Short Infliction Poems

Now,to view
plastic people
within' rubber room
of self infliction....

Fear of breaking........

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Art, 
the poison with which
the universe stings…
the artist dead

(Dreamsleep: January, 2022)...

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No greater evil walks this earth the mistress of addiction, her hunger never will be sate without severe infliction....

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The frontier of violence
strange land of our making
Wilderness of bones and blood
—buried in our fear

(Dreamsleep: September, 2022)...

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A-bate
Y-ucky
A-nd

S-ilent
I-nfliction's
G-rime
U-sing
A-lcohol

Topic: Birthday of Aya D. Sigua (May 26) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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The intentional infliction of pain on a living being the agent's soul eternally stains!









© Demetrios Trifiatis
       11 August 2018...

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Homeless 
enflamed   
in the alleyway
food 
their main concern

Love
someone else’s
mystery
hunger’s infliction 
— to burn 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2025)
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HE WHO LAUGHS LAST*

tears cling to eye lash
infliction of mock laughter
the heart squeezes closed

Kim Rodrigues ©2017


*See about poem...

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I'm spit in your eye 
a boot in your mouth
rage in the hour of its finest
i drag my chains 
a self infliction
I'm a thorn in the side of a god
an irritent that won't be shaken...

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lower back pain
ow! ow! ow!
hurts to sit
hurts to stand
hurts to lie down
It feels like someone kicked me in the kidneys
I remember my dad’s ice packs
He had the same infliction
Thanks Dad...

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N-asty
I-nfliction's
C-ontagious
O-utbreak
L-ets
E-pidemic

B-ring
O-nerousness
T-o
E-very
R-esident
O-utrageously

Topic: Birthday of Nicole Botero (May 20) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Explosion, implosion,
tomorrow is gone

A new self-destruct mode,
old enemies throng 

We’re now on the poster,
PUBLIC ENEMY ONE

The canaries all dead
—with zero the sum

(The New Room: March, 2021)...

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What if one day we just disappear
what if we never existed
What if we weren't together dear
what if we fell, infliction

What if we don't know our true end
What if we just leave
What if we are on the mend
What can we achieve?...

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A Absolute wreckage

L Lights gone out in blackout consumption

C Carnage of gigantic proportions

O Oblivion through self infliction

H Hostage to addiction

O Obstructionist behaviour

L Liberation is possible

27th August 2024...

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Blame …   
deep and abiding
Praise …
a fleeting call
Infliction kills
affection shills 
Their contrast
casts a pall

One …
a timeless burden
The other …
flits away
Tomorrow’s pain
all joy abstained
Entrapped 
—where memories stay

(The New Room: December, 2023) 
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Let out a laugh if you’re lousy,
Add some amusement to aches,
Utter an outburst when under the weather,
Giggle your way through the shakes,
Howl if you’re feeling heart-sore,
Titters are good for infliction,
Enfeebled and exhausted? Try some elation,
Roll in the aisles, my prescription....

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Silent and still, our wasted strength
waited for the dawn
to pry open day’s magnificent creation.
We waited for morning’s breath
to kiss the daylight into us
and take the star-light from our eyes.
You were a contagious infliction
for which there was no cure.
We were two lovers laying in the wilderness,
comprising the night....

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“BIRTH RITE” 


Destiny                     or? 
A genetic trap. 
Brought up to be 
Reflections of 
Absent fathers 
Insane mothers 
Raised into addictions 
That feed off each other 
Family contracted infliction 
Damned                    sick 
          Healing never 

~END~ 

02-22-2008 



Does it need an explanation?...

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Three Dead Gods
Jesus
The world according to Art

Three crosses
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Burdens
self infliction
caring, a full
blown crucifixion
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	Three crosses burning
	in mid day sun
	I am ashamed
	not because
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Two crosses are empty
only because there is one

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I open my eyes, and there you are.
As I drive down the road,
you are with me in the car.
Among the clouds, your face I see,
no matter where I go,
you are there with me.

You are in my mind, in my head,
always you are there, in my bed.
Oh what can this infliction be.
Is this a signal, sent from up above,
or is it simply, that I am in love....

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Summer’s sweetness lies upon the shores of tomorrow
As today’s bitterness is cast upon the craggy jettison
Left to die is the presence of torment and sorrow
As the only cure is this symbolic medicine

As I stand on this shore now daydreaming
My eyes have then focused on the view
While my heart’s inside screaming
I can’t get my mind off of you...

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White lotus at red feet:
we will start self-infliction
explicating
with regrets.

After a rough night
the day was weeping.
From where the bread will
come, when you were playing
with a golden spoon.

This morning I again
dig a hole in heart.
Was the Mayan calender right ?
Why the sun is playing slow music ?

I am coming nearer
to a locked god.


Satish Verma...

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some say demons
I call them traumas
some say addictions
I call it self infliction
some say crazy
I call it misunderstood
some say boundaries
I call it protection
some say bad seeds
I call them unguided
some say thieves
I call it greed
some say haters
I call them broken
some say jealousy
I call it bitterness
some say narcissist
I call them wounded
some say enemies
I call them admirers 
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I thought I was done being like this. 

Until I got excited, then I felt disabilities’ kiss. 

Lock up my inflection!

So I may not face infliction-

Of a wasted hope that was left for me. 

Give it to a savant, who we all agree-

Deserves not to rot in the future. 

Who deserves to be featured. 

To represent the person we all want to be.

Who has hope of being trained, to be normal and free....

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Modernity
damns judgment
its prophets
seen as hostile

As the soulless
watch and covet
like a eunuch
envies man

What’s needed
is more judgment
and critique
to moral order

The essence
of humanity 
 what the soulless
try to ban

Irrational impulses
driving them
to lives of
dark infliction

Forcing them
to claim the world
in ‘natures’
— evil plan

(Reading C.S. Lewis: October, 2024)
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