and shriveled, looks a bit like an oak leaf
Dead, yet still able to move in the wind
I can hear another hearty gale from...

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