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Best Amputation Poems

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Premium Member Avoiding Amputation
I watched the sailfish spring from the sea

Had no wings, an enigma to me

     Why in flight did it embark?
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Categories: amputation, animals, funny, sea
Form: Limerick



Premium Member The Pedicure Virgin
I don't know what came over me that day - an instant of weakness after years of resistance, I suppose.

My beaming spouse leads me, a...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: amputation, humor,
Form: Prose
The Deliverance
O'er fields strewn with harvested evergreens,
There ventured a marine from Queens,
His flesh were a slight inky, his clothing was ragged,
No more alive, flowing in dread...

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Categories: amputation, dark, life, , memorial,
Form: Rhyme
The Earth On Which She'D Walked
She was made of the Earth on which she walked,
built by the Love that, from her, poured, 
brought to life by the light she shone,
imbued...

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© Sara Jolly  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: amputation, earth, emotions, environment, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Neutered
"Taking away my cell phone would be as painful as being neutered."
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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: amputation, humor, perspective,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member death penalty
shedders shards hover
if there is not a purpose~
life has no meaning

limb amputation
your life left in a child's hand~
a burden you are

soul shattered remains,
where did eternal...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: amputation, abortion, love hurts,
Form: Senryu
Would You Still Love Me
Would you still love me,
If I was a beast?
Would you still love me,
If I had ravenous urges?
Would you still love me,
If I lived in a...

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Categories: amputation, art, deep, destiny, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fetal Position In the Er
Broken but disbelieving, we wait   
for any doctor to say it’s just blood
as the gray man greens, throws-
up in triage. A Goth teen...

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Categories: amputation, death, heartbreak, my child,
Form: Sestina
Cold Blooded Diabetes
Cold blooded diabetes
Try to stop her
If you can because 
Insulin shots are not fun
But they must be given
When you're dealing with

Cold blooded diabetes
Will ravage your...

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Categories: amputation, sick,
Form: Lyric
February Rain
rain caressing limbs
transforms into crushing ice
duplicitous destruction

enveloping trees
splintering Appendages
suffering spiral fractures

winter rhetoric 
cracked branches screaming in pain
imminent amputation...

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© Abe Lopez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: amputation, nature, sea, seasons
Form: Choka
Premium Member National Anthem Usa
"National Anthem USA"
Hands to hearts with baseball capped compassion 
We swear on a timeless treasure of freedom
Asking new artists every time to hit the tender...

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Categories: amputation, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oops! Sorry 'Bout That!
His client had a leg amputation

   Oops! Wrong leg due to miscalculation

      His client wanted to sue

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Categories: amputation, funny
Form: Limerick
I See Statistics
I see statistics in my home,hate grown.And love not left alone.I see a rock in a hard
place,rats trapped in a maze.HATE,HATE,pain and depression.People who never...

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Categories: amputation, warhappy, family, pain, family,
Form: I do not know?
Shattered Dream
SHATTERED DREAM

Rated the wise and best striker of the under nineteen’s,
On the playing field, left opposing defenders with headaches,
Rival coaches, trainers and fans with heartaches,
And...

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Categories: amputation, sad,
Form: Sonnet
Phantom Limb
Similar to a leg ripped loose
you learn to hobble on crutches
but like a phantom limb
the amputation still throbs
long after the wound has closed

Those few precious...

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Categories: amputation, loss,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs