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Lamprey Poems - Poems about Lamprey


Saint Chemo's Fire - Specimens 1 and 2

...Sarcomas hatch like caviar
in St. Jude chemo-fire inversions,
where leviathans lay magnetars
to suck the blood of
virgi...
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Categories: lamprey, art, cancer, child, dark,
Form: Shape

Of Kings and Queens

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Every shogun nation wanna be 
in war visor control
Commandeer the missile steering wheel,
be the king of the road

Likewise, imperial power lust eyes
wanna be the top wing of the hiv...
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Categories: lamprey, corruption, evil, metaphor, power,
Form: Rhyme



Sour Face Gestures

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Sugar Cain spin speeches
coming from wrinkled, prune faces
Citrus acid tongue leeches
latching on to golden palatial places

Waxy viper lips moving in lamprey motion,
voodoo witche...
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Categories: lamprey, imagery, metaphor, wisdom, word
Form: Rispetto

Premium MemberViridi

...They all come, and turn,
The apostatic hundreds from the wilderness,
Hungry as the lamprey, open-mouthed,
Impatient as an itch,
And virtuous as the grave.
Those that wait remain unsatisfied,
Ba...
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Categories: lamprey, change, children, student,
Form: Free verse

The Assaulter

...You were aging by nights.
Days will not seek 
to defend you.

Drawing the landscape 
of a snowfall, 
you will die in a portrait.

The world meets 
you again like a jawless 
lamprey with suc...
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Categories: lamprey, art,
Form: ABC



Premium MemberThe Rhine Salmon Complaint Translation of Etiemble S Complainte D Un Saumon Du Rhin By T Wignesan

...The Rhine Salmon Complaint, Translation of Etiemble’s Complainte d’un salmon du Rhin

						For Yvon Belaval
(A lilting musical poem of varying line length in quatrains with a refrain and much int...
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Categories: lamprey, nature,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things