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SHOOTING THE POOP
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JAN ALLISON
| Limerick |
abattoir, bird, humorous, sky,
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meat industry
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jan hansen
| Blank verse |
abattoir, abortion, absence, abuse,
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That's Okay Then
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Lindsay Laurie
| Rhyme |
abattoir, humor,
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Self Mutilation
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matthew harris
| Dramatic monologue |
abattoir, 10th grade, 12th grade,
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HALLOWEEN SCARE
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Line Gauthier
| Monorhyme |
abattoir, anxiety, halloween, horror,
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The Monster In The Machine
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Bernard Chan
| Free verse |
abattoir, change, computer, future, science,
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YOUR ARE ALONE IN YOUR THINKING
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Mohamed Manzur Bah
| ABC |
abattoir, allusion, anxiety, emotions,
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Photograph is a dead being
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Solomon Ochwo-Oburu
| Free verse |
abattoir, image, metaphor,
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matador
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jan oskar hansen
| Blank verse |
abattoir, absence, angst, anxiety, art,
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Skinned
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Solomon Ochwo-Oburu
| Free verse |
abattoir, allegory, relationship,
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A Pinholed Labyrinth
by Kunda Chamatete
Lame sunrises and midday sunsets
Fangs in words and perils in laughters
Sweet archs of smiling fires and silky shouts in talking forests
I come from the...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
abattoir, identity, meaningful, mirror, symbolism,
Load Gaseous Emisions
by Jack Ellison
As I ascend the stairs to my waiting boudoir
I expel these loud gaseous emissions just like a car
Is it the rarefied atmosphere
More likely what I...
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Limerick |
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Categories:
abattoir, humorous,
the visit
by jan oskar hansen
The Visit
Mother and I went to visit her uncle and his family
Who lived in the outskirt of the town, we took the bus
No five...
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Bio |
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Categories:
abattoir, break up, butterfly, career,
Underneath a Poet
by Divine Friday Idiong
We poets are like everybody else
Except that we have
No members beneath
That pours out honey and nectar.
Now say that like the poet you are.
Words like apples...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
abattoir, crazy, poetess, poets, sexy,
A TRIP TO LAMPEDUSA
by Olusegun Akanbi
We had stopped believing
Because our purple lords were deceiving
Labouring each day in the scorching sun
Our hearts were burning
Our desires started waning
At times we wish that...
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Lyric |
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Categories:
abattoir, africa, war,
flights of pig
by Taoi Chanan
There's nothing quite so graceful as a flying pig. Swooping over lands and seas. Saying hello to birds on the way. No pecking though. Just...
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I do not know? |
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Categories:
abattoir, animal,
albino
by Anita Odure Odeh
/There she stood tall, face down.
Her tall frame obvious despite her bowed head.
Tied and beaten like a goat being led to the abattoir.
As she sobbed,...
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Epic |
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Categories:
abattoir, africa, , cute,
ELECTRO CONVULSIVE THERAPY
by Stephen Thom
Raped of all freedoms, basic democratic rights
Restraints ever tighten casting underdog to fight
Sharp scratch of needle pierces State sectioned vein
I submerge to a world of...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
abattoir, horror,
Loud Gaseous Emissions
by Jack Ellison
As I ascend the stairs to my waiting boudoir
I expel these loud gaseous emissions just like a car
Is it the rarefied atmosphere
More likely what I...
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Limerick |
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Categories:
abattoir, humorous,
That's Okay Then
by Lindsay Laurie
Nine A.M. one Tuesday morning,
there’s a constant steady stream,
when a...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
abattoir, humor,
Dead Cow
by Gregory Deane
It was a time to bond and booze with dear Papa,
An interval all the more naughtily charming
As it inflamed the temper of irascible Mama.
Before happy...
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Ottava rima |
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abattoir, age, anxiety, death, family,
The Store
by Keith Trestrail
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The rising sun burns like a solar pyre
from Carenage to Guayaguayare,
that brings to an end sleep's tranquil hold
and dreams of serendipities...
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Couplet |
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Categories:
abattoir, nostalgia,
STAINS OF BLOOD
by Nsikakabasi Dan
STAINS OF BLOOD
I heard the cries from far away
The sounds of anguish all the way
The tears had flowed like Tsunami floods
A plague has led our...
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Free verse |
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abattoir, death, horror, sorry, sympathy,
Epitaph of the Dragon
by steven cooke
Chained to these walls of despair
I was condemned by a Judas race.
Assassins’ wait on every corner
hiding in the lights of man
looking for my face.
To be...
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Free verse |
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abattoir, dark,
antelope
by jan oskar hansen
Antelope.
A springbok runs fast on the savanna avoiding
lions and other predators, but ultimately it is
destined to become food for slayers and thus
useful. Going back...
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Blank verse |
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Categories:
abattoir, life, hope, money,
Harriet
by Owen Yeates
Hi my name is Harriet I’m a Leicester old spot pig
I’ve been well looked after now I’m getting rather big
This morning I was transported to...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
abattoir, fear, friendship, me, me,
the cowboy
by jan oskar hansen
The Cowboy
In Texas they love football and cowboys, not your ordinary
cowboys mind, the ones who herd the cattle to slaughter,
but those who walk...
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Blank verse |
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Categories:
abattoir, parody,
Bangladesh: The Birth of a Nation - II
by Sumit Majumdar
A civil war flared up and raged on for freedom
Unequal it was, this bloody war for honour and secession
The natives renamed their land Bangladesh
Inviting anew...
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Narrative |
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Categories:
abattoir, history, war, war,
Spill Canvas For Ruby
by John Castro
Your light shines through this wattled heart of mine ...
It seeps through the cracks unwoven in a twine....
And though my soul is filled with...
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Rhyme |
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abattoir, introspection, me, heart, light,
Leave Us In Peace
by Damilola Olaniyi
Rearing its ugly head
Struggling to take shape
The nincompoops’ have arrived
Yes, truly derived
The hyena’s abound
The terrain advanced
Abacha again?!
Leave us in peace
Abiola-like ears
When without my shears
Flapping without...
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Ballad |
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Categories:
abattoir, angst, death,