Gross Grandeur
...Nectarous taste would not surcease
in torture now that’s my showpiece;
I sit in a hard chair pallid,
there’s solace in something solid;
Give fine obeisance to the madness,
decayed memorie...
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Categories:
blowtorch, devotion, emotions, feelings,
Form: Couplet
Red on Yellow Will kill an Angel
...In the rarest quiet of my mind
I think about you sweet Angel love...
the maelstrom of users and abusers
that splashed your wings with blood.
Smeared coal dust under your pretty sad eyes
rusted ...
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Categories:
blowtorch, angel, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
I Always Wanted To Be Cheese
...I always wanted to be cheese the blowtorch said.
The opossum thought this funny but had to play dead.
There was a brick of cheese wrapped in waxy red.
She stated that the blowtorch had a really fi...
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Categories:
blowtorch, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Rudiments of Wings
...From predawn birth, you dwell alone,
Preferring deep shadowland over light.
So much easier to conceal what is shown,
Nascent ember forelimbs that daunt your sight.
With growth in undying murk, ...
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Categories:
blowtorch, bird, fear, fire, lust,
Form: Rhyme
Under the Clover
...We've many differences.
You yearn for and demand respect.
I prefer to earn it but could care less...
if you respect me or not.
You shove a bullhorn in my face.
Force feed me your warped points o...
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Categories:
blowtorch, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Starry Stone Hone
...My mind was once tranquil lavender...
an equal blend of blue and red.
Sometimes a tone darker or lighter
depending upon the issue at hand-
Recently its blooming only one color.
Because I've been...
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Categories:
blowtorch, america,
Form: Free verse
Teeth Eagle
...Note to the many enemies of democracy:
No need to force upon us uranium enemas
just billow a tiny bug into the neon lungs
of our bumbling- deeply divided cities..
Sit back and have a few Molotov...
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Categories:
blowtorch, america,
Form: Free verse
Torment of Seasons
...I used to yearn for the sun like a tiny sprout trying to break free from the earth
Shivering in the icy winds of grey winter
Longing for the warming touch of spring
And when spring finally a...
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Categories:
blowtorch, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Before Whatsapp
...He was calling her who was calling him who had been
thinking about her who had been thinking about him who
wanted to maybe have dinner with her who had picked a
cozy little restaurant to noncha...
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Categories:
blowtorch, crush, men, romance, woman,
Form: I do not know?
Windpipe Malignancy
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They love to puff the beryl nicotine
Incendiary lungs
sucking down the cancerous green
Hard drag queens,
dressed to mass extinct kill,
inhale poisonous mushroom dreams
Napalm v...
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Categories:
blowtorch, imagery, metaphor, truth, visionary,
Form: Free verse
A Short Letter To a Hot Summer Day
...A short letter to this Hot Summer Day,
I get it, you’re a furnace from the sky.
And you want to play chef, to bake and to stew,
Both my feet you simmer and fry
You battered and basted and bla...
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Categories:
blowtorch, funny, humorous, weather,
Form: Personification
Torchure
...Blowtorch to a closed mouth
til it opens for a scream,
then the torch is forced down
the throat, now gurgling.
Burnt and broken black teeth,
Jagged to the touch,
Scrape, revealing sheen,
In ...
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Categories:
blowtorch, death, evil, horror, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
Those Damn Wet Bandits
...Two inept crooks robbed my house while I was on vacation.
They left my water running and they died by strangulation.
Besides robbing me, those idiots also made me have to pay a two hundred dollar w...
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Categories:
blowtorch, funny, humor, poems,
Form: Rhyme
The Law
...Don’t come in my house.
Don’t come in my house without permission!
I got a machine gun, a machete, a meat cleaver, and a magnet.
I will bear arms if you come within 3 feet of the threshold....
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Categories:
blowtorch, america, city, community, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Succulents
...Culinary resonations my senses please
Blowtorch trimming the tapering of cheese
Cremated lactations dance on the fan’s breeze
Crab forks impaling young peas
Lightly dusting salt of the seas
Gr...
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Categories:
blowtorch, food
Form: Monorhyme
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