Short Menaces Poems

Usually, I'm afraid of the night.
The night is dark and full of menaces,
Only the fridge in it is so bright
And full of lovely many things....

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Reflections are like a drug 
to her brain, shooting
through her eyes 
like pure cocaine 

She's drawn towards
each visual echo, as a
flame draws a moth 
in their deadly ritual

What will be her flame,
her Nemesis,  will it
be this vanity, this pride
that menaces?...

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school playground menaces
beastly children; rude bullies
teachers seldom see

disruptive home life
victims* hate coming to school
tattlers are punished

mimicking teachers
dysfunctional parenting 
learned behavior

[*both the bullied and the one
doing the bullying are victims]

written January 27, 2022...

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Her lungs are black--
Insomniac
Her Love is free
She's after me
I'm up all night
My words are trite
Our will is dead
I toss in bed
We're doomed indeed
Our vice is greed
Three hearts had Lied
We're dead inside
Our pride won't mix
We conjure tricks
With words unsaid
What faith is dead?
Thus, lust is left
With minds, bereft
Had we not learned...
That Love is earned?......

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adamant energy aiding my anger management
composing into compassion in fashions that are magnificent 
we are the innocent, for only enlighten chosen have their noses
outside coincidence, perpetual planning and landing so very intimate
living beyond the internet, feelings coming out as if ventriloquists
were speaking from yonder seating, barely believing my own sentences
minus all menaces, here's where positive blesses this
consecutive benefits, to draw a collective intelligence...

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