Short Dismembered Poems

Isis trawls the Nile,
Finds thirteen dismembered parts,
The phallus missing,
Sings, resurrects Osiris,
Fashions gold phallus, conceives....

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a lost boy asked a
stranger for help; was kidnapped,
killed and dismembered

an innocent life
snatched by evil hands ; let this 
child be  remembered...

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I must say my memory has always been shot
At least, that is what I have been told a lot
It's better than it was
I know it's true because
I can't remember the last time I forgot!...

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Converging lines
Dismembered and gliding
Into the point
×
Skipping blindly
Through time
×
Divide by
×
From coordinates undefined.
?
Pentagon inside
¦?¦?¦?¦?
Whatever you find is entirely your fault....

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You fixin' to get CLIPPED (clueless beast!)
Or dismembered for a mutton feast
Make a break from your breeders
Don't follow lyin' leaders!
Or you gonna' get FLEECED (at the least!)

***For Carolyn's Contest...

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Sprawled across the track
it lay like some stranded whale,
the dead tree,
centuries old, finally fallen.

No more summer breeze or winter winds,
Just so much wood to be dismembered,
gross, dead, silent and rotten....

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Haunted,
By Faces ,
Empty places,
I try to erase this.
Echoes... from these caves
Reminding me of all those slaves.
Dismembered operation,
Complications,
On the stations.
Sexuality sold to thieves,
While snakes sneak up their sleeves.

By: Sabina Nicole...

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I flap, remembered
through treacherous gusts:
freedom dismembered
by old bloodline trusts

assuring collapse
with floods of treaties
prompting a relapse
of diabetes

bursting the synapse
in chemical sway,
tightening those bootstraps
till trust fades away....

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A lifetime crossed
A time remembered
At childhoods cost
A soul dismembered
And flesh embossed
As if surrendered
Away he’s tossed
As trash he’s rendered
Abased, his family lost
After, for cash he’s tendered
An autos fuel exhausts
Airfare paid, return to sender...

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Listen to poem:

Touch is fleeting, never a foot hold.
Warmth succumbs to growing old's cold.
Value lies unfounded, hidden in treasure's chest.
For life's obsession is driven by mementos' quest.
Gold that glitters, when buried, fades decays to dust.
All structure and order is dismembered by entropy's thrust....

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Humanity groans and grinds away another day  
      atrocities multiply, strongmen hold sway

   The dove of peace trembles, her offspring dismembered
      civilization's quiet hum no longer remembered

   Could these, indeed, be mankind's final hours
      O, let us turn to the Lord, make His Will ours...

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Counting them on one hand,
the fingers dismembered, 
but remembered 'siempre' and 
a day beyond that, because 
hardwired to give it, both body 
and soul, should anyone ASK, 
she was playing a role. She 
gives amnesty now, knowing 
needs were at odds in petitioning 
the gods: seeking Asclepius,
not Eros, desperate to heal....

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In my dreams
Paces a lioness
Footsteps echo below
Sensual her abode
In the jungle's glow

Ravenous, her gaze
A gazelle races by
If dinner, dismembered
Dry-bones' dissociation
Bloody cherry-pie
Dessert's constitution


        July 02, 2019
Another Eight-Word Challenge
        Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Kai Michael Neumann...

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Dead and dismembered bodies all around me
The burning of flesh that makes my skin crawl
Screams that would break one's soul in two
Bones breaking and the earth shaking from yet more destruction
Blood as it drips from a wound on my head, into my eyes, and finally comes to 
rest on my lips
Why would someone wish this hell on another?...

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gollible Green gulping
rustic rays reeling
salient south smirking
purpled eyes pouting
dismembered rays dancing
callous contractions cupping

fallible fate fostering
per rays contracting
into green garlic

raped red remonstrating
fetish finger pointing
la-de-da luck lurching

though twain be! 
One's is our tree!
      19:12:04:03:50...

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Gone like nightingale song
Not suddenly fading, fading
Until the heart has grown strong
But in one fall
Dismembered me
In the crackling of feet on a dry leaf
In the breaking of the heart
To pour out its grief ...
And more still than all mortal body may tell
This absence of you make of time a hell
But you are gone, and must have only came
To singe my joy in flame....

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When None Command

By surging sea and force of wind
A tattered vessel floundered in
Where coral reef performed the rest
In ripping wide her wooden breast.
From timber scream to cracking mast
Her form dismembered to the last
And on the waves her pieces reached
An aftermath of slumber, beached.
She is a silent reprimand
To those who sail
When none command....

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Tear this apart
Make something better

Sing them a song
A song to clot the blood

Dreams have been dismembered
messed in the mud

Tear me apart
make Something better

Write my life in large volumes
then burn every letter

Sing me a hymn to make me forget
Forget that i'm living, that dying is it

Tear this apart
Tear me apart
teartearteartearteartear...

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She cried 
All the tears 
Of her body 
Of his heart 
Of her mind 
Until 
Only his soul 
Can reveal herself 
Can transform himself 
In the flood of the Nile

This is the way it is 
That flew away
The first Imperial Aquila
Lonely 
Heavenly
Invisibly
In search of fourteen pieces
Stolen
Scattered
Dismembered 

Of her Love


Aby, New York, 20th May 2022...

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Do not see me as I am

  Or you'll be disappointed

See instead my wall of flesh
 
  Dismembered and disjointed


I'll make sure the bones will mend
 
  And never show their age

Rest inside my warmest thoughts

  Of quiet tempered rage


Discover endless reasons why
 
  The flesh will always fail

Embodiments of truer cause

  Could look behind the veil...

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Surreal hallucinations wafted dense,
metaphysical quantities swirled fast,
normal vision opaqued beyond farthing,
neurons rallied electrically in maze,
storey up the ground was holy,
brain had distanced from the body,
dismembered body parts were as yet members,
to keep me whole,
brain still had the control,
mental activity sometimes catpulted in hyper,
body felt left behind,
but the whole felt super....

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I do
I do
Once upon a time
I did

Crash
Blood
Dismembered parts of us

Burned arteries
Holding
A heart 
Still beating
Still bleeding

 the past
Is a blade 
Memories cut
Deep
As the knife of regret
Slices what’s left
Of our lives

I do
I do
Once upon a time
Remember you


What was
So different
From 

What is
And what now is not.

Elizabeth Dispenza. Copyright 2023
Divorce poems...

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Happy birthday to you
You make up what is new
You are sorry you're born
when old becomes you

You're not what I'd call
older than me at all
But you're just a spring chicken
that's too hot to call

So remember my line
that your older than time
When you think you're dismembered
and the life you lived rhymes

So forget your old beef
that your dead for a piece
When the lord burns your candle
even when you're deceased...

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I begin unlearning
the script, in irreality,
find myself

my shadow in intermission
envelops the virtue
peak of sorrow, silence of space,

give your hand, within clarity
of reason, inner globe
of light, your kiss melts.

A water lily grows 
in my palm, full of tears,
a terror strikes on thumb

like a dismembered limb
a veiled moon walks in night
to reach home.

The sun will find the road empty!


SATISH VERMA...

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I begin unlearning
the script, in irreality,
find myself

my shadow in intermission
envelops the virtue
peak of sorrow, silence of space,

give your hand, within clarity
of reason, inner globe
of light, your kiss melts.

A water lily grows
in my palm, full of tears,
a terror strikes on thumb

like a dismembered limb
a veiled moon walks in night
to reach home.

The sun will find the road empty !



SATISH VERMA...

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