Best Crucifying Poems

Stop crucifying the truth
How many times will you try to conquer this truth,
 born to a people who are held to a truce, 
of a...

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Keys rattle,
door slowly closes ...
An echo of footsteps walk upstairs..

You can hear his bedroom door close,
a little bump as he sits on his bed,
then there...

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When breathless pain of sorrow 

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I’m feral like a fox
misplaced in the
maroon mists 
of wilderness,
only found in 
woeful woodland. 
My skin is blanketed
in crimson balmy
hyacinth feathers
from a 
forsaken rainforest. 

Misguided...

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-For Justin Bordner’s contest


I long worshiped heartbreak,
From afar, often, though through the lenses, ceaselessly…
I drew ribbons in the midnight sky with the silken trinkets of...

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"The Fresh Blooding of a Sexton Grin"



Guns ...

are for p*ssies
you know, short for 
pussilanimous plural

Words …

are sharper 
more cutting
more lethal 

clean 
concise 
quill slicing the...

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projecting our wanting love self
we imagine who we want
seeing our forever soul partner
fashioning them out of smoke
sagely ignoring reflective honesty mirrors 

throwing ideas that do...

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She floated into my dreams that day,
Stealing my wealth, 
Shaking my roots, ignoring my prior convictions.

She had a different opinion, 
Determined to shake me and...

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Dwelling
In the arches
Of dark corners that reach 
The entombment of my stale mind,
Frozen 

In time; 
Freshly scarred by
Unfulfilled musings led 
By stoic apathy singing 
Tunes...

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My son went to church
With his friend
Then came home
With excitement in his eyes
He is getting baptized
What a blessing the day before
I took him out for...

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How could you, Mr. Barnoby?
How could you give me  a math example?
You know I don't do math.
YOU'RE  My math teacher, you know that.
You...

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Enemies of the peace
Are not consecrating the life
Tampering with the nature
Crucifying the childhood
On the sidewalks
Burying the chastity
In the brothels
Killing the light
Before coming the dark

Enemies of...

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W ayfaring soldiers on both sides believing the other to be depraved
A trocities crucifying unborn generations
R uinous idealisms exchange catastrophic pleasantries...

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God is pushing me one way but I continue to fight his hand in reluctance-ly 
 
I come before him to repent of my sins,...

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educated dalit, working in office elite,
his journey from rags to riches,
hardly matters for high caste there,
safeguarded through religious care,
see the dalit with crucifying glare,
wonder how...

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