Short Dismember Poems

I am human; let me defeat darkness
Then can shine light onto others

Learning truth, love, joy
Dismember cords of fear, death

Upwards and onwords!...

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Remember that embers 
                              that fade in November

May burn through the days [daze] 
                              that dismember[s] December...

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November
I remember
No surrender
Faculty member
Since September
Thanksgiving dinner
Turkey dismember
Coming together
Dying ember

written November 2, 2021...

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Boggled is the mind 
 Where we stand is anti 
 Is shine proof 
 Need not to check off 
 But dismember the anti 
 with anatomic 
 Of words from the guru 
 no one should place a label 
 on who is more wrong or correct....

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With this tourniquet tort
And an afternoon spent
A half empty receptacle
Is substance over breath.

And when the wind blows
Against blemish and reason
I'll slightly dismember
And re-curl with no recognition.

A bitter sweet current
Divides and it portions
Although today i will love you
Tomorrow may be without feeling....

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Oh, duchess when you ascend your neck
To scrutinize the skyline
Were you aware that you could discover?
The very marvel that for years you so yearned?



Oh, duchess did you think it feasible
That you could matriculate the novelty ‘tis amour
Did you?



Open your eyes alluring one
Shan’t be a reason to averse your devoirs
though you must dismember all that bleeds...

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You're the one I remember,
Whenever I am sombre:
Our group's unique member
Adored by a great number:
Our home town's full number...

You race to peaks, not clamber,
Reach goals fast after slumber
After beer: urine amber!
With your heel crushed a mamba...

One to watch from September
To Christmas' December
Which club would you dismember?
Not until a penumbra....

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Crawling creeping beetles nibble
scatter dither wind and wither
whether chew my mind and sweetly eat
or wittle holes in words I blather blithered incomplete
three thirds are hurled and rained and voided 
annoyed I stew swear screamed "Destroy it!"
flung high a roar voraciously clear
heard words tremble dismember retreat with fear

Empty echos reach for letters
devours silence 
belches beaks and feathes...

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Flying plates,broken porcelain 
and
smashed family portrait
jewels strewn on the stained 
marble floor
bloodshot eyes are fixed on its 
makers
amidst anguished cries,
they dismember each other.

A frail body rushes into the 
night
with a bleeding heart
darkness awaits to heal yet 
another wound
i have travelled far
so beckon me not my makers
your chandeliers blinds me
I'll open my eyes in the dark....

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Encapsulated in a world of duty and obligation 
I see no room for fantasy or imagination 
no wind of September
can ever dismember 
the longing I feel for illusion, fantasy and excitation

Only the stars of heaven can throw me a rope 
at night when I sleep, its the only time I cope    
the moon  
is my woon  
up there in the sky its the only thing that floats like hope. 

September 23, 2021...

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Before I give my heart to you 
I need to know what you will do 
Will you just take my heart 
Dismember it and rip it apart 
Use it up selfishly 
Broken return it back to me 
If you saw the love inside 
Would you be horrified 
Or would you treat it tenderly 
Fill it back up with your love for me 
Would you show it kindness and care 
Knowing my heart is a gift I share
So before I give my heart away 
I need to know are you willing to stay...

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whether bound and dragged 
behind a pick-up 
‘til limbs slowly dismember
or shackled hand and foot 
then tossed unsecured 
into the back of a rolling 
makeshift coffin

whether judge, jury or executioner 
all don the same hat 
and fancy themselves a God
and your only crime was to exist 
in pigmentation unlike their own

let us not forget our tears
our laughter, our blood 
our date with mortality 
these common threads 
that bind us...

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Pastor, I know every church member,
Who during your sermon would slumber
And could supply you the entire snoring number,
If you badly want it this November
Or much later in December:
When distractions will lessen and you’d remember
One of them, a barrister with Onward Chamber,
Supposedly doing well here in Pemba…
Still note, of discord, I fan no ember
Nor entreat you to them dismember, 
Jesus and I sure it won’t last like the Sun’s rare penumbra....

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Go ahead and take my wife
Now go ahead and try for my life
But you won’t kill me
-- I will not die –
Cut out part of my tongue
Pull out all of my teeth
Peel back my face and watch me bleed
Dismember my shoulder
As if it were a broken boulder
I’ll say “you hit like a sissy” when it’s all over

Indeed, I have seen how strong I have to be
Everyone around is breaking down on me
My friends and family, one by one...slowly
And I’m the one with a cancerous disease

-Boz-...

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A thought is just a thought they say
Little do they know of its strengths

Its ability to form, grow, expand, twist, 
manipulate, scare, attack, stick, hold,
start trouble, destroy, cause panic, 
distress, terrify, cause doubt, produce
chills ever so cold, enforce wrongful action,
terrorize, walk heavy on sweet and innocent 
souls, make us run, conclude, assemble 
problems, dismember us from ourselves

A thought is just a thought they say
Little do we know how well it can stem...

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