Best Cankered Poems

The Dog is structured,
Always working to preserve,
Familial ties.
Diligent service,
Loyal to love and country,
Strong yet still servile.

The Bear is nurtured,
A hunter in fair weather,
Useless in winter.
Promises plenty,
But bleeds his own forest dry,
Water, trees and all.

The Maggot is cankered,
A hollow soul and stomach,
Skulking forest floors.
Can only scavenge,
ON...

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Poison onion rings
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My love is pink in cheek and red in heat,
Her colors color life with vibrant glows;
Her orange hue has cankered citrus beat,
Her yellow hair foils jaundiced flowers’ shows.
My love is green in proof, a jade in purse,
Her blues are ranged between two naval skies;
Inspiring purple...

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Nehanda: The War Prophetess


Nehanda bore the groin
That animated or begot me
With a hardly wrapped loin
Peeping Toms tried to see;
Hanging by the cruel rope
She spun a ghastly surprise;
As she gave up the spirit:
“One Day My Bones Will Rise
Angry, from this grimy grit!”

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Down on row and pit and mortal flower
  the undertaker’s men stood grave and bier,
and brave stoic death fills the living hour
  forevermore a day, a week, a year.
Where bathed in shafts of exalted light toll
  the bells of Mass and vigil...

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Carrion kings crow callous things in settled twilight cracks;
Their cankered queens quote noxious reams down croaking fabric tracks.

A patterned noose attentive sits atop a patient peak,
Whilst zephyrs drone from Zaire to home to wheeze unto the week.

Preachers pine an impassioned whine beneath their teething tongues;
'Twixt...

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A wiley post this early freeze fast makes
Making hard the sugarcane, shedding bright flakes
That covers the city, rivers, streets, and trees
The jet streams cold and meandering breeze,
Wasaburo's joy make us know our frail
Powers limit, we're stranded in its gale. 
Tween shifts of spheres, "We are...

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This imprisonment of clay, 
this putrid jarred tint subjected to time's defeat, 
this cankered vile contagion. 
tossed to and fro as on a sea with unrelenting  anchorage of ease, 
this worm, ephemeral in the bay leaf of existence. 
this dirt of appointed time, fixed...

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Child Dispersal


Polygamy we openly denounce or loath
while promiscuity we commit at will.
Should Retribution be borne in both
why the last we spurn with inflated zeal?

Scattered children teem universal
while we all agree that a few is better.
Are we to subscribe to this dispersal
and not agree to observe...

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I’m not beholden to you,
certainly not because of your riches
I’m not compelled to do
any of your narcissistic, selfish wishes
Your vain thoughts 
of having me under your control,
it ain’t happening ... oh, no
What? 
Become beholden to you
and lose my soul — 
You better hold your breath...

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Birth Pranks!


labour....a baby cries
then popcorn of exploding smiles
yet, he's wary of lies

will he quickly talk
before he can do anything or walk
to tell if he is his folk?

"why not like his brother
nor at least the face of his mother
or me his ugly father!?"

common labour pranks,
aftermath of...

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Fealty's door was satin stained
Durable wood pulped from reliable strain
With blithe trim and decadent frills overlain
Lofty mantle Love's precedence to ordain
Interior with taut, strong fibers ingrain
Golden chain to seal our matrimonial domain

O'er time, your jaundiced mind did abstain
The frilly vows from the lacquered surface drain
The...

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Substitute happiness
modeled on material things
Buy new iterations of the same 
every seasonal change
Improved, your life will be
from promises of acquisition guarantee
Ersatz ecstasy ... 
cankered desires rotting the spirit from within
Manufactured joy
bought with paper and plastic 
Non-biodegradable debris
tossed away in a cobweb attic
If every item sold...

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On a fact finding mission, I traveled one day
Observing obstructions that got in the way.
I found, when I wandered too close to the hole,
I kicked loose the gravel and cankered my soul.
And, sometimes, I wounded some helpless one
Who hollered and scolded until I was gone.
"Forgive...

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Mother taught me
When pride cankered me to climb
Trees upside down before the crowd
She scolded me
The higher the monkey climbs, son
The more he will
Expose. Her lessons truth has won
Feel now the thrill

For when took gold
And tongue, and people from the land
Nothing was left but tears and...

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