Best Death By A Thousand Cuts Poems
Ether Dreams
Chasing all my dreams
Hoping they’ll come true
Watching them unravel
Evaporating like morning dew
Like a lacy web between two worlds
So fragile and suspended
Buffeted by gales of fate
Pulling ‘til it can’t be mended
A battle rages in me
My heart and head at odds
I wanted to reflect with joy
Upon the path that we both trod
To fight these losing skirmishes
When your postures are competing
Is like death by a thousand cuts
Leaving you broken, rough, and bleeding
Hey kids I'm going to make a quick trip to the store,
We're all out of bandaids again and we desperately need more,
For my wounds are bleeding profusely after the last set tore,
All have been exposed from my orphaned childhood to after the second war,
Is this death by a thousand cuts I'm not keeping score,
I could've sworn I saw our neighbor Eustice Nuoin wearing one so therefore,
He must have some to lend to his old friend Sam Bailor,
I'll just go across the pond and knock on his door,
This will surely save some time on an honest trip to the store,
Unless he has already exhausted his reservoir,
Of bandaids and metaphors.
Knife-like, piercing words of contempt stab the jugular vein
Exsanguinating victim; accustomed to the blood and sharp pain...
gone numb while slowly dying a death by a thousand cuts.
Submitted for...
Strand Select E Any Form,Any Theme Poetry Contest (Winner: Honorable Mention)
Sponsored by Brian Strand
Date: 02/05/2020
Date written: 11/25/2019
And ignoble prize trumpeting hubris awarded to...
Bourgeoisie donning ersatz
overstuffed ego freezer bewigged pate
"FAKE" grotesque humanitarian
bribed corrupt judges will vindicate
jimmied cracked corn
land of "milk and honey"
red hot button he spoils to activate
countdown to Armageddon
leaving nation prostrate,
all the more reason to axe electoral college,
now holds electorate
hostage to bully tactics grate
for dead souls – zombie thriller, viz
Putin on the ritz,
whereby Pavlov's dog will salivate
on cue and pony show will titillate,
and worse case scenario, a far more terrible fate
than death by a thousand cuts
equals his refusal not to abdicate
presidency, should voters
get smart to administrate
White House with progressive commander
in chief he/she will adjudicate
decency, honesty, integrity... and acclimate
government toward amity, comity, equality...
oh,... and most importantly advocate
salutary measures affecting biosphere,
where industrialization didst devastate
contaminate by bajillion beings birthrate,
every square inch of Earth
*****sapiens succeeded to abominate...,
prima facie global warming doth correlate,
hence primary requisite mandate
to reorient modus operandi no time to wait,
where carbon footprint negligible
still preserving technological paradigm
fixing low cussed electricity to generate
courtesy renewable resources
else man/womankind will become footnote
atrophied trappings agglomerate
twenty first century civilization
damned, inundated, ossified bridgegate
checkmated, choked, chucked... wag gone wheels
das spare - tread fully tires fuming primate
jammed fruits of loins going bananas
infuriating, exhausting accelerating
no exit (sorry Sartre) to circumnavigate
hardy lee any recourse to extricate
oneself from madding crowd
self resignation minimally doth alleviate,
whereby impatient broods frustrate
inaccessible jackknifed mobility,
thence spark ignites spontaneous eruption
impossible mission to plug
crowdsource mob frenzy translate
pent up fury once loosed doth degenerate
into atavistic pandemonium cutthroat rage
snarling human logjam foaming at mouth
poised to strike ready to decapitate
any remaining shred of salvation barren feeble
slow vac hoovering, milking, and sucking
every last vestige of bondage peoples extirpate.
