Short Carcass Poems

The 
whale shark
carcass sinks-
the crabs end their
fast....

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Life so pity us
Like dogs and lions fighting
Over a carcass....

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The monstrous tree swings
A noose above the carcass
Thrown head first to earth....

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From silt of dead calendars,
I dug out carcass of my first kiss.
Lugging it, I'm on my last mile....

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heartless beasts
demolish the damned
burnt carcass
turn to dust-
misty air shroud
the gazing moon...

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ego evicted
looks at our soul
as a shadow does
subservient to light

the snake has shed
its lifeless skin
the carcass
released...

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wild possum plays dead
woodpecker knocks on green wood
willow weeps for both
wherever the carcass is
will the vulture there gather...

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Filled plate of grilled tortellini 
Killed the great James Gandolfini
This star's carcass heavy  
A Ford or a Chevy
Should have been a Lamborghini...

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There once was a guy who was crazy
Took bath salts to make him not lazy
Bad trip to say the least
Human flesh was a feast
Dead carcass was pushin' up daises...

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Maggot wriggled,
in the dead carcass,
it lived from the dead,
but did he know,
that the dead,
that he was living upon,
had died from the acts of alive ones....

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Day and night I pray to the Almighty thus
Do not turn your faithful in a pile of carcass

Save them from annihilation lest one would say
             To be a faithful the cost is enormous...

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Holy crapola, what a shock to the system
25 degrees down from two days ago, that's fearsome
Shorts to parkas
Shiver me carcass
To this radical plummet, I'm a very sad victim...

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I poorly attempt to manifest my dreams on paper...and  instantly
very hesitant to share the hollow carcass  of what and when,
 but finally allowing some air in and my sin,
 I fear, was time spent......abiding....

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In order to survive in the wilderness, one is forced to kill,
which I have done many times to get my belly full,
but every time I was forced to cause an animal to die,
I would lay upon its carcass and begin to cry....

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surrounded by white birds
who bring me an apron.

I discover the guts of this day
until it's carcass breaks free from my lips.

I'm glad I am gone
it is good to leave,
to fresh air
a clear day
and a  smile...

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Live in a very quiet neighbourhood of Newmarket
Crime is non existent 'cept the store's huge markups
Seems like a crime to me
Starvation is a way out it seems
Want to lose weight but not destroy my carcass...

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Life
                    easy, smooth
     decomposing, existing, suffocating
   Skeleton, Carcass, Vessel, Electrons 
      thriving, flourishing, breathing, 
                 complex, dynamic 
                       Energy....

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finally laid out conquered


bleeds salvific Light



[" ... 'Whoever has come to know the world

has discovered a carcass, and whoever has discovered a carcass

is worth more than the world.'"

--- the Gospel of Thomas]...

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Captain Tabby Longtail stands
Like Ahab at the helm,
His Jolly Roger flying high
Above his salty realm.
He’ll keelhaul your scurvy carcass
If you give him any bull,
And he’ll make you walk the plank, mate,
If his food dish isn’t full.
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A deer was slain on the Beltway
My car drove along her body
I heard horns behind me
Slowing down to look at her poor carcass

That evening, brushing my teeth
Before going to bed, I saw
In the mirror her big eye
Where the sky was like frozen slime...

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There are people that imagine it never gets warm
Way up in Canada where cold weather's the norm
In July we unzip our fur-lined parkas
While carving away on a newly killed carcass
Then on to our dog sled through an another snowy storm

LOL...

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Forgotten Poems fill my head,
Though ruined; tattered or destroyed
The Truth I seek, how do I dread-
For this Life I've yet enjoyed!

Arctic Artist, how hard I shiver!
My frozen carcass never found
Lethal Liquor engulfs my liver-
As the snow drifts all around......

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Though of two minds he played it cool
(Which is the sacred feline rule),
Convinced he could not be a crime,
Both cat and carcass at one time,
So for a pulse he dared to feel
To see which one of him was real,
And thus a quaint monstrosity
Was killed by curiosity....

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The hunters could not find her

Venison they desired to eat

Then her carcass lay at the edge

Of an open field, next to the deep woods  

Written: 4/4/2019
Taken from the poem "Dry"
Contest: Liberum Divisa II
Sponsor: Gregory R. Barden...

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There are people that imagine it never gets warm
Way up here in Canada where cold weather's the norm
In July we unzip our fur lined parkas
While carving away on a newly killed carcass
Then on to our dog sled through a another snowy storm


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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