Short Innards Poems

....i grope forlornly in the dark
                                          Probing the innards of destiny's mark......

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Schizophrenia

Festering innards
Valley overgrown with shards
Fragments oozing soul

Date Nov 24 2016
Contest  The fault Line...

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we both in embrace
                                 our souls demand something more
                                             innards of silence...

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Earthenware,
Gently coated with 24 karats,
Lungs, innards, entrails, liver,
The heart left untouched,
Untainted,
Egyptian burials,
Wrapped in cheesecloth....

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ooh i see the sun
shine of melting trees, the oak’s
innards warmed by soak
saturated with the rain
and rapturous melody

1/23/2023...

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The Tex-Mex festival was bountiful
But it scratched my innards, much like steel wool

     When the cramps began
     Oh, how fast I ran

My impersonation of Old Faithful...

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Sunshine all day, great to be alive
When the sun is shining, that's when I thrive
Every day's a winner
Comes from my innards
Yours truly, don't need no push to survive...

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Can't talk for long, having a friend for dinner
Yikes! Do you actually eat all the innards
You're such a silly
Quite a dilly
When it comes to a treat, they're absolute winners...

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Can't talk for long, having a friend for dinner
Yikes! Do you actually eat all the innards
You're such a silly
Quite a dilly
When it comes to a treat, they're absolute winners...

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Can't talk for long, having a friend for dinner
Yikes! Do you actually eat all the innards
You're such a silly
Quite a dilly
When it comes to a treat, they're absolute winners...

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There's this roundish fellow named Moe Hyatt
  Who's beginning a strange liquid diet
    Hyatt will only drink kegs
    'No, Moe!' his poor liver begs
  Then all his innards start to run riot...

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Betrayal
sprays red and distrust
all over what was once
unblemished and pure.

The stains 
will never go away,
and while forgiveness
must prevail to salvage sanity—

still—
my innards whimper
and rage....

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A small chicken more like a fryer
One with all its innards
When the pack was opened
    Out came two necks, three livers, two gizzards
                 No hearts?
There has got to be a poem in here somewhere____...

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The night’s full moon eclipses
Greater than pumpkins
A scene masterfully done
Cast over their sins
Jack-O-Lanterns scream
From their blood thirsty innards
The moon does redeem

Russell Sivey

Form Seguidilla...

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Stoned Hair A Mass
Tattooed – Sullen – Spiteful
Hip – Hip – Hip
I Have never seen my face,
Except in reflection –
Narcissistic passion
Pull out my eyes
Look back at the beast,
In denial of innards
Not faith –
Where is God?

The Sea . . ....

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By all means, forget how to be bitter,
For bitterness will eat your innards out
Make you as unpalatable as kitty litter,
And turn you into a disagreeable pout--
Destroy it …  if you ever want any clout! 

Written May 6, 2022...

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TOOT SUITE


Alas, as hunters treed their prey
envisioning the feast
gravied meal at end of day
sopped up in breaded yeast.

An ill wind blew
and no one knew
from where it emanated

As sugar in the innards boils
and then - a little toot uncoils...

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Whatsapp Woes

I marvel at the morning dump,
Where innards churn, as a pump,
Where mighty thoughts,
Of what aught, and naught,
Get flushed into the Whatsapp sump!

A meeting spot
For thoughts to rot,
To raise a stink,
Smudge still-wet ink;
Cesspool of noxious broth!...

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Now I miss myself,
mystic unity, seeking warmth at night.
For a change not

energizing a reach out,
a task that always
felt a little foreign.

The muscles of my
innards fatigue.
I wait for long respite.

Not everyone does
what he has to do
gracefully. I balk and sputter....

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The old church sits
Squalid in its agony
Bitten by the earth

The air groans

The gates swung wide
Her innards raped
Gutted by vultures

Still darkness falls from the sky

It is a Murk,
A cancerous toxin
Spreading into the roots

The old world rises

Where survival rules
None are free
No miracle comes from ruin

The decay lurches on...

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Battle scar from spider bite
Shame from things done wrong
Freckled with regrets

Nothing secretive or hidden
I am as open as a flower
Showing my innards

Memories other have long forgotten
I hang on to forever
Reliving my despair and my sorrow

No secrets 
I spill it all out onto the parkway
letting others dance in my truth...

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Love such as this is virulent.
Caustic and toxic, this love burns my innards.
I burn for you.
I need no antidote.
This love is worth the pain.
Your venomous tongue lashes me.
Words cannot hurt me now.
Your eyes petrify me, Medusa.
But my advances will not be halted.
I need my venomous fix.
My blood boils, 
Ready for your poison to contaminate....

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an old piano 
child size 
lays in the garbage heap
its body broken 
its innards hanging out
on the frame 
like the ribs of a skeleton broken into pieces
its ivory keys are separated and cover the ground
its poor, in bad condition and cheap
 to many not worth repairing 
for most purposes it is dead 
only to be remembered by few who knew and loved...

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Maturity is for the birds
I heard the vultures gossip 
Over sinews and crunchy bones
At the time it seemed almost prophetic 
When I saw the crows
Coming down 
For leftovers 
Ravenous joining fun
Over spirits and fine innards 
The special guest forgotten
And true a nameless victim 
But, maturity is for the birds 
An attribute only wasted on some...

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One glass of Merlot makes my innards tingle

Dry wine has a way of making me romantic

Two glasses blur my vision, but I'm eager to mingle

Half a carafe finds my language less than pedantic

No misinterpretation, dwell not on meanings semantic 



*Entry for Francine’s “Pick a Beverage, Any Beverage” contest
October 23, 2011 by Carolyn Devonshire...

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