Full of Holes
...lies beget more lies
leaves truth flyblown full of holes
maggoty in fall...
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Categories:
flyblown, truth,
Form: Haiku
City of Palls
...From dense sleep we emerge.
Realizing our coat,
we seek to cast off this Nessus.
We drank the Jonestown Kool-Aid
and now it’s too late.
We never noticed the circling
vultures despotic desce...
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Categories:
flyblown, allegory, america, analogy, corruption,
Form: Political Verse
The Idiot Who Left the Fire
...Flesh was falling from the bone,
clumps of flyblown steak,
rippling the glass surface below
its reflection fragmented in the lake
bloods oily residue hanging in long tendrils,
leaving a st...
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Categories:
flyblown, romantic love,
Form: Rhyme
Debts
...I owe so many.
And they've become overweight.
I can't carry them any longer.
Whenever I returned home
In the dead of midnight,
The debt I owe mother,
Who waited up without eating.
When I lay i...
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Categories:
flyblown, addiction, animal, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: ABC
Sepia
...Sip the slide of spilled champagne
Feel it glide through every vein
Scented by the rose red lips
Aghast beheld by rapture's grip
Scars reflect in mannequin eyes
Silent screams and splintered si...
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Categories:
flyblown, emotions, first love, goodbye,
Form: Couplet
Half Mast
...Can one count the pieces of a broken heart?
Can a flag half staff proudly wave?
Will kites still rise in staccato weather,
or partial freedom be less than a slave?
Explain this measure of a he...
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Categories:
flyblown, conflict, emotions, hope, math,
Form: Rhyme
I Am Made of This
... I am from those moments
George Ella Lyon
I am Made of This
I am from the isolation of pioneer spirits-
an ancient beekeeper- a vintage lacemaker
I am from a land of dancin...
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Categories:
flyblown, absence, child, family, girl,
Form: Bio
Donger
...Just dehydrate a dead dingo's donger,
till it isn't any longer,
grind it down till he is feeling speyed,
Porkupine is great, on the Aboriginal plate,
a favourite meal, they might relate,
op...
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Categories:
flyblown, adventure,
Form: Ballad
Squatter Jack
...Squatter Jack
have you lived awhile in west Queensland,
out in the red soil dust,
where the crows will pick your eyes out and,
bore water is a must,
have you seen a thin and starving cow,
not...
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Categories:
flyblown, adventure
Form: Rhyme
The Past That Haunts the Future
...The past that haunts the future hangs flyblown,
Still the fraying lariat chokes a larynx dead,
And silences the words, still born, unknown
To ears that should have caught the sentence said.
O...
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Categories:
flyblown, introspection, life, loss, lost
Form: Verse
Fifty Frames a Second
...Farewell to the order, cried in depth,
A surface skimmed flat stone,
For sure the past drinks slower breath,
Cold-cocked and slow deflating;
When the tyres kiss the steely rims
And wrecks r...
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Categories:
flyblown, history, life, nostalgia, autumn,
Form: Blank verse