Short Severance Poems

Severance Pay

His job as Guillotine Tester was short lived.


10/12/2016

for Live or death one liner contest...

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the veined leaf crumbles
post severance from life source
there are no regrets
everything as it should be
reabsorbed into the ground 
...

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There was a butcher from Elmsgate
Who drank every day to celebrate.
One tipsy day at the chopping block
He swung  his cleaver ad hoc.
Now he knows just how to amputate....

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A Soul-Tax Senryu


Pay Bad Workers Get
The Wages of Sin Is Death
Severance Paycheck
(Rom. 6: 23)


           Written & Copyrighted ©: 10/24/2013
                       by:  MoonBee Canady...

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Hollow Heart

Hollow heart for what am I beating?
I am bleeding
I created an abyss
Not knowing what really is

No points of reference
No life, I created severance
Hollow heart
Falling apart

A heart so hollow
Nothing worthy to follow
Listen to loved ones’ voices
They are your choices...

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In a field of white daisies
I sit
Watching the bees go by
Pollinating each individual petal
By ways
At which I don’t understand
But creating the wondrous nectar
Within their honeycomb homes
Severance
Pay for the stings I received
Laughing at the folly of the day
I sit
Watching the bees go by

Russell Sivey...

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Lunar eclipse plunges me in shadow.
Orbital, I spin in the dark.
Nebulas, I am insignificant amongst many,
Extra-terrestrial, alone and apart.
Limbic, I drift with creation.
Interstellar, I reunite with my past.
Neutron stars, immense galaxy dustbins,
Eat planets while I watch, aghast.
Severance, I have never felt so keenly,
Screaming, cart-wheeling, into the dark....

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I rejoice in the Lord
   Fore on this day
He hath found
    Favor with
              You,
  At His council
            And has
Prepared for you
       A blessing
   Unto your Soul
And ye shall surely
Dwell in the House of
The Lord forever
        Amen

           GF

*****This is a good-bye for my nephew Lil Gary Fields' who was
         taken too soon from us, but for the Grace of the Lord!...

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SIBILANT SESSION

Struggling in simple silence
Sudden static sounds survive
Supplanting a sort of serenity
Serving to satisfy the several
Sulking in sole secluded state
Seriously spiteful in severance
Still seething, seeing something
Senses stealing any sensitivity
Stopping a shiny silver smile
Sending signals to slowly sink
Submerged in silent salty seas
Sibilant souls sadly surrender...

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She felt the calloused hands of a wrinkled scheme
around the throat of her pierced divinity.
                    Loosen another chapter,
                      let it fall unto the hips 
                        of another severance. 
Breathe in the disgust. 
Swallow the pill,
and let beauty fade. 
Tonight,
is just another plague
on both our hearts. 
-James Kelley 2014, All rights reserved....

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Swiftly faltering, the fabric that bonds
Bovarism intrudes, with stealth it hides
Conjuring depraved for all to bear oath
Longing for days past, dignity and pride

Severance now square, local youth here wage
Declining in part, our moral picture
Sheltering family with bitter cost
As decay increases so does stricture

September 22, 2020
Writing Challenge – Decay – Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Constance La France...

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??WOMAN??
O Marvellous creation of the Supreme,     
Created in leisure and held in high Esteem. 

Words fall short to describe your grace, 
O Beautiful soul, all colours of life, you embrace. 

Packed with abundant endurance, 
You hold all your kinsfolk without severance. 

Adorned with passion and emotion,
Embellish a man's life with devotion.

No doubt, Women is the nature's best creation, 
Without whom, the world would be in great commotion. 

YOGITA...

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Bow your head 
Pray for the weak
With all things said
pray that it's blood in which you seek

Fading away from dust to ash
Requiem of your final thought
Gone within a flash
Pray for all the deaths you sought

Bow your head
in the final hour
Like sheep we were led
left to pray for diseased power

I cannot see you
beneath the grime
Remained anything but true
paying for our own crime

Bow your head
in reverence 
All grievance was bled
and we were left with severance...

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Unpredictable, never typical.
Maybe I'm criminal, don't know it all.
Sitting on the brink of the unknown,
I slip forwards into the fall.

Insanity, not part of humanity.
All on my own, no parachute.
Chaotic, severance of mind.
Don't want to embrace the wind.

Emotional, and susceptible,
To influencial darkness.
Feel the hours go by,
As I fall deeper in pain.

Incapable, not intentional.
Embarrassment to myself.
Trying desperately not to cry,
As I fall into this impact....

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