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Best Sharpening Poems


Sharpening the Knife
So what
Don't give me that look
It was just a cut
I am no crook

I feel better
To see my arm bleed
You yell, "Get Her"
But the cut is my feed

Why do you make me stop?
It doesn't hurt that bad
You are not some sort of cop
Cutting makes me glad

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© Jen H.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sharpening, angst, confusion, death, depression,
Form: Quatrain
An Old Fool Who Is Sharpening a Dagger of Vengence
although revenge is said to be sour in the stomach
but sweet to the mouth and that is why it doesn’t matter 
what happens afterward,
the old fool sharpens the dagger
to take revenge on those who made his life miserable

in the unquenchable flames of long harboring grudges
the...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sharpening, anger, desire, evil, image,
Form: Narrative

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