Best Lethally Poems

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Up close, the dove is such a lovely sight,
her eyes down to her beak outlined 
by iridescent tinges of pale purple.

'Neath her wings, day-old chicks snuggle
like clumps of cottony clouds in summer
that has drifted too low in the nest.

Nearby, unseen, a snake coils motionless, 
fangs...

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With Robert Frost I really 
do agree
that from a distance the woods 
are lovely.

But the leaves have murder secrets 
to keep;
that's why the forest  is so dark 
and deep.


The trees there quietly kill 
each other
in mute struggle to strangle, 
to smother

the weaker plantlife for...

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a lesson lethally too late for the heeding...

     so casually they hanged him just today,
       millions saw it live on prime-time TV,
         how the defeated despot's limp...

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