Short Dissected Poems

full moon on church’s cross

dissected into quatrains

two uneven pairs...

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I feel dissected and mutilated. Strung up on a cross and paraded through endless eyes....

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Feelings
Raw, cold, and numb
Exposed on a frigid slab
Dissected, mourned and then entombed
Healing
...

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Professor Mortimer Snurd
   Once dissected a turd.
His findings couldn't be analyzed
   They'd already fertilized....

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  Once the moment passes
    It can never be recaptured

  Neither dissected ~
                    nor resurrected...

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Chlorophyll,
dissected hearts,
painfully
realized.
Atom bomb,
broken glass,
finally
putrefied.
Sanctuary,
is absurd,
heavenly,
dramatized.
Warming sun,
fragrant bloom,
fitfully,
cauterized....

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Cultures dissected …
structured refusal
Cloistered eruptions
dearth to accept 
   
Rising triumphant
 they steal from each other
 Defining their existence
—by what they reject


(Septa R5: September, 2023)...

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white veil over head 
chocolate feathers full fledged ---
benedictine nun?

karambit knife beak
dissected longan fruit eyes --- 
elliptic airplane?

scavenger for  prey 
dead and alive you enslave ---
fancy in bird form?


22 September 2022...

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The lilac haze of Dawn creeps up,
With the stealth of a vampire.
Bleeding glistening red droplets into
The blue-black veined forest 
And to the monochromatic hills beyond.

~I dissected and reworded Deborah Guzzi's poem Vampiric Dawn~...

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Those 

Body organs

Brain and heart 

And more

Show up in

Medical records 

Doctor's columns

And home remedies..

It is the dissection of

The separate 

Individual into

What appears as

Dissected storylines

Of knowing and

Searching......

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Sectional life in the boxes or wedges.
Bold colors, mixed up life
Were you evil or prophetic?
Was it all to be noticed?
Art you way, no explainations!
Subjects cross-sectioned, dissected,
Grossly or brilliantly created?
Art observed by the viewer, for the viewer to critique....

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This is not really me
Merely smoke and mirrors
Plying a day job
That pays the bills
The me
I see
Dissected into ribbons cleverly disregarded
Like a modern day beetle
Imagining all the people
Who have heard the news today and chosen to stay
Sometimes the clothes do not fit the father...

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FROG

Have you ever taken flowers?
Dissected frog stomach
Flat rainbow pointy like nails
Silent flowers record sign
Taken flowers
Wounded back
Get well soon by forgetting
Don't like flowers
For you all to like
Because you like to be romance
For you romance becomes flowers...

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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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Bobbing 
Head and beek
Bobbing up and down the sidewalk 
Drops the dissected insect 
Bobbing up and down
Head and beek
Chirping Robin
dissecting repeatedly droppings
Yummy ?? insect and worm
 Picking up and dropping 
Chirp yummy-yum
 Robin eating the worm



8/18/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020...

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What to do, what to do
     When your stories now, have all been told
and you’re stuck on repeat
     When you’re feeling a bit tattered and old
Tempted by defeat

What to do, what to do
     When no longer is the mirror your friend
and you’re feeling disconnected
     When you fear things coming to an end
Life being dissected...

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There once was a thief from Indiana
Who specialized in stealing bananas---
   He was lithe and thin
   And moved like the wind---
In a monkey-themed yellow bandana

He struck when it was least suspected
Stunning each victim he selected---
   Quickly in and out
   They had no time to shout---
Darn monkey!  I'll have you dissected!...

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There once was an old lady from Maine.
Born in Virgo, a critic, quite plain,
her zest for punctuation
caused poetic frustration,
but they cared for her all of the same.

While writing one day this fine teacher
met her match a right handsome preacher
he dissected her acts
found her lacking in tact
and schooled her behind the wood bleacher!...

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heart (attack) smack the face / in the arm. dripping life 
from hollow holes, holy good god gracious, such a courageous spirit.
/ lick it up, baby, love it, want / it all. it wasn't my fault-- (fall).
solution to the brawl, what to do;what to say. we all know. 
[delicious poisonous wondrous] __ we still have hope, right?
too late, great, delectable fate....

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I work for a cocky boss
With whom I can never converse
He always has to have the last word
Everything you say to him appears absurd
He speaks like a judge in a courtroom
Your every word dissected and doomed
He walks aright and with a swagger
In his pocket a hidden dagger
Waiting to dissect the unsuspecting specimen
With cynicism he awaits his next big luncheon
...

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so the little time is 
spent
i look at the minute
dissect it 
till the microscope of time
is pushed too far
I am 
not taking into account your account
it's all about me
I sigh,
idly i amble to this moment
dazzling my eyes
the glistening water streams
no river is formed 
as the surface absorbs it
no drops
my dissected minute....met the whole
in a split second....

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Listen to poem:

When life's journey folds in on itself,
Becomes a jumble, in clattered confusion,
it's wise to hold back,
and stall the footfall.
To disassemble the journey and saga,
into it's component parts,
and lines in play.
To revert to time's tick tock routine,
taking one step, one mere step,
before every second one,
reflecting on each moment,
dissected, 
and stepped, 
upon....

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Soulless
Dissected
A heart turning back
Jilted
Rejected
Last stab in the back
Mourning
New morning
The day unatoned
Nighttime
The verdict
Whose sentence disowns
Lovers
And lizards
The swamp but the same
Feeding
On hunger
Starvation the game
Cursing
 each blessing 
with heartache reset
Dying
While living
— new tears wait unwept

(The New Room: January, 2024) 
...

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I’m a Scientist.
I Invented an Eraser
That Works best on Blank Page.

I’m a Photographer.
I Shoot the best Pictures
Of Darkness.

I’m a Mathematician.
I Count the Stars
Every Night.

I’m a Farmer.
I Planted two Seeds
And Turned them into Compost.

I’m a Zoologist.
I Dissected a Frog
And Cured it’s Cancer.

I’m a Writer.
My Best Story
Contains Zero Words!...

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Under divinities shadow,
Rests the tree of life.
With aromatic branches,
Dissected by a pocket knife.

Medicinal veins lushly flow,
Carrying remedial cures.
A verdant daze ensues,
As romantic buds allure.

Poetic smoke…recites,
The stanzas of cannabis trees.
As healthy lungs exclaim,
The power of curative leaves.




_______________________
Inspired by a Lucky Lopez!!!...

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