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Amputations Poems - Poems about Amputations

mass confusion under an abandoned black mailbox
...mass confusion under an abandoned black mailbox just mentioned as lackadaisical as day, someone very close to me just told me about diabetes medication i sit on this empty porch of dried tears wit......

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Categories: amputations, confusion, lost, stress,
Form: Free verse
I wanna trade in my stubby spindleshanks
...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......

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Categories: amputations, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse



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

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Categories: amputations, 12th grade, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Assessing Joints
...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......

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Categories: amputations, anxiety, confusion, health, introspection,
Form: Free verse
You Foolishly Once Thought You Had It Bad a Collaboration With Robert Lindley
...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......

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Categories: amputations, dream, emotions,
Form: Rhyme



Theater of Utter Charm Part 1
...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......

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Categories: amputations, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I'D Rather Write About
...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......

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Categories: amputations, poetry, writing, , memorial,
Form: Free verse
A Senior Citizen's First Email
...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......

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Categories: amputations, age,
Form: Blank verse
Holocaust
...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.......

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Categories: amputations, death, discrimination, holocaust,
Form: Couplet
Ingression
...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......

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Categories: amputations, art,
Form: ABC
Faith
...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......

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Categories: amputations, bereavement, religion, religious,
Form: Free verse
Peter's Bread
...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......

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Categories: amputations, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Grief of Stayed Continuance
...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 ......

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Categories: amputations, nature, sorrow, tree,
Form: Free verse
Doctor's Orders
...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 ......

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Categories: amputations, sick,
Form: Light Verse
Genesis
...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......

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Categories: amputations, art,
Form: ABC

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