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Best Homunculus Poems

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Homunculus
Ago I watched a woman coax
A fellow back from death.
Sand clung to the drowned
Man's shoulder, briny fluid
Dripped from clustered hair
Breath pushed lung to throat

In that...

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Categories: homunculus, corruption, dark, evil, universe,
Form: Blank verse



The Homunculus
Torchfire and brimstone heaven then rained down her might
Inch by inch, from within, without;  she ascended
Into being, breathing ; bathed in an eerie light
Humming...

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Categories: homunculus, dark,
Form: Sonnet
Homunculus
Homunculus

you thought it would stay in one place
adopt a contented pose
lounge languidly by the fire without complaint 
nor ask for more than could be given

little...

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Categories: homunculus, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Solipsist
Let the Deicide commence.

You're a voyeur at best!
Your vampiric heart is beating out of your chest!
And you have slayed the ones whom would love you...

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Categories: homunculus, allegory, angst, boyfriend, confusion,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Brodmann Area 4
The debate between free will and fate has taken a hard right
turn to neuroscience, Brodmann area 4 the primary motor
cortex of the brain located in...

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Categories: homunculus, children, death, games, lost,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Self-Destruction
Long ago in the not too distant future, whence temporal tense was but a phase,
I found myself afloat inside my head, from where I feared...

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Categories: homunculus, addiction, death, depression, emotions,
Form: Couplet
Quark
Five lobes of the brain have we evolved
All doing different jobs but all intervolved.
And all these lobes, just mm thick
But still so unique and they...

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© Lr Waldman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: homunculus, science,
Form: Rhyme
World Without Words, Part One
some wise men
of different bent, ilk,
orientation and time, 
then our own,
prescribed four spice yellow smoothie milk 
to fortify the virtues 
considered natural and proper
by their...

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Categories: homunculus, philosophy, universe,
Form: Free verse
The Alchemy of Sugar Cookies
On strange days
like these
baking cookies
is an arcane art.
 For it is winter outside
how we transform
the inside
into mystic summer.

For i know the golden ratio.
i have surrounded
myself...

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Categories: homunculus, art, fantasy, food, religion,
Form: Free verse
The Way It Always Used To Be
In our house divided
Serpent swallows its own tail
Hiding under eaves from caustic rainfall
Slithers from relentless hail

The herald’s horn blows empty
Bannerless with rusted brass
As a pathway...

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Categories: homunculus, loss, love,
Form: I do not know?
Coincide
Billowed in black by my schizophrenic ponderings, these personalities are somehow resolute.

Within a matrix of survival; they coincide.

Fractals of quanta and wavelengths that fall from...

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Categories: homunculus, courage, dark, devotion, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Paltry Credit Karma
Earned to date,
nee absolute zero
academic bankable bragging rites
explained arduous, horrendous, onerous
agonizing, heartbreaking,
nerve wracking travails

hamstringing, hijacking, hobbling...
maximization of potential
e'er since yours truly
begat when ma dada
fired off...

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Categories: homunculus, allusion, anger, dark, father,
Form: Free verse
Shucking Evil In Favor of Good
Shucking Evil In Favor Of Good...
(courtesy of tasseled colonel corny maise aye aire)

Challenge more difficult than threading
camel thru eye of needle, hence catchy title
scotched, and...

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Categories: homunculus, angel, blessing, devotion, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium On the Extraordinary
As a regular unleaded gaseous,
(i.e. papa's seminal afterthought)
begat male genetically wrought,
I valued myself as naught
with abilities pegged
at being average,

yours truly sought
to camouflage himself
ducked as if...

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Categories: homunculus, 3rd grade, 5th grade,
Form: Bio
Ohio Ashes
She’d kept the pewter dusted and displayed
since 1959.
A verdigris had leached out of the urn nevertheless
She had been hard on him, had forgiven little,
but felt...

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Categories: homunculus, poverty,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Shattered Sighs