Short Slain Poems

addicted vain destined drained demons abstain slain woes...

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The deed is done, the battle is won.
The raven now slain by the swan....

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Christ
Lamb, Messiah
Slain, crucified, risen
Saviour of man; glory
King....

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Russet leaves snapping
Underfoot like Dragons' teeth
Slain cold a graveyard....

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fuzzy fuddled fogs
bluntly blindfold vast vistas ~
slain sleepy silence


04 December 2021...

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radiance left me slain..

       dandelions of the plain..

              roar in sun, in rain.....

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Death was too good 
Imprisioned in chains
Born to be undone
By rust and the rain
Once more I be slain...

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Bodies slain 
Souls departed 
Regret and bitter shame
Time of loss
Time to heal
A time to find my soul...

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Some say, "It was the Romans!"  Some, "The Jews!
Before the world's foundation
He was slain and was bruised....

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Alone I enter my dim empty house and mourn our slain president

Monoku
Written 2/15/22...

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And so the show begins
in an effort to simplify
they obfuscate
complicate and
obliterate
             .......simplicity...

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Camelot slain with JFK
  Blood-stained guilt from MLK
Hope left town when Bobby died
  ~ These shootings left us horrified...

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Mythical creatures
Slain by likeminded people
To those asking now
Were they all just a legend
And if not, where have they gone...

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Safely home, just arrived 
  shallow breathing
    profound sighs

Memory but
  a stoplight away
    gunshots crying
     ~ innocence slain...

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the magi rode again
after the star of David rose to reign
the royal in manger in the stable
lay he ready to enable
but Herode wanted him slain...

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Perhaps a million years from now
when our inferior species begins to evolve
that savage beast inside us all
we will have slain in a D.N.A. recall...

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I should only believe in a God
that would know how to dance
and a devil slain by laughter
—beyond gravity’s wrath

(Dreamsleep: September, 2022)...

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Anger empties the human brain
    leaves behind the mark of Cain

  The face of him who's slammed is drained
    ~ once-vibrant heart now silenced, slain...

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On the day after Christmas, bam!
The tree hit the floor once again
That was it, all I could stand, wham!
Ornaments in the attic slain  ...

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Hear the bell knell
Hear it knell again

A tree dead
but for leaves
Ravens watch
Leave the dead
To watch the slain

Hear the bell knell
Hear it knell again...

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heart as sparrow is slain    struck by the azure of the looking glass pane









17.12.22

Composed for Silent One's
Monoku 1: Your Best - Poetry Contest...

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There once was a white cat I knew
Who had feathers; a ghost cat who flew
Through the shimmering streams
Of the moon’s silver beams
Leaving slain doves in the dew

by Gail...

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Dedicated to the genius of Lewis Caroll & C S Lewis
Alice & Narnia live always in my mind
Shane


Claws
Burbling
Jaws that bite
Jabberwocky 
Slain

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I am haunted
The grave calls out to me
It screams
The ghosts of the innocent
Want their revenge
The slain are crying
Little bodies lost
The chilling boneyard
Of lost souls...

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If curiosity killed the cat
But satisfaction indeed brought them back
Then you must have been slain by joy complete
For you to go to eternal sleep, resting now in perfect peace....

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