Jabs Poems - Poems about Jabs

Not entirely clay

...[Verse 1]
No place to go 
if the door to your heart is closed,
When your love stays my subject, 
even when I doze,
Yet you keep ignoring 
the true love I propose. 
You're already driving me nu...

Picking at Scabs - Apr 9

...—it’s the black boil on bursting, boiling ribs—
on my midleft chest, brewing bungled churns,
[tighteningmybreath], again, again, it yearns,
it begs*, “just one (just two) more (well-earned) rub(s)...

Thresholds

...One last Carolina Wren
jabs and hops
inside a shrinking ring of pale sunlight.

At the white door of a cold season
the wind dresses a scarecrow
with the spiny feathers
of the already dead.

...

Santa versus The Grouch

...'Twas the night before Christmas, and there sat the Grouch,
waiting for Santa and his present filled pouch.
I'm sure that all of you have heard of the Grinch,
but the Grouch is far worse, at least...

Old suzanna reid

...Old suzanna..' Oh; old suzanna.. reid.'
She promoted 'jabs and genocide'
With a  black heart full of greed.?...

The Boxer - in Trumps own words

...I play by the rules day in and day out,
Showing my class, wielding my clout.
I take the hard blows time and again,
Knowing my patience shan't be in vain.

Joe's on the ropes, all by himself,
Wa...

Muscle and Heart

...The bell rings out loudly, signals the start,
must earn my keep through the pugilist’s art,
my foe is a tall one, beats me in reach,
to get in close my trainer sought to teach,
where those long a...

Epitaph-Unraveled Words

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trickling streams   enlist fingers stroke
translating silent stares script air bubbles

soul skirmishes   dying   and breath twitches
her amort jabs shatter blind eyes

soft breaths   lin...

After

...Day One

The bomb when it fell sent the planet to hell 
With unrestrained retaliation 
The damage was done and the end had begun
With no hope of human salvation

I woke with a scream fr...

richard bloody beks

...I took a chance and made some calls, cause home
Was on my mind. I knew late 2021 that things there
Wern't going fine. Of the calls i made one was to this
Guy, by the name of richard beks, editor o...

Constrained not conquered

...Fellow prisoners..For such are we all. Our will contained 
At the very least, in the body of flesh, our time being as
Long as it takes, for as long.? Or short as it is! Or maybe
You are in a priso...

Who's left but me - in Joe Bidens words

...I know I'm slightly losing it and Jill sees that now too,
So all we can but hope for is to Bluster and to Woo.
What If I sometimes falter with names or something more,
Only Fox is bent on keeping ...

MELIORISM

...MELIORISM 
This world stings like the scorpion, 
And I will not filter in her tears,
This I said because I’m a champion, 
Only throwing jabs, it really wears!
Like the faeces of a chameleon, 
S...

The Eye Doctor Said I Should Take Up Boxing

...Ocular hypertension and
A couple of jabs here

I read the letters on the chart and
Threw in the towel

But she was adamant 
The connotations

Pay-per-view Las Vegas
Ears bitten 

Jubba-ju...

STARS OF CLARITY

...
Arousing achievement ardor
affirming assertive aspirations
Beaming brightly 
beyond besetting blight
Carving creations consciously 
circumspectly with care
Dreams are stars of c...

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