Short Slaughtered Poems

I bled myself dry
because of you slaughtered, drained
exsanguinated...

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old river flows hushed
blood and tears, silent weeping  
children are slaughtered


Haiku December 29, 2012

Brenda Atry...

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Slaughtered animals
Now just meat
All jazzed up for a foodies tweet
Would rather view a life in form
than cuts of smuts to only mourn....

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slaughtered innocents
lambs on an evil altar
sacrificed to hate
carnage outrages the gods
spilt blood spells out remember

For Carolyn's 9-11 contest...

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winter, the poet
sad affections disordered
mourns in the morning
dead butterflies slaughtered by
the blunt blades of butterknives

© Gail Foster 18th November 2016...

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The wind utters it's weary lullaby 
a tender serenade of a newly slaughtered body

Blood.....
dripping into the soil, savoring the nutrients 
sweet....

but bitter.......

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November is the bitter promise
we couldn't keep
November are the words
as they fall like slaughtered sheep
silence is silver-blue
& gold is too tacky
to ever be this beautiful...

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Silence attacking
from deep in the hall
Damage inflicted
the metronome stalled
Blood in the orchestra
harmony thrawn 
Melody slaughtered
— rhapsody gone

(The New Room: May, 2024)
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Harp strings
strangling hope

Promises
swept by disease

Followers
who pile lies upon pies

Day and night
a blur

Deceptions
inside lyrics obscured

Sheep's slaughtered
haven't you heard?...

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Tarumbus-stanumbus
Christopher Columbus
Went on a voyage to
See the sea blue

And while there he slaughtered
Enthusiastically, 
The people now gone and
He got fame free

Written on January 13, 2021...

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From Lederhosen
  a monster chosen

Whose Reich is damned
 —gas slaughtered lambs

The eagle rises
  truth despises

A country shamed
 —those quiet blamed

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)...

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Incarcerated soul in ribcage of slaughtered  fate
Obsessive saw penetrates secret catacombs of meltdowns
Poetic seascape showing radiations of a human skull -
A cranial Kabuki Mask spreads uncertainty over the Pacific......

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living by the sword -
many die by it as well     
     unfortunately
in their bloody wake are left
the innocents they’ve slaughtered

Dec. 8, 2019
for Silent One's If You Live By The Sword Then You Die By The Sword Contest...

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To my slaughtered memory
that fainted like a fading flower.


I rejoiced on the day your corpse 
laid on cold hand of death.


I was glad,
never to see you rise like smoke.


But tonight, your patience 
broke my shell....

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Mother Mary weeps for her children; her tears are soul-ambrosia.

Skirmishes and wars have taken their toll; innocents are slaughtered.

Her tears wash away the bloodstains; her guidance, gives hope.

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The Outer Island 

Small Island in a summer lake
And on a day of play 
Young people were slaughtered by
A madman posing as normal.

Another summer the island is
Full of wild flowers 
Whispering trees 
A requiem for those left behind....

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Mom asked to buy fresh slaughtered chicken
it was 45 degrees and in a hurry to quicken
bought it. put in trunk, went to the bar with friend
time passed, I drank a lot you imagine the end
chicken in the trunk "mom, brought it roasted instead"...

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I slaughtered a goat
and placed its meat
in saucepan to cook
but to my surprise
he shouted at me;
“You slaughtered me,
a lot of pains I felt,
into pieces you sliced me,
again you place here,
in hot merciless oven! 
What is wrong with you?”...

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They couldn't kill their friends
to gain life and freedom,
watching blood gush made them faint...
throwing away swords
got them slaughtered as traitors!
Defeat fear or die;
in this arena, death breathes...
afraid of lions?
Make the gladiator's choice!...

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Some chicks
We bought to rear.

Out of them
As they grew up
Three are roosters, 
Started crowing.
,
I and my wife 
Now  love the fowls;
Pain at heart to  imagine ,
They taken away
And slaughtered..

But  their eggs
We can eat and sell.
...

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Look up to the sky
will you live or will you die?
is a lottery you see
we the west dropping aid
pretty and adorable exploding bombs
the grandest casino of war
will we save you?
even so not for long
you will be slaughtered 
our masters decide
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Yule Tide 

The pig
In the pen 
Is being slaughtered
To day 
Christmas starts
With a killing 
Some get 
Pork roast
Others get trotters 
 In the yard 
My neighbour 
Is hosing away
The blood
His sacrificial 
Duty done 
And I got a shoulder ham...

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In my sense of dwarfish
I sought to fill the hole in 
Myself with plain grass and cow dung
But know I see that the kinly love 
I wish to carry and craddle
Is locked behind a curtain 
That's old and full of tears
I mourn for it was
Me who slaughtered 

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The hideous and the humble
Blood peppers falling snow
As world hurtles to the tipping point
Life chokes on ignited air
Wrenching love from hungry mouths
Stars fall without sound
Some weep helpless, day through night
Ever wondering how
Never knowing why ......

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Bone to bone
connected dna
time has stolen
soft words
nothing to say
atrocity
Armenians
 slaughtered
Turkish delight
terrorists in the night
millions dead
who is right
who is left
who will confess?
a sorry would maybe do
instead
Erdogan
wishes to murder you too...

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