Throe Poems

Trapped Breath

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Written: August 07, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Mark Toney

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Corset of steel tightens—ratified pain,  
Vestigial breath trapped in ischemia thrall.  
The...

Through This Weary Way of Silence

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Silence, like a glass thrown up in the air
Then exploding, its shards like a nagging echo
Raining on a heart, and it's so unfair
To bleed for love that is not there... Is there, 
Through this w...

Shadows of the Valley

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Written: May 13, 2025, for contest by  Robert James Liguori 

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On the golden steed, dreams catch flight,
In the sunny flame, rings of final sigh ignit...

Harvest of Osyter Pearls

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her ethereal gaze tucked    me into nirvanic waves
tore me asunder amid    quixotic abyss and seraphic throe 
I harvest pearls    from mollusks in swimming oysters 
strip it in kaleidoscopic...

Heart Gentle Eye Mindful

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Written: May 18, 2024, For Unseeking Seeker Contest

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Languid breath dwindles, scrounging panacea air
quiddity remorse core conve...

tis grace

...Rearing up
	before it lies
dark shadow cast
	and block the sky

through bitter cold
	and blazing light
even its might
	now scars are borne

slippery grit
	and loose stones
ledges narrow
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Prodigree 2

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          O, elusive muse, mysterious and profound bruise,
you bewitch my soul, never to be found in the way of former use.
In your absence, I am left with bittersweet 
caramello pai...

Desperate Hope

...While gelid breezes of winter, quiver emotions of decaying rays,
And arc of horizon cedes to dusk, evoking grimace of malaise,
Casting shadows tenebrous, shrouding glimmer of a slowing day,
Desper...

Day Full of Snow

...Oh, how I long, day full of snow
When dawns in gelid breezes moan
And nights anguish in frozen glow,
Now that autumn has left its throne.

As dull and decay shroud meadow,
Oh, how I long, day f...

Whispered Musing

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Written: November 14, 2023
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We ventured into everlasting words
Cast-off Calix of clear canvas
Each concept basks in su...

A Tie To a Memory

...I smiled as I ran across this old red tie in my closet the other day…
because in my hands was the reason why…
when I was teaching autistic students…I never wore a tie.

“You should wear a tie to ...

Silent Song of Breeze

...“The silent song of the sighing breeze,”
In leafless demeanor of shuddering trees,
Whispered cries of a dismantled dream
Augmenting dissonance of broken theme,

A theme composed in the promise o...

Be the Flame of Compassion

...Be the star that brightens someone’s dark sky,
Be the light that illuminates a gloomy night,
Be the flame of compassion to life gone awry,
Even if you don’t think your candle is bright.

Despair...

What For Oh This War

...One year and more if people should die still,
Bombs keep raining, missiles shower red rage,
All seem routine to hearts hardening nigh,
World feels sad as an after-thought on stage.

But so had p...

O Season of Amber Tulips

...O season of amber tulips, of yellow daffodils,
Of grinning verdant prairies, of cheery hills, 
Of giggling, burbling streams rushing to seas,
Of fragrant breeze rustling passions of trees;
How sc...

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