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Formaldehyde Poems - Poems about Formaldehyde

Premium Member Contemplating the Great Beyond
... There are those who squirm at the sight of the urn Others can’t mask it sobbing over a casket As for myself, I’m like the elf ~ floating in formaldeh......

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Categories: formaldehyde, death, destiny, perspective,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Honest Doctor
... My doctor is like no other, he treats me like a brother. Never unfair nor dishonest in diagnosis or prognosis; he tells me all just as it is – a trait he’s known for best. During my recen......

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Categories: formaldehyde, humor,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Sour Pickles From New Orleans
... His smelled of semi-soft cheese with a low moldy blue undertone I had no tolerance for his smell for compared to gym socks, ammonia, or barnyards, it was pure Eau de Toilet ! Aft......

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Categories: formaldehyde, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Cadaver Elegy
...They handed me the scalpel like a crown- Queenship of the pail and prostrate. I ascended my throne of sterile steel, The body laid bare, my unwilling courtier. Death they said was merely a text......

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Categories: formaldehyde, age, anxiety, death, education,
Form: Free verse
His Right Leg
...A ticket pinned to the thigh reserves it, the whole cadaver is parceled off - of course. Legs are a late harvest, these often-indigent parts carry a visual poverty long after the body is plucked. ......

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Categories: formaldehyde, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Anesthetization Of Pickles
...It smells like pickles green in Autumn Aromas arise like Frankenstein in formaldehyde Tubular, somewhat spiny, objects plump Ready to be plucked at midnight Be not pickled in perpetuity Be not......

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Categories: formaldehyde, appreciation, birth, desire, food,
Form: Free verse
Formaldehyde
...I have no excuse And as for my reasons I will deliver them to you On silver plates Glazed with formaldehyde And we will dance to their eulogies And feast on their thighs And you will know that......

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Categories: formaldehyde, beautiful, betrayal, care, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Their World
... "Their World" Of course, there was no re-assurance from them that they would respond to the message I had sent. Morning had arrived. The day had commenced as any other, unravelling ......

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Categories: formaldehyde, muse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member move-in
...We moved back into the residence yesterday - we were jubilant - and had a slumb-over last night, to celebrate our reunification. We woke up joyous, on the right side of the same bed (slumb-over), and......

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Categories: formaldehyde, class, fun, holiday, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Artificial Intelligence
...(political tongue-in-cheek humor) (no political sense of humor...pass this one up) Artificial Intelligence has been around a long time: before Biden invented the wheel, was first man to step foot ......

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Categories: formaldehyde, humor, humorous, hyperbole, political,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Halloween Visitors
... I put a pumpkin on my porch outside, and he had a hideous face; I prepared the many treats, myself and my cat, so, with things in order- on the sofa we sat. The kids so cute a sm......

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Categories: formaldehyde, halloween, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Palm History Awash With Drips
...Courtesy handy dandy palmar hyperhidrosis impossible mission to defeat except poe wet tickly even courtesy drysol. (Me slippery fingers slither, slip and slide splashing ala Jackson Pollock)......

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Categories: formaldehyde, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Uncertain End
...Thick darkness conquers each scrambling sense No longer sure if my eyes are closed or open If my stagnant limbs are futile, or just tense Can I compose myself if I count to ten? Whatever fate t......

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Categories: formaldehyde, death,
Form: Terza Rima
Poetry: a Panacea For Poets
...The cud I rechewed // in the riverside // was from a sett of dreadful hemlock // that struck the aquifers of my soul. Blight glue my night // as mournful as the grave-in my streets // silence defe......

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Categories: formaldehyde, muse, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Flying Monkeys
...How banal is heartbreak yet the masses belly up to the bar to imbibe the bitter brew by the gallon fermented from the pounds of flesh she's cut away with her pen that she keeps preserved in j......

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Categories: formaldehyde, analogy, celebrity, drink, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse

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