Short Branding Poems

Blasphemous beastly betrayal braced brutal barren babble. Bruising baleful backbites 
become branding breach....

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What good of it
When we are 
Pierced by 
This naked time
Branding the friendship
Between two hurting souls...

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A song trickles from the thicket...
bouncing off the cowlicked grass.
It tilts its beak toward my whistle...
re-branding the day 
"Bull thistle magic".
...

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Words, the say, break no bones
But they do break hearts:
The wound caused by fire
Or a dagger would heal over time
But not the hurt caused by a lashing tongue
branding...

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     Into racially charged environs
        burst cattlemen with branding irons

     Followed, fortunately, by squadcars' screaming sirens  
        Whew... Sure glad those were 'dry runs'...

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Most I've encountered have not cared at all about this mortal shell except as means of judgement and to gain comradarie with others by searing hot metal into my skin ,branding me & shaming my sin...

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Nagging pain invades my eye; the aura lasts for weeks.
Stabbing, searing hot poker jabs into my brain; branding my eye.
Migraine owns me now; there are no drugs to relieve my agony.
...

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Darkness falls lame
broken by the full moon
tattered by clarity.

Constellations burn
branding blue satin.
Comets scrawl blank verse

Planets pulse ripely.
The painter stirs the paint pots
a single tone sounds....

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(This is a fictional poem)

One day I was cheating at poker and I got caught.
When I saw them get the branding iron, it sure looked hot.
They branded my balls before I could leave.
I seriously regretted hiding that ace up my sleeve....

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Time moves on
distances separate 
memories water down 
we barely notice
as people come and go.

But then we often find

Sparks of familiarity 
igniting life's essence 
embers branding ownership 
on the edge of awareness 
love never truly dies....

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When I am pulled underneath
When shadows call forth
Where do I go?

I can’t catch my breath
As I feel the current
slip me further to the end.
Like the descending flicker of a candle wick
Darkness sinks in
Branding my soul
as blackness burns beneath....

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Unisex sex protection in
Using condoms rubber 
Latex covering the penis
During sexual intercourse
Preventing to catch a sexually
Transmitted disease branding
Names of use trojan,lifestyles,
Magnums,ect a water proof
Holding in ejaculated semen
Condoms....

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Refusing to be labeled,
  rejecting type and cast

With choices so enabled,
  my freedom first and last

All fantasy as token,
  its myths now cast aside

My path remains unbroken,
—false branding singed with lies

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)...

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There’s a grinding in everyone’s mouth. 
Something cacophonous and discordant
That resonates perfection.
It sounds like continents in your throat
Villages of little fluorescent bulbs,
Branding stories on your tongue
And crunching into you
Until you become the philosopher of the world....

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Branding the wayward 
as a perpetrator of evil
let us pause a moment
to examine origin of sin

knowing not love and light
is the cause not ignorance
resulting in fall from grace

all that then is required
is to show the roadmap 

that such souls may awake 

01-March-2023...

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Incessant longings sail on my ocean of tears,

The thoughts of you lingering,

the loss of you sears the heart like the branding of an ox.



Reading back the memories, like reading  from the end

to the beginning of a pocketbook,

Pictures flitter beckoning the past, but alas,

You already have moved on....

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He feigns the astute overture which solemnly reigns oppressing. His head clouded 
from mars to infinity, a perpetual black power convolutes through metaphysical 
peripheries. Infinite is the torture granted from this being. Interdimensional 
branding lays hollow in vein of mind control. Such is the vicariously voracious...

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The preacher preached a fiery sermon. 
Words penetrating the soul like hot coals on fire.
Branding its burning mark of guilt across the hearts 
Who seek after sinful desires. 
That scratches the soul like prickly thorns and briars. 
While Pleasure and temptation tormentingly conspire. 
To lead you into the pit of fire....

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I could lose myself to us,
wiggle my toes in the grassy blades
of our colloquy,
sunbathe beneath the wild heat
of your latest exclamation,

pant at its flame

Your words lick my spine
like a possessive lover,
branding me with their claims

I burn too deep, Blue

It feels like Hell fastened itself
to the soles of my feet...

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Walking away fast,
I look away from your eyes; 
That’s all I can do;

Breath that keeps catching 
soul stained cheeks turning crimson, 
you don’t need to see; 

Leaving innocence; 
Pure, I take all of the scars 
branding them with smiles;

A fresh coat of paint 
you can swallow easily; 
Everything’s ok;

Lights in my eyes flickering,  
breathing in the atmosphere....

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Sure loves talking tough
Tough guy picking on the weak
      Always name-branding

         But he turns to his
     Loyal sycophantic sheep
       To build him back up...

  When he's knocked down flat
 This time, by just ONE woman
        Toothless Chihuahua

          Stand up to Putin!
   Get tougher on Kim Jong Un!
        Trash his "love letters"


Date written and posted: 05/26/2019...

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A silver beam of moonlight sears
    your face within my memory,
branding you forever on my heart.
Its soft flare reveals a trace 
    of sadness there,  
as this fateful evening we must part.

My grieving soul will languish in the dark,
    flowers will cease to bloom,
their fragrance spent; only your 
swift return will flame the heavens
    and prompt the lark to burst 
forth into song, a joyous testament!...

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To the shy hamlet vivid are the hardships of last year,
How the brazen river had surged in—ravishing, moulding,
Branding beyond repair. And yet, when the summer air hums
In the hush before rain, once again, on the crumbling fields
Rancid memories give way to emerald reveries.








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Date: 24 / 11 / 2016...

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Front door opened, allowing light to pour out
Nighttime sure has escaped the branding fingers
Pumpkins lit beneath me signify the end
Welcome to darkness

Little witches, ghosts, lost vampires, and werewolves
Guard the door, watch’s any offers of terror
The first sign of weary passerby they pounce
Bringing fear inside

Russell Sivey

Contest: SAPPHIC STANZA
Sponsor: craig cornish

8/29/2013...

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The warmth of
our heated blood,
collides with
the biting frost of
springtime drizzle,
as we tango
underneath a
ruddy canopy of
cherry blossom trees,
handcrafting our
conflagration like
a potter glazing clay

We are
two Argentine paramours,
alchemical desperados
lashing the
verdant virginity of
Toronto’s High Park
with a searing
gaucho bullwhip,
after branding the
naked earth
with red hot iron...

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