Headless Poems - Poems about Headless

In ancient cities and times, kings, rulers and their often-faceless consorts, were exalted in marble statuary, yet so much of those effigies now remain headless. Those bygone exalted figures have lost their heads, (or occasionally the odd arm). I ask myself, where did all their heads go? Were they deemed to be sculptured flowers, doomed to be dead headed like roses, by stone-faced gardeners? The beheaded, the headless, litter history, it...

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gruesome headless mouse stepped on barefoot cat blamed the dog...

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HEADLESS CHICKEN SERVES TWO My son and his wife wanted fresh eggs so built a chicken run, Always into something different that proved productive and fun, They bought 4 rescue chickens, that each laid an egg a day, One got brave, stuck head out of fence in an awkward way, Next day they saw a headless hapless chicken in...

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Headless penguins doing their dance Walking their walk on the pebble sea of chance Their fat little tummies pushed out so proud But no voices at all in this penguin dance crowd Are they twins? We others ask with concern. Without heads can the penguin dance they learn? They trot in the our midst and begin to jive and jiggle In no...

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Legend around these parts strike terror in some When I first heard it I swallowed my gum What was his name? I asked. No one knew He comes out at night in the fog of blue hue. He’s the ghost of a Hessian soldier all alone. Was beheaded in the Revolutionary war far from home. He rides in silence, striking people...

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A cold, creepy Halloween night. What Katrina found gave her a fright. It was the head of Ichabod Crane- Of headless horseman fame. She waited for him to ride by. Closed her eyes and held his head way up high. The next day Crane was back teaching his class. As if 230 years never passed....

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She rolled her head down the hill It picked up speed and lots of dirt and stuff It began spitting out bugs and dust Hey! Didn’t you need that for a math test? Mrs. Peabody, a truly nosey neighbor asked her. The head stuck out its tongue And it laughed. Some people blathered about Trying to insist she put her head back on. She...

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I lie on a giant rock in the middle of the river bed staring at the tree without a head Dry stump shooting above me Inviting one another into their bed Their nude bodies pressing against each other hugging and kissing one another They stand side by side on the river bank holding and shaking each others hand and sucking the...

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if Rowena's kuzzle was the center of the Earth he'd look for a shovel she was an underpass hooker exploited by a grim and grimy past reckless as the day is long a tourism so shameless her own union set her on fire I can't praise them enough I advised her to talk to her real self and got 5 blank staring minutes basically because...

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On the black stallion of death, Its red crimson eyes pierce through the night, And the hell's beast breathes its hot brazen breath Blazing against the darkness's chilling air! Does he ride, this phantom of the dead, Wielding vengeance's sword. With one hand on the hilt of the blade, The other arm reaching outwardly, One finger pointing at his intended victim! Screaming with a...

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 Headless Horseman (Serventesio) He rides through the forest nightly Looking for a soul to pray on, Child clings to his mother tightly Hoping to see the light of dawn. The headless horseman laughs loudly While tears swell in the mother's eyes, Horseman raises his sword proudly The night is filled with the child's cries. Headless horseman...

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The Headless Greenlandic Horseman A Meditation in 6 parts. Avalanche I. The sky is starry The night is scary I'm very afraid of the living dead; On a mission; or Fugitives in the city II. The headless Greenlandic horseman speaks Kalaallisut very well indeed, plus Dansk and English! What a man! A polyglot he is! Yes, sir! Although he Is evil and wants to behead Mr. Donn Oh! How horrible!...

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Bats do fly on this spooky autumn night Land on an old tree that’s deader than dead There’s a noose that hangs from the greatest height Hangs over the grave of man with no head Sky has an orange tint to it tonight Pumpkins enjoy the color and absorbs Feeling the fear that’s in the air with fright Seeing now a witch...

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How I crave to tease these Cocks with a one tract mind Like headless chickens Blind and deaf to common sense Clueless, mindless, and pathetic....

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The Headless Warrior The creation of a civil war and a people that is not set free Is like the blind leading the blind And the person at the helm cannot see That he has no vision and is so unkind Can a person fight with hands and feet When there is no stability and no head The locomotion has no rhythm...

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