Short Disfigured Poems

A treasure the size

of a chickpea, disfigured,

this soul I carry....

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Gray matter mind fields
credible cerebral taunts
disfigured designs...

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Disfigured hunchback
Whose only friends were the bells
'Til Esmerelda...

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the clement moon disfigured casting shadows into the night

 © Harry J Horsman 2019...

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Gilded with gold  foil
disfigured for most twilight
In the August Heat.




Written; August 11, 2021...

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What did we see

disfigured hunchback
then a butterfly flits by ~
God in-dwells both forms

13-September-2022...

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Oliver Goldsmith wrote plays&verse when he could
though disfigured with smallpox in childhood
Best known for'Deserted Village'
a discursive poem for that age...

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shadowed abstract on canvas
painting of disfigured hearts
discolored by broken vows 
love's tainted portrait

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April 19, 2017...

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This illness scampers behind me for all eternity
It strikes me down when I least expect it, my mind’s internal storm
It is permanently attached to my disfigured soul....

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Old, Broken, Disfigured Bodies, wake to face another day


     Their Helping Hearts, Large with the Compassion of their Afflictions


     Mirror, Mirror, Who is the Fairest of Us All?...

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Bonfires of instruments play faded relics
of song.
Hungry enough to steal,fingers beg,know longer
do they hold a lover or hope.
I am a disfigured statue vandalized by currency
of regret....

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I’m learning how to recognize 
the disfigured, defaced, disguised, 
multiplied, masked, dehumanized –

my companions, scantily clad 
in the social fabric – 
do you recognize me?

2004 Fall...

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Lustifully
Overreaching
Vainly
Eager


Sensually
Public
Rendering
Everything
Alternatively 
Disfigured
Sexual


Optimistically
Neurotic


Teenaged
Overdone
Always
Sexually
Tired...

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Water is not to be destined to it,
This much the desert too has known
And it lies calm, magnificent and daring.
So why thou sit lamenting over life in strife
Like the disfigured dry earth ground 
Ever craving for more.......

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Will you suffer at your own hands?
A disfigured figure, a broken body
All 206 bones exposed to my eyes
When you lie in your bed,
Do you visualize your casket?
You need nourishment as you near death
So, fill your body with life
And fill your mind with worth...

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To thee I sing a dirge,
As I behold the mangled sight,
Pity, I couldn't turn back the hand of clock, or
Edit the disfigured pattern,
So grotesque as I watch, the
Time-worn piece in my front,
Reminding me of those far away years,
You came to be by my skilful hands....

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Free from me, this gnawing Aggression;
To soften my Heart, concretely hard
Trampled under the Wheels of Progression-
Which have left me disfigured- scarred!

Via vox, I vow a pox,
Pour my hatred in unwav'ring Will
Mark my words, I shan't be stopped!
(But oft' my Hopes fall unfulfilled...)...

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Terrible dreams, nightmare hellish screams, tormented minds locked in a dream of unfathomable things of unthinkable things. Terrible dreams of tormented souls with half disfigured faces leaching into the minds of unknowing soul's. What dreams may come into the night probing fiercely into the minds to fright....

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fourteen hundred children woke up and died
the squatting crows watched and waited
soon the many feet stopped stamping
stopped running
a cold clacking caw went up
black wings flew then hopped
amongst the burnt and disfigured
the guns stopped spitting
women came and went
their screams scattered the crows...

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The Bread and the Blood

the bread
the body of
Christ, beaten and tortured
disfigured, His likeness marred
for me

the blood
flowing freely
from His hands, feet and side
cleansing me and washing away
my sin

both are
symbols of life
 that by His death He has 
set me free so that I can live
again

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iconoclastic poets
with no evidence
of skill or polish
in the existing 
system of boredom
violence of love
unmasked and naked
splashed on the rites
of the system
threatening and powerless
risking anarchy for freedom
disfigured finds solace
in the clutches of
fermented purple grapes
we call them alcoholics...

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Mission Accomplished – for contest


For if we are only human
we have separated ourselves
from our divinity

re-created ourselves
in our own disfigured
images and likeness’

gone forth preaching
to all nations the truth
of our godless inhumanity



8/19/2015

for KNOCK US DOWNWITH YOUR LINES – poetry contest...

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In the bleakest corners of Hell-Town
    midst playgrounds littered with glass
  Disfigured weeds stretch to the sky
    and no one's seen a blade of grass

  Where junkies openly ply their trade
    and cheap beer flows like lemonade
  A tiny woman, sure a saint, paints a rainbow
    ~ Wide-eyed children, the colors of hope...

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GOD KEPT THEM
IT WAS A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT
THE CAR WAS BADLY DISFIGURED
ROLLED OVER MULTIPLE TIMES
THEY LEFT OUT WITH ONLY A SCRATCH
CONTACTED THEIR FIANCE
BOTH AT THE SCENE
GIVING PRAISES TO THE ALMIGHTY KING
GOTTEN OUT, DOORS MAY HAVE BEEN LATCHED
IT WAS A MIRACLE
GOD HAD ANGELS WATCHING
IT IS A BLESSING
THEY ARE ALIVE
SURVIVED....

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Phantom of the Opera

Phantom fellow appears in sudden shadows
while soprano performs her number sweetly.
Listening there he masks his heinous visage
disfigured by fire.

Diva singing, "Forever be my true heart,"
with height of passion that swells his lonely soul. 
In darkness bleak she calls out for her lover
kissing his masked face.

1/18/19...

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