Short Reprisal Poems

survival, instinctive

      ~ reprisal, extinctive...

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The rising red sun
arousing Mother Gaea 
with bright red embers....

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Which to fear - reprisal or regret



           ____________________
                February 22, 2016   
           Six Words: John Lawless...

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A bevy of censures,
to hit and strike back

Each written reprisal
to ward off attack

A mother-son warning,
once truant come true

Her words now my weapons
—to kill and renew

(Beaupre: February, 2021)...

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A fresh diagnosis,
waiting to die

Time now unmortgaged,
foreclosure in sight

The documents present,
endorsement unsigned

Appraisal—reprisal,
the path freshly limed

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2019)...

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Aroused by denial,
Disturbing thoughts prevail,
Wishing reprisal,
Hostility unveiled.

Sharpened words uncover
The mask in place.
Extreme emotions hover,
Seen in your face.

Venom grows inside,
Feeding the fire,
Where poison resides,
In the skeptic’s lair...

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Illusions broken
     bringing untold pain to debt
     unremitting hate

     Move from the victim
     evil never merited
     love from reprisal
     
     Grant Grace joyously
     forgiveness not denial
     embracing it's peace.  

     Forgiveness Senryu Contest
     Sposored By Laura Loo
     08/19/2016...

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Listen to poem:

Like a flash
I was beaten
Caught in the blink of an eye
Knowing not why I was so, so
Easily beaten
Till I saw the chain
You hooked on my behind.

Splutter and stumble
Puffed and spent
Losing the battle
I was hell bent
To win the reprisal...

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Reprisals are sharp thorns from stabbing tongues
   causing deep wounds that may never heal.
Regrets are sown in the seams of a guilty mind
   where no salve can reach, and scars remain.



November 16, 2021  ~  Liberum Divisa 8 Contest
Taken from the poem: Reprisal or Regret ~ 2016
Contest Sponsored by Gregory Richard Barden...

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A hidden lump was revealed 
in annual ritual.
You flung open the gates-

to take away the regal pain.
Was it a reprisal
for a purple nail ?    

Withdrawl was threatening.
In the line of fire
comes the guilt. 

The suicide in the goddess
womb ? Celebrate if
you pull out.

Floating on the drifting
threat. The welts will sing
the erotica.


Satish Verma...

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The pen is tidier than the cord.	
A garrote provokes an unsettling gurgle
That reverberates in the midnight hour
When one is trying to pursue a guiltless sleep.

The pen, however, resonates
With an uncanny mystic harmony
That allows the comforting lullaby
Of literary reprisal to carry out the hit.

Character assassination: a cowardly villain’s vengeance....

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His crime encompassed hate and consternation

So her vengeance screamed for all BUT apathy

And should reprisal bring her condemnation

Then she was fine, embracing what would be

A reverence deep within was all that mattered

Not how his predilection found her battered

Unearthliness, untouched ... had kept her free....

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Is peace of mind knowing when?
Better yet, when and how?
Best of all, when, how and why?
And what can be done about it now?

You say The Word is your inspiration?
Are loopholes what you really hope to find?
Just love, do right, give each task your all.
You will experience peace of mind.

That peace of mind will ready you
For a simpler life of profound elation,
Fearless of reprisal and the Reaper’s day.
Yes, peace of mind is your salvation....

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She only serves the purpose of rape
She is one Evil
She has led man astray
and bares false repreival

She could never be their's
and speaks for Evil
And never holds water
for Hells conceivil

That taken from man
is false contreival
When robbing from love
for lies dereival

That saying their lost
for God's denial
Is love never come
for falseness's trial

That all she's a bitzch
is lies reprisal
When all love she's pitched
is fear's contreival...

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