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Maim Poems - Poems about Maim

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
Premium Member The War must end - Ukraine and Russia
...When is enough enough, When is the going just too tough. Why do people have to die Forever in the ground to lie. Are the spoils worth all the pain When the path is kill and maim. Is barren la......

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Categories: maim, betrayal, conflict, courage, death,
Form: Quatrain
My Crooked heart :PT II
...But a linear crate, You create your plate in days. The seventh you lay, For labor came to take its wage. A circle, a grave we say— Ohh, we are safe! She lays in weight, To maim and tame it s......

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Categories: maim, art, conflict, death, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member OLD SCORES THEY SETTLE
...They battle on and show no shame The other side must take the blame. And each side thinks that it can win Punishing others for past sin. Increase the suffering more and more. Kill and maim to......

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Categories: maim, conflict, military, war,
Form: Rhyme
What’s It All About Alfie?
...Arrows, what are they good for? In an embodied dungeon very near to my molested liver arrows pile up, bundles of barbs, each one a love letter that missed its mark. Some older ones still drip ......

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Categories: maim, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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