Best Detritus Poems

(A poem in Troiku style) 

Detritus 

blanket of decay
new life teeming underneath
it's time to crawl out

blanket of decay
in death leaves sustain new life
dust to dust returned

cycle unending
in death leaves sustain new life
dying duty done

~kcm
22 Apr 2023...

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I understand we Earthlings
Seek order amongst things
An analogy with ants
Their mother wears the pants
Yet nothing parasitic
Clips her subjects ticket.

Her warriors die in battle
Not like docile cattle
Falling for a social nest
Not some pointless quest
Like double you em-dee’s
Not hidden overseas.

A faceless nation employs
Children it then deploys
With guns...

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Sad Detritus It In Eight

Sam Adams looked back
at the lost loves
Failed opportunities
And monolithic blues
That he concluded 
Was the sad detritus of his life.
He sighed and went out 
To the Cosmos bar for another drink....

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Detritus 

Sitting there, honey,
Cleansed and bathed,
Scented with lilac and rose,
Glistening at your dressing table, and
Eyeing yourself in the chrome mirror;
I, as your guest, sit by and watch,
Astonished at your well-intentioned revealings,
Seeing your young beauty at morning tide,
As hands and fingers apply the detritus,
To nineteen year-old...

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Our history was written by the victors 
Of holy wars from long ago;
The sacred texts, the monuments, the scriptures
The paths that lead us, tied upon the hand.
"Lift up your eyes, rejoice" they say
"Salvation is at hand!"
Deliverance is near enough
Just not when you had planned.

A blinding...

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Detritus

A Floating Button
Made Of Bone
A Remnant Of Cloth
A Hair

A Frothy Chocolate
Ghastly River
Involved With An
Ever-Browning Sky!

Back To The Bone
Back to The Hair
A World Within
Spun
Down.

-Gray Squirrel

06-04-2025...

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The whiff of angel hair untidy
reeks a reft of detritus
with showers of glitter, confetti
raining down torrential,
on poesy of angel breath petals
amongst the roses, daffodils 
and daisy chains
written on a page
cheered on by a sage,
succumbed by
the celebrant's rage
to breath excess 
on angel's stage....

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