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Flaying Poems - Poems about Flaying

Premium Member Tongue Tattle Tales
...Hold your tongue, tie it up tight, for a loose tongue that strays in devious ways, can slip and cut deep, too quick, right to bone. It wags the dog, flaying in many ways failing. Telltale tongu......

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Categories: flaying, senses, words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thirty Nine Minutes to Nowhere
...As I look upward at the wooden door labeled 'My Demise', I clearly see thirty-nine wooden steps on the rise. Each step takes a minute to grasp what I'll leave behind, With many memories and though......

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Categories: flaying, life, memory,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Parasitic revolution
...Most everybody can handle a few parasites but eventually it reaches critical mass the body runs low on flesh and laughs it begins a slow collapse from the inside out. America's body is infested......

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Categories: flaying, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Roadkill
... He hears again the far-off jiggling of keys, the throaty cough of ignition, recalls strafing lights on a night-blurred road. Moths, like pale flowers, crash against the windscreen. Over-re......

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Categories: flaying, poetry,
Form: Free verse
While attempting going to sleep after midnight
...While attempting going to sleep after midnight... December 27th, 2023, the missus pounded mine posterior (she played paddywhack on me blimey buttucks) not only causing contusion, but flayin......

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Categories: flaying, blue, cry, father, games,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Zippily
...Zippily, zippity, I slip down the slippery dip slide. Zippity-doo-dah, slippily-dippity-do! Suddenly and nippily, tipping backwards to quicken the pace. Snappily, I whippingly swish right off......

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Categories: flaying, flying, games,
Form: Free verse
Selfish
...the judge implores me: raise your right hand. do you swear to lie? the scalpel pulls my skin back, flaying eyes vivisect me on the witness stand for the crime of feeling anything other than con......

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Categories: flaying, daughter, mother,
Form: Free verse
Baneful Brickbats Begat Grievous Barrier
...Baneful brickbats begat grievous barrier Tell tale indelible woe y'all privy to learn yours truly harbors traces of the masterful impregnable prepubescent wall still extant scads of decades si......

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Categories: flaying, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Transcending
...In silence, as nausea passes as I crawl into a corner shaking head violent visions of somewhere or something. Flashing nano fire of my spine flaying hot the essence of thought a razor in......

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Categories: flaying, allegory, allusion, analogy, anger,
Form: Free verse
In Search of Some Je Ne Sais Quoi
...His lines he always wanted to shine With éclat and style mingled fine To bedazzle and strike with awe Those who bothered to read a line For hours on end, would he ponder On how he could rive y......

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Categories: flaying, poetry, success,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Conscientious Objector
...Oh my god, what have we done Just gone and killed, your only son Even worse, tortured him to death Jeering whilst he gasped for breath In realisation, we’re overwhelmed Certain now, to be al......

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Categories: flaying, allegory, god, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Thought They Were Weak Liars
...A constant throbbing Soreness often Stabbing two or three time a day Acute anxiety I never know when it is coming Like a searing spear slashing and flaying I had never felt sorry for others w......

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Categories: flaying, sick,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Keep My Ideas To Myself
...My mouth almost opened But I quickly clamped it shut Experience taught me not to try To find my voice Stifling myself is easy I have sixty-seven-years experience It is my natural reaction ......

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Categories: flaying, poems, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Phoenix
...Awoke by a nightmare, in cold sweat dews were to settle on foliage yet sun was below the horizon still birds were calm in their nests in chill rooster had not sounded alarm yet the darkness a fo......

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Categories: flaying, dark, life, lost, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ode To Nicolet Lane
...Reading Poem 3 "Ode to Nicolet Lane" There I saw green visions, and a young boy of 9 years running by, As I stood once again upon the aged asphalt. Last time I stood there was 58 years hence;......

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Categories: flaying, childhood,
Form: Free verse

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