Short Horrified Poems

a cry masked new
                            a trutulan blasking sin
horrified in u...

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ln the year 2025
  the aliens arrived
    saw our facemasks

shrieked and fled ~ horrified...

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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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they come holding axes
horrified turkeys know
farmer grabs one
barnyard goes wild
why can't they eat carrots?...

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Camelot slain with JFK
  Blood-stained guilt from MLK
Hope left town when Bobby died
  ~ These shootings left us horrified...

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"Margaret's activities must be circumscribed," said the doctor.
Her husband was horrified.
He did not know women could be circumscribed....

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Solid words liquefied;
Bound and told horrified;
Ancient own;
 Dooley honed ;
I am that child 
Buck-wild



7/8/21
Written by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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Would not be lady like
I smirked 
Would be unmannerly
I snorted
Milk came out my nose
I farted my way across the floor into the living room
where my potential date was instantly horrified...

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They brought in the cake and did a devil’s dance.
I was horrified, for I had not thought of this prance.
For a long time, but I am getting much older now.
I can feel the heat of death on at least my left brow....

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Fat cat was horrified when he stepped on the scale.
He had no idea of his poundage. Such a surprise!
He wondered why it was not mentioned by his girlfriend Gale.
She just looked at him and rolled her amber eyes....

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HABOOB

Harried sands joins forces,
Hurrying towards us,
Heavy with thud of hooves.
Horrified! Seek shelter!
Hampered sun does not shine.
Hope sought in praying hands,
Hapless in the storm’s core.

2/17/2017...

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Sometimes(now) I dislike
(hate) indecision
many fates //now//spill
horrified goldfish meeting
air/myopic eyes; live cataract-like
but still & now I unlike
that Inde-CISION cuts me 
through the ghost-bone

:: ~ ::...

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In 1952 a robot stopped by the Sinclair gas station.
Walked up to the pumps and had an instant celebration.
Gas station attendant was horrified but stayed away.
As the creature filled up on gasoline that weird Tuesday....

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A writer?   
You are kidding right?
My family reunion’s most judgmental great aunt is clearly horrified.


Everyone is a writer! She says, throwing up her arms.


I do not reply.
For the first time in forever, she is not wrong....

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She should come out of the closet her mother said.
Her daddy was horrified, thinking she meant something else.
She came out in her own sweet time, wearing a snazzy prom dress.
You look terrific, her Daddy said, wondering about her now....

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A blank page has no shot with me
Not even a second to stare me down
I whip her into a frenzied tale 
laughing maniacally at her anguish
or I create something so dark she is horrified 
The one thing I do not do is make the paper blush....

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Silence of the night split open
Consternated by a clamorous crack
Nettie stared at the paper
Took out an eraser

Evening’s still quiet was horrified
By the fortissimo of thunder
No good.
She began anew

One day there was a rain cloud....

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Horrified at the harassment dpartment.
An alligator visited his apartment.
Alligator wanted to eat some flesh.
Morally and socially we are at stake.
You know Girlz date & black gate.
Crocodiles & alligators & guidelines.
Note.Wuba Luba Dub Dub....

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Sessions and Recluse Himself

Whole system Sessions is starting to abuse;
To save hos own skim himself did recluse;
We were horrified,
That he had lied;
Trying to settle things down and them diffuse.

James Serious Mysterious Horn
Retired Veteran and Poet...

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Given a tour through Hell, one does not emerge prestine.
Foresaken.
Facing myself horrified.
Time does not heal all.
Hate pour's over me as sea over sand.
Sand is to mirror, as my father is of me.
Foresaken.
The ability to frogive is courage.
I am a coward....

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Controversy In a Nursery

According to Trump plans it was precursory,
About what we have heard is a controversy;
There been;
Not let in;
Concerned immigration facilities with a nursery.

Senator from Oregon Jeff Merkley was horrified
when not let in.

Jim Horn...

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Listen to the rain. It's wet but the sound sings.
You remember other rainy nights. 
The million gray drops
Were small horrified cries from a maize without walls.
You called a friend in a faraway place.
You took long hot showers to relax.
You felt new rain on your skin....

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Infamy is not dignified. 

Or pleasant. 

As the speculation would pool around me. 

I would find myself degrading. 

And feeling horrified. 

Shaking from the travesty-

The one used to keep me safe. 

Steeping in the empathy-

That they say I’m not capable of....

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Commodities.
Packed up
Wedged together
Shut out from light and air, 
Little creatures indifferent to life or death
Stacked.
Branded.
Horrified
Of what comes
With the open door.
Looking for the first opportunity
To Leap
Escape
This intolerable life.
The Mass grave
Of a two-dimensional reality....

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Happy memories have me grimacing,

Beloved friend I would have given all for,

Unmercifully plunged a stake into my heart,

Relishing my every labored gasp for air,

Replaying each moment of my agony,

Trembling, I mouth the word "why,"

Staring into my horrified eyes, she laughed....

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