Blood Stained and Bleeding World
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What's happened to world serenity?
It been trampled on and has run amuck,
burned and wounded, ravaged by hate
while people look on as though they're dumbstruck.
The world has lost its identity...
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Categories:
gutting, conflict, death, war, world,
Form: Rhyme
Dear Federal Senators, I am asking you to protect Medicaid because
...our home care workers would lose their essential care taking jobs and their
clients would also lose their necessary services.
If you are on Medicaid, you should send your own cards to your Senato...
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Categories:
gutting, care, caregiving, work,
Form: Prose
THE ARCHITECTS OF LIES
...They sowed chaos to claim their peace.
A few wars to realize their dreams.
They sell chains wrapped in freedom’s guise,
Spitting laws applied only to the weak.
They paint bombs in the colors of...
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Categories:
gutting, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Potpourri of silly poems
...In most of my verse, my simple aim
is just sorta to enter tame.
Then, once inside ~
go completely hog wild ~
showing no reserve,
showing absolutely no shame.
"What do you think of m...
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Categories:
gutting, giggle, poetry, silly, writing,
Form: Light Verse
A predator came calling
...We forgot to close the coop and a
predator came calling.
We became entangled by his loop
and now the government he's uphauling.
We let a nemesis on the premises,
so billionaires he's installing....
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Categories:
gutting, america, anger, angst,
Form: Political Verse
Smuggler's Boat
...Migrants on the move from violence
their only possession
breath-space on a smuggler’s boat
secured with back-bent harvests
in pretzel-bent systems
weight of crates of strawberries
hoisted on ...
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Categories:
gutting, boat, death, hope, journey,
Form: Free verse
To Those Who Stand in the Flame
...To Those Who Stand in the Flame
Your sweat and tears
are felt in the quiet spaces—
we see how you toil where
the air burns, heavy with ghosts,
how strangers rise in the
name of saving.
Ha...
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Categories:
gutting, beautiful, blessing, creation, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Makabre Marionetta
...Hey mommy I am here to play
Daddy and brother are on the way
To the underworld where I sent them
By gutting tummies and dissecting
Innards go to outwards on the floor
Faces you can’t recognize...
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Categories:
gutting, character, child, conflict, dark,
Form: Free verse
A Feynman Principle
...“What do you care what other people think?”
Is a posed question with attempted answer in ink,
And Feynman did fine, but there are thoughts of mine,
That when I’m drunk on wine, they both do and...
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Categories:
gutting, life,
Form: Rhyme
Reverie Era Flow
...Era
Flow
Deep within myself I'm visually parched;
Gutting held up and fed up in my search
Idea darkness across my lips hurts
Joy inside mine instill heart
Kindness jus...
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Categories:
gutting, adventure, analogy, appreciation, caregiving,
Form: Rhyme
Charlotte 2
...Charlotte and the bear came out of hibernation at exactly the same time.
The bear was irritable and hungry, and she looked tasty.
Don’t even think about it, I’ve killed bigger people than you befor...
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Categories:
gutting, conflict, dark, death, horror,
Form: Free verse
An Important Discovery Hushed-Up As Usual
...Burly men hauled her onto a fishing village beach.
She was rotund, impressively pump,
it took a while.
Her proportions made her ideally suited...
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Categories:
gutting, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Deckie Heavrn
...Is there a place in heaven
Where old deckies muster
A sheltered safe haven away
From any wild storm's bluster
From sail to steam to diesel
United one and all
By the harvesting of the sea
And ...
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Categories:
gutting, death, fishing, heaven, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Post Cod War Blues Part 2
...Blood money isn’t paid in silver these days,
just transferred to your account
with a sheet of computerised data
to tell you their proffered amount.
I’m standing over the fish sheds,
to my front ...
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Categories:
gutting, anger, betrayal, emotions, fishing,
Form: Rhyme
You Matter
...The last time you felt good, you played along with them, and they were fooled
The feeling inside was blue and you always considered the suicide rendezvous
It’s when you can’t laugh or cry, and feel...
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Categories:
gutting, suicide,
Form: Rhyme
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