NIGHT TERRORS CONTINUE ALLAH WILL PROVIDE
...MY PTSD HAD BEGUN TO CAPTURE MY THOUGHTS MY DREAMS OF COMMITING SUICIDE QUIETING THE RUSSIAN VOICES IN MY HEAD THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION SPECIAL AGENT LEROY HEIMBACH MY MIND WOULDN'T ALLOW ...
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Categories:
decapitated, allah,
Form: Naat
The Temptation of St Anthony
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The Temptation of St Anthony
I entered the desert,
took a vow not to speak
Lucifer’s here too, hoping
silent men grow weak
My path seemed so straight
but quickly became oblique
I que...
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Categories:
decapitated, art, devotion, perspective,
Form: Ekphrasis
June 27th, 1969
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A Friday,
a plane crash,
a phone call,
all it took
for your whole world to shatter.
You never got to tell them
how you’d follow in his footsteps
in his wing span
You never got to tell him...
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Categories:
decapitated, death, flying,
Form: Free verse
teddy
...I ain't normal, not even close
not even as a child, played with dolls
and paper cut-outs but I always decapitated
them (do you remember mother?)
finding the head of my sister's Clarabell
doll fl...
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Categories:
decapitated, 4th grade,
Form: Free verse
Truth is Peace or it would be
...Truth is Peace - or it would be..
Someone once told me
that truth was only
'in the eye of the beholder'
Truth is - as truth is agreed upon
society calls this then
its truths - of course,...
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Categories:
decapitated, analogy,
Form: Prose Poetry
CHRISTMAS SONG PARODIES
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To the tune of “Good King Wenceslas”
Good King Wenceslas looked out
Of the 8.07.
What he failed to notice was
The fast train bound for Devon.
When at last he saw its light,
His reaction was...
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Categories:
decapitated, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Blood and Dust
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A nurse was decapitated,
a wire had been strung over
a dusty road that led to town.
A youth robbed her mangled torso
took her motorbike then rode away -
a pretty girl behind him,
singing sw...
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Categories:
decapitated, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Komodo's Final Feral Kiss
...In the beginning was the word-
and the word was…
light darkness
dawn promise dusk despair.
I was a tempest
child a feral cat-
alone wild and
untamed eyes a
jigsaw of shattered chaos.
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Categories:
decapitated, abuse, addiction, depression, loneliness,
Form: Narrative
The Charcoal Man; Part Two
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The Charcoal Man; Part Two
She went as silent as a night with petrified crickets. It blinked. Then before any of us could comprehend what was going on it swiftly grabbed her by the arm and pulle...
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Categories:
decapitated, dark, death, evil, grave,
Form: Free verse
farewell
...Farewell
I'm tired of Portugal
this small country, not bigger
than a hamlet in Spain
their worldview is what
is seen from an Olive cops
small-minded
and deceitful, bewildering
where t...
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Categories:
decapitated, anti bullying, betrayal, courage,
Form: Blank verse
The Cactus
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In a sunlit corner
of the garden
a large, proud cactus
stood tall in a green pot
in front of a gilded mirror
admiring itself
resplendent
in its armor
of long spines
and crowned
with a...
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Categories:
decapitated, garden, humor, nature,
Form: Free verse
Standing For the Truth
...People who tell it like it is
Are usually wrongfully targeted
People who tell the truth with ease
Are routinely are attacked or assassinated
The truth exposes the weaknesses of the oppressors
Th...
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Categories:
decapitated, evil, funeral, international, obituary,
Form: Rhyme
Strumpa Strumpa Crumpetta Crumpetta
...Cackles were heard from down under on a hill far away
fifty little saucy spiders scurry helter skelter out to play
A hefty witch stirs her cauldron next to her Bagoon
snake eyes spoon an evil mu...
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Categories:
decapitated, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Aftermath of War Onerous Task
...Aftermath of war: onerous task...
to salvage flotsam and jetsam
of human wreckage
amidst a sea where triage
witnessed courtesy scattered corpses
populating the Gaza strip
more'n pound of cold...
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Categories:
decapitated, abuse, allah, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Weeping Wound
...Life ain't no bed of roses
We're not destined to
drown in a pit of despair
Aguish is unknown until flesh
grazes a blade of barbed brair
A prickle that pricks
A nettle that nicks and
stings ...
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Categories:
decapitated, death, poetry, poets, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
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