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Manikin Poems - Poems about Manikin

Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part i
...Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis, high bred poiet?s of mine ("Thus always I cause the death of tyrants.”) the purported line Brutus uttered after assassinating Julius Caesar. Alte......

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Categories: manikin, 10th grade, adventure, allah,
Form: Free verse
Outlive It
...Some get over a bad childhood, they rise to the top of a hill to set fire to the bloody rags of a choiceless youth. The beacon flares, below a forest of wide-eyed animals watch as the sacrifice,......

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Categories: manikin, poetry,
Form: Free verse



January 13th 2024 Happy Lxv-th birthday Matthew Scott Harris
...January 13th 2024 - Happy Lxv-th birthday Matthew Scott Harris date of conception:? ~ Late March – mid April 1958. date of parturition: January xiii, mcmlix. date of expiration:? January i, emi......

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Categories: manikin, age, appreciation, birthday, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Born There
...I was born there, there between the grey days and ghostly nights. I came out of the warm cave fully encased with my mother's sadness. The ghetto walls moved in or out inch by crawling inch, th......

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Categories: manikin, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Whats Your Choice
...What is your choice when you don’t know how to roll a dice? What is your choice? when you are still sliding on ice. You don’t have a grip on how to balance the whip; you don’t have a clue of what i......

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Categories: manikin, absence, abuse, beautiful, career,
Form: Narrative



Does It Say Itself
...What is that central pole does it hold up a voice like a brazen spine? And the many rooms all of them built to be seen with no modesty nor privacy. Rooms where ......

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Categories: manikin, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Happy Lxiv Birthday Matthew Scott Harris
...Happy Lxiv birthday Matthew Scott Harris date of conception:? ~ Late March – mid April 1958. date of parturition: January xiii, mcmlix. date of expiration:? January i, eminem. A gangly, meas......

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Categories: manikin, appreciation, birthday, boy, celebrity,
Form: Rhyme
The Widdershins
...Leftward went his stride, counter to the sun he strode. They said he was magicked hence by the fairies or was a mechanical manikin witched up from a pot of spells. Old widdershins had a stove p......

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Categories: manikin, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Manikin
...So many manikins In the store windows Dressed in fashion clothes What does happen at night? When no one is around? I ponder this question Do they come to life? Walking on the floors? Hav......

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Categories: manikin, imagery,
Form: Imagism
Booth Made Famous On April 15th Mdccclxv
...Booth made famous on April 15th, MDCCCLXV... Sic semper tyrannis ad mortem ("Thus always I bring death to tyrants"). Ever since early forerunners of twenty first century mankind (sprinted ......

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Categories: manikin, animal, confusion, family, fear,
Form: Free verse
Body Whispering
...Do you gurgle, grunt, and gripe, grind the soft bones of thought dry? You need some orchestration, some instrumental tuning. Play with those ad hoc glottalized vibes, harmonize. The body, t......

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Categories: manikin, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Marilyn
...Marilyn, Little Girl Lost. . Little girl lost who never grew up burdened throughout her short life by a lack of her Mothers love. Thrown into the limelight beauty made her a star loved by eve......

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Categories: manikin, abuse, beautiful, beauty, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Invasion of the Manikins
...Can you hear the hypnotic hum of the production line? Education Rehabilitation factories rolling out images of humans made of plastic and wood. Minds are erased of parental guidance. Memory banks ......

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Categories: manikin, appreciation, atheist, betrayal, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Concussion Therapy
...the free state is actually not free casting my line into the many manipulations worked by dust devils and hierophants gambling their grunt wages on my young ass like cowboys on a cattle free vaca......

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Categories: manikin, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
In My Mind a Manikin
...In My Mind A Manikin In my closet a manikin will find Always remaining in my mind; Memory like her will never forget; Though now gone and do regret. She always has been self-sufficient With......

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Categories: manikin, allegory, analogy,
Form: Couplet

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