Short Amputation Poems

The redness that caused me agitation;
being cancerous was an aberration.
A letter stated it’s lipstick,
that smudged on my dipstick,
so deeply regret my amputation....

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The door shuts lightly behind me


soft click


metallic boundaries


I turn around to see,
that you are the one that closed it. 


And I swallow


a storm....

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I watched the sailfish spring from the sea

Had no wings, an enigma to me

     Why in flight did it embark?
     
     Pursuit by a great white shark

Its sail would soon be an amputee...

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shedders shards hover
if there is not a purpose~
life has no meaning

limb amputation
your life left in a child's hand~
a burden you are

soul shattered remains,
where did eternal love go~
death it does seek...

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On an Asian trip, noticed a sore on my gong
Doctor Smith said “amputation will be needed before too long”
So I saw Doctor Wong 
“It's the Hong Kong Dong
Wait 3 weeks it will fall off and you'll sing a happy song”...

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rain caressing limbs
transforms into crushing ice
duplicitous destruction

enveloping trees
splintering Appendages
suffering spiral fractures

winter rhetoric 
cracked branches screaming in pain
imminent amputation...

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Tenacious (1) - not easily pulled apart
Tenacious (2) - Persistent in seeking something valued or desired

TENACITY OF BOYS

tree limb letting go slowly —
              tenacious amputation with sticks & stones

6/23/2021...

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Intimate relations
          bring elation to some
        but to others frustration

        In which case
          they may take a vacation
        or try partner rotation

        Rare is the homosapien
          who selects amputation...

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childhood disrupted
by a fight against cancer
changed a young girl's life

chemo and amputation
renewed her for all to love

June 13, 20112
Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen

Written for Poetry Soup Member Contest:  Cantankacerous
Sponsored By:  Joann Grisetti...

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Similar to a leg ripped loose
you learn to hobble on crutches
but like a phantom limb
the amputation still throbs
long after the wound has closed

Those few precious seconds
between sleeping and waking
you are as you once were
then the awful will of God dawns
then it’s oh yeah, my leg is gone…...

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That is like a good intention 
But watch that bad expression. 
It draws so much attention. 
Creating high friction on peoples impression. 
It would be an amputation of your reputation
Capable of your expulsion not minding 
The parable of your redemption.
Good intention plus bad expression 
Is like an explosive. 
Its explosion will leave bad impression....

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You left but are not gone;
like an amputation—gone
but still here.
When love is experienced,
it is always.

Lost love is as a raindrop
in a puddle.
An evaporated puddle 
remains water;
and so does its imprint:

Though we can’t often keep 
track of the time,
its footprints remain;
and so it is with episodes
of undying love—gone 
but still here....

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On Phantom Pain  (Prelude)


When an illness
    — such as blindess or dementia —
Descends…
Then
Which direction of the heart
Will you choose
To mark the  rising vibrance
Of each new day’s stark, 
Hopeful radiance…?




** This is the prelude to a poemstill in progress, describing/defining phantom pain.



(c) sally young eslinger 3/2024. See my blog
Thanks be to God

    
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His client had a leg amputation

   Oops! Wrong leg due to miscalculation

      His client wanted to sue

         But as the attorney knew

            No leg to stand on for litigation

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
© All Rights Reserved

Placed No. 2 in Carolyn Devonshire's "Lawyer Limerick" Contest - August 2010

(Last line based on the old saying "You Ain't Got A Leg To Stand On")...

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A tumbler climbs a rain 
in all crimelessness.
Perhaps you will never know 
my in******ting self. The thirst has
become a river.

A pile of books and I cannot read.
The shadow lengthens on the wall.
An eagle melts in the air.
They are shifting him for amputation.
Truth cannot walk.

I become my father tonight 
and watch the house burning .
I am told there was lot of bleeding before.
There will be no need to rescuscitate.
The dead man says, why not ?



Satish Verma...

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in hired spring and naked thighs

the eternal sorrow did not go, it was living in our
memory under the gun of an unknown soldier. The
mania

had brought the overwhelming jeopardy of artificial
smiles, the swords, and ropes and different

tools of torture brew abomination, my clay
absorbs the shock, the abandonement of pain;

I reach for the icicles of veiled fire to burn
the generosity, the sacrificial amputation

of one’s own neck in service of opposition


SATISH VERMA...

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He dashed into shoe-shop;
“I have searched for shoes
All shops have big shoes
But when I eat more food
I will fill in space that is
Comfortably and steadily
I shall move all the way
My head has rare wisdom”

He grabbed despite advice
The shoes were oversize
And when they  hurt him
He filled stones in spaces
And praised his wisdom
As townsmen laughed
But by end of the year
His legs were taken away
To surgeon for amputation
And immediate replacement
With wooden pieces!...

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in hired spring and naked thighs

the eternal sorrow did not go, it was living in our
memory under the gun of an unknown soldier. The
mania

had brought the overwhelming jeopardy of artificial
smiles, the swords, and ropes and different

tools of torture brew abomination, my clay
absorbs the shock, the abandonement of pain;

I reach for the icicles of veiled fire to burn
the generosity, the sacrificial amputation

of one’s own neck in service of opposition


SATISH VERMA...

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