Best Rapine Poems

Inexorable Want



How do I find
These sentences 
Written as they are
In ephemeral ink
Indelible lines
Inscribed in my being 

Spectral yearnings

It crashes me
To rocks
In unanswerable waves
Swimming tidal
To the...

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Struggle
 
Let me see you resist
I have tied you naked
Taut between the line of bone and soft curve
I have done this
For my eyes to devour...

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The natives believe that the Mississippi River
carries the souls of their ancestors into the water of judgment
wherein they will either enter the Sun's fire of...

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Woe to the bloody city
it is full of lies and rapine
the prey departed not
the noise of the whip and 
the noise of rattling of wheels...

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Love does not float above the clouds
it burns
it seethes
it desires
and with all these finger tips
these lips
their love can express
do willfully so
and a throat can howl
and...

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merciless genocide 
     slaughter of native peoples 
     wrought with (super) wanton zeal
feeble ability to thwart 

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 I crave regrettably reprobate,  rosary, reprobate 
rapine revenging...
Ready reasonable reasoning rally revealing reprobate 

4/18/20
written words by James Edward Lee Sr  2020...

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