Bitter truths for tiny forks
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food fit for palaces
prepared with expert chef's care —
served to a small child
gets an instant revulsion
they're so brutally honest
nature hard-wired tongues
to guard against bitter greens...
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Categories:
revulsion, child, children, food,
Form: Tanka
temet nosce
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“I have dreamed a dream … and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.” (Daniel 2:3)
~
TEMET NOSCE
that place …
I know it not -
now, then or ever
the darkness that dwells t...
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Categories:
revulsion, analogy, dark, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Apollo and Daphne by Bernini A collaboration with Di11y Da11y
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We start at the end, with the warmth of his breath on her skin
Baulked by proximity, he never knew how to begin
A golden-tainted obsession, bitterly laced with lead
Transformed rapture to qu...
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Categories:
revulsion, art, perspective,
Form: Ekphrasis
The Cruelty Of Hate
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I thought for so long you were my good friend,
trusted you with a faithful mind without any doubt,
but in the difficult times I didn’t find you by my side,
saw instead the mask you wore fall d...
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Categories:
revulsion, forgiveness, hate,
Form: Free verse
Hands Off
...Enraged raw and spitting
Love warped beyond identity
Ten fingers ready to in-dulge
Sick offerings real men can't abide
Scarring rosette flesh once, always
Memories etched eternal
Blasp...
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Categories:
revulsion, abuse, anger,
Form: I do not know?
The Disquieting Domicile of the Storms
...Behold the abominable annals of the Storm domicile,
A living, groaning edifice of lumber and bureaucratic despair—
Where Allen Storm, the paternal prodigal of procedural pedantry,
Treads upon its ...
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Categories:
revulsion, family,
Form: Vogon Poetry
The emotional, mental and spiritual fallout courtesy Colt Gray
...The emotional, mental and spiritual fallout courtesy Colt Gray
Apalachee High School,
located in Winder, Georgia
witnessed an active shooter,
whereby the alleged lone gunman
(actually just a t...
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Categories:
revulsion, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Full of Beans
...What happens when the only light you see
Is the mainstream media’s gaslight?
It’s Plato’s Cave all over again
Except the fire throwing shadows now
Is an official gaslight torch.
Ironic tho’ give...
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Categories:
revulsion, political, society,
Form: Narrative
Lilith
...The evil nocturnal creature called Lilith
silently slithers into the realm of man at night
seeking the sycophantic pleasure of pain
as she drinks from a wormwood draught
of hate-filled spew
t...
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Categories:
revulsion, evil, hate,
Form: Free verse
The Shady Ones
...Too bright the world maybe in eyes of different colours,
but wicked eyes do fail to see the light in hearts of others.
With warmth the sun shall shine on souls that overglow,
undoubtful faith ...
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Categories:
revulsion, desire, evil, hate, innocence,
Form: Rhyme
Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk
...Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk
Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke
within noggin of average baby boomer bloke
catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke
positive growth experiences through...
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Categories:
revulsion, abuse, analogy, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
January 13th 2024 Happy Lxv-th birthday Matthew Scott Harris
...January 13th 2024 - Happy Lxv-th birthday Matthew Scott Harris
date of conception:? ~ Late March – mid April 1958.
date of parturition: January xiii, mcmlix.
date of expiration:? January i, emi...
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Categories:
revulsion, age, appreciation, birthday, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Sepulchral Whispers: a Plathian Annabel Lee Redux
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In the shade and slip of paternal seas,
a daughter dwells, known to all,
consumed in thought by maternal deceits.
Angel's flared bells blow a squall,
in protest of her love for only me.
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Categories:
revulsion, dark, daughter, innocence, memory,
Form: Free verse
The Gift
...From the window of my chic city office, lost in thought, I gaze out.
The pedestrians scurry like frenzied ants below, caught up in their bustling state of holiday insanity.
In his haste to cross th...
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Categories:
revulsion, allegory, holiday, hope,
Form: Prose
Self Destructive Wickedness Arrested, Convicted, and Gaoled
...Self destructive wickedness arrested, convicted, and gaoled...
with kidnapping little boy
ordered to suffer
life sentence without parole.
The deadly scourge of
one obsessive/compulsive di...
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Categories:
revulsion, 2nd grade, 6th grade,
Form: Free verse
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