Short Collateral Poems

Marital brick wall
collateral Castration
Suspended sex scenes...

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endless wars rage on
inconsolable parents
no children's laughter...

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My daughter was raped.
He penetrated my heart.
We're both dead inside....

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Gory maimed, mangled
Red misty air, children cry
Blindfold and blinkers....

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My credit rating is suffering from collateral damage.

John G. Lawless
4/22/2021...

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A 9/11 COUNT: ONEMENT

Unexpected keloid memories…
Everlasting collateral damaging:-...

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Collateral Damage

Social 
Evolution
Cleanly Sliced...

With A
Selfish
Edge.

-Gray Squirrel

11-08-2024
...

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Against blue canvas 
Of summer skies, the ball soared.
Laughter mixed with dust.
Silenced by the screaming shell.
They buried you in blankets...

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Geithner's true motives fall lost
when Congress gets double-crossed
by Fed Ponzi schemes
and banker wet dreams
while countless are getting tossed....

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Daddy was a soldier, always had an itch
Down along the bayou, daddy served a hitch
Wouldn’t you know?
He loved Madam Laveau
Guess that makes me a son-of-a-witch...

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A babbling tongue,
Is like a weapon of mass destruction;
It indiscriminately destroys,
And disables, with harsh words,
Those targets, who to it,
Are of no consequence....

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Words left borrowed
 heavy on the heart
Actions defaulting
 stillborn and dark

Pawning the foundling
orphan on loan
Love unbequested 
— dying alone

(Dreamsleep: April, 2024) 
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Euphemisms collateral damage 
children died and you smiled
at the flashes of light
bombs make at night
casualties counted  
casualties filed
television is making us numb
its sound we march to like a drum...

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Risk Adverse
Written: by Tom Wright
9-9-2019

 Adverse life events, 
Often carry crippling effects.
They sometimes reveal themselves,
As collateral damage,
And make casualties of others.
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Are we not purported to
be the supposed elders

So why are we

Busy experimenting with
our children's future lives
used as collateral

In order to try and solve our 
wounds 

A problem we in fact have
created...

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Her smile masks sorrow
His anger and resentment fester just below the surface
These children are collateral damage
Tears stain their pillows
Tiny voices ask why
I don't have an answer
So I just whisper-hurry and say goodbye...

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Strolling through life nice and easy
             family love and friends
               collateral can be the route to evil
                 food and love all that`s needed.

                      £ and $` s = The devils advocate....

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I will pay no more
I declare myself bankrupt
I cannot afford
the interest rates
All collateral is spent
so I must renege

So weary, so tired
of bearing these false burdens
Now I cut the cords
I cast off the load
and lay it before Thy feet
The debt is cancelled......

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I stole a garden hid it from flames,
to try and keep just one thing alive;
Collateral carnage of war games,
a single bloom of evolution won't thrive;

Detonation of everything but peace,
so careless is the nature of war;
Decimated there's nothing to seize 
save P.T.S.D flooding the drugstore....

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Does the devil plant seeds in suicidle minds,or does god intervene when a soul crosses the line,feathers or horns maybe a choice,a halo in hell with such a high price,cleansing clouds or a babtismal of fire,scratching noise or soothing quire,a constant battle to do the right thing,whoever wins I shall crown king....

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courage lies in the eye of beholders

but unfriendly fire had blinded her sight

collateral damage in the face of a battle

long lost shrapnel in hollow sockets

visions of compassion dissected by slaughter

thunder of warfare in bullet proof darkness


03rd August 2021

Contest Bite Size Poem No 16...

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Welcome, unto the fallout and collateral damage 
Is everywhere you turn but no ones going to admit it 
Nor shall they take the blame actually; their rat race carries on ?
Chasing down this piece of abominations pink cheese; pornography, bigamy....
Legislation, science, sin sacrifice balancing budgets sub rosa's, consumed as green....

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Being betrothed to anger, a sorry  wife,
Inspires words, often verbalized in haste.
Anger pilfers joy, devastating your life,
It seeks soft targets, and lays them waste.

Collateral damage invariably is found,
Even the blameless, have charge to pay.
Slain or injured ego's too oft abound,
Knowingly perished by this bedfellows fray....

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One fine day
your face will crumble,
until you hardly recognize it.

The very walls which you live within
may seem to judge you,
everything you have collected
around you
will seem to be just
the collateral damage
of your mind.

Some or all
of those you had once known
will drift away day by day,
unless of course you die before
having had to face this truth....

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Millennial Madness

Millennial meltdowns dripping liquid assassins
Hollywood havens dressed in fictitious fashions
Political parasites promiscuous pretenders
Inaugural inquisitions collateral contenders

Suicidal secretions, soups of the day
Tantalizing tyrants, leading the way
Corrosive climates heating the score
Idiocentric inconsistencies waging the war.



Jan.19.2017...^WW^...

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