Best Cruellest Poems

How can there be despair when the entire
natural world unfolds with new life?  
When the anhinga alights from the Nowhere
he was into the Somewhere...

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IN    THE   DENTIST’S   CHAIR

Lean  back and just relax
Put on these protective glasses please
Injection  -  ...

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I pop a little white moon from the packet of fifty
as pain's tidal wave pulls at the shoreline of me and springs
a summer of shocks,...

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I never again thought I would dream
  to bathe my heart and mind
within warm currents of a crystal stream
  and leave the stricken...

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He looked out at the snow and ice,
As a cold wind whistled winter
Through the door, bringing hope
Of making a real-life snowman,
A special friend for a...

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The Petty Posh-Wahzee - Liberation & Ostentation


The Not-So Distant Past:

The fallen fighters for freedom, are unable to turn in their graves,
their battered, fragmented bones, mixed...

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The singer sang from beyond the grave,*
Or in his grave, to be true.
His voice reached up to the architrave
And vibrated in every pew.

The vicar called...

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Locked up in an enclave
With no threads nor bars
Confined to a gaol of wit
Tied upon the folds unkind.

So weary from an inkling
As the moment's trance...

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Me like a speck in the gizzard of mother earth,
   Sitting coldly, my short time, waiting to be grind,
Didn't I wear any power?...

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Trailing clouds of glory do we come
When first our cradles do us home.
Smiles beam down like gentle rays of sun
As our parents on us do...

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(William Hammer, Thomas Alva Edison's assistant,
has reached the end of his tolerance.  His boss is
planning to electrocute an elephant for a publicity
stunt.)

If he goes...

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Tongues destroy what monasteries built,
And blessings fall on those consumed with guilt.
Angels visit the demon spawn ,
Watching whilst dusk turns to dawn.
The cruellest of all...

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Sometimes I wish I wasn’t born at all.
Wish that this life I live never existed.
Wish that I had never met you!
Sometimes I wish that I...

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This year hot April
The cruellest in two decades
Picnic in your shades
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
April 16, 2016...

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Each spring the fig tree bursts at the ends
of bare branches like Fido in heat, and 
there's one empty bird nest: an epigenous 
ornament out...

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