Dirges Poems - Poems about Dirges

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...

No One Counts the Bodies Jesus Walked Past

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Kensington spreads its legs—
lets the city crawl in,
dripping Xylazine / fentanyl / tranq,
open sore veins
moaning dirty dirges.

False prophets—
all piss and panic—
bark half-lies
...

Careless Moments

...I should have grinned when morning came
Atop posts of gaping day, with lunatics
Humming dirges of a broken world.

I remained glued to my gloom.
Rising from the pit of hell, I held
Concupiscent...

Life is like Reality TV

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Hyperbole hubris

Venal penal

Avarice abyss

Bucolic tonic?

Ironic…sardonic

Or

Vitriolic bliss mate!

Mendacious salacious

Algorithm schism

Audacious outrageous

Vicario...

It's Giving Trauma

...Have died on too many times
I am used to my caskets 
I don't know better days 
I good with my curses
Never heard a bird sing for me 
My world is cold it's always dirges
I am asking  you for kin...

Finish My Poem - The Butterfly

...As she drinks nectar from a flower, sweetness from heaven falls like dew  
anointed with a gentle rain amidst sun showers she appears as if on cue
 
Lifting her wings she lands on a Zinnia ben...

The Discarded, The Forgotten

...I am accustomed to spitting out bones of my prisoners, not witnessing their escape. I hear whales whistle their stoic dirges as I descend—they know the doomed are villains and freedom is promised to ...

Joy sans grief, a groom-less bride

...Full moons fill you with joy, seldom the New,
And pleasure you conceive as good, not pain,
Let me like New Moon that stars can I view, 
As some poets devise ways pain to feign,
Which, helps them ...

En Prise

...hanging
i am the piece that’s lost
caught in the little flanks
for the rooks and vultures
                                to devour

at this hour
where sunlight and twilight
do more than mere...

Undoing the Disarmament of Venus de Milo: Aphrodite Gets Her Biceps Back

...Tombs begin to bloom like raw, bloodless wounds.
Tomes are written with truths of her dead moon’s
tones. A keening lunacy keeps the dirges alive, while
bones rise out of repose. A degloved hand on...

withdrawn

...sinking
deep into solitude

birds
singing dirges
in my head

and fly buzz and bee buzz
are not found
here in withdrawal land

its silence
is worse than
one found in death

its silence
...

Letting Loose

...Letting Loose

.for public domain

We each throw our part of friendship away,
avoiding the sorrows and future decay
we would face if we stayed together.

But does not misery love company?
Do...

Elegy for Old Growth

...Elegy – 7-17-24
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Elegy for Old Growth

Through measures of metered melancholy
The tattered winds sing a rent elegy,
A pensive wai...

Filling The Balloon

...Do you know
many things
understanding
not one

Portending 
your weakness
pretense
on the run

The trash bin
of knowledge
refills
left unchecked

Pontificate
dirges
spout off
— to in...

Marionetta

...From the chthonic chasm, I materialize in sarcophagus
Spectral filaments of the netherworld
Spiral in a maelstrom around my silhouette
Osseous structures fracture contort
I ascend from the fecund...

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