Short Grenades Poems

Was it him?
No,
his brothers
tied grenades.
on dead black birds
heaved them high.
to fly, wings tied back,
up to a third story balcony....

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it's like
the petals
of flowers
are the pins
on grenades

i pick them
one
by
one
are we better
are we not

one
by
one
until they all

drop...

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His guard couldn’t help snitchin’ 
When he washed grenades in his kitchen.
This general had a hazardous heart,
His name: Linoleum Blownapart....

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No love lost
  all these 32 years
still lobbing grenades
  shielding the tears

A heart cannot heal
  'til the anger's let go
throw the weapons away
  he's no longer the foe...

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Razor blades
raise alligator babes
there's gotta be a better way
to get paid
and I'm definitely not going back
to juggling hand grenades
perhaps I'll open a stand
for mugs of lemonade...

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I know it's late now,
to say that 
I would have loved
to tell you
what you meant
to me.
When words
are grenades,
what can you do but
leave the pin intact?
I was just trying
to keep us
all alive....

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Insults tossed like grenades
  Lies slipping easily off his tongue
Interruption instead of discussion
  Dragging his opponent into the dung

I listened astonished, amazed and ashamed
  How America's President his office defamed...

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look beyond this haze
if your confused you will be dazed
by the power of verbal grenades
no time to grieve this day

left to deal with the consequences that's made for you
reality is a myth
you exist in perception
the definition of fools...

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raindrops
      plunge from the eaves --
grenades exploding on the railing



Hiku (Disciplined Brevity) Poetry Contest
Sponsored by William Kekaula 
Syllable count: 2-4-9
Date written: 11/20/2021...

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It went through me
the hot day;
vaulting back.
at night.
To hustle the poetry things.

Weary of the luminous
dials. I want to
think in dark.

*

The bookcase was empty.
Croaking words
had departed for
greener pastures.

Hold on.
I am coming to
defuse the grenades.


Satish Verma...

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Santa, I want a killer shark
but one that breathes in air
and fitted with some roller skates
to get from here to there.
Armed with a sub machine gun
and grenades and all that stuff
'coz John next door he bullies me
and  I've about had enough.


For contest 'Dear Santa I want', sponsor Kevin Shaw...

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Friend of freedom is close at hand,
Roaming the battlefields across our land,
Engulfed by whisps of smoke that somehow pervade,
Entrenched by the enemies' live grenades,
Directing their tracer fire across the sector,
Over the bloody scene carnage is a spectre,
Many have perished because freedom is not free!...

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My Black Is Beautiful
For it comes in All shades
Blowing up the spot like a
handful of grenades
Having Us to put off a show
like a peacock parades
To keep Our public guessing
as if to play charades
While hidden remains the part
that suffers and wades
Although the Courage, We have
to LOVE, never fades...

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Imagine that!
A laconic and diffident High School kid 
Who suddenly has a voice whenever he's used
As target practice. He chucks back grenades 
Lobbed at him by bullies. And waits no time 
Airing his grievances as payback

Bravo, kid, bravo! Rock on, with your bad self!

Date written and posted: 06/18/2019...

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Duress and death and flies persist
but I can't rest, or I won't rise

While on I press, relays of mist
that graze beside me now and then,
make red my dead and distant eyes
but raise my listing head again

Unhinged, ashamed, yet still servile,
I aim and brave men atomize
to ginger haze around me, while
ghosts and grenades fill the skies......

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Trade terrorism for Peace,
Give this Planet a new Lease;

Let the children play in the Sun,
Without fear of grenades or guns;

No one should go hungry, 
Food not bombs for every country; 

Protect the Earth's land & oceans,
No more pain and destruction;

The time to begin is now,
More war we cannot allow;

We must get off the fence,
We must give Peace a chance.

6/4/13...

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legend has it
all right about you, down to the last bullet
of how you sang through grenades
at boulder-lashed, whitewash-loaded rivers
dissolving mountains
with a charm you merely hinted
from summertime abroad
quiet 
while I summon your demons
quiet
while I load your gun

you could have been anyone of us that life
but your song had an undertone

and

boy
did you sing it well...

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immotile sperms
blind soldiers obedient
polishing blood of contaminated  boots
splashed from the innocent hearts
 workers brain washed
making weapons in the factory of death
incomplete metamorphosis
carboniferous labour of casts
persisting ancient eastern atrocity
we are starving in this sand storm
bayonets grenades tanks and a bombs 
large heads and powerful jaws 
 of the ugly unwanted wars...

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Walking through a field of mind grenades

 I think of all the explosions & how many X  

 I have died

Perhaps I was sleepwalking when I laid the mines under the light of the moon

& the cracked dirt trailing across the floor

I blamed on the cat

I said nothing about the earth between my feet

I said nothing...

Nd' that silence is what pulled the pin & scattered my body to the wind... 
...

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With only one more night together
we ordered cappuccino
sat by the window
and stared out 
at the crowded station.

I pictured you
in some God forsaken place
dodging bullets and grenades
cursing the enemy
and longing to be wrapped in me.

You pictured me waiting, worrying, 
dreaming of the day you'd return, 
and then you smiled
a smile of dread, as if you knew
this would be our last rendezvous......

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I want your forgiveness to come last:
You often go back to a sin too fast.
I could you with soldiers grenades blast 
And later pained flag fly at half mast,
Even as onlookers are aghast;
Of the sorry news try to broadcast;
My guilt and worries soonest cast aside...

your benefactors you leave red-eyed 
As though they had for days on end cried 
Or in public staked and lost their pride 
Or spent and spent and up pockets dried....

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Breathing underwater
Deep in the arctic 
Yet my skin grows hotter
Bench pressing the weight
Of the world without a spotter
No creature is scarier
Than the human monster
Been told to go kill myself
By my own loving father
Hated and despised 
By my own blood brother
Now you know why I'm 
Too much of a renegade to act proper
Razor blades and grenades
Underneath my pillow covers
Can't wait for tomorrow
And see what I'll discover...

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Sticks with poison chopper blades spinning
Descending Dust off to the ground
Yellow smoke alerting grenades launching
Red cross landing AK’s shooting
Bloody men lifted aboard 

Bandages dripping with blood
Traps set bouncing Betty ready
C rations ate M-16 awaits 
Back to fighting a war
Naked and afraid 

When will I wake up from this nightmare

Contest: NUDE descending Staircase
Sponsored by: John lawless
Date Created: 10/09/2019...

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espermatozoides
immotile
soldados ciegos
obediente
limpieza de sangre
botas contaminados
salpicado de
los corazones innocenta
trabajadores lava el cerebro
la fabricasion de armas
en la fabrica de la muerte
metamorfosia incompleta
carbonifera de trabaja
o del reparto
nos estamos
muriendo de hambre
en la tormenta de arena
bayonetas,grenades de tanques
y bombas
grande cabezas
y manibulas
poderosas
de los feos guerras
no deseadas...

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Condemnation or Justification
Written: by Tom Wright
11-1-2016

Withdrawing harsh words might be our choice,
They leave us to passionately apologize at will.
To retract is no option once uttered by voice,
Because the impact persists in that heart still;

Frequently abrasive words are voiced in haste,
Leaving collateral damage on those unknown;
Like grenades they leave the landscape waste,
And we only remember the last one thrown.
...

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