Best Severed Poems

Seven Savvy Sirens
formed a formidable fraternity
of pure-passion purpose
for female fatales.

Murder-minded maids
promised patient pursuit
of tensile tangled truth
while warily watching
crafty crook's coup.

But, busted and bested,
dames drink despair
like lambs laid lame
in trickster's thorny trap....

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"A house divided against itself cannot stand." 
                                     ...

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Half winged images
hopeless
of flight
believing
insufficient
to bestow
delight
Fluttering in shadows
reluctance 
to fly
disgraced
and shameful
reticent
to try
Hesitant to soar
averse
to fail
distraught
and untrusting
of what
may avail
Pruned not severed
capable
of aviation
when joined
together
and merely lifted
from isolation
11/9/17...

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Who would’ve Thought,
After being impaled by the spear of a lost love,
I’d still stagger on through life’s emergency doors
Though desperate for a heart thrombectomy
Paging Dr. Burke to perform mitral valve replacement,
With nothing but exit wounds & severed limbs

Who would’ve Fathomed,
After being shot by the 9mm...

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We're suppose to be
to peas in a pod
we use to share everything
I share my heartache
you share your pain
I've been
thrown for a loop
because you're
shutting me out
I'm like a bystander
on the outside looking in
no longer part of the action
they say things change
I never thought
it would happen
this time...

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Severed starlight, brief lanterns

Truncate tingles, sugar burns

pen puzzling in oily ink

Dark dots on papyrus slink

Metre measure on tongue tip

Riddling rhymes gaining their grip

Cursive verses in past tense

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Trying a new form tonight. Hope you enjoy...

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In this game of who gets who worst. 
Its about getting even , regardless of if feelings get hurt.
So what if this has escalated , you've wronged me, 
since that moment I had placed you in a hurst. 



Ironic is that you were the brother...

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The truth is having its time
As I sit and write the mindless wanderings of a weighted heart
My boy drives 
farther 
                        ...

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Sitting here thinking and searching my mind
For new ways to say I love you
The most daunting task you can ever imagine
But I really don't think we need to

A simple “I love you” has always been uttered
In the heat of a passionate embrace
No matter, if you're...

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the poor old tree,
so long,to tell a story,
a story of scars,
a story of axe-wielding men,
a story of clown monkeys and squirrels,

suffer so,like an old,old tree,
rooted on earth,clinging to life,
so stagnant,in tears,perspiration,
bear fruit at old age,

do trees have families?,
do they visit each other?,
do they miss their...

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I divorced the cirrus heat
that once laced the sky with fire,
carrying searing sins of
the scorching sun ~
burning the soft bronze of my melanin;
an unabated rage,
a labyrinth of blooming lilac,
an assortment of angst,
a library of healing lullabies
homed beneath the glass-skin silence
of my quivering chest~ 
like wind...

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I let one man fall
the whole world then falls with me
This will ruin you...

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That disheartening obsession
is detached from reality
Another retinal wink message
blinks SOS pillow bleak

Drifting off to sleep,
void dreams of awakened passion
falls into an impotent abyss
The empty anesthesia bottle,
caressed by a pained heaving chest,
has swallowed all of yesterday’s sorrow

But, tomorrow’s groping mope
is gonna need another icy liquid borrow
As...

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The apostle Paul calls on believers
to say no always to circumcision
standing firm in the gospel of Christ
which sets you free for God's mission

To stay in Christ, not under the law
for the law will never save you
only in Christ and in Christ alone
is God's salvation found...

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Van Gogh's Severed Ear

I leaf through memories as if pages in my mind,
And I can’t find the one I’m searching for.
Like a distraught painter much maligned,
I can’t find the reason to live for anymore.

Inside my head, I scream for others to hear
When I look at...

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