Ransacked Poems

Premium MemberBarracuda

...edged teeth grate live bones
ransacked by its spineless bite
red bubbles at sea

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Categories: ransacked, animal, betrayal, image, metaphor,
Form: Haiku

Excellent marksmen women set his her sites

...Excellent marksmen/women set his/her sites...

I can hold out for upcoming mental health therapy until Wednesday at 1:00 p.m.

Yes, and you (like I) will probably presume me deservedly cursed for...
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Categories: ransacked, absence, abuse, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberAzure Vistas

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"Azure Vistas"

Azure vistas presented themselves to me
rolling inwards the clouds like tumbleweeds
mercilessly bump fallen angels off the map
like torrents of rain fal...
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Categories: ransacked, muse, political, spiritual,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberSongbird

...Lirena was a songbird born of yore
Who dearly loved her husband everyday;
She sings her songs of contentment no more.

An adversary’s troops ransacked the shore,
A ruthless marauding they did di...
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Categories: ransacked, bereavement, bird, courage, death,
Form: Villanelle

Premium MemberNot Our Regular Drummer

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Take a look who’s behind the kit,
he’s not our regular drummer;

Make no mistake he’s taken a life,
with that jackknife to a pounding heart;

So notorious, his beat’s ferocious.

He’s ransa...
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Categories: ransacked, dark, emotions, music,
Form: Free verse


Not so Non-Profit

...I was referred to your organization for shelter
what was offered was totally helter skelter
first week a birdie gave the scoop of the place
a dirty dark seedy operation without any grace 

Your ...
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Categories: ransacked, abuse, community, dark, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberRaging Fire Hollow Hearts

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Written: January 22, 2025 for contest Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann

Quote: “In the dynamic world society which is the objective of the United Nations, all peoples must have eq...
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Categories: ransacked, analogy, discrimination, freedom,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberArmageddon

...Turned on the TV to see what they'd say
There's crowds in the streets all around the UK
Shelves being ransacked at Tesco all day
It's happening too in the U S of A

My TV depicting an end, clear...
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Categories: ransacked, christmas, war,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBATTERIES NOT INCLUDED

...As time shortens
The aisles fill
Hollow-eyed scavengers
Prowling ransacked shelves
The challenge
Of the “tic-toc” clock
Santa will get the credit
They will get the debit
As they sit deluded
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Categories: ransacked, christmas, humor,
Form: Free verse

Bookshop Osmosis

...The glossy acrylic smell of new editions
is cordite to my nose,
an explosive mixture of - need to know.
I finger trawl over dust covers
mindreading unread masterpieces.

Movies ransacked many o...
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Categories: ransacked, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCheese Wars

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I followed milky and mouldy scents,
down cobbled and narrow paths,
only to see it riddled with rats,
feasting on Feta and Camembert,
whilst the wine sipping Uppers prepared to
clash against th...
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Categories: ransacked, allusion, conflict, society,
Form: Free verse

For Those Who Celebrate The 4th Of July

...We need to remember our heritage and the reason we celebrate the 4th of July.
 
Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence? Their story. . .
 
F...
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Categories: ransacked, america, patriotic,
Form: Free verse

I'm not quintessence

...At the end of the day,
I pour my soul into these words, they say,
These scars, they tell stories of my past,
But they don't define me, they won't last. 

It's been a journey, finding joy amidst ...
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Categories: ransacked, depression, emotions, endurance, i
Form: Rhyme

Baseless incriminations heaped upon head of missus

...Baseless incriminations heaped upon head of missus...
courtesy evil ferocious wraithlike grimace

Acrimonious scurrilous words
flew out the mouth
of vicious nasty shortish brute
leaving yours t...
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Categories: ransacked, abuse, analogy, anger, april,
Form: Free verse

graduating from room 101

...i once stood
within my own shipwreck
blaming cruel seas

years past
flotsam and jetsam
built a driftwood home

when storms came
that ramshackle shelter
self-destructed
while i
cursed foul...
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Categories: ransacked, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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