Pulverizing Poems

Hiroshima eighty years since August 6th, 1945

...Hiroshima – eighty years since August 6th, 1945

About fourteen and a half years 
before my birth,
yours truly not even a twinkle  
in the eyes of his then 
young father and mother
the former ...
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Categories: pulverizing, age, angst, anniversary, august,
Form: Free verse

The Milling of Mind

...Unrealities and realities
grind together in mortar’s mouth,
spilling, pulverizing, volatile perfumes—
succumbing scents of citrus, crushed copper,
musks of bruised lightning,
threshing thunderou...
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Categories: pulverizing, change, conflict, creation, feelings,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberCerulean Seclusion

...In blackness,
 I hear forked tongues 
whisper wicked witchery,
hope within arthritic 
  ink slowly f a d e s
as darkness descends  
upon snow-speckled heart, 
and a murder of...
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Categories: pulverizing, angst,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSipping Coffee

...Listen to the silence, 
before the sip of this brewed potion, 
an enticing concoction, 
Do you hear the harvest , 
The songs oozing from the volcanic sandy loam, 
perspiring earthy herbs that gr...
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Categories: pulverizing, addiction, cheer up,
Form: Free verse

Goodbye and good riddance 2023

...Goodbye and good riddance 2023

Commencement writing this poem
began December 31st: 2:24 PM
ended December 31st: 03:53 PM.

The best geriatric effort I apply
twittering, ushering, and 
albeit...
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Categories: pulverizing, anniversary, anxiety, celebration, conflict,
Form: Rhyme


Aftermath of War Onerous Task

...Aftermath of war: onerous task...

to salvage flotsam and jetsam
of human wreckage
amidst a sea where triage
witnessed courtesy scattered corpses
populating the Gaza strip
more'n pound of cold...
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Categories: pulverizing, abuse, allah, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme

For Love of War

...Ambient sounds ravage the mind, drowning your voice-

Not your focus-to be compromised but not by choice;

Only surrendering to the calls of injustice from its victims,

Shouting a harrowing de...
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Categories: pulverizing, allegory, conflict, corruption, evil,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Boys

...They crawl in a line 
along the esplanade 
between beachfront mansions
and the bay's indifference, 
windows down, elbows out,
hands tapping on doors in time
to the doof doof base
pulverizing a...
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Categories: pulverizing, beach, boy, car,
Form: Free verse

Light the Fuse and Wait

...An applecart of half-eaten ideas
pushed into sight by heavyweight ghosts.

Wormwood and cider
the aroma of root beer in a lit-up air.

The poet pauses….judges the hunger
of his next line
to f...
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Categories: pulverizing, poetry,
Form: Free verse

My Poet

...Looseleaf thoughts trailed behind me as I moved between moments.
Onto the next will little regard for the last.
Carelessly discarded attention to detail left a world crafted by outline, but devoid ...
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Categories: pulverizing, deep,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHerald In a New Dawn

...He gasped for breath under the brutal feet.... George Floyd, the black man at Minneapolis, a hapless victim of color prejudice. One more in the list... maligned for centuries, casting dark shadows in...
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Categories: pulverizing, anger, angst, inspirational,
Form: Haibun

Premium MemberThe Rise of Marxism

...There is reason why evil
has persisted, Man does not
wisely use his power, rejecting
God's council, a Better Plan – the 
devil having no power, but for 
the power given him by God's Man.  

We...
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Categories: pulverizing, environment, humanity, introspection, judgement,
Form: Free verse

Coward

...A coward easily gives up in the morning
And even in the evening:
In brewing fights to lie low
And during skirmishes unhelpfully slow.

Battle strategies offers the hothead,
Courtesy of the war ...
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Categories: pulverizing, courage,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPlay Time

...he remembers the autumn of 1942 when the troops moved forward

before Stalingrad fell and winter crushed bodies and minds under fire

tanks pulverizing soldiers and some falling by the wayside on...
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Categories: pulverizing, autumn,
Form: Free verse

A Most Disruptive Sleep Psyche Violently Pummeled

...A most disruptive sleep - psyche violently pummeled

Upon awakening earlier today
(May 26th, 2020)
felt utterly fatigued without fail
tormenting dreams found yours truly
jangled, harried and
f...
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Categories: pulverizing, anxiety, endurance, grave, horror,
Form: Free verse

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