Short Masticating Poems

Jaw
Biting
And chewing
Our skull hinges
Some people clench them
Masticating
Mandible
Yawning 
Jaw...

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I am a masticating omnivore, 
Devouring meat and plants and more.
My teeth are rotten
My gums are cotton.
From blender my mushy juice I now pour....

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Faerie

Light   Airy

Lifting, Loving, Lilting, Flying

Social, Upbeat, Fierce, Fearless 

Hiding, Devouring, Growling Masticating

Cumbersome, Burly

Dragon...

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graceful flight pattern
She’s queen of the sky
Searching for rodents
Surveying meadow
Finding a bunny

Powerful jaws
Terrifying
Masticating
Devouring

Destroying
Meat Eating
Marauder

Handsome
Fearsome 

Hawk...

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How veracious this despair in my wretched hole;
A mass of rosy red once filled, emptied! Masticating me whole.
Collapsing within and imploding without. Skinless in icy cold.
Extinguishing my Sun, leaving me only in darkness so bold. Behold!

Fariq Yusoff
23rd September 2015...

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Jealousy eats at me, masticating my miserable flesh,

each time I see your opulent smile it takes yet another bite,
chewing slowly savoring and seeking my heart to enmesh

. . .as visceral emotions move slow through molasses midnight.



12/25/2019

Gregory R Barden
Arbitrium Divisa contest
Taken from "Jealous"...

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eerie vision vied
pluming perforated plights
dark dribbles dug
masticating munching mug
hoisted hankerings smothered
felon zeal fostered

moaning mist cloned
thorn ocean thrown
gloating gaunt glows

salient shaver sucked
la-de-da lures lust
wielded wits gulped

airy alakazam ailed
porous pupils' plight
      '20:05:13:18:47

Note: Of porous perception....

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Academicians …
masticating and
 grinding their ‘truth’
Spewing out
what they would have us swallow
in gagging choking egotism
Regurgitating it back
in the toxic chunder
of a narcissistic reality
Papering the walls
of modern thought
with the bibs of their retching 
As they hide within
their ivory towers
—festering in mass 

(St. David’s Pennsylvania: September, 2023)...

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I’m counting calories each time I eat,
Trying to reduce the size of my bum,
Been touching my toes to a rhythmic beat
And masticating on sugar-free gum
To ease the burden of choccy delights
That beat my will power on winter nights.
In the summer the rule is to be thin
The bikini clad figure can’t be fat,
When will I learn to say ‘to hell with that?
I am content with the skin I am in.’...

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chew your food slowly
your daily bread
grateful for each bite

thankful for those
who sit at your table

wining
masticating
jittering

elbows leaning
mouths wide open
babies crying

but imagine no one
no food at all
not a crumb

mouse nervously chews his tale
dreaming of cheese

chew your food slowly
your daily bread
grateful for each bite

thankful for those
who sit at your table

12/29/2017...

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Looking for a poet to eat...
Hey You are quite delicious!
Masticating words of love;
Naturally nutritious.

Another bite of something light;
in the midnight hour,
Hey there You; you with your memoir
Your work I shall devour.

My appetite has increased...
To satisfy this craving-
I hope you've written lines and lines 
or else you're misbehaving.

Once I have consumed you-may wibble wobble away
to find another poet to snack upon all day....

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medieval monsters 
mischievously meander 
in the mind of the mad minstrel
like maggots in mazes 
his mysterious muse
masterfully mining for misery
melting in molten memories
of macabre mirrors
ministering malicious mistakes
morbity mottled 
with the maniacal matchmaker
who masquerades with malevolence 
masticating the meat 
milking the marrow
the minstrel's music 
a maddening march
motioning to the murder 
of mental mortar
mashing morals
his mouth moving
malignant music
marked by madness...

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MEDIA blah blah blah

pixels preened
behind the screen
                  bovine’s masticating cud
               meadows buzz
           with fervent grass
lush and bombastic

each host coerces
                         the baton
mouths go on and on

chlorophyll on careening tongue
                       resurgence of bile
coterminous commentary regurgitates...

i’m caught in the loop

i press a button
     the curtain falls

         i sip “soup”

7/14/2017
light poetry...

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