An Accursed Grin
Inside me shrieking like a banshee,
dark shadows hold an accursed grin;
Old wounds are licked fastidiously;
Always wreaking havoc painfully,
squirming below my butter soft skin;
Inside me shrieking like a banshee;
My darkest demons they run madly
and feed on that deeply buried sin;
Old wounds are licked fastidiously;
Any who harbor them would agree
it’s easy to tell where they
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Categories:
accursed, dark, emotions, feelings,
Form: Villanelle
That
It was an old tiled house that I was born,
My mother grappled to give birth to me,
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Categories:
accursed, 10th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Narrative
Once Submerged Beneath the Dark, Accursed Sea
Once Submerged Beneath The Dark, Accursed Sea
Darkened winds beyond the long and hidden veil,
Rising sea its calm repose then casts away,
From some distance away, moaning church bell
Calling faithful and sinners, come lets pray
Tho' Fate with its power cries more in store
Here I stood, stoutly battling the unknown
With feeble words, I did each plea implore
For greater
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Categories:
accursed, art, death, deep, fate,
Form: Rhyme
From Poetic Thoughts On Mankind and Its Accursed Fate
From Poetic Thoughts On Mankind And Its Accursed Fate
Hark! Grasp firm precious golden ray of moonlight
Wrap in heart's grip, let seep into awaiting dreams
Release it next dreadful, hellish-cast storming night
To delight in its saliently flowing bright streams.
With fervent prayers, bid high Heavens to cast down
Manna and wine to the feast-born unwashed masses
Without need for
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Categories:
accursed, art, creation, history, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Oh, That Most Accursed One
An unacceptable poetess,she.
How dare she pen of her reality!
We, in the upper clouds of poetry,
Not glad of her beingn present here, eeks!.
Can't we just lock the golden poetry door,
And bid her farewell, alas evermore?
She will never be as grand as we,
Who swing from the officious Poetry Soup Tree!
Off to our unicorns and grand
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Categories:
accursed, character, humorous, poetess,
Form: Rhyme
Accursed Cursor
The blinking cursor taunts
I know not what it wants
Alone it sits and pleads
I know not what it needs
And yet.....and yet....
My fingers hover
over a keyboard
Aching....longing
for the touch
of a distant lover
lost
not for words
but for passion
not lust
but fire
The cursor winks
come hither
caress me
whisper to me
to us
John G. Lawless
7/11/2020
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Categories:
accursed, words, writing,
Form: Free verse
The Accursed
Horrible Monstrous
Unforgiven Eternal
Foredoomed Misfortune
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Categories:
accursed, angst, atheist, dark, evil,
Form: Haiku
Jinxed With Accursed Automobile Woes
Small fortune already spent
to maintain 2009 Hyundai Sonata
(pray cuz I love genii, or even mirthful
teletubby heaven sent)
compromising financial means to pay rent,
telecommunications service provider (Verizon),
electric company (PECO), sparking pent
up rage against the machine money meant
to buffer panic attacks
springing up like Jack in the box
yet, yours truly feels his soul got lent
to the devil, impossible mission
peace
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Categories:
accursed, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Argh What Accursed Fate Did Lurk
Argh...What Accursed Fate Did Lurk...
Regarding thee 2009 Hyundai Sonata
(50+ shades of gray), a cred
debt tub bull vehicle, that at
this moment finds sinking
feeling akin to led
zeppelin, yes (for almost ten years,
this car manufactured with damn) sped
to countless destinations,
no whomever drove head
ding here, there, or anywhere,
yea without missing a beat said
vehicle dependable, rightly never left
being reliable,
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Categories:
accursed, absence, angst, appreciation, fear,
Form: Bio
Another Day Another Accursed Blank Screen
Another Day...Another Accursed Blank Screen
Ma wink'n and blink'n
mind nod yet awake,
nor insights keen,
asper ho hum usual, this
(day-glo bull leave
me you) after noon,
(October thirtieth
two thousand and
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Categories:
accursed, 11th grade, art, dream,
Form: Lyric
Wistful Accursed Penniless Fate God Dime Mitt
Wistful Accursed Penniless Fate...God Dime Mitt!
(neither defamation, nor blasphemy meant, sans Title)
Despite ingestion of
anti anxiety medications
ferocious hellish onslaught
pummels me aback
finds resurgence of ghostly
white implacable terror
inducing panic attack
cogs and wheels
of psyche frenetically
spinning alas and alack
swallowed in
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Categories:
accursed, 12th grade, allusion, analogy,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Lolita's Conceit
Lolita’s Conceit
Obsession defined
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
An accursed passion
Love’s true abomination.
Literary allusion
Tintinnabulation
Sounding moral oblivion
God’s sure condemnation.
Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved,
August 18, 2018 (Double Dactyl)
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Categories:
accursed, allusion, angst, betrayal, child
Form: Double Dactyl
An Accursed Abominable Deadly Epidemic
(alternately titled random axe of violence)
I calculated an average
of ~10.16.... deaths per year
of mass school shootings since Columbine,
a morbid benchmark where,
iGen / Gen Z 1995 - 2012 bore significant hit,
now students require armed guards to learn - veer
really within purportedly "safe places",
which statistics tracks a unilinear
trend, and justifiably causing
absolute zero
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Categories:
accursed, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Casus Belli Conquers Accursed Submucous Cleft Palate
after pros and cons discussed
with six grade speech pathologist, she weighed
in favor, to launch stealth offensive
spring time surprise raid,
which faux analogous military show of force,
no picnic nor hit parade though undeniably,
unequivocally, and unquestionably
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Categories:
accursed, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
*****Sacer, An Accursed One
Before knowing, he was turned into an invisible man
standing in the middle of a busy street.
Unmistakably, though his image reflected on the glass of the show
window no passersby noticed his presence or recognized him;
not even endowed him with the acknowledgement of his being.
All kinds of gestures he made to attract passersby did not
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Categories:
accursed, pain,
Form: Free verse
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