Short Bloodletting Poems

lava approaching
inland roads of Big Island
— bloodletting tourists

6/1/2018...

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Venetian blinds shuttered
Vivacious lust a fix
Veins throb crimson allure
Visceral dread repels
Victorian specter
Vexing savoir-faire lure
Vampire's bloodletting...

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Who believe to be alive,
on this earth after death.

Who crave fame, Rial or crown,
hard to be a savior of mankind.

Decisive fatwa from best findings, 
Grand Ayatollah blackclothed.

Mourning in the morning, 
a lot of verses are amusing....

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Real poets don’t make lasting friends
they shun fraternity
Their truth like gritty sandpaper
abrasive when intoned   
The reader may be gratified 
with what the words uncover
More likely though the pain involved
— will cut them to the bone

(Dreamsleep: February, 2024) 
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What he did to simple Mark 
With a sword 
Left him with a complex mark 
In a ward …
Endless cries of “Oh!  My  lord “  
“I’ve broken somebody’s spinal   cord.”

Before then, parading a rifle4 
But from his Dad getting eyeful, 
Who would a begged laughter stifle
As blood-letting isn’t a trifle....

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I cried for help,
But no one could see, 
The pain on the inside of me.

There weren't open wounds,
That threatened my life,
But the pain in my mind,
Was a bloodletting strife.

Can't you hear the words I'm saying?
Listen with your heart not your ears,
Maybe than you can identify, 
My pain and my fears....

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rip your guts out 
scatter them into the wind
subsidize the pain, the humiliation
the bloodletting 
with wine, verse, and rhythm

spend the night 
beneath star filled skies
with the love of another
then deny the wrongdoing 
the aftermath 
under throes of interrogation 
and just maybe 
with a bit of favor
you might become
a poet...

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Sometimes it's like a bloodletting
and the womb is the target.
Open your legs and let me be
sucked up into the bloodstream.
Come, we will walk hand in hand
down lighted streets 
as I construct an idealism more damning,
more hysterical, since sometimes I
feel infinitely outmoded, infinitely second hand.
It is so ludicrous now, I feel compelled to laugh....

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  a place beyond dreams;
    u   t   o   p   i   a where 
         unity blossoms 
          and humanity 
shines so bright; no wars...

   are fought with words 
        or with weapons; 
         no bloodletting.
           a safe haven...

       where love reigns
          and peace is
            sustaining.

                i wish
                to live...

                there.
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What to Believe
And here we go again, a conflict that can end in war
and both sides blame the other and we believe in
lies according to out political convictions.
Everyone claims to know the truth which they are unable
to verify without calling the opponent names.
Could the cynical truth be that Europe needs a war
not a devastating one, but just a little bloodletting before
settling the matter in Berlin.  
War memorials and solemn handshakes....

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