Short Caustic Poems

Tunic trivials
turban tribunal trances 
casual caustic cramps...

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confused, confounded, comment caused considerable caustic chuckling...

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when it would be caustic
may have been main topic
could be catastrophic...

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A goal
Unreachable.
A caustic fate.
A place so unattainable,
Soul mate....

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Wry smile
from caustic lips....
the eyes don’t lie.

© Harry J Horsman  2010...

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A
Cross tick,
Running across sticks.
Overdue for blood licks.
So eager to afix
To
It's maw a
Caustic mix at picnics....

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In spring time
I get mad angry
At the snow leaving
And I’m wicked caustic
In my temperamental
Waking from
Hibernating sleep...

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etched hard 
your name 
within my soul 
an unrelenting 
caustic scar

with every breath
reminders of 
the wonder that 
you truly are...

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Caustic soda smells!
Teeming with logs, bark and slabs.
Motors at the vats

Pump and pump strong til
Suddenly!  Circulation
Stops by the wood rats....

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cackling creepy cantankerous caustic crone
frightfully ferocious, fanatical, and I’m all alone
I hide in a boot, going as far as I dare go.
She shoves in her foot. Immediate woe!...

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Run Over With A Hearse

After I suffering from a caustic curse,
Hit awful man in head with my purse;
Were married;
Child carried,
Then had to run over with a hearse.

Jim Horn...

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I must reject the holy-moly, mumbo-jumbo,
All that spirituality soup—Chicken Dumbo.
Atheists, Existentialists, and I, Agnostic,
Eschew the false enlightenment—socially caustic....

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Here lies Emmett Kermit Lavender
Whose time was summarily cut short
When he insulted his English professor
With an unnecessarily caustic retort 

written April 26, 2022...

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Breath 
Sticky and sweet
Like grandma's toffee,
Breath
Caustic and concrete
Like dad's coffee,
Breath
Evasive and effete
Like mum's Hennessy,
Breath
Obscure and oleate
Like a lover's lolly...

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She is the sue-meister of the neighborhood.
She has sued almost all of us.
We do not invite her to our neighborhood barbeques any more
Possibly for this reason
Or it could be because she is caustic and mean
It is a toss-up really....

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They drop succulent, ripe and basket-bound;

with a quick turn, skill runs the juice masterful.

Yet jaded wicker lips so slash your fingers red

that with a quick turn, you drop your quirky quill

as caustic acid anesthetic muds the dusty ground....

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Crack in time, the evidence sublime
Caustic vision renders masterpiece
Mark the time you see this rhyme
Delivery assured to alter progeny

Fake we fall, all hit the wall
Perplex shun binding synchronicity
Mind aside logic defied
Release the Krakatau within you...

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Corrosion within a hobbling democracy
Altruism died along side a Calvary king
United we stand divided we'll get mauled
Severe stratification at the political ball
Time bomb attached to societal tumors
Insidious forces lurking about a white room
Caucuses are in the teeth of the 666 beast...

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An ocean filled with bubbles, a soapy sudsy sea.
A world unknown unto itself, destroyed by you and me.
The caustic agitation, beyond imagination.
Reviling empty cages, no words left for the sages.
A pretty playful paridise, neglected by so many vice.

For SKAt's contest.
Written June 21st, 2014 By Robert Johnson...

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FRAGMENTS 4


Even chaos and noise
Seem insignificant yet
In vain attempts to dilute
The oomph and fest of jest
As humour transcends 
All things grim and caustic
And the world rolls laughing
In self-consuming ecstasy
Here, there and everywhere

~~~~~~~~~




Leon Enriquez
04 October 2019
Singapore...

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A clever work indeed,
But you must really need,
Either a doctor or a goat,
It's up to you to vote,

In this poem you come acrostic,
To shepherds as diagnostic
As a woman a tad too caustic,
Of their herd's fruit a bit bombastic

I think they see with herder's eye,
You had too much Shepherd's Pie!!

Ha! Ha!...

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The sting of shattered trust
fills his veins with toxic spite,
contaminating his heart. 

He finds solace in a bottle,
quenching his resentment,
slurring forth caustic fumes;
nauseating his liver.

Until he spits her treachery up
with a sickening heave,
in the shallow, murky gutter
of a jaded man's reprieve.
 ....

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i work
Saturdays
i work
Sundays
seems that
i work
everyday

still it pays
the bills and
saves
me mentally
my mentality
is casually
getting
caustic
lately

toxic words
dripping
drooling
from my mouth
lips covered
with froth
rapidly
rabidly

causing me
to run
rampantly
stop
standing up
put me
down...

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Rancid rancor
From a pungent poet
Sipping fermented anger
From a shoe of Moet
Caustic climax
Of a pernicious plot
Spilling into the holes
Of his soul’s rot
Lathered Laces
In a fuming froth
Tying her infidelity
In a knotted troth
Twisted tongue
Beneath a bedeviled bog
Silenced by frayed fingers
Beneath a drunken fog...

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Standing at the ledge’s edge,
Reflecting on the tide
Of sarcastic thoughts
That elastic faces hide,
The caustic threats
That only plastic mirrors heed.

Standing at the ledge’s edge,
Reflections in the mud
Of visions of existence,
Apparitions of flesh and blood
With delusions of resistance
To the mission of the blade....

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