Short Carcasses Poems

Skeletons with skin
Carcasses with hair and nails
Not fully decayed...

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Flowers wilt
Dead carcasses are buried
Loved ones mourn

Rest in peace,
Your life on earth is no more…
Farewell, friend...

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once a life
I lived
filled with amusement
but a fool I was
till fate opened the door
to show me the carcasses
of my joy...

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Rusty carcasses,
forsaken by time,
battered by wind, waves.
Once useful and proud,
now broken, forlorn.
The tales they could tell.

#1...

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Abandoned at sea,

dismantled, wasted-

carcasses of ships

join the huge graveyard

on Shipwreck Beach shore-

battling waves no more.
...

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the millennium bug
lives in the human brain
hunts, capture, eats all things
stores the game in stomach
but leaves dry carcasses only
to those that feed it earnestly...

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I have seen them
Near the distant bush
Shriveled carcasses
Slightly gnawed
Partly “eaten”.
I have not seen - “IT”
And worry
About “IT’s”
Dining habits.

John G. Lawless
©5/23/2023...

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the republic rears beef cattle
feeds so well dairy ones
and calves are so fat
slaughters them often
but does not sell
does not eat any 
does not export anyway
buries carcasses
in hot refrigerators...

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Imageries of tribal stench
Streets stretched in stray bullets
Carcasses charred in church
Women slit in the dark
A conglomerate of conference table
Littered with  coffee and curfew
Monkeys mourning
Centre crawling
Sentiments sighing
Jos, a shadow....

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Eco-locating dreams of a wounded me

Rejected by the fins cutters of bloody Reality

I had strong arms but could not walk

on powdered carcasses of my friends' hopes

they had only gills...lungs “saved” me...

drifting on a dry land with no melody...


copyright@iolandascripca2012...

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Like a pride of starving lions,

lust's uncontrollable appetites fell upon the

herd of tamed virtues 

devouring them to the last

leaving behind only the carcasses

of lofty ideals

for

evil's scavengers to feast! 







© Demetrios Trifiatis
      11 January 2018...

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We sank into the sea 
Millions of years ago,
Our carcasses set to the sun.
We basked in our own erosion
While our forever-hearts were 
scorched into the brown floor,
Wedging what was left of us 
Into primordial adorableness.
Escaping into ghost love 
Is a natural response.
Let us not judge so quickly....

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Poison the water supply 
And infect the crops with pesticides 
Everyone dies 
Doesn't matter if you smoke
Or liquor drink
Diet on sugar or fatty food
The healthy die like every other
Person who has lived a life of excess 
They just leave a better looking carcass 
And cleaner organ's 
If they chose to donate...

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NaPoWriMo NaPoWriMoDay1 Carcass death time

Death and life, 
Time slips past
As one ends, yet another begins:
Carcasses are left to rot,
While their counterpart is all but forgot.
Yet why the difference in care,
Between mortality's apprentice
And life's most fair?...

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the last remaining vestiges of autumn
bitter clingers
parched and weary
shriveled in dismay
harried and harassed by an ill north wind
launch into oblivion
to join the sea of lifeless carcasses
on the forest floor

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for the Winter Storm Poetry Contest
sponsored by Kim Rodrigues
written on 12/25/22...

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Tongue soaked in tasty red
Painful water; it blots the bed
Vampires are at feast
Doom strikes whoever sucks least

Bursted veins, brawled roars
Shattered windows paving soars
Of beasts; two dead couples lays
Tickling death in its night rays

Hunger exhumes lost appetites 
Like woods to termites
Carcasses left for vultures
It was a night of less surfeit pleasures!...

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The resonance of Time's ticking is unbearable!
Once you appeared on the warm and soft riverbed
Years passed stealthily
The 'elfin pinnace' glided on and on
The echoing life slowly engulfed you to a hallucinating slumber

And then

Left on the arid banks 
Where even the carcasses of buffaloes rot disdainfully
You stare at yourself, shocked and wide awake......

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From nigh'to morn te' crows knew;
So high yet warm O' owl's claws;
Near vile norm, shadows torn;
Nature's flaws, sins laws;
Rotten dead meat a mouse and retreat;
Vultures and search for dead carcasses;
Owl's Extending their claws, soaring down in free fall;
Vulture soars, they fly, they flew;

12/14/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020...

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White house 
On a white cloud
Surrounded by white trees 
White hills and 
A grey sky

The echo of white silence 
Throughout the valley
Except for the heartbeats and
Scurryings of little critters
Digging for food and love

The smell of 
Burning wood
Along with the pine surrounds and
The smell of
The carcasses of decaying critters
Worn out by another white winter....

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On blankets of snow 
Carcasses of my siblings lay. 
I watch you now 
Walk away.

Moments ago, 
Your greedy eyes, knives, 
Merciless shadow 
Had snatched their lives.

As you merry about 
The cozy fur and trophy heads 
I prepare to ready the shroud 
Tears piling around in hundreds.

Justice waits for you…

Justice of nature…

A world dry of animals, foliage, and hue– 
Nature’s punishment for our blunder....

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Written: August 22, 2023
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whispers of the past
rusty carcasses stand tall~
tales lost to the waves

the leafless tree stretch
birdhouse waddle in the breeze~
sanctuary high

beauteous full moon
shines brightly for us to see~
promises unfold

chilled birds find solace
kind heart, a thoughtful gesture~
incessant snow falls...

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After all this, what is it for?

I climbed a mountain only to face a brick wall

Drowned in my own sweat and tears

Wishing I had cried even more

I smiled when I saw

the flowers atop the trees

Only to venture nearer and see

that they were only snowfall.

Now I am torn

by the wire-like branches

Worn

by the whiplash of wind.

Buried 

under carcasses of butterflies

Watching the stars fall.

After all this, what is it for?...

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When the carcasses if the great
      Befall a soft death,
      The ambience of gold,
      Beneath their master
      Encompass a backwards halo.
      The deity is waiting,
      Betrayal of the seasons,
      But only the natural cycle of life.
      Each day more and more
      Soldiers fall valiant,
      As peace keepers of nature's order.
      The season of the fallen begins again,
      In repentance as it has always....

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deep brush brown her locks
turned my key
pleading nutmeg eyes
her lips, face dried out from
too much jesus not enough sex

and here not even a cold hollow kiss
could dampen the warm nest we twigged

together a million miles stranded
 off broken desire highway

here flesh puppet carcasses
burn their sidewalk gaze into the ancient wind rage

and cornered angels sing rock of ages to broken ears
who would hear
a song rising up to paradise...

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a 4 lane bi-way east and west;
first come upon passing of a dead skunk;
Next comes a squirrel
and then another skunk on the north side of the lane;
just there laying on their sides dead as nails;
Now the odor so pungent;
smells of death
almost liken human, dog, or other animal remains, yet worse;
Fetal fettle dead carcasses
up the road
Lord, God almighty animalistic death's hold
Don't know if them critters were sick or poison
Something but life got a hold of em'...

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