Short Mangled Poems

Peril lives in free
An injustice made to see
Mangled maple tree...

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Much maligned are men.
So mentally mangled that
Many self murder....

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slim lines mangled
beauty lays down on asphalt
quiet, are their screams...

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Gory maimed, mangled
Red misty air, children cry
Blindfold and blinkers....

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crumpled robes
and a mangled hanger~

turning blood into wine



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flesh ... torn, mangled
faces wailing, stricken
gutters steep in coagulated blood
blood splatter silent moon....

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Mangled words and arcane diction,
Are in fact my fiction,
Artifacts: predilections, for attention and prediction....

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Skeleton Tree At Sunset

mangled phalanges
reach from haunched spectral shoulders
death screams at dusk

deborah burch ©
07/02/2012...

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In acumen altruism defined

Anger burns mangled mind
Thoughts seek revenge blind
Soul propels soothing wind
Serene sense sanity aligned...

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Bruised,confused body mangled.Never rest,what is coming next?You have put me to the
test.Quit!No need to hit.Your wrist slit.No more pain.My freedom I gain....

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Red ripened fruit on mangled little tree
Spoiled readily before its time
Beauty simply fallen on bended knee
Tasted heavily of divine crime
Now no more doth it shine...

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The road
is
       Death's open yawn
epicentre
of strange treaties-
mist of starched martyrs
in trajectory's startled
steep,
mangled contortions
in frozen screams...

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a fair wind stirs my orange 
pearl buried in the whorls of sand

cracked from the hard 
shell and mangled by rolling seas
venus lies

return my fallen vessel
let your sails unfurl...

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long rolls
of feverish faces
watery flames
of fire
of fiery fire
the broken
hearts
the mangled
figures
those are new casualties
but
not the only casualties
in old towns
of modern villages...

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You are innocently driving to your office
You've done it a hundred times before, being cautious
All of a sudden 
You cease to function
You're mangled body, your life turns to darkness...

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Mother told me he wouldn't
Mouth the workds he did to me.
Mangled by my inner fear,
My hope is to escape
Man-made reality, which only some
Minorities know isn't true.
Much in hopes of finding salvation....

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Faded Love

In the paled morn
of lingering lost love
a mangled heart 
cries due damp dew
upon rusted blades
once envied 
with green glowing glee:
time mourns the passing
and resurrection breezes away....

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Gotta find my happiness
Lost somewhere between realizing and adapting
Pierced by the blades of poor judgement
Mangled by weakness
And soiled by failed attempts at resistance to feeling
Gotta find my Happiness.
Gotta find Me first....

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TRUE  STORY  

He  was sweet and wanted her  to have his son
She felt he could indeed be the one
He  waited for the day to be named
She was hit by a bus  and maimed 
Legs horribly  mangled beyond repair
He left her in selfish despair...

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The comma's job is not to provide suspense or drama
  Nor to indicate a pause, say the guardians of English grammar

The comma's proper use is regulated by a myriad of rules
  Charles Dickens mangled every last one of them, he being no fool...

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He flaunted his physical riches
That made him too big for his britches
  Until a tight zipper
  So mangled his dipper
It needed a full forty stitches.

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Written 28 Dec 2018 for the Bawdy Limerick contest sponsored by Tania Kitchin...

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Severed limbs on the tiled floor.
It has lost three legs.
I’ve no idea what occurred.

The spider waltzes around
its own chopped legs.
Now it weaves a web
around the mangled parts:
to eat them later?
Perhaps it has a plan.

How would I know?...

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You had lots of fun
At the local where drinks flowed.
Night took you away...
One last breath in mangled wreck;
My heart aches. Why can’t I cry?

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Contest: Tanka Tears
Sponsor: Rick Parise
Chosen POTD ~ 14th Feb 2015...

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To thee I sing a dirge,
As I behold the mangled sight,
Pity, I couldn't turn back the hand of clock, or
Edit the disfigured pattern,
So grotesque as I watch, the
Time-worn piece in my front,
Reminding me of those far away years,
You came to be by my skilful hands....

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what fragile gifts
sacrifices that are underestimated
joy blossoming so quickly
pain digging so deeply
a bloody lump tossed aside
bloody and mangled
can you see it's form
see the name written in flesh with a knife
weeping blood 
silently screaming as you walk away...

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