Short Gnawed Poems

gnawed wooden sliver….
dripping wet beavers shiver
escalading River...

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Shamir infection,

    wormwood,worm eaten human,

           the Souls destroyer......

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eraser gnawed pencils
filling bubbles with graphite
closed books open minds...

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I have seen them
Near the distant bush
Shriveled carcasses
Slightly gnawed
Partly “eaten”.
I have not seen - “IT”
And worry
About “IT’s”
Dining habits.

John G. Lawless
©5/23/2023...

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Keen sight,eyes aglow.Moving slight no one knows.Smell of fear,very near.Undeniably
clever.The skill,thrill of the frightful prey.Can't hide from the beast
outside.Gnawed,clawed,taste of food....

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she had that contented look
you only see every decade or so

the look of a woman who has gnawed the leg
off of a shrieking tiger

we backed off quickly
and without comment

fearing her next move...

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My craziest time under water
was diving with Godzilla's daughter -
she spotted a whale
and gnawed at its tail,
and ruined the snorkel I'd bought 'er.

written 26th July for Caren's Craziest Time Under contest...

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apathy benumbed, chaotic deeds embroidered
friendships gnawed, hatred indurated
jiffy keen loss met, noble outrage preserved
queries repudiated, songs tuned unheard
vague wisdom exalts, youth zzzzzzzzzzzz..........

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Saša Milivojev - LOCUSTS



Black mountains are crumbling

The locusts hiss all around

Suddenly all is gone

The buzzing has harvested it all

Gnawed bones

Float soaked

 

 
Saša Milivojev

www.sasamilivojev.com...

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On fidelity 

The heart, simplistic, gnawed if left exposed
Be covered, shuttered thus pinfold enclosed
Is certain that the fairer, man will draw
And ipso facto balance will restore
With ego’s filled to full capacity
That rip the very fabric; chastity...

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"I want my mom back!" She screamed.

It tore my heart out, gnawed on it, tauntingly.

Began to tear it apart at the seams.

Stitch by Stitch.

But I felt my heart burst within,

it's chewing gnaw, when I heard the lie,

"I'll stop drinking, you win."...

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it started

as fevered

bee sting

on tongue—

then lips

gone

like beaver-gnawed

tree stumps—

then the chin

till like

some ruined

Greek statue

you lay

still

awaiting

a new chance—

the planting

in warm earth

to grow again...

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Few oldsters or broken-sters travel in their wheelchairs in style.
Mrs. Graffitin is an exception, her uniqueness makes all of us smile.
Her foot was gnawed off sixty years ago by a blubbering crocodile.
She is a wheelchair designer, and her wheelchair is always in style....

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At dawn I ran from a bear in the park
At noon time I swam from a great white shark
A vulture gnawed on my head
Thinking me tasty and dead
Now my pug's chewing my toes in the dark

11/5/22
Fourth Place
A Funny Limerick - 
Make Me Laugh Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Tania Kitchin...

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I found no berries, no pulpy roots
and the boughs above me
bore no fruit
So I layed on the grass
I gnawed on a blade

I can't be sure...
how long I stayed
I fell asleep...a while, ...I think...

When springtime came, and I awoke
I saw the fruit, and it was good
I gave my thanks, and then I prayed.......

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When Darla got a paper cut she went ballistic.
Reacted the way others acted if their arm was gnawed off.
If someone bumped her she complained for years and years.
Every scrape, scratch, and poke was a huge deal.
When she came home with her nose pierced we were incredulous.
It’s a cat, said grandma. I am not surprised....

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“Wet blankets, give them all”
Captain of flight X
ordered the crew
as he wrapped himself
with warm woolen blanket
When asked he said
“but this is a towel
used in bathrooms
if you want one
I give you time go get
from your homes”
coldness gnawed us
as captain snored
and dreamed
wet dreams
This is Africa airspace...

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Shame is a feeling I do avoid.
Too often, something like it has me, destroyed,
and yet, to be a better man,
I must look at myself as best I can,
and that may entail shame.

I look at myself, not to blame, 
but to grow, to not be the same,
and yet to know I'm ever flawed,
eschewing pangs which on me gnawed,
my best self to reclaim....

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corn grew up on the cob
got gnawed off by the gob
In a shack
way out back
cob had a job wiping glob

corn got thrown in the can
cob got tossed by the man
then big fat hogs
gobbled cob logs
and turned ‘em into ham   

What the? Wadda ya know.
The labels now read GMO
corn and beans,
and in betweens
all mutate more than they grow...

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I took ten dollars
From my mothers purse
As a child
To buy lollies
And the like
There was lots
Of money in that purse
A few days later
At the dinner table
My parents discussed
Where that ten 
Might have gone
They had all kinds
Of theories but
Never blamed us kids
That gnawed at my
Conscience
I never owned up
But never stole 
Again....

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"It’s a dying winter, lad” he would say
crunching his words around
a gnawed pipe stem.
Then one day he went back up
the gravel path
to his small, low cottage,
with its oily cans, coal dust kettles,
its sooty cats
never to be seen again.
This morning, decades later,
I see him from a black grate
where embers and ash
form a remembered warmth....

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He gnawed on his resentment
In public and alone
Like a dog he kept on worrying
The marrow from the bone
Till he gave himself an ulcer
Till his teeth got small and stumpy
Till other dogs said, Hang on, Fang
You’re starting to look grumpy
He wouldn’t leave the thing alone
Just wouldn’t let it lie
Time to put the bone down, Fido
Go on, try

by Gail...

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Easter's a surprise;
an explosion of life
That ripe roaring lustre
of fashion and rife

The whole tug tomato
of lavender light
And mole fevered digging
of Hanibal right

For children now zigging
and candy gnawed wiggling
That baskets of wicker
are rabbit bowed giving

And all for a circus
that children delight
When Easter is Peter
and candy his rite...

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When he left her after so many years
People asked where he got the courage
When all he felt like was a rat who’d gnawed off his own leg
So he wouldn’t starve to death in the mousetrap

The cheese that’d smelled so good he couldn’t resist
Was poisoned and now, there he was with a crushed leg
Waiting to die and be thrown in the garbage. With the cheese
So, he began to chew……...

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gaunt path gnawed
heaving hampered awe
sassy zeal seeped'n
felon furnace spree
masticated moans yawned
bruised bridge's pawn

airy atmosphere amputated
trailing alakazam taunted
gloom's gored lips

voluptuous asunder vied
punctured pulses plied
raged reels' wiles

fate fostered boundary
smothered silhouettes merry.
     '20:05:08:19:29

Note: Of screwed survival....

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