Short Stifles Poems

it’s not desire per say but the clinging ~
that stifles soul and stops heart from singing...

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holy books
speak of sin
invoke fear

guilt stifles
we are free
always were

love and light
is the truth
of our soul

27-March-2023
Tricube...

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perhaps responsibility stifles spontaneity 
if we be the doer so enacting the play
but innocence in resonation with love
is motiveless and without any inhibition
as exuberance outpouring effervescence 

27-May-2023...

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Hot as blazes summer days
  die gasping for breath
A hazy curtain of humidity
  stifles the earth to death

But tonight a breeze is stirring
  injecting life in the air, so 
I bid adieu to my steaming house
  and went to sleep out there...

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September stifles summer’s breath
Eases itself in at sunrise
Panders
To forthcoming pumpkins
Engages Autumn’s wild chorus
Meanders among the scarecrows 
Blows kisses to the migratory
Energizes the nest builders
Repaints again Fall’s sated blush...

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Darkness sits in his mind,
The night is cloaked in his chamber,
Tempest rages in his closet,
He searches for a way through,
He fights and stifles,
They push back and trouble sore,
It's an unending fight,
He anticipates an end.




August 2, 2022....

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Feel, to know; rest analysis
Hesitation stifles
All doership is paralysis
Embrace Gods miracles

At play within, thunder
Behold, swirling wonder
Rising from down under

Heart aglow
Feel, to know 

25-August-2021
Quietus...

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My wild woman
She splutters to start
Crunching and grumbling
She let's off a fart
Creaking and grinding
She oils up her bones
Knocking back coffee
She stifles the moans
Time for a "tune up"
Obviously slightly "out"
"Come on old dragon"
She Roars with a shout!...

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Your presence stifles my will 
My mind goes blank thinking of you 
My focus is only on your needs 
Your smile adds sunlight to my night 
I feel your pain when you hurt 
You are my soul reason for living 
I would surrender my own life, so 
you could carry on with yours....

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Stupor stifles our aliveness
In active cognition
Dulling our pristine awareness
Anchor of stagnation 

Resting thought, let joy rise
Each breath, divine surprise 
Vibrant bliss; path of wise

Ego trifles
Stupor stifles 

29-August-2021
Quietus...

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Ostrich syndrome, fears freedom
Choosing self-hypnosis
Not quite the pathway to wisdom
Death by slow osmosis

Stagnation stifles soul
Touch divine, makes heart whole
With zest, playing life role

Delusion spawned dome 
Ostrich syndrome

29-August-2021
Quietus...

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The winter chill, stifles life force
Warmth of the sun is gone
Soul presence yet takes it’s own course
Choosing to smile and yawn

Though body has a say
Joy pulse holds fears at bay 
Heart’s delight, night and day

Enjoy the thrill
The winter chill

17-December-2021
Quietus ...

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your love stifles me 
your love, it brings me down
you love, it never lifts
your love is never around
you love, it holds me
under; I feel I may drown
your live bites and tears me
your love's a burden and I'm bound
I'm not sure how it came to this
but I'm sure this shouldn't be
your love's a poisonous kiss
and I know it's killing me....

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   Radio’s on loud at the crack of dawn
      though it blared to the full moon too

   A couple of fans whir all day
      though it’s mostly hot air they spew

   A goldfish drifts belly-up in her bowl
      dirt-clouds laze past the coral and shoal

   The pall of her death stifles the air
      where once breathed a maiden so fair 


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The gray sky stifles me
with it's thick fog
of underlying epistles,
causing my soul to shudder

I feel as heavy as a mountain,
but I'm only a molehill
on the edge of earths bend

my hands, he says
are too small
to write big
so I stick to the surface
and scribe
of faint occurrences
that define naught

because he's fearful
of my poems truth...

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only girl stranger
to her dad and her step mom
history strikes again

drawn to ones treating
us like we might have good sense
no matter the risk

rebellion is stealth
comes in oh so many forms
stuck under that thumb

that iron thumb stifles
'til anything looks better  
do the best we can

hard to understand
prolly just a big package
she'll get bored of this...

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Everybody was half-naked on the trail
of curves. Braindead. Emptied thought.
A single vacant look.
“Why me?” I ask. Stay stupid in the crowd. Looking
at the moon, indulgent. Plucking the nector from
knobs of naked flames.

No coming back from days of unknowing
the secrets of unskopen words. A cry stifles
in the throat of a prayer.

A moon was found on a dump !    


Satish Verma...

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it crowds
who i am
who i’ve become
the darkness stifles my aura
an unbearable 
sense of destruction 
a moment of weakness
corrupts my body
a poison
warps my meaning
filled with unknown
as i lay motionless
reality moves closer
no make believe
waking up to a dream
i lay in loneliness
an asylum
i lay in silence
emptiness in spirit
a depth
‘til judgment
i lay in solitude
i lay...

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No blood, no bone; 
no sinewy flesh can hide muse’s cries.

No muffler stifles; 
any trifles, of muse’s singing soul.  
A celebrant of life is muse alive.

Intonations paint, blue and pinkish skies.  
The greens and gold’s, 
of earth and time; 
how they revel in muse alive.

Muse upon her natural high; 
gifts us with her best. 
Expressions fly from muse alive.
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Gripping my pen in desperation
Waiting for the words to appear
Slowly it travels from my brain
But just as quickly disappears  
The words don’t want to come
They are stuck in the abyss so full of pain
The pain that stifles my creation to the 
Point of no salvation, the words so sweet
And gentle hide behind the dense fog of 
my imagination.  What a nuisance this can be
Tortured thru my own mechanization...

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The itch to love 
and satiate pride
swallowed too long stifles
breath
without emancipation
A tragic capitulation to self

Pride, perhaps acerbic,
leaves morsels to ruminate
and loves to regurgitate
coy ceramic dalliances
and Venusian masquerades
Masked in smiles
And toxic

This love, 
These loose granite memories
Ductile innocents
And hasty lulls
These shining sunsets 
And supernovas
Must rest.
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I stole your shirt weeks ago
I don’t know why
I saw it lying on your bed, just so

I put it in a baggie and sealed it up tight
I know how that sounds
I put it in my dresser drawer, out of sight

I stole your shirt weeks ago
It still smells of you
This much I know

I bury my face up to my ears
Your shirt stifles the sobbing 
And it swallows my tears

I now know why
I stole your shirt
It helped me say goodbye...

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waiting for news
with bated breath
ego thus in stealth
stifles bliss muse

let the movie play
in as is ordained 
feel not strained
surrender the way

ego spawned is fear
life’s but a dream
soul chose to stream
that does now appear 

in witness mode
atop the Ferris wheel
acceptance and zeal
lightens heart’s load

bliss ignition renewal
soundless thunder
a sublime wonder
rapture continual

05-January-2023...

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Wafts of a relentless rain remain
change in chilled air stifles the night
heavy hearts hopelessly rearranged
me looking at you
you looking at me
but neither of us see
winds drifting in and out
pulling us apart

Sunshine spilt out all her dreams
into a bucket of mystery
one we reached for but only
filled with pride and misery
lonely clouds drift away
along side of you
looking back at me
but not able to see
breaking us apart...

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Angry eyes lurk in the forest

Deep within the Deathly Hollows 

With unsuspected fervency

And malevolence it closely follows 

An apparition from the grave

A vision from nightmarish dreams

With nimble hands that quickly throttles

And icy fingers that stifles screams

None who enters survives this realm

So menacing and devoid of light 

In the Deathly Hollows murky mist

Still is the air and cold is the night 

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