Domesticated Poems - Poems about Domesticated

They said love was tender, so I offered my throat to your ghost-mouth, let your breath curl into mine— viscous as syrup left out, subject to the shape of its jar. Your bombardment of devotion felt like hail, each for your own good sharpened to a fine mother's edge. There was a box you wouldn’t let me open, labeled Not Yours, but warm to the touch, and I swear...

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As I wander through this verdant vale, the zoo's secrets unfold like a tapestry of forgotten tales. The lion's languid pose is a sonnet of laziness, a fetish of the familiar, where comfort's gentle chains bind us to the status quo. His mane, a fiery halo, screams of burning desires, but the flames that fuel...

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Who Am I? How did I get here? The Monster FEBRUARY 5 He destroyed her He killed all that was good Burnt her hopes and dreams Took her broken heart and stomped on it He raped her soul and filled it with hate He took away her reason He stole her joy He trashed the sweet and innocent He broke her heart and killed her passion She no longer...

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domesticated silence savagely tears across boundaries enacted before time sugar spun towers of prominence suggesting evolutionary resurgence again the mountains rise only to dissolve never found crystalline structures woven by thought strengthened by light the indentured can remember if they try their brains wiped dismally, regularly pull out their eyes, put them back stigmatism your mark stained by the remnants of time honored illusions...breaking our domesticated...

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P-recious animal E-ases the life of keeper T-o bring pure pleasure. Form: Haikustic Photo: April Asuncion...

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I wouldn't call Bill Plotkin's WildMind unmitigated Wild RightBrained, nor would I call his WinWin therapeutic thinking with PositivEnergy feelings entirely LeftBrain domesticated, diminished Commodified, capitalized, colonized and conquered, deduced and reduced down to a slow-grown dark pearl of Negative YinEnergy seduced by Yang Supremacy yet still resiliently whispering Sweet-felt nothings to speak of dipolar Wild Risks are also Therapeutic Opportunities, either way, PositivEnergy with double-binding not secular yet-- not still sacred We...

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Lapping The steaming cream From her morning cup of joe My wife Is wrapped In her rosy robe Sitting in her favorite chair Our black cat Skinny and flattened Creased in half Across her lap Like a static sock Of mine Lost from work Tumbled From the dryer....

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DOMESTICATED ANIMALS Our friends, Animals, Your name from the Greek word “Anemos” comes, That Anaximenes, the wise of old, The divine wind, that sustains the Universe, named, Which with every breath, the lugs of Living beings fills All of them animates. Our comrades you are, Our benefactors, Companions in our life’s Journey, ...

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There once were white domesticated geese Who were haughty and proud Totally self-absorbed with group Honked very long and loud They stayed contained within their space Strutted in their whiteness As if they were graceful as swans Swans suppress in rightness canadian geese flew high overhead that day... winter cold forcast canadian geese on migratory flight south... predicts winter cold When domesticated geese saw the elegant flight, realized...

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Living good in a certain way Never show your real cards So the naysayers can never say Living a little less now than earlier before People start to notice a change of pace Eating crumbs off a delinquent floor Living bad now and off the taxpayer's dime Bills formed a mountain of domestic debt Materials own your freedom and kidnapped your time...

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Whole beef Hamburgers Plod along the panhandle Only to get fried By Robb A. Kopp All Rights Reserved © MMX...

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