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Procrustean Poems - Poems about Procrustean


Premium MemberA Trillion Points of Light

...A Trillion Points of Light
David J Walker

As a Son 
of the father
I am carbon
I am water
Avocations alma mate
In the night

I am a living
	Breathing being
Procrustean 
perceiving 
Ther...
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Categories: procrustean, allegory,
Form: Rhyme

So Where Does Freedom Sleep

...So where does freedom sleep in dirty shoes 
spoiling the sheets and drooling on the pillow, 
Procrustean bed that silly people choose 
and breast of its I notice doesn't billow....
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Categories: procrustean, emotions, feelings, irony, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme



Ideology

...Cold hungry hands 

How they wrench and heave
Hack and cleave
Stretch twist and compress
Hands of Procrustean carnage 

 And how will they attain their prized guest? 
She is too luxuriant and...
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Categories: procrustean, beautiful, boyfriend, break up,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Darkness of Cold Oceans Dwelling Deepest

...The Darkness of Cold Oceans Dwelling Deepest

Into the utter darkness of cold oceans dwelling deepest,
there is far beyond any glimmer of hope an outer limit
that defines a dark realm of the true...
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Categories: procrustean, allegory, death, evil, fantasy,
Form: Quatrain

Professor Wilbur the Whale the Second

...Oooh now then. Oh just wow. A scarlet salivating sentinel sentiment is wafting air at that door. Blowing. Blowing is not bubbling so do not count powder puffs or smoke globules that radiate sideways....
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Categories: procrustean, analogy, animal, appreciation, ,
Form: I do not know?



Premium MemberCool Water

...You are blameless to not swim,
Where water is ingenuously cool,
Too cool for fish to frolic,
Whoever heard of a Procrustean waterbed?
I am taking swimming lessons at the J.C.C.,
From Pasternak a...
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Categories: procrustean, water,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Unholy Ones

...ISIS is a Black Vortex that has attached itself to and infected the World’s Soul . . . 

Murder, Rape, Beatings, Beheadings, Destruction, and Terror,
These thugs, criminals and hooligans are the u...
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Categories: procrustean, abuse, age, anger, angst,
Form: Terza Rima

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry