Best Clotting Poems

A glint in the black, like stars
    Pearly, polished, pointy peaks of a fiend
      Fangs of self-deprecation,...

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THUG LIFE
				cold heart and mind,
drugs are lunch and supper,
prostitutes are friend and wives,
smoking is the daily work,
wanna be Hitler is the dream, 
clotting blood is...

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They say we evolved from apes,
  but an ape would never destroy its own environment;
  or be unwilling to share ---
  having...

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I have watched enough doctor's on video give warnings, brave nurse whistleblowers coming forward about what is happening at THEIR  hospitals, videos of harmed...

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Drop by painless drop 
Washed down the drain, 
Flowing to a stop 
Free from my brain 

Hysteria and torment 
With regret to follow, 
Make their...

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Calcium is found great in the human body
99% of it found in bones and teeth
But where is that remaining 1% of calcium found?
In the blood
Calcium...

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Life 
Arabic Poem by: Riyadh Al-Ghareeb*
 Translated into English by: 
Inaam Al-Hashimi (Gold_N_Silk)
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It was not his idea 
He did not wave to the...

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Helping my father and uncles when I was ten,
felled a tree, on break then ready to go again.

I walked around the corner of the truck
as...

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They say that stones and sticks are all that harm,

          But words can wreak more spoilage...

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As I saw your
caged
soul rioting for my
attention, I knew
you to be my 
perfect
victim and started
envisioning how to
ravage
your beauty so it could 
ensnare
and impersonate my
lifetime wishes

Fearlessly...

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BETROTHAL was sure you'd come
Waiting on the steps
Saw a hawk circling
Across blue sky.
My hair glittered in twilight
Slippery steps , algae invading
Eyelashes flickered in kajal.
My face...

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A Sonnet For Bloody But Unbowed Heads

The hands of my children’s raised arms
Have become like released skeets;
Their ebony hued bodies, a circled bull’s eye.
Their blood...

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This poem is from a book I'm working on of poems based on great poems I love. I have taken their format and the basic...

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SEQUENCE


Thirsty
dryness cracks
seek cloudless shade.
The lips of river’s banks
unlicked.

Deluge
clotting dust
choking relief’s
anticipated joy
mud slide.


John G. Lawless
11/9/2014

For Dr. Ram Mehta - Cinqku Poem – Poetry Contest...

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I venture through the toiling of days
Crumbling nights
Ever hopeful though chanting septic cries,
Dawn creeps past worn-out
eye receptacles...
and the ashen graves they see
They once burnt benevolently...

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