Best Vomit Up Poems
Change...The world spins on and on.
Whether I want it to or not.
I can cry for the earth to stop, but it wont.
It doesn't care if I want to die or live.
I can shoot dope or be sober.
The world d......
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Categories:
vomit up, addiction, change, courage, drug,
Form:
Free verse
Queen Alexandra...a post from 2014
for my beautiful granddaughter, Alexandra
After 13 days of confinement,
a caterpillar broke out of her butterfly egg,
Then ate the shell and pipevine leaf,
upon which it was......
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Categories:
vomit up, beauty, butterfly, education, environment,
Form:
Rhyme
Cosmic Shoeshine...this one goes out to all you symbolphrenics
wink wink light the fuse and
bow only before your own image
for we are each a TV studio
with really huge detector molecules
recall that consciousness ......
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Categories:
vomit up, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
A Welcome Home: Part I...as the hypocrite talking head
seeking re-election in 2012
tells us all that this empire (which continues to wield its
sledge hammer upon the world)
this “land of the free”
(who demands that all other......
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Categories:
vomit up, life, education, education, soldier,
Form:
Free verse
Failed Relationships and Financial Ruin...failed relationships,
broken pieces of people
left on the pavement in
memory, burning forever,
crushed inside so many
different ways that all the
king’s horses & men wouldn’t
have a ****ing chance &
......
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Categories:
vomit up, life,
Form:
Free verse
A Welcome Home: Part Ii...the soldier knows many of the 4,500 who died
in bashing Iraq,
the soldier may be one of the 32,000 who have been wounded,
or s/he may know any number of these individuals
who for 9 years spent their......
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Categories:
vomit up, life, may, soldier,
Form:
Free verse
Tsunami...Teardrops had fallen
and wrung my heart dry
too weak to cry
sweat had trickled down
to feet and palms
hiding in my bulging
eyes.
I had searched
for three days
trembling at a doorknob
......
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Categories:
vomit up, ocean,
Form:
Lyric
Brutal Brute...You're a brutal brute who barks at the sheep clothed in your bite marks.
The phrases you tattooed within me are maggots crawling into my brain.
While they lay eggs made of tainted Ivory......
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Categories:
vomit up, abuse, hurt, pain, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
An Apology...Get your claws out of my heart
The pain's too much, can't take no more
It's like swallowing peanut butter
Five pounds
All at once
Without chewing
You do strange things to my throat
Not to me......
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Categories:
vomit up, pain,
Form:
Free verse
Too Much Fiber In the Diet...I never knew that most monkeys will swoon
To eat bananas in a real saloon --
They'll snarf down bunches
After monster lunches --
Then vomit up the peels in the spittoon......
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Categories:
vomit up, animal, food, nonsense, sick,
Form:
Limerick
Pocket Change - a Night Owls Lament...Collect days like pennies;
hope they’ll add up;
hope they’ll be enough.
Go begging when they’re not.
Each morning vomit up the night
like a drowned man clearing lungs filled with water.
Gather ......
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Categories:
vomit up, angst, anxiety,
Form:
Apparition of Grief....Alone where the pavement butt the curve
A crumpled form rummaging her legacy
Of old paper bags and plastic, her nerve
Frayed shaking hands urged by immediacy
Plunged about like a frantic memory. ......
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Categories:
vomit up, black african american, history,
Form:
Verse
Lake of Fire Part 2...swiiming in hot lava with invisible pirahnas
hands of hell keep pulling you under
burned and blistered are mad minds in twisters
swirled and mixed together are cowards and killers death dealers an......
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Categories:
vomit up, deathson, lost, home, home,
Form:
Rhyme
The Deepest Well...(Sick with grief over the loss of our old blind cat, sick because we'd put her our last night to vomit up a hairball and then forgot to let her back in. In the morning I find her dead on the highway,......
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Categories:
vomit up, cat, death, grief, life,
Form:
Free verse
A Calmer Process of You...a calmer (process of) you
III.
drifting (still) just beneath
what horror awaits (in roaming waters)
in present day (the calmer you)
the meek hopeful (pretends)
twitches (as if the world is not teet......
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Categories:
vomit up, life, world, heart, day,
Form:
Free verse