Short Preyed Poems

When we sin, we leave life, 
when we ask forgiveness 
and are preyed upon, 
we return to it......

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'In vino veritas,' Romans used to say
                                               ~ Secrets pried, stalkers preyed...

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a psychotic's evil trap 
                             an innocent woman preyed
                             dishonoured,moans....

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Tom thought in his nine lives he saw it all, 
He languorously preyed on weak and small, 
Times change, tweet they, 
Tom’s now the prey - 
His predator triumphantly stands tall. 

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                she knows
        Jehovah God Almighty
                she knows
               Jesus Christ
                she preyed
                      to
                    know
                    mine
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We are at war.
Though, no sound of cannon
To announce its trauma
No blind bullets
Sacking the preyed places
No lifeless bodies
Littering the silent streets
No flying fires
Sending smokes to rule the sky,
When you stare us in the eyes
You'd see we are at war....

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For Children of War and Other Deceptions

The load of time
weigh heavy 
on the yokes of life;
the unshelled shelled.
Gone.
Innocence of children
preyed upon;
life failed to root itself.

Janus face war genuflects
craving forgiveness; 
praising its necessity....

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I offered you the moon and stars,
  you took the sun instead

Your darkness preyed, all love waylaid,
  my dreams and wishes dead

Beyond all hope, with stolen light,
  my fear you then unmasked

And pulled a curtain across my heart,
 —the future now my past

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2017)...

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She was a vampire of love
sinking her teeth into my heart
drawing my passion
leaving me lifeless in the dark

Now I'm the walking dead
another victim of the night
where she preyed upon me
left me hopeless without sight

So before you walk beneath the moon
under those beautiful stars above
I feel I must warn you
beware the vampire of love...

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Delivering what we said we wanted,
wrapped in dirt and mud
The politician slashed and burned,
and each time drawing blood

He tapped into our memory,
with fear and recompense
Reminding what the past was like,
with promises incensed

He sang old songs, romanced the strong,
the weak then cast away
The jungle’s laws put back in place
—our hopes and wishes preyed

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2020)...

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It hurls it's fury

With a force gale strong

It unleashes in volume

Destruction all along

It tempts all fate

Making no room for debate

Fury blew open hell's door

A pathway of debris

As far as the eye could see

You poured out miserable grief

To the unsuspected, 

You preyed on the weak

Volumes of water so high

Ravaging the land

No match was beast or man

Helpless to do anything they can....

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A lecherous neophyte he preyed
upon their folded hands and closed eyes
bathed in their dolorous mumblings
sated himself on their penitential inhibition

Left them to flounder hopelessly - adrift
drowning in his vitriolic bombast
a hard burning scent of incense
left to smolder in their souls

for Providence had delivered them - to him



©6/16/2019

Eight word free verse challenge Poetry Contest
John Hamilton sponsor...

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The friendly enemy,
  or enemy friend

What matters the difference,
  or need to pretend

Either stabbed in the front,
 or knifed in the back

The wound just as fatal,
  in either attack

Blood given freely,
  or blood taken dark

Veins running empty,
  leading back to the heart

To face it undaunted,
  or preyed from the rear

Deaths twins will approach,
—on the tip of one spear

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)...

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All the men who took from me,
Who preyed upon my
Vulnerability,
Who stripped away my dignity,
I found them in their dreams and cut them
Down in the way they 
Cut me.
I rise up in a fury breathing an angry, 
Bright fire, 
Shrieking like a banshee as the flames escape 
My mouth. 
I am the monster now.
Because no one ever 
Bothers to learn the
Origins of villains, I won’t divulge the details of my own
History.
There isn’t time and 
My heart is hungry 
For revenge....

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