Short Hollow Men Poems

Wisdom has failed, I believe we have horrified Solomon and cut the baby in half.

John G. Lawless
©2/19/2022...

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Yeah
I am still here
Stuck
Cuffed
In place
By golden shackles
I wallow
In mud
And eat dust
Suffer
The hollow men
Do it
For a dream
Or is it
All just a dream
Days just meld
Welded together
Time fly’s
Time slows
The mud
The dust
How I hate
The hollow men
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meaningless
        without colour
             &gesture
more distant
more solemn
        no nearer
         in stone images:
like this
with tenderness
            sightless
             a perpetual star
between idea&reality
conception&creation
emotion
and its response
existence
          &essence
potency
remains
      in
        the
          shadows

inspired by Hollow Men -T S  Eliot...

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I see them coming,
all smiles and slick words,
their eyes like cold marbles,
rolling lies off their tongues.

The narcissists, the leeches,
the grinning wolves,
the hollow men with poisoned hands,
digging into whatever’s warm.

The psychopaths with their games,
the ones who hurt children,
the ones who carve scars into soft skin
and walk away laughing.

I don’t deal with them.
I leave them to their own rot,
to their own fire,
to the mirrors that show them nothing at all....

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