Short Livered Poems

Chicken livered gravy
covering rice cake
steamed to puffy kernals
with a broccoli
bunch beside to add
a little green.
Enjoy!...

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A weather wizard
    delivered a blizzard
      to Chicago yesterday

    If I weren’t so lily-livered  
    I’d have torn out his gizzard
      ~ right away...

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I should have looked before I leaped
now I have been left in a lurch
by my lily-livered boyfriend,
but I'll have the last laugh
when he see his laundry
in a lovely shade of pink.

ALesiach © 9/30/2015...

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He stood in his kayaker 
surveying the dark amber fog,
Creeping towards him, 
shedding saffron mist around him.
Yellow livered, he trembled 
as tawny chill descended his spine.
He peered carefully around; 
afraid he’d see a lemon shark....

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Unlock the mind
Let insanity caress reality
The explosion
May create a poet
Of sorts

Key West lime
Running out of time
Kissing strangers while moonshine
Tumbles inside the livered soul
Unlock the horrors and let me go

The last good kiss
Ran amiss...

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Lily livered lint of a lizard, let him be called
In pious protest of his primevel name
He who in the spinning sun our death installed
Made history mere cinder for the flame
Why mark me with mortality for your material rage
What treasure in life's flesh yet I cage
He slithers between lines scrawled  on a creeping page
And leaf by leaf levers love with lurid rage....

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A British surgeon yearning for
Some immortality
Did laser his initials
On some livers, carefully.

His action was uncovered
When one liver didn’t heal;
With a second operation,
The initials did reveal.

I wonder at his motives
For if it were simply pride,
Why then etch his inspiration
In a place so deep inside?

In the end it doesn’t matter
For the courts will soon deliver
This strange surgeon and his hubris
To his new home up the river....

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