Digestive Poems

Stage 4 silence

...Diagnosis:stage 4 silence 

Treatment:a kinder world (one where racism doesn't exist)

Cure:unknown

Lifespan:1-5 years, if that

Symptoms:
? a silenced voice
? being black
? loss of contr...
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Categories: digestive, death, discrimination, health, prejudice,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberINEVITALBILITY AND MORAL RELATIVITY

...INEVITABILITY AND MORAL RELATIVITY

They say war is inevitable, and will always, with us, be;
But this audacious, mendacious attitude is not for you and me:-
Dropping Satanic murderous bombs on b...
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Categories: digestive, allegory, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme


Biscuits

...What‘s better than a biscuit?

Hard to debunk 

Treasure trunk funk 

Should you let

It get wetter

Would you dare risk it?


The trick a quick dunk

Or could flunk..flick..kerplunk.....
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Categories: digestive, food, happiness, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWishes for a Spider

...In the whole wide world (and even wider),
I wish you were the happiest spider, 
and so, I wish you, sadly, with a sigh, 
a helpless fly...so you won't cry.

You can cover him up with slime,
a c...
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Categories: digestive, insect, silly,
Form: Rhyme

The Enigma of Existence

..."We live, yet the creator's name,
Remains unknown, an eternal flame.
Beyond parents, beyond earthly might,
Lies the mystery of our cosmic birthright.

This universe, a grand design,
Planets, ga...
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Categories: digestive, absence, adventure, allusion, blessing,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberWHERE AM I GOING-

...Following the path of the righteousness 
so I relate I asked this
This question to myself
 where am I going and in this time
 as I'm glowing I am

In my walk throughout life
I am a witness
Th...
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Categories: digestive, addiction, allusion, dedication, destiny,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberHidden By Another Skin: The Unexpected Use of An Orange

...
A curled-dry orange peel,
all that stands against gray 
dark lips of gaping hole, 
whose eye can steal your form, 
or lift your full bankroll.

A curled-dry orange peel,
hanging pith on the ...
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Categories: digestive, fruit,
Form: Monchielle Stanza

Premium MemberHappiest Science Teacher

...Good morning Poison Squirrels,
Today I am going to address your bowel problems

My class groans.
We don’t like to think about them.
We are teens.

Your mouth chews up food, right? Asks Mr. Lee...
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Categories: digestive, science, student, teacher,
Form: Narrative

Leaning Against a Cow

...She is sitting,
front legs under her reddish-brown mass.
When I think of her shape
it is always her belly I see most.
The bulging warmth,
the mastication, her on-going digestion.

I'm a boy,
...
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Categories: digestive, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMore Resilient Dancing Days

...Shared enthusiastic curiosity
between two or more

Lovers
may also become felt 
as mutually assured
active hope
we might make it through dinner
without seeking reparations
while digging our ...
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Categories: digestive, extended metaphor, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse

The Square Root of Beirut

...The Square Root of Beiruit 
 
Ten men bending while theyre pretending to be near the ending
A capitalist nightmare glares like rotten fruit
The squate root of Beiruit
No it isn’t fair, so they’l...
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Categories: digestive, introspection, life,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOnion

...I, naughtily, peeled and peeled you to find the truth within,
You have, dear, taught me the philosophy of nothingness;
Each of your petals, like magical herbs, tickles my skin,
Each leaf, as a uni...
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Categories: digestive, life, nature,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberHanging On To Trauma

...There is this hypothesis
I unjustly
and perhaps traumatically
just made hard and patriarchally up
is not down 
and retentatively not out
soon enough for healthy comings 
and goings

A ridicu...
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Categories: digestive, culture, health, humor, political,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum

God Works In Mysterious Ways

...Inspired by the moving movie: Miracles from Heaven (2016), starring the lovely Jennifer Garner and Martin Henderson. It's based on a true story of sickness and miraculous healing. Remember that anyth...
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Categories: digestive, god, health, heaven, jesus,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAnatomy Of Poetry

...Anatomy of human structure
Poetry of nerves and impulses enrapture
Temple of parietal bone that beats
Carpal bone pleats
Integumentary system perspires
Nervous system inspires
Circulatory syste...
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Categories: digestive, funny,
Form: Rhyme

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