Shuttered Poems - Poems about Shuttered

What foul wind has blown them shut Let shadowed fingers seize a heart Silence the drumming beat of truth Closed the doors betwixt age and youth How has the acrid stench of doubt Cauterized once open minds Denying all but what they fear Rebut with silence all they hear Then tout with words of dueling gods The evils of each others words Unleashing with vitriolic...

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Curtains be drawn today be shuttered, the sign Closed hung in the sky window by the Master, Sun. Restless be I, yet bound by the tick-clocking of time's daily custom, I search the dark for sleep...

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Our views and sorrows are mirrored in life. Each jagged shard epitomizes some strife. Our wounds, sufferings, and personality, It will include one's beliefs and morality. Are we netting insight or primarily existing? Veins would shiver with shattered feelings. The sharp edges puncture into the intact body. A wrecked heart squall for plenty and vitality. Inside the proper limits of a selfish...

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limp roses blue boots, vinyl, knee length hair extensions braided like sun-rings pleasure knick knacks perfume bottles lacey things that hug the bodice under garments, lipstick smudged stained dentures wrappers...

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It’s getting late early… as I wait for the end to begin Time folding within itself, shedding its last skin It’s getting late early… a lost voice sings my final reward The outer door shuttered tight —darkness untoward (Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2020)...

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Dream House by Michael R. Burch I have come to the house of my fondest dreams, but the shutters are boarded; the front door is locked; the mail box leans over; and where we once walked, the path is grown over with crabgrass and clover. I kick the trash can; it screams, topples over. The yard, weeded over, blooms white fluff, and...

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While Shuttered Up Inside... ©ozy Snug Air Conditioned Demesne... Analogous to my boyhood cosseted and bereft, I assay to poetically elucidate how majority of mine years found me deft keeping danger at bay only thru the pour substitute of my imagination ...

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UNSUPPORTED CODE `Shuttered windows The absence of any corporeal presence Is counterbalanced by the ethereal essence Of the Human Spirits still in residence In forlorn foyers and empty rooms Vacant eyes peer in unspoken plaint through dust hazed windows... seeking the solace of eternal memories Of long passed children…and weeping widows Clock long stopped pon dusty mantel Hands posed o’er numerals Roman No longer giving...and...

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Reclusing in my solitary lair Empty nest with no engineer, consort Sparsely furnished with building blocks for a brighter day Enshrouded by walls that elicit dreams, hopes Alternately, that limit my size and scope Upscale plans to renovate bland lifestyle To lay the blueprint for a new, broader course Caged by my nominal status and working class background Burnished with colloquial, mundane mortar Blank...

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