Best Misfired Poems

How curious, remote, the pain seemed now
As a fly on the ceiling, she looked down
Her body below in a hospital gown

Incessant beeps emitted by machines
With...

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The Darwin Awards are a posthumous honor, recognizing those who have improved the human gene pool by removing themselves from it by their own foolish...

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Limerick crochetés: Once Fukushima Lady Uranium

Once Fukushima Lady Uranium
Madly in love with Hanford Plutonium
	Sent him hot-kissed missile
	Twice Hiroshima smile:
“R.S.V.P. Pluto to Uranus in mime!”

Missile misfired...

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I blink my eyes and then the world is gone. 

Open once again to see some peons upon the lawn.

They came to hear the Lion...

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I dream of snowflakes
they are each identical
my mind is frozen

Two-years-old and contorted, monstrously white-eyed, bloody-lipped and snorting,
gasping for air, as in drowning, but there is...

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Off With A Bang
               
When the chinese used fireworks for celebrations...

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All I hear of Hilton Hotels is terrible,
making mistakes but taking the money, 
slanderous to staff now that ain’t funny, 
acting all proper job 
when...

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Sometimes, when I step on holy land, my skin breathes flame.

The earth is a bouncing betty.
What sun am I, born of war, drowning in blood;
that...

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She wrote poems that would have made Bukowski blush.
I read one once, and twice over again, the fourth time I was in love
With her best-friend,...

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All England, blinking nervously, is out! 
A little mild spell, much to our surprise, 
has brightened frowsy February skies. 
We sniff the air with nostrils...

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Father Time is to love
As a breeze is to fire
It enkindles the great
Extinguishes the small
Swirls ashes into smoke
Drifting up like prayers
From some abandoned souls
Wounded by...

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Roman pro-life Pilate politicians
got their abortion trigger finger
on the gun
Sending public notice of more bullet crucifixions,
a Surgeon General quarantine warning:
Lead cancer epidemic is spreading,
pistol pestilence...

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B-   Ballistics blast burst
O-   Outbreak 
O-   Outbursts
M-   Miss detonation Misfired


4/22/18
written words by James Edward Lee Sr.
Copyright ©...

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A sword thrust,  
parried before it’s
finale;
a pistol misfired
aimed at;
my immortal thoughts
held at bay
by the;
a wasted life
wondering,
please my love,
for me;
AIM STRAIGHT...

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