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Maim Poems - Poems about Maim

Premium Member Walk in the Light
... Every day we walk among the demons. Unseen, they’re the evil hiding from the light. Walk with goodness shining in your heart, for evil cannot maim a soul that’s doing right. Know that he ......

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Categories: maim, evil, light,
Form: Rhyme
Every hits a bullseye
...This is hilarious. Try bow those strings like Stradivarius. But i think you missed the point of your own aim. Without a shred of self reflection or acknowledged self deception. The irony of it is......

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Categories: maim, hilarious, irony,
Form: Rhyme



The menfolk
...They fvck us Calloused hands maim soft breasts They call it genourous When teeth sink in but don't break flesh They like our scars Til they're inflicted by another They like our hearts How eas......

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Categories: maim, anger,
Form: Free verse
A Defensive Action
...How fortunate that I, correctly versed, knew hand-grenades are passive. At their worst, they maim and kill. But this is interspersed with usefulness: defenders have no thirst for carnage. Since t......

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Categories: maim, war,
Form: Sonnet
Cape Flats - 1
...So, maybe you can tell Heaven from hell, blue skies from rain, a day full of pain. Can you trade a walk in the park for a glimpse of the dark? We are the captured souls, like fish in bowls. ......

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Categories: maim, age, anxiety, my children,
Form: Didactic



Cape Flats - 3
...Thirty-four people killed in a week. The Cape Flats gangs are not weak. They shoot to kill and maim, to them, it’s all the same. Let’s be real, the gangs are a bad deal. In them, there is no......

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Categories: maim, abuse, analogy, anxiety, blessing,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Plagued By Memories
...Memories of whip-lashing words steeped me deep into a roil of rancid oil my soul a weeping blistered sore my heart a gangrene amputee pus-green-memories rupture to plague me infection still......

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Categories: maim, abuse, dark, memory, pain,
Form: Free verse
Let's Jump In
...Sometimes ‘jump-into-something’ has a negative connotation But let’s revisit that saying and define it As an affirmation Let’s jump-into-faith Leaving behind every opportunity for doubt t......

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Categories: maim, allegory, appreciation, celebration, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Paul Talked Tough
...Paul talked tough, said he wanted to pulverize his enemy But didn’t have one as far as any of us roommates could see I’d mangle and maim them like a warrior wrecking ball His only enemies are on v......

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Categories: maim, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member War of Serpents
... War is like a battle of serpents evil slithering from all directions Poison comes from their fangs in the form of bombs and artillery The snakes surround and strangle like tanks ......

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Categories: maim, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sound waves
...A song on repeat, you just let it spin. For the sole purpose to maim and torture, on an endless loop. The lyrics burn with a record of an abyss that altered me. I believed I was str......

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Categories: maim, emotions, feelings, music,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
The girl in the dunes
...The Girl in the Dunes All day long she used to sing tunes. Now they found her body in the dunes. She was not skilled, now they found her body, she was killed. Raped stabbed and a slit throat......

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Categories: maim, abuse, childhood, fate, girl,
Form: Didactic
Leaving
...I am the monomaniac who masticates edges of my own mandible to keep from swallowing you whole… I feel the hunger crawl through me, a hot hellish hold— pressing its way out of my ribs. —but ......

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Categories: maim, absence, abuse, break up,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Under Surreal and Abnormal Disgraceful Skies - Part 2
.....continued from Part 1, They're spraying whatever the hell they need, To inhibit our solidarity, to choke us out with noxious painful coughing fits, that rasp and stop our breathing - to cr......

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Categories: maim, environment,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Moth's Lament
...I sought the hearth's embrace once more, Though blistered hands recalled before. Its flickering light, both kind and cruel, Still held me fast, a willing fool. For in the glow, a comfort stayed......

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Categories: maim, 12th grade, absence, age,
Form: Narrative

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