Short Hellbent Poems

Trapped
        My brain
     Will not stop
     Clickety-clack
  On a hellbent track
        Trapped...

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Broken
Staggering into oblivion

Hellbent on falling
Into the abyss 

Invisibility consoles
The shattered pieces....

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her attitude is as Stoney as the Henge ~ she’s hellbent on revenge 

like an old cow chewing cud and grazing ~ her utters are a hazing...

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As long as
You are hunting 
Luck
You are not
Worthy
Of it
As long as 
You are
Chasing
Erotic love
Passion will
Elude you
As long as you are 
Hellbent on
Chasing what
You can 
Not have
Luck
Will not
Come 
Your way.

Luck knows
Better....

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I've lost my marbles.
I wonder where they went.
I've lost my marbles.
running on a hellbent.

I've lost my marbles.
Oh, where could they be.
I've lost my marbles,
rolling away from me.

I've lost my marbles.
Where did they go?
I've lost my marbles.
Not a one to show....

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Wake me up I must be dreaming,
All I hear are people screaming.
Running Hellbent for their lives,
Mothers, fathers, husbands, wives.

Chased by rabid daughters, sons,
With sharpened knives and loaded guns.
Vengeance towards their harsh demands,
For taking cell phones out of hands....

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Without an iota…
out of the pan
into the fire
for my wokeness
an eternal pyre
God given compassion 
comfort 
I cannot see
for my own
you will not believe
they say you can’t teach
an old dog 
new tricks
but I will still try
between the stones
and the sticks
despite 
what you’re believing 
I wish you
ease of being...

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pays to be me,in defeat,do you scream.lean, plaeser,a hellbent 
ceaser,weezer,the band,my biggest fan.so?who are they/they repay from 
scratch,did it catch?where are they?doing it/when?where/give in,care.see the 
lights,fantastic,creme de creme,me agnastic.wastic,pretty boy,give it up,give to 
loins.foil man,where's the gerbil?...

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Hellbent
   free fall
unsynchronized tumble
   Helter-skelter
   feet first
   head first
Arms akimbo
   screaming, holding my breath
   into a cold inferno
   beyond the stars, shivering
jackals howling
   Echoes of the end of time...
   startled awake
   throat hoarse
   covered with gooseflesh


        November 25, 2019
    Goosebumps Poetry Contest
      Sponsor: Delilah Ventura...

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(“Field of Dreams - Flanders 1917”, 2020, original oil)

HellBent

Rumors of war, hard-ons for war
Bad dreams and perverse fantasies 
Driving dirty old men forward into battle.

For at least someone to do 
And have done to them.

Just as a real peace is on the horizon 
The machines of war come to life
Preparing the ground for harvest
To supply the hawks and crows 
Their carnage.

(11/25/24)...

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They never hand a chance,
young lovers in a dance with time
and circumstance.

Loving
Laughing
Running
Hiding
Robbing
Killing

But the world adored the lovers,
the doomed wanderers,
the hellbent folk heroes
evading the law and the end 
that was coming.

There is no honor among thieves,
betrayal is only a deal away 
from a friend willing to make a trade,
and the legend of the lovers began
when their lives ended in a trap 
full of bullets....

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