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Limbless Poems - Poems about Limbless

Premium Memberin the belly of the beast

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you need divine intervention ~ look at me this walking miracle

said a limbless starfish to a half eaten prawn ~ gone hysterical...
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Categories: limbless, dark, humorous, perspective,
Form: Monoku

Uncountable

...the living count the dead
the dead count the stars

lay the bodies neatly in a row
tuck the limbs beside the limbless
pick up
the headless baby parts
count them in

the sun burns bright
eve...
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Categories: limbless, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Cutting Away What Was You

...The past was like falling asleep..
The awakening was a never ending
night of terror...
The pain in the ocean of piano keys
is a scale never in tune..........

The knowing of never knowing how,
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Categories: limbless, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Tanka

...Tanka

Marilyn Monroe
I loved her greatly
I wedded a blond
She spoke with a scouser accent 
When her roots turned russet.

Arm dealers look out
When walking on your green lawn
Watch out for...
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Categories: limbless, childhood, cousin,
Form: Tanka

River Stones

...they live now
in layers of motion and stillness

a fret sawing wind
a chaffing river
have shaped them

limbless bodies
turned upon
a lathe of time

glints of starlight are in them
eyes bl...
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Categories: limbless, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Scorn

...Come Armageddon, only she will survive,
Crawl through destruction, though limbless, alive.
Civilization now crumbling to dust,
Detritus that slices, so deeply unjust,
treacherous terrain bears th...
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Categories: limbless, absence, abuse, allegory, anger,
Form: Rhyme

The President - 2003

...The dark suited man
smiled confident he was right
limbless kids think not...
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Categories: limbless, america, anger, betrayal, child,
Form: Haiku

March Stew

...Mornings are littered
with gnawed husks,
charred mouse-tails. 

March is burning its strew.
The limbless
braid a thawing earth
into knotty threads.

On wet lines flannel shirts 
poach in a ...
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Categories: limbless, poetry,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberIndependency

...I remain motivated to subsist my presence amidst no regrets,
Nevertheless, this implies my shadow that ages hence begets,

I appreciate it obeys me amidst enough dynamic passion,
Ergo, this remai...
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Categories: limbless, abuse, analogy, blessing, character,
Form: Rhyme

Imagined Pins and Needles

...Imagined pins and needles
Hobbling my swarth
Homes sweet hearth cradling your whim
The sound and safeness of home farmed hands
The vastness invites in colour hued
But shadow and soul will not co...
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Categories: limbless, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Crazy Love

...drives me crazy like a limbless behind a wheel.
Yet I've told know not much of how she feels. 
it does not matter when my eyes are onion peeling.
as long pots are filled with gifts that she's eati...
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Categories: limbless, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Hollywood Buy Life

...The orchestra of bombs
musical heroes tip toe through the corpses
blood and mud the choir
to sing their praises
between battle flags and guns

Cenotaph the list of tickets
chisel the shrapnel ...
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Categories: limbless, celebrity, film, war,
Form: Free verse

Brexit Sonnet 16 - Diverse Woven Strands

...Brexit Sonnet No.16
‘Diverse Woven Strands’
 

Our embroidered story, with boundaries crissed and crossed,
With boats and men ‘o horse in serried rows.
With comets, relics, hawks and battles lo...
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Categories: limbless, political,
Form: Sonnet

A Poem -004

...A poem, is much like
a dream come true.

Prior to its conception
the poet feels like 
someone or something 
is within-as if  
a limbless entity, a touchless kiss,
a lust free urge is touching...
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Categories: limbless, art, birth, creation, how
Form: Free verse

Snake:A Creature So Amazing

...One sunny afternoon, I coiled
in the grass, and later wriggled
my way through the woods,
though scaly and limbless I am,
yet uniquely created and
outstanding among beasts.
My charming rhythmic
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Categories: limbless, nature,
Form: Prose

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