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Putrefying Poems - Poems about Putrefying

THE AFRICAN WILD DOG
...Donning sable spots on buff hearts: With all the resolve an’ brutality They pursue their prey; Stopping at nothing but the Quarry’s final gasp for a breath They’re the pillaging African wil......

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Categories: putrefying, abuse, africa, allegory, analogy,
Form: Prose
Lorca Translations I
...Lorca Translations I Gacela of the Dark Death by Federico Garcia Lorca loose translation by Michael R. Burch I want to sleep the dreamless sleep of apples far from the bustle of cemeteries. ......

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Categories: putrefying, dark, death, heart, romance,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Bone Idol
...[First posted in 3 parts. Intended novel: time never allowed] Prologue This, Sir, is the prologue from before our tale begins About the day our father did succumb to mortal sins And lef......

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Categories: putrefying, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When Deferred Dreams Become Blurred Visions: Apropos of Hughes's Proverbial Question
...What happens when rotten strange fruit… Hanging from trees of auction block wood Become stinking pieces of black flesh… Dried blood putrefying in murderous streets…? When crystallized tears......

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Categories: putrefying, 12th grade, allegory, analogy,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Three Fewer
...The tabby slinkily strutted across the yard fresh kill held loosely in diamond teeth; a turtle dove, its tiny head bobbing, to the lazy rhythm of the loping cat. A flash of pink spangled collar ......

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Categories: putrefying, animal, bird, cat, death,
Form: Free verse



Listless Gaze
...transfixed I stumble down shifting halls of my angst my distress a cold stale breath stagnates and permeates its doom onto my essence. beguiled I entomb myself in the m......

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Categories: putrefying, angst,
Form: Free verse
Depraving Thoughts
...he weeps with thoughts of depravation, seeking wholeness as he is chilled to his putrefying bones mossy tombs surround abandoned graves, ivy stretches up rock filled with decay the rav......

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Categories: putrefying, dark, deep, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Impregnable Fortified Donjon
...Alias indomitable invincible Donald John Trump oozes wrath inexorably plunging every species of life toward apocalyptic warpath mercilessly threatentens world wide web promising bloodbath val......

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Categories: putrefying, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Political Verse
Hypocrisy
...Truth bubbling forth as from a mountain spring. A gem set in gold resting on purple velvet, “Better a smooth step than a smooth tongue.” He rotates his posterior to the world, While his eyes ar......

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Categories: putrefying, pride, religious,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Self-Tutoring Translation of Rimbaud's Final Version Vowels In Contemporary Terms
...A Self-Tutoring Translation of RIMBAUD's Final Version " Vowels " in Contemporary Terms (" Vowels " (final version, without the definite article, with the poet's corrections) in RIMBAUD Œuvres......

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Categories: putrefying, analogy, color, sound, surreal,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Self-Tutoring Translation of Rimbaud's the Vowels In Contemporary Terms
...A Self-Tutoring Translation of RIMBAUD's " The Vowels " in Contemporary Terms (" The Vowels " in the Paul Verlaine (first version) copy in RIMBAUD Œuvres complètes. Ed. by Pierre Brunel. Paris ......

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Categories: putrefying, color, magic, metaphor, surreal,
Form: Sonnet
I Feel So Old
...I feel so rustic, The world being in such a haste Than my normal pace of existence. As sparks of thoughts form in my brain, The time takes a giant leap, And reflects on my novel thoughts Callin......

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Categories: putrefying, change, farewell, holocaust, horror,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Deferred Dreams Become Blurred Visions
...(Apropos of Hughes’s Proverbial Question) What happens when rotten strange fruit… Hanging from trees of auction block wood Become stinking pieces of black flesh…dried blood Putrefying in murder......

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Categories: putrefying, allegory, black african american,
Form: Prose Poetry
Here We Are,Free Africans
...Through dark ages Through ugly ages Through pale-faced lanky ages We've crawled through the thorns of life and leapt fearlessly over life's hurdles. Through the gates and walls that caged our......

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Categories: putrefying, africa, allegory, allusion, eulogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Poet's Shadow
...I smile to the world And enjoy the warm glance That is returned to me! I smile to the world With a sparkle in my gaze A sparkle having been placed there On purpose Meant to gi......

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Categories: putrefying, life, scary,
Form: Free verse

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