Pain Double Dactyl Poems

Vegetable vegetable
Vegetable soup’s good
Taste so smooth and yummy
I’ll eat it all
All good veggies inside
Gastrointestinal 
Seeps in causing great pain
That rattles you...

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Take my hand and lead the way,
Tell me all you want to say.

Whisper softly in my ear,
All those things I want to hear.

Kiss my lips...

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Lolita’s Conceit
 
Obsession defined
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
An accursed passion
Love’s true abomination.

Literary allusion
Tintinnabulation
Sounding moral oblivion 
God’s sure condemnation.

Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved,
August 18, 2018 (Double...

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Colorful Sins.

  
What should I do with my pain ?
Throw it away again 
What have you done with your love
You once told me that...

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BEHIND WAS AHEAD OF ME

I left so much behind
That’s what one does when one is losing his or her mind
I left without so much as...

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Life is worth it
When I live for you
It’s how I know that this is love proven true
But there you fly now in the sky
Showing me...

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Grief that constricts my heart,
Cages its screaming walls,
Grinding its bars roughly into its flesh…
Where they meet, blood oozes, 
Life does what it chooses,
Heart shies away...

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Silence the soundtrack, 
Solitude the song...
All life dims around me
As I play along...



Bitterness my audience,
The tense present the applause..
I play on as never before..
Without so...

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