Amputations Poems - Poems about Amputations

...I wanna trade in my stubby spindleshanks..., (a poor excuse for legs), and get me the latest sophisticated prosthetics advancements, whereat integration of cultured stem cells into custom made......Read the rest...

...Their philosophers dehumanized our ancestors. Their missionaries demonized their humanity. Their merchants made them chattel. Whippings, rapes, amputations, For the training of wild ******* w......Read the rest...

...Swollen knees bring fears of blocked tubes -- harbingers of destruction, cold limbs, looming amputations. Swollen knees bring alternate explanations for pain – cysts maybe? fears subside. m......Read the rest...

...When tons of doom filled nights fall upon your head, embers glow fierce and fires burn unabated. Recalling her last breath and wish you were dead in poem's last line, you've been beat and castrate......Read the rest...

...Irritatingly often unnecessarily compliant to the whims of those about him endlessly wordlessly wondering about the many demented subjective qualities of our ever present mammalian imperative via......Read the rest...

...a flustered tango of Gypsy moths drumming the porchlight; chalk artists; the endemic disappearance of farms—silos lost in unkempt fields; space stations; the sunlit-scent of lemon oil on che......Read the rest...

...Things are quiet here, a friend writes in the first email of his long life: Most mornings I drive to Gillson Park, sit and read beside the Lake. The waves are a symphony. Books are better th......Read the rest...

...Burning bodies, staring eyes. Smoking chimneys, human cries. Gas chambers for Jews to die. Frozen corpses piled up high. Electric wires inflicting pain. Mass starvation, inhumane.......Read the rest...

...After tasting the homemade poison, the walls, start moving. The poppies are in bloom. I am not interested in morphine or codeine. A sago palm has come of age, preparing to put up the conic......Read the rest...

...Faith, a mythical bird of your imagination Sent by an imaginary friend to defend you who will only help if you have heaped on adoration I'm not sharing inside information just a realisation, fait......Read the rest...

...PITA BREAD Go in the Portal to read. It is just a vestibule to perceive, to conceive, to form beliefs, to establish creeds. This world is in a make-believe that government is to bring subordinat......Read the rest...

...I’ve seen them: humungous stumps of once gigantic trees that made a forest sacred- knowing it was men that lopped off such magnificence Stealers of beauty and promise: these amputations leave ......Read the rest...

...Physician’s convictions to poison their patients, Procedures with Ether, cold X-Ray stations A thousand scans in milligrams, Lobotomies and Amputations… Surgeries to transform me, Imperfections ......Read the rest...

...I don’t want to sit on a patch of fear, tangled in occupation while fighting with the locks. The theater of tumblers. I am here, not there making dents in air on alarmed street. Time was out and t......Read the rest...

...(A journey into the First World War) The trembled hand the twitching face. A desperate draw on cigarette looking for courage in a cordite breath. Huddled in mud protected by slime filled walls, t......Read the rest...