Best Slaying Poems

In my daughter’s world, fraught with danger,
Sharks swim at the deep end of the community swimming pool,
Long-clawed demons roam the hallways after dusk,
Sea lions emerge from wooded trails to snatch young girls,
And deadly dragons soar over highways. 

In my world, fraught with danger,
Kids crack their...

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Long days gone hazy
Maybe due to my crazy
I see deep into my mind
Where nobody else will find
A place of memories gone so wild
Some are of me as a child
For these memories I don't care
Back then life was not so fair
Memories are the ghosts of the...

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I have a paper due
Last Monday that isn’t quite out of the pen yet, and it’s laying on the desk like
A cancerous growth of my mind
Stress increased, end of the year rush
I can’t seem to think
Under-pressure of my very own
imperfections, 
			I’m so hard on myself...

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The Lay of Slaying the Denial Dragon

Denial breathed from his two lips,
Words in phrase from fingertips,
Inner mirrored image not sheen,
Reflections of changing not seen,
Remove a love or just replace,
Scarred but bury without a trace....

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Slaying dragons


I sat in my den, trying to compose a poem
which is not easy for a pretender
a scream from the living room, she heard
something in the kitchen and sent me there
to slay the dragon
I found a tiny mouse, knocking over 
an empty plastic bottle of water
I picked...

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See the little man that could

Bravely ever there he stood

Enduring every little scar

To battle giants near and far

Not using either axe or sword

The danger he was heading toward

Was met by those that he'd oppose

Wielding but his words of prose

Relentlessly they would attack

So deft of tongue...

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Two halves
 from the middle
each end joins the past
Memory’s essence
the moment recast

Each second
or hour
lost victims of fate
 Time off the table
— not early or late

(Dreamsleep: June, 2025)
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