Short Unexploded Poems

unexploded shell
   soldiers trying to defuse
   silence now departs
   leaving them no time to lose
   heaven fights again with hell...

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The mini skirt walked away
The night remained unopened for 50 years
An unexploded grenade  
Buried beneath the golden wheat fields of Normandy.

2/28/21
Lost Connections...

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BOMBS AWAY
"Holy crap, that's one fair turd offloaded Hermann, you must be relieved"

Indiana Shaw . . . ; )

"Exeter unearths an unexploded 1.000 kg World War II Hermann bomb" . . ....

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Every work of art has a bit of cellulite.
The perspective is off:
a comma misplaced
a disjointed ending to a play
a cracked pirouette 
an unexploded ordinance
Every masterpiece has imperfection.

Observe everything from a distance.
Then flaws turn into perfection...
cellulite becomes rippled silk....

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Girly Stories

There may be unexploded shells
or rats that squirm among the sordid waste.
But only girly stories each one tells
as they walk home together in their fearful haste.
Keep the children from the things that prey
on their being children day by day.

#4
9/29/19

Make IT Six Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Joseph May...

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First
takeaway all that you are not
and cannot be proved
in the stark light of
the five senses.

The more you are convinced of
the more you will be self-deceived,
keep nothing that speaks
from an ajar door.

We all in the end
or at the beginning of the end
get to know what we are.

An undiscovered
unexploded land-mine
waits for us to tread upon it -
then we will know....

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They just lie low
Waiting to pounce
With deadly results
On innocent people
And causing unfathomable
Mental and physical damage
These are strictly speaking
Not people with heart and soul
They are unexploded ordinance
Best diffused with bulldozers or
Unmanned air combat vehicles
But best of all a change of heart
A feat the troops of God, Allah
And other Deities might as well
Employ, if they are not complicit!...

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i'm not
here for
the riot
but to
write
it if

i can
throwing
back a can
of unexploded
tear gas because
i'm not wearing a

gas
mask

no i
know
i'm sure
my photo
is now being
shown on mass

media but i don't
need exposure
or the cover
of TIME
to tell

you
that
i'm
me
and
will

always
be me
but the
times
do change
as so do i

but
i'll 
still
be
me
no

matter what's
the matter...

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The day i saw
this con man
was night
and wind
was snow
and rain
he was laughing
kicking for fun
white snow balls
and children skulls
angels like flies
were falling around...

It happened the day
I saw this man
an unexploded grenade
was left on the board
killing instantly
the drunken pilot...

That day I thought
was the end of the world
that was taken over
from the foes of God...

I couldn't think straight
i was just a teen
stuck in the middle
of a sophomoric dream......

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