Safety Net
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The safety net dangles
blows, twists, and turns
in the increasing winds
cut from its moorings,
and the people fall
grasping for
the shredded and useless
remains
evisceration of social pr...
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Categories:
evisceration, america, anti bullying, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Tightrope
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Black on Black… you say,
A madness...yes…a brutal truth it is.
The evisceration of pain turned inward,
The observer recoils, head shaking in condescension,
While sucking back an exhale of qui...
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Categories:
evisceration, discrimination, racism,
Form: Free verse
Let us bear witness to arm and blindfold
...Let us bear witness to arm and blindfold...
each candidate for president of United States
and therefore witness a duel (to the death)
between Biden and Trump to determine
who occupies Oval Office...
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Categories:
evisceration, america, anger, conflict, dark,
Form: Free verse
Holy Land's Cherokee
...In the images of falling statues, witness the arrival of a new era.
In history books we learn, unlike other tribes resisting their removal,
the Cherokee waged a nonviolent struggle.
Natives were i...
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Categories:
evisceration, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Exclusion
...I know the game of exclusion,
have played it all my life and
now I've mastered it,
a talent to brag about.
Exclusion from normality,
the joy of inclusion.
Exclusion from continuity,
the mala...
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Categories:
evisceration, absence,
Form: Ballad
Death By Duty
...* This is about a scene from Steven Spielberg's "War of the Worlds" *
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so ...
that's it, then ...
it's done -
he's dead ... quiet ...
finally ...
I had to -
the choice was ...
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Categories:
evisceration, conflict, dark, father, father
Form: Free verse
A Photograph of Us
...A photograph of us: we are blushing
in your bathroom mirror, your body wrapped
around mine. A blanket. A tattoo
needled in. Your beaming chin in my hair.
You, promising marital bliss.
How ...
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Categories:
evisceration, i miss you, image,
Form: Free verse
Absence Serenade
...Catastrophe, songbird!
How could you sing?
Why hasn’t your voice joined firefly screams?
Or the mutter of villains, who killed heartbeats’ spring?
You ignore the eviction of incubus red,
and as ...
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Categories:
evisceration, words, , Lullaby,
Form: Free verse
Old Glory
...antidepressants
slow the evisceration
dulling guilt's knife edge
Jim was from Tuscaloosa
His remains flew home last year
professors applaud
sneering ripped knee pants coe...
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Categories:
evisceration, america, thank you, veterans
Form: Tanka
Sanctuary
...Alone again, alone in time,
and so i sink into my mind.
I chase my dreams to the unknown,
where the blind eye sees
and the souls are grown.
I walk through a white door
that leads to my heart
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Categories:
evisceration, imagination
Form: Rhyme
Under the Black Flag
...Unleashed upon the enemy
We tear through their lines
Showing no mercy
In the midst of battle
Feeding the Flesh Grinder
Severed off limbs
We resupply our food stocks
The more we kill
The mor...
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Categories:
evisceration, adventure, death, fantasy, music,
Form: Lyric
Nerve Gas
...Razed garden hung
Icicle vines crept mortar
Fingers of the dead
And the sun died
Cataract eyed sinking
This limitless implosion
Craven mustard then spread
Barbed
Waspish sting and...
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Categories:
evisceration, introspection, life, loss, sad,
Form: I do not know?