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Mauls Poems - Poems about Mauls

Premium MemberPredator

...It hits fast with no trace
No warning…no face
Slips in slick and sips blood quick 
Steals breath and whispers death

It chokes and grinds
Claws deep and rewires minds
No mercy…no pause
Just r...
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Categories: mauls, dark,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberStone-Hearted Love

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Written: March 11, 2025

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Desert dazzling daisy,
Enchanted by the delicate dance of the wind, 
swayed gently under the warm sun. 
Its vibra...
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Categories: mauls, adventure, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberLord, Save This Unholy Baptist

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Lord, save this unholy Baptist!?
     Her lactation, like mother's juice,
slakes thirsty tongues with creamy gist.
     To flush her slick love-chamber's sluice,
with corkscrew thumbs, and pr...
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Categories: mauls, dedication, desire, god, life,
Form: Lyric

Night Labor, for Rachel Corrie

...Night Labor
by Michael R. Burch

for Rachel Corrie

Tonight we keep the flame alive;
we keep the candle lit.
We burn bright incense in your name
and swear we’ll not forget—
your innocence, y...
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Categories: mauls, children, courage, hate, innocence,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberRed Bears and Glass Snakes

...Big brother on the corner and in the sky 
Big sister in the mixed bathroom
With a finger in your apple pie.
Credit cards only -no need for cash
the eagle has both talons on every greenback.
An u...
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Categories: mauls, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberSong of The Red Wolf No 8: ABAB

...Chinese medicine, thus hope is reduced,
albeit, it doesn't apply to Red Wolf.
Canis rufus, a deep southerner roost,
with southern hospitality, aloof,
unlike others of their kind. Family
oriented...
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Categories: mauls, allusion, analogy, animal, appreciation,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

Premium MemberI Dream

...Written: September 06, 2023
I dream poetry                                      Sponsored by: Ink Empress   
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I wander i...
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Categories: mauls, analogy, appreciation, beauty, cute
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOde To Pussy Cat

...Pussy cat pussy cat
Your growls and your yowls
Your calls and your mauls
Patting me down
Making me into a nest
Your jaws and your claws
Ouch pussy cat!...
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Categories: mauls, cat,
Form: Free verse

Brevette

...Christ carries cross
want wakes wisdom
mantis mauls mate
music makes merry
sun sparkles snowman
thinking takes time
fear frames future
ivy interlaces iochroma
caterpillar chews cottonweed
ra...
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Categories: mauls, wisdom,
Form: Free verse

That's Love

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                          mantis
                          
                           mauls

                           mate





First Place Winner: Joseph May-In Just A Few Words 2/ Co...
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Categories: mauls, insect,
Form: Verse

Shadow Play

...Evening turns to mime -
you emerge from its cameo artistry,
your dark unraveled hair cajoles
in a lamp shaded theater.

Moments clash together.
A denuding madness is ungloved,
a palpab...
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Categories: mauls, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Tawfiq Zayyad Translation: Here We Shall Remain

...Here We Shall Remain
by Tawfiq Zayyad
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Like twenty impossibilities
in Lydda, Ramla and Galilee ...
here we shall remain.

Like brick walls...
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Categories: mauls, arabic, poems, poverty, prison,
Form: Free verse

Who, Us

...who, US?
by Michael R. Burch

jesus was born
a palestinian child
where there’s no Room
for the meek and the mild

... and in bethlehem still
to this day, lambs are born
to cries of “no Room...
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Categories: mauls, abuse, bible, christian, jesus,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberEach Tear That Falls

...I'm here to encourage
I'm here to support
My love's revealed
Forthwith in your court

This bitter anguish
Devours my heart
Thy trepidation
Now rips me apart

Such weight on your shoulders
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Categories: mauls, true love,
Form: Rhyme

Cleansings

...Cleansings
by Michael R. Burch

Walk here among the walking specters. Learn
inhuman patience. Flesh can only cleave
to bone this tightly if their hearts believe
that God is good, and never mind...
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Categories: mauls, holocaust, prison, race, racism,
Form: Verse

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