Short Coagulates Poems

Hey, killer, you've slain a cow
   It's been swiftly slaughtered, cooked, and now
You stick your knife's blade deep into that hunk of meat
   Bloody juice rushes forth, so thick it coagulates, red as a beet

How much more of this gore can you possibly take?
   No wonder they say: Sell the sizzle, not the steak!...

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I consulted a tyromancer
To see if I could find an answer
She consulted some cheese
And told me so much sleaze
I’m convinced she’s just a fat chancer!

Written after I read an article in the dentist’s waiting room today and I discovered that Tyromancy is form of divination involving observation of cheese, especially as it coagulates

09-19-17...

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Tremors shake beneath trepidatious feet.

To shake when shooken offers scents of defeat.

Took in thine imagery from perches unseen.

Salivating secretions ooze and seep secrecy.

Scantily clad corruptions do sit upright.

Smirking shards the aimless beacon leads.

Lapping pools of torment to endless vacancy.

Loser coagulates down under unsettled concrete.

Locked moments buried flags of victory.

Written on Feb-23-2024
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Abstract images dripping shadows
Through one's reveries--- cycles grasped 
by an artist's palm, scraping the easel--
Mosaic of  fallen birds caught within blended tints;
Acrylic pictures woven together, 
Hung through clotheslines... soaring like love unrequited.
Within edges of a framework, paint coagulates,
Full of stale cigar smoke as wax droppings
break from many nights' forsaken candles.



Broken Wings Contest-- Dust Off A Memory 
25th Oct  2017...

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