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Maggots In the Bread

maggots in the bread
still there is life though it stinks
I begin the day

Categories: maggots, life,
Form: Haiku

Maggots

Wars are caused by politicians
Who then cower at the rear:
Wars are fought by soldiers from
Patriotism, duty, or plain fear 
Of the consrequences if 
They just refused to go.
If they all had the courage
To just stand and say no,

To be made examples of,
To be imprisoned or worse
Or the many other threats
They would use to coerce,
Would those

Categories: maggots, anger, judgement, political,
Form: Rhyme

Maggots

The maggots

One morning in the village, millions of maggots
At the cemetery appeared protesting about hunger.
They merged into a big fat pink ball with tiny feet
chanted: we want more corpses, the supply side
has let us down
It had been hitherto a healthy village few people died
those who did were elderly with meagre flesh
The day after the covid

Categories: maggots, death, evil,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Maggots

Maggots
  
If ejaculated semen
From millions of seafarers
Over a hundred years.
Think of this floating loneliness
had met up and formed
An Island.
And up from its depth 
Sprung the unborn
Like larvae
Whose only contact 
With mothers
Depended 
On what the seaman
was dreaming at the time.
Not a new Atlantis emerging
But an island 
Of tedium
And tired desire.
Not on a chart
To see its

Categories: maggots, betrayal, blessing, break up,
Form: Blitz

Overlooked Beauty My Pretty Maggots

OVERLOOKED BEAUTY MY PRETTY MAGGOTS

Beautiful as the tan, brown, red, black, white centipede be;
Beautiful worm-like the fly egg geometrically pretty to me;
Moist shiny, slimy don't know where your head is not an issue;
As you may clean infected wounds of dead and decaying tissue;
Attachment to the dead/raw flesh titillates me lit bug overlooked beauty so innocent;
Bibliographical

Categories: maggots, analogy, confusion, cool, creation,
Form: Couplet

Human Maggots

Human Maggots  

If ejaculated semen
From millions of seafarers 
Over hundred years
Think if this floating loneliness
Had met up and formed
An Island
And up from its depth sprung
The unborn like larvae
Whose only contact
With mothers were what
The seaman 
Was dreaming of at the time
Not Atlantis re- emerging 
But an island born out of tedium
And tired desire
Not on a

Categories: maggots, angst, desire, divorce, dream,
Form: Chastushka

Maggots

My demons have got a hold on me
I can feel their presence when I sleep
Pulling me down into this great abyss
Filling my joy with sorrows emptiness
Dragging my soul across the coals of hell
Where the arid land is filled with hopes decaying smell 
Maggots eat upon the dead flesh of my rotted faith
From a God I

Categories: maggots, absence, addiction, conflict, sorrow,
Form: Free verse

Maggots

Maggots, maggots
oh lord, maggots
they’re crawling through the
cracks between the wood
and they’re
swimming through the mountains
of trash
in the white plastic bag that
we left on the deck
and they’re
writhing on the floor
before my feet
like
hostages at the mercy of
their keeper.

Maggots, maggots
oh lord, maggots
I’m running through the
house taking deep breaths
and I’m
tearing off my red dress
and my 
fiance’s red jacket
(the cats are

Categories: maggots, angst, funny, red,
Form: Free verse

Maggots On the Hook

Crank the handle and separate the shards.
We are an island clustered only by the venom of the fight
Left baited, hungry by the capsize for the sharks.

Wisdom rots the wilted bone and sparks
The night ablaze with inequalities unmeasured height.
Crank the handle and separate the shards.

Good men excuse the bad and suffer for their parts
A paper rain

Categories: maggots, history, loss, people, war
Form: Villanelle

Maggots of Insecurity

so effortless 
                                 really to delude yourself,

Categories: maggots, introspection, people, philosophy,
Form: Verse

Societies Maggots

Feeding hands of western promises
hold children by the throat.
See salvation die in porcelain tears,
shed from broken accords.
Innocence betrayed on altar of success.
A thousand Hail Mary’s won’t erase this sin.

Fingers resting on pulse of destruction,
a crack in the seal of Pandora’s box.
Old soldiers, cruising, trying to pick up a war,
while night angels gaze into despair.
Ancient enemies

Categories: maggots, people, places, social, night,
Form: Free verse