THE REAPED OF CHAOS
...A nightmare without terror,
A peaceful life without savor.
Voluble blasphemies
In the flames of a hell
Perfumed with the stench of lust.
A heart loaded with lugubrious memories,
My soul bello...
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Categories:
hemoglobin, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Monoxide Killer
...It came quiet as the night
Nothing you could fight
It drifted unnoticed in the air
More lethal than an angry bear
He didn't feel a breeze, he didn't feel a change
Nothing out of order, nothing...
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Categories:
hemoglobin, evil, sin, surreal,
Form: Lyric
Breathless in Silent Collapse
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Breathless,
words like cordyceps adhere to my throat,
Choking me as the unspoken wrap around, seizing vocal cords.
Sticking fingers down, I claw to clear closing airways,
Yet the more I str...
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Categories:
hemoglobin, dark, death, gothic, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Cry Ugly
..."Cry Ugly"
My deepest private searing pain manifests as "Cry Ugly.”
Guttural moans race like a runaway train. The wail crescendos and peaks as a Banshee scream.
Tears race down my face… my n...
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Categories:
hemoglobin, angst, dark, journey, psychological,
Form: Narrative
Painted Doll
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Earthquakes of bedlam quell
As tectonic plates of emotional instability cease shifting.
The tears of a discarded clown, suspended in animation—
Numbness overtakes.
Masks slip, shatt...
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Categories:
hemoglobin, dark, deep, gothic, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Dance of Death
...It’s nearly two as the Reaper’s clock begins to strike.
A thundering clap shakes the trembling ground,
as death knolls beckon me into this thick, hazy night.
Coming to a clearing, I see ceremonial...
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Categories:
hemoglobin, dark, deep, emotions, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Cabernet Valentine
...“Cabernet Valentine”
Oh my sweet silent Valentine veins flowing life
Secrets are meant to be kept my obedient wife
Luscious ruby mouth perked open for kissing
Shouldn't be too many acry...
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Categories:
hemoglobin, dark, gothic, murder,
Form: Rhyme
Bird Cage - Hidden In Plain Sight
...Autumn colored shackles
palpitations make the metal growl
Xanthic forewings and discal cells
grace my mucosa, the ripples feel foul
Eternal suffering in a blissful steel
I like to spend my days...
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Categories:
hemoglobin, 8th grade, angst, crush,
Form: Rhyme
the hill of epitaphs
...In the dirty hands of poverty,
Scavengers of the Republic of Enlightenment
Quench their thirst under the eyelids of the proletarians.
A sinecure of hard drugs
To silence the lamentations of t...
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Categories:
hemoglobin, 12th grade, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
THE DARKNESS OF HUMAN PERDITION
...On all these battlefields, shrill howls,
Corpses riddled with rotting bullets,
Abandoned tanks on fire,
Under this black sky of mourning, where death makes its home.
Where love has vanished f...
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Categories:
hemoglobin, 12th grade, africa,
Form: Free verse
Ode To the Jogger
...The jogger with goal in mind,
Slings stress right with each climb
The jogger jogs with cells renewed
When oxygen flows fresh, like
Hemoglobin running through and through
The Jogger jogs on w...
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Categories:
hemoglobin, adventure, appreciation, change,
Form: Free verse
Breakfast Breakfast We Will Eat You
...** DISCLAIMER: This poem is a parody of a hymn: "Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee", some of you might have hymnals that call this song "Ode To Joy". The lyrics in a hymnal are from Henry van Dyke and th...
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Categories:
hemoglobin, food, parody,
Form: Lyric
Final Tribute
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Final Tribute
(for the Last Caesar)
Give the annual percentile amount
of your iron-copper gathering
The yearly brow liquidity
is required by the silver arm of vexation
Hemogl...
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Categories:
hemoglobin, judgement, money, society, wisdom,
Form: Narrative
Abuse
...I'm the topic of discussion, a lot of me is functioned
Off of the asumption that I've probably been punching
Things to harm by beating it, the gossip is percussion
But the anger pulls me in and I'...
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Categories:
hemoglobin, abuse, emotions,
Form: I do not know?
Velociraptor Victims
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Here are the French Connection facts,
Monsieurs and Madames
No need for reverse English translation,
Ladies and Gentlemen
Step carefully ...
You’re now at the yellow tape border of
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Categories:
hemoglobin, allegory, imagery, urban, violence,
Form: Narrative
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