"The Field Guide to Evil"
> Chapter one > God Offers No Favors
> Chapter two > Between Right and Wrong
> Chapter three > No Good Deed Left Unpunished
> Chapter four > Death by a Thousand Cuts
> Chapter five > Hell Box Do Not Open
> Chapter six > Space Probe Taurus
> Chapter seven > Evil Develops a Polaroid
> Chapter eight > Beware the Stare
> Chapter nine > The Fly Trap
> Chapter ten > A Kindred Anguish
> Chapter eleven > Devoured
> Chapter twelve > Dead Time Stories
> Chapter Thirteen > Hell Is Full
Spoiler Alert > In every atom a Sun.
Beyond the Sea
The Man With a 1001 Names
Hey you!
The Erotic Fire of the Unatainable
Tipping the Velvet
The Sun Is You
Daisies in February
A Most Wonderful Time
The Song of Lunch
You Me and the Rain
Burn After Reading
No Postage Necessary
The Sex of Angels
Held in the velvet grip of melancholy I'm conscience as I slowly sink,
Wholly enthralled by the temptation of a Divine link,
Recalling deeds performed for good and for worse yearning to completely forget, No feat in spite of sincerity or repentance has a reset, a deliberate homicide of an eternal spirit,
Death by a thousand cuts meeting pain without a limit,
Showered under dust from the ashes of ancient and long dead stars,
Playing the game of battles lost and losing wars,
Absence of light pulling gravity and existence toward the event horizon,
Drawn into a promise of forever tasting poison on Judas' lips,
Infinity and Hell experienced before perceiving death's eclipse,
Lost in the stare of bare mortality for a while,
Goodbye finally said with an artificial sigh and a simulated smile.
Seventeen thousand special K
vanished into thin air
in one fell swoop life savings
fraudulent fiend did clear
yours truly duped
courtesy scammer with consummate flair
rowdies in peanut gallery doth jeer
raucous insult to injury outware
any remaining shred,
where peace of mind concerned
unraveling threads feeling victimized
Harvey Specter's lobbed hand grenades
fractured, exploded, destroyed... psyche
how mean spirited and unfair.
Amidst din in noggin
analogous to tower of Babel
meaningless mysterious cable
enclosed holding key
to deliver remuneration
bringing tears of joy
and Hollywood ending
to torturous surreal fable
decrypted applying
following conversion table
7.15 6.21.14.4 13.5
fiasco from fraudster
(fiendish) frazzles father
would elicit flickering salvation.
I still haint reckoned with reality
and shake me head in disbelief
mourning forsaken legal tender
while yours truly merrily
strolling along information superhighway
unexpected encountering grief
sorely missing nest egg
linkedin with devilish scheme hatched
when computer hacker
impersonating Apple technician
lured me into a virtual net.
He (who spoke
with a clipped English affect)
his trust earned,
though no questions I asked him,
thus never double checked
truthfulness of authenticity
regarding his being credentialed
by Apple Computer Company
only after the fact painfully learning
checking and savings accounts wrecked.
Expertise with fleecing
sheepish folks like me
most likely found him laughing
all the way to the bank
donning poised demeanor ernest and frank
allowed, enabled, and provided
being emboldened, empowered
to pull off heist,
which legerdemain possibly refined
playing many a boyhood prank
pull the wool over my eyes
and extracting legal tender
he slyly, knowingly,
and deftly did yank
key personal information
compromising willpower to remain alive,
whereat suicidal ideation
(via prescription medication overdose)
teases as modus operandi to escape
death by a thousand cuts
unsure how I can weather insolvency,
a bitter battle to survive
and bear witness to monies thrive.
We come to experience an array of emotions
Feelings in our bodies, set into motion
Heartbreak and anger, sorrow and fear
These things that bring our eyes to tear
But the thing that kills my soul inside
Is the betrayal of friends, their words pure lies
Nothing can hurt the heart as much
Not even a death by a thousand cuts
So we numb emotions to kill the pain
And continue our lives moving on in disdain
frozen disbelief
slow death by a thousand cuts ~
phrase employees dread
Date posted: 07/29/2021
bureaucracy cull
a death by a thousand cuts ~
slasher slash and burn
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