Best Fatal Poems

Time ticks away as a new dawn strokes your splitting heart,
with your mood swings re-writing my emphatic poetical art.
Although the fear of your demons may grip my soul
I am now immune to all the personalities you can't control.
I am lost without the warmth of your...

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FATAL ATTRACTION
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His lucent light illumines her eyes
His face outshines the sun
His ethereal beauty unveils the skies
Her vibrant vision swiftly succumbs

Her silenced tongue, his intimate touch
His intangible hands sliding/slithering
Spiraling down with a gentle glide
Her body cold and shivering 

His fiery eyes ignite a flame
Her attention he...

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I'm so doggone ugly,
I look like a faded roach;
If I were a pile of roadkill,
The buzzards wouldn't approach!

Oh sweet mirror on the wall,
Why stab me in the back?
You tell me that I'm beautiful,
Then fall to the floor and crack!

I went to a local photographer,
Here's something...

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Tina’s  Fatal Attraction

With kid gloves   Tina loved to play		

When hubby was working away			

She got a surprising fright			

When he came home early one night		

Instead of a fight      				

 Off went the lights      ...

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When Dad died, I wrote a poem to read,
a tribute to the love he bestowed.
Tears fell as, at jet speed,
I scribed emotions that overflowed.

Before the funeral I showed it to you,
hoping you would allow me to share.
“Amateurish,” you said and I didn’t pursue.
For rhyme and...

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Was your touch or was it not so fatal,
For I have often heard of endless lies.
Reverence, care, and love for my cradle
Have never lain within what I despise.
Was it in spite of my mere reluctance,
So mere was it, or definitely clear
That you imposed upon my...

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perfectly-placed pleats
admirable rear
other interests
wandering eyes hurt
understandably
potential problems


THIRD PLACE WINNER
Written 3/26/2021
(Inspired by Picture #3)
For "Tableau 2" Contest 
Sponsored by Joseph May
Composed using PS "Syllable Counter"...

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"Fatal Attraction"



The letter was typewritten
IBM Selectric, 
No final salutation
in italics
“With love”, 
but it was there nevertheless
invisible
electric
“VC”
Bleeding Bold Black 
thick cursive stroke
With knife point calculation
An arrow hit it’s bullseye
A flourish with intent
A nicotine stain 
at the bottom of the page
Thumb print 
Mixed with a blur of...

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Again! I come to you,
thou, I said I never would;
but! Here I am again,
in the middle of the night, 
your slave.

How many times,
have I walked away;
turned my back on you,
then found I couldn’t
sleep a wink, for all I did
was lie-awake, and think of you? 

And...

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He rose
She watched
He paused
She gazed
He twitched
She sighed
He packed
She froze
He waited
She turned
He glanced
She shivered
He moved
She whispered
He paced
She sobbed
He freaked
She called
He frowned
She pleaded
He kissed
She wept
He turned
She knew
He left...

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A muscular aerial acrobat
Young Mandy avoided nets, just like that
  
    Going netless has its perks
     Only if your balance works

You could say hubris made Mandy go splat



*for Natalie’s “Die a Fun Death” contest
11/20/2011 (Hubris is excessive...

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Obedience  is  vital
Join  the  front-line  fray
Conscription  is  essential

Answer  the  war  call
Warships  want  mêlée
Obedience  is  vital

Apathy  is  fatal
Battle  breaks  in  the  bay
Conscription  is  essential

Be...

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After she drank his bitter wine of selfish, pathetic love
She slyly sang him her haunted chant 
"The laughs on you", she crooned in her soft malicious tune

At times, she could act with chicane
She had many charms when treated well...
Deadly ones - when not
Oh yes...
She herself...

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If I could, I'd be a Gila Monster,
a desert lizard, living under rocks.
For then, I'd know nothing of winter snows,
and my greatest fear would be soaring hawks.

A venomous reptile with pink patterns,
no one would want to play around with me.
And I could be as sluggish...

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She knows everyone who is in his cellphone
contact lists.

She knows where he goes to hang out
with friends on Thursdays
and Saturdays.

She hates seeing any female friends around 
him, except for his family.

She "falls sick" whenever he plans
to visit his parents.

Sometimes she forces herself on him, 
and...

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