Short Damning Poems

“DAMMIT!”


as basements flooded
they gazed upon the structure
damning the beavers



John G. Lawless
4/10/2015...

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Satan holds the key
To the damning of evil
Do no foil with him
For the end will come swiftly
And pain will be all you know

Russell Sivey...

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“All you can be is all you can be,”
damning with faint praise

A lover, not a girl to wed
—left hand falsely raised

(Dreamsleep: March, 2020)...

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News here being one-sided fluff
Undressed Xi’s persona as tough
Damning us he’ll propose
Ending exports of clothes
Showing us new life in the buff
...

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Keeping the lights on using your children's future as fuel
Give despots destruction on demand
Nuclear wastelands and contaminated land 
Desperate nations damning your descendants to nuclear decay...

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PARDON ME
"after years of damning poetry, I look forward to my pardon"
Indiana Shaw . . . 

"Donald, Donald . . . O' eck, to late he's gone . . . Joe, Joe, Joe" . . . : /...

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Far be it from me to get to the
Real clarity of how to achieve what
Everybody truly wants in life. The
End of
Damning thoughts and constant strife that
Only comes from the type of liberty that one
Man can give you --- the God of Peace!...

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Darkness reigns
Within thine own heart
Hate bleeds through
Hate plays true
You’re the devil, pains torture
Hurting those around

Destruction
Terror infused hell
Producing
Frozen soul
And cold damning mystery
Hate’s insanity 

Russell Sivey

Form: Shadorma...

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There once was a feller named Charlie Horse,

   Who was unmercifully teased of course.

      But he took it all in stride,

         With a modicum of pride,

            Damning his zany name 'til he was hoarse!

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
(c) All Rights Reserved...

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Does light exist
without an object
to reflect against

Are good intentions
worth the time
as latency projects

The cobblestones
that lead to hell
a long and one-way path

Without an act
of conscious will
—a future damning past

(Villanova University: March, 2023)...

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Lost are those who speak as God
in His word they claim authority
never wrong for they speak it
damning all who disagree
As God they diminish Him

God is greater than all things
Greater than the human mind can understand
God is not limited by beliefs
God is supreme and boundless
Hallelujah!...

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The smell of dead flowers,
Life dances at "zero hour"-s,
No wonder man is doomed,
when you sit there, deplumed.

Move away, you peasant mongrel,
I'm not to be held,
accountable or to any sense.

Lime-a-way,my sins, oh darling,
even after I washed hands,
they still feel so damning.

12.29.2017...

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fire of eye doth burn the soul,
hot kisses, damning hot to hold,
melting of the burnished gold,
see it in the mind of eye,
a sissling of the eye pig stye,
a mercy killing bye n by,
all done by dentist drill,
a little touch of over-kill,
did Santa Claus come by?

inspired by Russell Sivey 'Your eyes'

Don...

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I feel well today; on gladness perched,
Though longing for a loving hand
Is this the Peace I've long for searched,
Or has Fate for me more somber plans?

'Twixt Past and Present, so vexed between,
But afore me lie these barren streets!
I'm stuck between the damning extremes-
(My Heart doth ache as does it beats...)...

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A heart in tears 
Not caused by spears
But, a damning fortune
That folds it into despair
With no means of repair
Oh! There goes nature’s pride
Made with glowing talents 
Of the rainbows ride
Like a bow of burning gold.
I can’t resist the cold
Neither can the books hold
Least I hang on a pillow
As if was once a willow...

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Why has the love gone in shreds,
A mayhem curse. 

Invited birds of the night on my pad,
A wild man's pet.

She flaunts her feathers in his sleep, 
A sacred spell on damning dreams.

Tucks her wings and flaunts her wig.
She would soon weep as she feeds,
On every piece till he bleeds
Disregard his celebrated medallion pads....

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The deeper the words 
  formed

The meaner they 
  became

       ‘now free and alive
         and stirred from the bottom

      ‘once buried and denied
        in moments of pain’

Taking on new life,
  they glare and they scowl

Staring back from the mirror
  —a damning refrain

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2016)...

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Consuming fire
Bitter ire
Eating away at me,
Turning me into ash.
Burning fire
All consuming ire
Smiling has become strange.
It seems that I've really changed.
Everything I once knew,
Grew a crooked smile and ran away.
Damning fire
Strengthening ire
And all I can do is laugh.
It's not a nice sound.
But neither is,
Lasting fire....

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A crying shame 
To fetch oneself a crying name 
From regularized dirty game 
Choosing to not be The Tame,
Forgetting where from we came 
Good and Evil treating as same; 
The soul damning for fame 
And oneself ceaselessly blame 
The Once – Pretty, Shriveled Dame 
Having chosen to be the Spiritual Lame 
To paradise laying not a claim....

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There is a place for the poetic preacher,
even in this forum---one can so feature
a castigating word, narrow-minded screed,
up to each person to decide what they read,
and while I don’t much like damning lines,
exploding like old-fashioned land mines,
I’ll hold my tongue while they do their work,
unless they become an insufferable jerk....

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Drink of stink ranked in miseries sting swirling pours out by shame . The stain of pain you kneel to let reign supreme while sorrow reigns . Regrets on lips aged by devils in the ocean of booze . Attracted in heartaches blizzard of ignorance which embraces the damned to hell . That's my damning tale tossed in hell's eternal flame by untamed pain ....

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Orlando


I reach for hands
no longer there
wince in the wind
of hates stench
grit my teeth
to suppress rage
lock my eyes
damning my tears

That ache….
that empty ache…
of needless loss
sad sting
of violent lash
upon the hearts
of all
wielded by an evil
fearful of the power
of  love’s
gentleness


John G. Lawless
6/13/2016...

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Tears fall from our eyes 
Because of all the lies
We're all full of hate
Because of our miserable fate
Nothing is ever easy
Everyone is cheesy
People say they care
But when times are bad they're never there
life just isn't fair
If God is really there
He Doesn't give a damn
That the race of man
Is damning itself 
And changing Earth to Hell...

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Sometimes it's like a bloodletting
and the womb is the target.
Open your legs and let me be
sucked up into the bloodstream.
Come, we will walk hand in hand
down lighted streets 
as I construct an idealism more damning,
more hysterical, since sometimes I
feel infinitely outmoded, infinitely second hand.
It is so ludicrous now, I feel compelled to laugh....

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Give up your torment,  
take back your verse
tomorrow upon you
for better or worse

Take up your wishes,
give in to dreams
sleep in denial,
old memories scream

Free up the moment,
strike out the past
damning the future,
its promise unmasked

Strike up the silence,
freeing new words
seizing the instant
—forever unheard

(The New Room: May, 2022)...

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