Best Taking Apart Poems

White Tiger

Giant beast, 
un-caged power of destruction, 
taking apart my life one day at a time. 
Ever-growing and living off, 
the suffering of my apparent lack, 
of everything. 

Your secret has been revealed. 
It is no longer possible, 
for you to traverse, 
the same path...

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honey, you are not responsible for the skeletons hidden in his closet. 

rinse. repeat. 
you are not responsible for the bones threatening to spill out. 

he can call you a doll and watch your cheeks redden,
but honey, 
you are only a doll because he has...

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Ten Things I Like About Her ...

# 10 - Now number ten is neither here nor there
It can be concluded that number ten, an illusion
 Eluded to confusion, a pigeon to decision
A scalpel to precision, separate from any reason
 Affected only if to reason
 As...

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Late at night I hear the monkey’s laughing in the jungle
They are burning an effigy 
And they find it more than amusing
They find it comforting.
They built it out of broken dreams and green cards.
It was no accident that they built it
The moon and the tides...

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A Worthy Question?

Our income tax has become outrageous
Our politicians promise umbrageous
Life one step at a time
Then two steps out of rhyme
Is being honest disadvantageous?

On the Prowl

An old man who lived in a windmill
Way up north in the town of Churchill
Was warned he would have to...

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From the moment I awake
With every single breath I take
With every vital beat of my heart
And every moment we’re apart

In every single thing I do;
Eating my lunch or lacing my shoe
Shaving my chin or combing my hair
Rushing headlong here and there
Writing a letter or reading...

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Meth Bomb, Homicide Village, 
Diverse Culture Site, Crown Town, 
Kendaltucky and Johnny Appleseed's Homestead; 
Tremendous and Troubling and Tortured, 
Town of the Long Face: 
They say you are explosive, and that is valid; I know of the white powdery crystallized bombs being made under children's...

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She puts together a heart of 
hearts that been broke apart 
for so long. Reluctantly it’s 
been so long since I had a 
tender touch. You see it’s been 
too much trust I began to lust 
and fall back into a track that 
got me...

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Life took me for a ride
                 up
It took me 
It took me 
                down
It...

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Tornados destroying night and day turns the sky dark and gray.  First devouring 
the sun and then the moon the end of the world will come soon.  Towns and 
cities falling through the earth.  Quakes taking apart Gia for all it`s worth....

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Humpty Dumpty was Egyptian.
Hampered with mental genocide
and in this evolution there
seems to be no hope for the black human.

A tribal extinction.
Describe a culture
that is as urgent
without draining
your energy with anger.

Easily more captured.

It takes privilege to be present.
In this land,
digging for the past
should not take man...

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Parachuted squirrels glide onto leaf piles and laugh at my heroic efforts
to keep them from taking apart my bird feeders.

With xylophonic fingers they lift the lids and unscrew until the feeders 
give up and fall with a plunk to the ground, giving them fair claim...

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I delight in your twaddle inside me, young girl.
Restore the golden-pink gleam with a swirl.
Memories of who've died or are close to dying.
Delve deep, according to inner-child supplying.

Taking apart each self that has been dark-dyed
Then, closely dig up the shimmering past's side.
Until we draw a...

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Intense gazes
catch me right in the chest
bowl me over
with misplaced emotions.
Too many times
have I fallen
and jumped back
into the saddle
Maybe I shouldn’t get up
this time.
With meanings 
so unclear
I search for
a solid foothold
that one topic
not internally masochistic.
Hours of taking apart
people, lives
have spread 
the pieces of me
out on...

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I'm not sure how many times I stop breathing
A jolt of a thought 
Takes a pause to a new place
All my words stuck in my throat
Choking on inexpression 
An in breath is dragged through
Buying me time
Which I use in the same way
My heart aches from...

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