Shocks Poems - Poems about Shocks

(A throw-back piece, a breakup poem from high school) What a lonely, peculiar, eccentric figure I must be. A girl, in a garden, crying at an iPad, in the dark. Earlier, at school... It was a clear spelling out, like steel cuts thru fruit. As he spoke, he looked down and away, his gorgeous face blank and indifferent, as...

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Money does not bring true happiness, This does not exist. Money releases and smoothes The daily burdens and responsibilities; It is a relief that diminishes the worries. Being healthy is the ultimate state of happiness; Being wealthy is the hollow state of happiness. The concerns of securities show-up on the screen, Attack the consciousness, and destroy the spleen. The fear of death makes...

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harvest has ended corn shocks made by Amish stand lining empty fields...

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reflecting what ceases a season from fully blooming. Spring ‘21 was set to boost, but mom died and I couldn’t take those walks, except down the aisle of shocks. Autumn ‘22 brings covid not a rousing stroll, indoors. I have invited Autumn in. H o p e - a door. 9/24/2022...

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Among the greatest of shocks What some never from birth Recover from. Life itself! Living's for lack of mirth. This one has all the symptoms. Who cant abide in each; Love's worthiness, their person. Their world, as out of reach....

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Sans further passion .. of strong earthquakes in my chest ... soft love full action ......

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It's after the 'landslide?' Thieves stole the election! This traitorous scum bag's a Russian invention, But 'Charmin' (1) for Putin (that's on a good day!) For the dark side of Trump's just black art on display! Who’s sure what this Russian prick knows that we don't know? His strength, the weak worship, on knees (that's 'for damn sho!'), So sad (though...

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The Wonder Boys by Michael R. Burch (for Leslie Mellichamp, the late editor of The Lyric, who was a friend and mentor to many poets, and a fine poet in his own right) The stars were always there, too-bright cliches: scintillant truths the jaded world outgrew as baffled poets winged keyed kites?amazed, in dream of shocks that suddenly came true ....

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Sleeping in the bones of humanity A fear snarls complications and apathy As humid poverty dies ingesting vices While tossing dice into the digital Scream as surrealistic executions Rifle through old files yellowed The answer is never bound but held Loosely by iron-hands of iron-men As women wearing polite lies ring bells Applauding ejaculations from hell At once a sickness ferments lock-jaw Gnashing us...

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There is a magnetic field That is keeping my love sealed A force so strong it is intense Just like and electric fence That shocks me each time we touch But I just can't get enough Of this static overflow I am just about to blow And release a shock so large The amount of my discharge Will send waves of love right through The core,...

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As I closed my eyes to sleep I dreamt of that trench stinky and deep That lovely place they called Da Nang That I now recall with a terrible pang The war had to be fought they said I signed the slip and sped As I lay bleeding in that hole Men beside me broken and never would be whole Mortars hitting hard...

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Charles Darwin Shocks the World By Elton Camp Darwin’s father made it plain as could be. “When you grow up, go into the ministry. That’s an occupation respectable enough. The schooling it requires isn’t very tough.” A respectful son, he tried hard to obey, But learned he didn’t believe that way. Some church doctrine he couldn’t accept. Of reason and common sense it was...

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