Best Biting Poems

biting mountain air
baby lamb trails on the edge....
mint sauce with dinner





entry for Charles Henderson's strict Haiku 2 competition...

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Dog Free to Good Home

By Elton Camp

I have a dog to give away
One I picked up as a stray

Only good homes need apply
Who Brutus’ needs will supply

Recommendations you must give
And let me come see how you live

Also, Brutus must be kept inside
A fenced yard must...

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It was a freezing night in Alaska, the temperature had 
dropped to well below zero, fifteen below with a driving 
wind that shrieked and laughed as it sped viciously past
causing lashing snow flakes to fall fast and furiously.   

Up in the high mountains...

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My nails I’m biting
Crashing noise so frightening...
Thunder and lightning...

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I once knew a poet named Carl
Who found himself in a troubling snarl
A victim of vicious rumors you see
The result of deep rooted envy
Gave him clenched teeth and knuckles all gnarled...

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(Winter Song)

This cold is touching me and I'm liking it 

It hugs me real tight and I'm loving it 

Now it's biting me real hard 

From my foot up to my face 

I wanted to let go but it won't 

Though it realy hurts, I...

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Starving myself in an attempt to lose weight
Feel like biting our dear Golden of late
My only fear is
She'd never forgive
To show her displeasure on my bed she'd urinate


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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I have been systematically bitting
my nails since I was 6 year's old 
so I am told

Sometimes way down past where
the skin begins and blood starts

And it hurts so much I can't even
pick stuff up

And yes I know it's a filthy habit and
it really hurts

I have...

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I know he's been there

Somewhere in between the palm of my hand and the unwritten corners of last week...

I know he's seen me, tip-toeing over the shadows that felt misplaced in his mother's
hallway, the darkness contradicting the way I kissed him, the way he whispered...

the...

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Sijo 8        

          when a biting wind swept through in the ruins no soul dwells in
          and as the sky...

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Risk I have took for you
I faced the dangers and faught powers greater than my own
Honestly I dont know how ive made this far
I Thank the Lord for always carrying me
Blessed yes By the Best
Undeniably committed to the struggle
Silent meetings I spoke so loud
I opened...

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I bite my nails to keep
order, to keep them in line
I chew my fingers-
feast on the small
shreds of flesh to keep
them groomed-we don’t want
any outliers or any heads
poking out of the crowd-
it doesn’t look good.
That’s how they should be-
bloody disfigured and
inconsistent nails with
the bacteria from...

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And now I return to write another entry
in this long poem. Behold the biting bees
pollinating many trees and flowers
at all hours in their bowers,
for humankind's consumption.
Let us eat many sweets
with our loves so sweet.
My love is a grape,
so sweet and dark,
for she brings darkness upon...

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My tongue
has no more blood; 
no tissue to slide through my teeth.

I have bitten my tongue
so long
my message deflates beneath.


©  2011  ~JSLambert Esquire...

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A star is in the making, hopeful and joyful,
Digital as it’s said, ready and set to go,
Dwindling   in the spirit, rising but shaky,
A pill is fixed on the lips, slowly sinking in the mouth,
Substance abuse really, a bitter pill in our midst.

The pill...

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