Short Ingested Poems

pill that promisepromises
ingested for many months 
disappear the blues...

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whimsical bottles of poison 

ingested by all we know

whimsical bottles of poison

will you be next on death row?...

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forthright don’t seem meandering paths ~ but they are known tried and tested 

shortcuts and trapdoors are much more direct ~ but lives they have ingested...

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PART 1.
Morphine intoxication

PART 2.
Coronary artery atherosclerosis, sleep apnea

28a. 
ACCIDENT

28b. 
June 8, 2008

28c. 
17:35

28d.
Ingested prescription medication

28f.
Home...

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Regurgitant youth,
digestive age

All life a buffet,
serving up on the page

Chew before swallowing,
savor each piece

That first you ingested
—forever to feast

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2019)...

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“You are not defiled by what you ingested
that passes to the bowel as food digested.
     No. It is what comes out
     in foul words that you spout
that shows your heart is with evil infested.”

Mark 7.1-23...

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without a denial
life is brief and sticky sweet
tobacco claims me
ingested, it now eats me
still, it draws me, my lover  

malformed cells heedless
spread diminishing myself
imploding, anxious
still I rise blessing, loving
cancer is not me, I am...

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I'm leaving my soup,

I've had my fill,

one more slurp,

and I'll fall ill,

ran out of letters,

can't spell a word,

(so I've heard)

like jeopardy,

the wheel it spins,

some contestants, 

never win,

with much contrite,

and my last bite,

I swallow words,

already ingested....

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Indigestion

Incorporate corporate

Income greed stocks revenue 

Increased incisive profits 

Illusion independence

It’s money dogma inshrined

In the end internal blood

Ingested coins one big belch


28th September 2016

Pleiades  I  instituted 
howmanysyllables.com
7  7  7  7  7  7  7 = 35...

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The house down the street is under wraps
With hazard suits milling in its flaps

The one with the garden most luscious
Now being trampled beneath all the ruckus

The lady with the green thumb it's suggested
Has been by her Venus Fly Trap ingested




17.10.17

Composed for Kevin Shaw's
"Daft and Surreal"...

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This poison I've ingested, manipulates my veins;
It captivates my once sound mind, with the sickness that remains.
Bittersweet, I crave to taste, what is now my new demise;
Manic now, I lose myself, in sick pleasures I despise.
Catatonic fantasies, are a technicolor blur;
Whizzing past me in a daze, cold alone and with no cure....

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My life is caught in the matrix,
Dodging bullets of pain and passion,
Choose red pill,
Or green pill,
I ingested both with a glass of dirty water,
Damaging my system,
No Neo, Trinity, or Morpheus,
To save the day,
I am immortal,
Only to those who can't harm me,
0010011,
The coding of my life,
Even I can't understand it......

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African Spring  

The rain has settled
liquidy soil
ingested to wait
the blessing of Spring
nature renewed

mystical blooms
surround the veldt
in Africa
endeared by Sun

Clivia
yellow strength
likens Sun

waits for
its kin

Moon

Diminished Hexaverse Contest
Sponsored by Caren Krutsinger
April 20, 2019

* This is a hexaverse poem but not listed on selection...

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Joanna Davis

Forgiveness is a meal that’s
best served in large amounts
No matter the type of dish,
it’s the ingredients that count.

Forgiveness is a meal that
should be eaten with clean hands,
And every mouthful well seasoned
So the bitterness you’ll withstand.

Forgiveness is a meal that
must in small amounts, be ingested
To make room for the hurt and anguish
that’s yet to be digested!...

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Tests arrest students' rest:
Requesting the best their stomachs digest;
To see the ones that would be oppressed,
And the ones that would repossessed...
Providing solutions to teacher's quests, 
From the simple twists to them he ingested--
That with pen, he will have marks attest:
Either make cane's justice get them swiftly arrested 
Or make praise reinforces their progress assessed....

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My computer is congested
With all the stuff it's ingested -
The silly poems that I've devised
And the inane things I've surmised.
Yes indeedy, it's been force-fed
All my foolish nonsense instead
Of important things and the like,
Now it's told me to take a hike.
All I asked was for it to print,
It said, "Listen, bub, take a hint,
I can't answer when you call.
I'm not responding. That is all."...

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school breath,
hot.
a reminder of everything ingested.
unable to clean,
only use a deoderant.
cinamin burning the germs away,
but burning the taste buds,
leaving my tongue smooth,
slick.
only a more desireable form for bacteria to breed on.
and i wonder how they kiss,
leaning against lockers,
with open mouths,
sharing the oral dirt.
school breath.
chains keeping my tongue locked away....

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tubers on the vine
flourishing in fertile soil
field of potatoes

I swilled vodka made of spuds ~ Absolut
Distilled veggies that were grown as a root
Drank another bottle
Hit the ground full throttle
Grossly soused but I didn't give a hoot

ingested as French fries, potatoes are better for human health


~     ~     ~     ~
January 21, 2022
Charlie Hai-Lim-Ku Contest sponsor: Charlie Messina...

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Swirling scuffling newspapers
Scrawling in civilized dirt
Alleyways devouring
Discarded stories of hurt
Sunken sorrel skin
Writhing in distended shame
Ingested figments of food
Decomposing depravity’s name
Corroded cans of compassion
Littering hunger pains 
Kicked into comatose corners
Prodded by public domain
Flaccid fingers of despair
Folded to somehow convey
God if you can hear me
I haven’t eaten in ten days...

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What houses the atmosphere of long ago 
in the space we knew so well
now - replaced by what - other thing
recycled air now consumed by others - repackaged
emboldened with more tireless times
bumping into puffs of air we ingested in that place
tearing down of walls combine not with erasure of essence
lingering there and in my heart
so little - so large
as to straighten my back once again
with the whole of it...

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Drowning in distance
Homesick lips
Chapped and bewildered

Skin pale
Faded by friction
Squinty hands
Hold sunken eyes blinded

Voices echo
Under chewed fingernails
In throbbing vocal cords

ash ingested
leaves feet tapping
rhythms mindless in nature
corresponding
with denim treble
between legs withdrawing

sunrise water
fills my mind’s puzzles
deliberate and violently
melts into my sleep
so i can dream again...

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Can he dance for do you move heterogeneous. clam chowder to be ingested can you guess his name. Undistinguished gentlemen ferocious and insane. Currently the much wise sagacious yeti  who devolution confer his home to a carpenter. I came to listen to turculent demon who eyes glow with a scinilliant green light a head of a tiger wings of a hawk opens maestoso revealing a conjoined body of faces made of clay crooning in refrain. Heres comes the godhead brain....

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Anu; Love refers paradise
We feel in love now
Waiting,
Although already.
There we are
Our body is the mind
And existence.
Nude not feeling of happiness
Mine happiness in my heart
And refuse,
Each reckless raw path
In each of our breaths
Ignition of human life.
The breathing stream not ingested
vulpes corvum dream rely on game 
Smell belongs to touching word
Or Krishna passion.
We are at the peak of the fun of the truth
Near the colored paradise in sweetness
Although already....

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