Best Rictus Poems
Paroxetine
...I
I am disinfected, sanitised from touch and eyes
Do not hold me. I am Bakelite and you smolder
Sat solid, the wall cold against my spine. A back-rest
To concrete electrocution.
I am distill......
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Categories:
rictus, me, parents, me, parents,
Form:
Free verse
Salvage A Whir
...Stair carefully dear into the unknown abyssal void.
Pier was once past and now rotted and rictus, petrified.
Hue manatee threaded ten den and garnet.
Ruby teardrops and crimson Damascus drip......
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Categories:
rictus, dark, dog, gothic, horror,
Form:
Free verse
Dying With Regret
...cheerless, wretched life
failure cycling
gaping rictus of
disheartened gloom
preying on
my soul’s regret
......
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Categories:
rictus, death,
Form:
Free verse
A Part of History
...A PART OF HISTORY
Our failures in cities burn-forget-
Our failures haunt us-biting heels
We choked rictus stun their neon
We are awaiting instructions-but-
His masked beings see us but......
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Categories:
rictus, absence, city,
Form:
Narrative
Defeated In Sleep
...it follows that
sharp slivers of time
warp like wild geese reflected
across still water winging
faces sway'd as wheat seas
pitied not by thresher's flail
rictus hidden in......
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Categories:
rictus, life, loss,
Form:
Free verse
Ronald Rump
...repugnant racist republican reviled - rickettsia re:itch ruler.
rapaciously ravaged revered reverential rubric.
radical ruthless renegade rapidly riotously rips rigged ramparts.
refrains retain......
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Categories:
rictus, allusion, analogy, confusion, crazy,
Form:
Alliteration
To Rose Who Is Far Away From Me
...I think of you being a universe away—
it cuts like broken glass, being apart from you
and all alone and without a bright ray
that's you to keep me from growing so blue.
If I could fly like a b......
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Categories:
rictus, angel, best friend, friendship,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Flight Without Wings
...The ragged precipice surmounted,
he stands, leaning forward, looking down
into nature's yawning rictus—
pondering flight without wings.
Restlessness in being,
he’s come unhinged in time
whose......
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Categories:
rictus, flying, time,
Form:
Free verse
Like Rabbit In a Headlight Caught
...PTSD
Like rabbit in the headlight caught
I want to move, i know I ought
But quicksand stuck, I’m petrified
My body still, arms laid by side
Stretched out on mattress, naked, soaked
From swea......
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Categories:
rictus, anxiety, death, death of
Form:
Rhyme
Paradox Lake - Thanksgiving 1972
...Corny: I haven't used real butter
In years
Only eat this fake crap now the
Colorful plastic tub
Slather it on the baked potatoes
All you like
Won't hurt you none as a left eye
Twitched......
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Categories:
rictus, food, thanksgiving day, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Rebecca - a Poem For Halloween
...Spume and snow on a cold green sea
wherein phantom fish and spectres creep;
she lies in fathoms forty three,
as still as death within the deep.
She slumbers there beneath the waves,
serene......
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Categories:
rictus, imagination, lost love, mystery,
Form:
Verse
The Scuba Diver
...The Scuba Diver
we look down
signal frantically
‘come up’,
though it is already
too late
he dances wide eyed
with ecstasy
as the nitrogen
tickles his cells
anemones
cling to the s......
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Categories:
rictus, death, sea,
Form:
Free verse
Letter To My Bitter Tears
...A gorgeously dressed “tears” in unknown fears.
How dare you abseil my cheek-beards
in horror of cheers my rictus is smothered to share?
It is clear to glare how bitter your wares are.
You decl......
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Categories:
rictus, 12th grade, america, anxiety,
Form:
Rhyme
Is There a Doctor In the House
...Dr rictus smile hilary jones been on gmb a while; well a long old time anyway'
Had the craic with Rod Humphris writer of the Simon Ellis genre, series
Also landlord of raven pub; in Bath the city;......
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Categories:
rictus, change, courage, freedom,
Form:
Rhyme
Sarah’s Origin
...My eyes stare straight,
fixated on something in the distance,
humming a song that would send chills,
if you ever got the chance to listen.
A padded cell and a straitjacket,
the doctor giving ......
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Categories:
rictus, dark, death, gothic,
Form:
Epic