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Gristle Poems - Poems about Gristle

Premium Member Santa We've Been Outta Touch
...Santa Claus, we’ve been out of touch and I don’t ask for very much but I have needs, and I’m in Dutch I want to see the light of day oh, and can you give me a sleigh and a way to forget yest......

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Categories: gristle, crazy, dark,
Form: Rhyme
endless leisure hours as distorted time stretch before me
...endless leisure hours as distorted time stretch before me... like the infinite vista upon the midwestern plain farther than the eyes of mine (an ascetic and copacetic shortsighted father of tw......

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Categories: gristle, absence, adventure, allusion, appreciation,
Form: Free verse



The Feast of Power
...Walls breathe insistent hunger, red as the inside of a split pomegranate, richer still where the tallow has melted, slick as the fat from a burnt offering. Scarpia does not eat. He savors—sou......

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Categories: gristle, anxiety, character, corruption, creation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Anguish And Admonitions Of Eve
...No! you weren’t born to be beaten raped chained to a life bloodstained ingrained with pain wordless worthless voiceless choiceless No! you can’t live being beaten raped chained to a ......

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Categories: gristle, abuse, conflict, courage, perspective,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
A Prey Circle
...A feathered crowd of crows jostle together over roadkill. They peck and tear, lift a little in the air allowing other beaks to stab at a morsel. Iridescent black wings flap in the cram and......

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Categories: gristle, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Discordant Christmas Carol
...So, you want to buy a gift for that famous geezer. First, hear about the midnight shift of our Ebenezer. Late at night, he is concerned. It is December time, when, it's been confirmed, good......

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Categories: gristle, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member etiquette
...I’m in the residential dining hall with my suitemates Lisa and Sunny. We’re talking about sausages. Why? Because April 30th is ‘National Sausage day.” Someone mentioned that when I complained abo......

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Categories: gristle, health, humor, school,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wounded Whisper
...We have been forbearing your oppression for a long time, Your threats; placing your pistol on our foreheads for a crime; Shoving your dagger straight toward our chests, as though piercing, Watchin......

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Categories: gristle, feelings, freedom, life, slavery,
Form: Rhyme
The Plumed Crown
...The crows are a feathered crowd, a dark cloud jostled together as they are over the roadkill. They peck and tear lift a little in the air allowing another beak to stab at a morsel. ......

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Categories: gristle, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Cackle of Good News
...Lots of time to stretch into my body today. Shake some fog and gristle out of moribund muscle. Bluebirds are flying somewhere, the Blue Jays cackle the good news. The fox kits are dancing on ......

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Categories: gristle, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ode To a Dishwasher
...In my small kitchen she sits Simple and plain My mechanical maid Who never complains Who takes cups and plates laid On her long arms with ease And returns every one Scrubbed clean of grease ......

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Categories: gristle, giving, thank you, work,
Form: Ode
Premium Member The Beauty and Gristle of Life
...Motion Suggests A story of Change.. A dance of Separation.. The drama of Wins and losses.. This beauty And gristle Of boundless Life Seems to be Inherent in ......

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Categories: gristle, art, i am, perspective,
Form: Blitz
Premium Member Sentimentality
... sentimental pent up mental scented rental experiential cinnamon and pumpkin spice aroman therapy candles suffice to crucify the nasal passage upwards to the brain to savage gushin......

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Categories: gristle, inspirational, nonsense,
Form: Free verse
Ashtray's Mistakes
...--Ashtray's Mistakes-- Prehistoric defibrillating battlegrounds. The memorial, obviously unpleasant. Entrapped in the know how, detrimental reimbursement. Sundried; like the corpse of a mo......

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Categories: gristle, anger, freedom, how i
Form: Free verse
Beam Curvature
...feeling his vitamin injection a new adventure begins a slapstick epic of unfathomable implication here unfolds as the rat gnawed curtain rises at Ye Bone and Gristle among the clattering of wooden......

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Categories: gristle, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

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