Afghanistan Prophecies
...Tick tick tick tick boom in an instant
macerated flesh would be the last images
of me I never wondered just what damages
would occur from a car bomb being ignited
right in my face my limbs we...
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Categories:
macerated, allah,
Form: Rubai
Sortilegy
...The witch took advantage of the bad wind of the dark mornings of the last millennium, and in her rite of hatred, she gathered and macerated the fallen leaves of the cursed trees, preparing with them ...
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Categories:
macerated, love, society,
Form: Prose
The Thing
...A night tide expels it,
leaves it
wallowing.
Salt has blistered,
nippers gnawed.
The carcass tumbles.
Tattered flesh flaps,
bone snaggles bone.
A figure emerges,
as if a mangled perso...
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Categories:
macerated, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Strength In Defeat
...fragments of shelter in ruins
minute reminders of cover
relentless shelling of home
survival for the sake of despair
invocation atomized into dus...
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Categories:
macerated, faith,
Form: Free verse
Floating On Empty
...'The storms are raging on the rollin' sea, and on the highway of regret'
It was surfers' paradise weather but he had only captured a dinghy
Made from lost dreams and drift wood collected in s...
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Categories:
macerated, conflict, courage, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Thralldom Etched In *****Sapiens Mine Dna
...Thralldom etched in *****sapiens (mine) DNA
Though your true blue stated civilian
never enlisted nor impressed,
nonetheless I own an opinion
originally embarked on poetic quest
to express purp...
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Categories:
macerated, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Political Verse
Chrysalis
...You were my mind's cocoon ...
Oh, at first I ran, multi-legged, from the intensity of your intent,
the fear of a love, transforming ... the weight of a passion profound.
But I knew, I ...
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Categories:
macerated, analogy, change, metaphor, soulmate,
Form: Free verse
En-Trumped
...En-trumped
There are many en-tities. Narrative psychologist speak of living and telling
a story. Our lives should be as we en-live them and en-story them. We tell
our tale as we see it, at the...
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Categories:
macerated, horror,
Form: Narrative
Last Minutes
...Broken lungs lay siezed as the air no longer
drives through me on turbine wings.
Eyes rust over corneal layers
festering with swollen contempt
and grey-veined snarls.
Fallen muscle across...
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Categories:
macerated, death, death of a
Form: Free verse
That 9 11 Day
...That 9/11 Day
I was eager that day,
Just as I was
Any other day,
To start my work,
And state the statistics,
Discourage clientelle,
Validate company antics,
Embrace others
When I th...
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Categories:
macerated, america, anniversary, death, evil,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Macerated Stillborn
...Her mother looked with tears, heart leaking with pains
As the silent body of her newborn laid there
Skin peeling off with every touch
Skull losely packed with pieces of bones
Feeling like a jelly...
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Categories:
macerated, abortion, baby, death, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Relentless
...A void bellows where my sense used to be,
compulsion to slip pound coins into slots,
an urge to consume much voraciously.
What once I did, I must strive now to not,
snatch from false hunge...
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Categories:
macerated, abuse, addiction, bullying, courage,
Form: Terzanelle
Woman of God
...braising thoughts arose as my lifeless
body huddled in a fetal position i' d completed
thirty hail mary's an yet my macerated flesh
lay still as the sun began
to settle embedding itself almost...
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Categories:
macerated, angel, beach,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Introspected Abcs
...a burdened charity dost entail
faux generosity habitually inhaled
jaunts, keepsakes left macerated
nothing omitted, personally quantitated
reason sifted through ubiquitously
vehement will yearned z...
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Categories:
macerated, angst, introspection,
Form: ABC
One Flesh One Body
...we approached the intersection
i was filled with laughter and joy
the scent of citrus and cypress
seemed to surround us the sun
sat in a distance bathing in
it's own glow the clouds were ...
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Categories:
macerated, faith, green, light, me,
Form: Chant Royal
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