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Grotesquely Poems - Poems about Grotesquely

Tchotchke

...Spring cleaning comes and I seek to expunge from every counter and corner
All clutter and dried rose that serves no purpose
Knickknacks and little trinkets all go in the basket.
To be given to tho...
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Categories: grotesquely, analogy, devotion, emotions, how
Form: Ballad

Let The Pills Kill You Instead Of The Humans’

...{"This heavy humanness she burdened inside, 
Sent electrical shocks through her body, 
she would weep silently with a fist pressed up against her maw with her eyes evidently glistening nobody would...
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Categories: grotesquely, absence, abuse, addiction, anxiety,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberGigi Buys Yellow House

...Yellow house was grotesquely interesting and a bit dilapidated.
Abandoned since we neighbors could remember.
I have always wanted to buy it said cousin Gigi.
Or family has heard her say this since...
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Categories: grotesquely, home,
Form: Narrative

Kissing Ghost

...An abattoir, a hymn of scythes severing flesh, is sung mellifluously by a siren with onyx scales. Bubbles in the twilight abyssal depths, a symphonic orchestra of eels gavotte. Orbs watch at these pr...
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Categories: grotesquely, beautiful, dark, deep, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAvuncular viscosity ::Graphic content::

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(Probably more a short story than free verse
In any case it’s true, 
seen through my eyes as a child)

He was a heavy smoker sat by the fire 
Coughing and wheezing hacking up phlegm 
spitting...
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Categories: grotesquely, child, perspective, truth,
Form: Free verse



Hebrew War

...Hebrews war 
We see them breaking every law of criminal conduct like it should be an everyday occurrence 
We are told by the eminent Jordan Peterson, that the people, from the back and beyond Turke...
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Categories: grotesquely, angst, birth, break up,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberFaustian Bargain

...Came back for no good reason, other than making a splash
            Recoiling in horror, when my demons emit a flash 
        Anointed by unholy chrism, absolves me from the trash 
          Can ...
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Categories: grotesquely, corruption, desire, money,
Form: Sonnet

Recluse By Dint of Circumstance

...Recluse by dint of circumstance

Proud anonymous troglodytes 
forerunners of mine
confronted threats less horrific
than forty fifth commander in chief
of United States of America.

He/him (ma...
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Categories: grotesquely, adventure, america, angst, anti
Form: Free verse

November Second Two Thousand Twenty Two

...November second two thousand twenty two...
abuzz with Autumnal thrum

Approximately six weeks since August sum
er re: lazy dog days witnessed lolling about 
sipping cocktails, whose primary ingr...
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Categories: grotesquely, 12th grade, adventure, animal,
Form: Rhyme

Vast Night

...vast night
reason disappears into its cushioned haven
the color fades like this in every october
even if the rainbows say no
it would be easy to gather the detritus of these days
pack the wea...
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Categories: grotesquely, color, life, wisdom,
Form: Free verse

I Haint Donning Royal Carpet Treatment

...I haint donning royal carpet treatment

No stuntman/woman showed up, 
albeit intervened in timely fashion
to thwart mishaps experienced 
courtesy me I bemoan,
and poet lore re: yet of Perkiomen...
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Categories: grotesquely, adventure, allusion, angel, blessing,
Form: Rhyme

A Body In a Coat

...Still grotesquely afloat
Belly ready to bloat
His last meal A Milked Oat
And then hard rowed a boat
But with a shot was downed
And the next thing was drowned!

His harsh look watchers note
An...
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Categories: grotesquely, conflict, death, food, water,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberNot So Friendly Discussions

...Alfredo always abhorred angry approaches
After an amigo accosted after an argument
And, afterward, Alfredo abstained arguing,

Because blackening bruises betrayed blather
Berniccio b...
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Categories: grotesquely, friendship, humorous,
Form: Abecedarian

Recluse By Dint of Circumstance First Cell

...He/him (ratty, scrawny, 
and tetchy ugly villain)   
scurried into dark recesses of hermitage
averse to cavort, frolic, inure himself
into the duplicitous schemes
capitalized, glorified, popular...
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Categories: grotesquely, age, analogy, animal, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Paul Valery Translation of the Graveyard By the Sea

...This is my modern English translation of Paul Valéry's poem “Le cimetière marin” (“The graveyard by the sea”). Valéry was buried in the seaside cemetery evoked in his best-known poem. From the vantag...
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Categories: grotesquely, death, french, grave, obituary,
Form: Free verse

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