Short Maim Poems

TNT and beans
moral army surplus sting~

hunger pain and maim
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Too much of a video game
May lead someone to shame
LIfe you will then maim!...

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Confined dread, prison
Jagged sheers maim, breaking chains
The humbled mountain...

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A butterfly on barbwire
Those hearts piercingly maim.
In so giving the sharpest twinge
To Freedom's withheld pain....

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Hawaii fireworks
still deadly and maim for life
like annual debates
Hawaiian language council 
argues o'er Kona coffee...

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The doctor says I need a shot
For something that I have not got
The nurse takes aim
As if to maim
And I should tell them, "Thanks a lot!"?...

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Poetry contests are clearly a numbers game.
Don’t take them seriously; it will only maim.
Enter eighty and hope to win three.
This philosophy works for me....

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Misname it
             Game it
           Shame it
             Inflame it

            Maim it
              Defame it
            Blame it
              Disclaim it...

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Sometimes you feel without aim
Yet all the time want your name 
To bear moment and some fame
It feels awful to be game
To fate’s arrow that lands lame
And wants you just to be tame
Inaction’s an evil maim...

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Run lady run
Till your out of earshot
From the bang from the bullet
Inscribed with your name
Set to maim
But no, not you
You are untouchable
With cold infused veins
Alone destined to die
To cowardly to even try....

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Been having nightmares, each night it's the same
Wake up wanting to attack, murder and maim
A psycho I've become
Into the abyss I have swum
Right and left halves have joined hemis in my cerebrum...

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Been having nightmares, each night it's the same
Wake up wanting to attack, murder and maim
A psycho I've become
Into the abyss I have swum
Right and left halves have joined hemis in my cerebrum...

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Been having nightmares, each night it's the same
Wake up wanting to attack, murder and maim
A psycho I've become
Into the abyss, I have swum
Right and left halves have joined hemis in my cerebrum...

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Intellectual larceny
the academic elite
Immune from indictment
inured and effete
They swing their false knowledge
like weapons to maim
The truth left in ashes
— their lies to inflame

(Septa R5: February, 2024)
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Blind obedience is slavery.
Freedom siphoning governments count on your blind obedience.
I was just doing my job.
It's not my fault I maim and, murder.
My personal ethics and, morals disappear as I am blindly obedient....

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A physician can possibly maim.
Being ill-informed, one that I blame
Cares not for real knowledge
Despite years of college.
“Erroneous” should be his last name.

Jan. 11, 2019 for Joseph May's 'Limerick II' Contest Info...

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Paul talked tough, said he wanted to pulverize his enemy
But didn’t have one as far as any of us roommates could see
I’d mangle and maim them like a warrior wrecking ball
His only enemies are on video games, our friend Paul...

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Slip through the cracks of the jungle,
Crawl onto the innocent,
Slither through the liquid,
Scaly snake of folklore tales.
Maim and kill the men,
Of which God made first,
They'll kill the Lion/Dragon,
Before the next verse....

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Our town had a Bully named God
who never seemed too pleased
He'd kill us...maim us...call us bad
had our best stuff seized

He used thunder bolts...quakes on earth
even made us diseased
then Science came to town
now the Bully's getting teased...

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A song on repeat,
you just let it spin.
For the sole purpose 
to maim and torture,
on an endless loop.

The lyrics burn 
with a record 
of an abyss
that altered me.

I believed 
I was strong,
a current.

Sound-waves
prove I’m 

weak.
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Indian summer
the nuzzle of a fawn
as I doze

She stands, not defiantly
not with threats of maim.
She has trust and curiosity
as any babe would have.
She captured my heart
for one split second in time. 
Then she was gone.

True story: October 2014...

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Love cannot be destroyed
She comes in all shapes and sizes
She comes in smiles and in tears

You can hurt her, maim her, gouge her
But you cannot destroy her
Her memory is forever 

And she precedes you into death,
and back into a new circle of life
Love...

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The Christians
and the Gnostics
can either sect be right
Would God omniscient 
have created
such violence and blight
To kill and maim
rape and burn
for scripture misconstrued
Defies the spirit
and the mind
— disproving Him anew

(Villanova University: February, 2024)
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When words fail me
When sleep escapes me
When troubles torment me
I cling to the Almighty

Though words fail me
Though she forsakes me
Though memories maim me
I cling to the Almighty

When words fail me
When grief besets me
When trials torment me
I cling to the Almighty...

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Words are cures and killers.
Each flick of tongue or wrist, there lies a decision,
Twin pillars:

Heal and maim.
Will you build new dawns or prisons?
Self-same 

You, them:
Applied visions,
Prey?

Words are cures and killers
Will you build new dawns or prisons?
Pray?

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