Short Broiling Poems

despair is the devil's dungeon broiling in darkness...

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eve's pond of white star charms
biters are broiling beneath
heaven daubs the blackness...

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humanity beached 
pink flesh broiling in the sun...
fish and chips with oil
  
*seasoned with summer...

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Talcum 
powdery sandy
basking, broiling, oiling
picnic baskets, boogie boards
storming, stinging, flying
lifeless, stone cold
dead...

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Higgledy-Piggledy,
Young Dr. Frankenstein.
thought he was able to
cook up a man.
baking and broiling and
incomprehensible
things to invent such a
Frankenstein plan....

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Blazing flames of wild rage
   burning heart like a coal.
Bold abusive curses
      boiling blood like diesel.
Blatant hot arguments
   broiling brains into fumes.
Brawl ends with rued ashes!


Date: 05/01/2018...

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August 1965
Laying hot tar and sand 
Swarms of  mosquitoes
Broiling summer sun
Warm water tasted cool
Low pay, nasty job
No job, no pay
Endless stretches ahead
Laying hot tar, sand, 
Sweat, and what was left
of my self esteem
On Georgia roads...

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Dragon gnarling gaze
The fire mouthed beast gurgling
Deluges of flood

And creation cringe
Before the broiling fire, razed
All things with desire

Toppled thrones, doomed kings
Mangled and twisted in wrath
Shambles to the bone

Melting citadels
Smoke choked lungs screams sin's silence
We crumbled to ash...

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Swirls of ragged trees
In wisp white softness of skies—
Curls of dark fingertips
Like gold glints of eyes.

Swirls in broiling smoke
And heat’s wild surmise.

Gnarls in sticks of grass
And brown leaves as winter dies.

Burls amid dark blue skies—
Swirls of alpha, omega
And all of life’s prize....

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A friend had booked a river cruise,
The Elbe the go-to river,
But got this message: “Sorry, but
This trip we can’t deliver.”

It seems that Europe’s waterways,
Due to a broiling summer,
Are much too low for ships to ply;
For tourists, what a bummer!

We’ve booked a cruise some months away,
Though I have got a notion
Hot weather won’t be quite enough
To drain away the ocean!...

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Flooded veins, broiling anger
Lost at home, talking to strangers
I come to cross roads
That have no name
Conquering obsessions, 
Never ending game
Emotion, a rusted chain
Forgiven, not worth saving
Defeat, I kneel to no man
Obsolete, manufactured again
Wonder wasted
Completely inebriated
Slowed reaction
Sense terminated
Spirits sight
Beer-goggled delight
Grounded, never to take flight...

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Ideas are slapping me in the gut today.
I shove one, another falls, one urges me to play.
I bite them and smash them and slash them to bits.
They keep coming back, not caring if I scream or have fits.

Come on! I say to my imagination. Give me a break.
She takes out a potato and starts broiling a steak.
A pink dinosaur with orange dots stands on my head.
I guess these ideas will keep coming until I am dead.,...

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Summer cooking on the beach,
Slap the sunblock where I can’t reach,
Baking in this broiling sun,
Ever since the day begun.

I’m roasting alive can’t you tell?
Touch my skin and I’ll scream like hell!
This is more than an alarming tan,
Someone said I’m a lobster man.

Sitting here I continue to broil,
Want some popcorn, just add some oil,
I’m finished now, I’m well done,
Cooking here in the summer sun.

6/29/18...

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Morning heat leaks
Hot eyes astray
Panting for air seeks
Smelling the heat of the day
Earth drying in the bake
Noonday sun, beat down, skake
Scorching heat, sweat pours
Showing no mercy outdoors
Grass frying at noon, bright
Beams of gushing light
Roasting, broiling pavement
Dancing in the flames element
With sparks in my ballet
Soon, summer melting away
Hopefully, with cold breeze, I pray  
Then, I will pen 'Cold Wintery'...

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