Despoil Poems - Poems about Despoil

Fallen Leaves

...
Humans are quite a deciduous lot.   
It's our nature, but not Mother's motif. 
We fall from grace without faith and belief 
when fleshly flaws make us stumble, besot.  
Tousled emotions are tie...

What Are These Words

...What are these words that rage with hate and war
That scream with bullets’ searing, lethal roar
That slash with livid flames the midnight sky
And with a tongue that lubricates the lie
Despoil the...

Olympus

...Lust's Sickness throws off the yoke, of cure? 
Defiant in-body, pleasures obscure.
A mask, of pride, a lost soul-in vogue capture, a hell-ride in the belly of a beastly whore. 
 
The salt crystal...

The Broken Language of Love

...The language of love is wordless.

See that simple yellow and white daisy
in the green meadow?
Go uproot it,
snatch it from its perfect setting
that place Perfection made for it.

Now it is i...

Whitewashing the Fence

...I've constructed a picket fence around me to keep jackanapes out
Through pickets they can see me, but I never allow them to touch
private parts of me I keep concealed, and don't talk about so much
...

I Weep Some Buckets of Tears

...Here comes an opportunity to make our tension seep
But for those who have made their stomach and future cheap
I weep some buckets of tears in my silence camp
Over the ignorance that may likely des...

Arius

...Unholy heretic
your relics despoil
Augustine in tears
—embracing the shame

(Dreamsleep: August, 2022)...

Today

...Today was not so bad,
Yesterday, pure horror;
Tomorrow, I cannot predict,
Yet in terror I live;
A touch so much I dread,
For suspicion is my daily bread;
Every word a leery undertone,
Every sm...

War Mars the Face of Man

...War mars the face of Man,
Pitied, unpitied. Though
This be known to all men,
We realists connive.
Thrice-prancing priests in March
Have made red their faces,
Have conspired to despoil
Anew sum...

Uncertainties Lair

...Sneaking into the enemy camp,
the guards all fast asleep

Crawling past the sorrow and pain,
old promises to keep

Deep within the saboteurs grasp,
for one last time, alone

Burrowing into u...

Wisdom a La Sophie

... Wisdom à la Sophie
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Behind calm mind can come a fear,

So conquer it, and sprightly.

A fear must not despoil your year.

Quick, quell it.  Live your ...

Christmas Dinner

...The ham was golden brown
With glazed sugar upon it
The Turkey was there to
A breast for you and a thigh for me
The yams just came out of the oven
I need a mixed drink

Father is in watching TV...

Ode of Famine

...A prosy prose for deity to mourn,
As the hunger stricken wobbles  the ground.
Oh! the old retinues that feed besides our ribs.
Come again with their unbearable tax payers,
While the labourers' st...

Commas Count

...War mars the face of man.
Though this be known to all men
we realists connive.
Thrice-prancing priests in March
have made red their faces,
have conspired anew to despoil
summer's increase, 
ov...

How To Kill a Ghost

...I try to be good
I work and play 
to cause disarray
I fume and let it all mushroom
I engage in wanton acts of guile
I act not as the contrary child 
I do it all but not for a smile 
To kill a ...

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