Best Maw Poems

winter's maw
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The maw of war opens signs
the sepulcher of promise
denotes a rose bleeding all
those who suppose in time

battle axes and saviors
bite the head of the snake
drooling gibberish of bravery
drained batteries on mobiles 

an old man pants and drools
a childhood lost at sea (infernos rage in crime)
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It's been two years today, since you went away.
Life without you, just isn't the same.
I would give anything to see you again.
Fly high my angel in heaven....

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For Those Thrust into War's Maw
by Michael R. Burch
 
This poem is dedicated to Harvey Stanbrough, an ex-marine who was nominated for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize and has written passionately and eloquently about the horror and absurdity of war in “Lessons for a Barren Population.”
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A raw red crater of hunger;
the clacking tongue a buckram spear
shaken at all comers.

The gulls mouth is the gull,
the gullet is the gull
the torso, the snowy pale blue plumage,
that dark under-feathering
all the body of the bird
a perfect bow
for the arrowing beak
and its raucous bugle.

A neck...

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faerie boy and his snail rabbit
had a rather lovely habit
of traveling at night in the woods
doing what others wished they could

they were not seen by human beings
light and lithe, fully playful and fleeing
we empaths sensed but never saw
the snail rabbit and his boy Maw...

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In fields of green
 you cannot be seen.
 At night you wait
 while your targets prepare their plates.

A combat knife you have.
 for tonight there will be a blood bath.
 All the terror you will cause
 blood will be dripping from your maw.

Bodies mangled and...

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• The filthy rat that was living in my walls
• Had left the house before the rain fell
• When it left, in its maw
• It carried a rusty old bell...

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