Taxidermy
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Taxidermy
He found my need and fed it.
I'm an empty vessel in a shroud.
A thousand pricks kept me calm.
I died for you to keep you proud.
I'm just another trophy to make
me lifelik...
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Categories:
taxidermy, abuse, addiction, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Odyssey Scope
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Written: December 28, 2023
Beneath the shades
of velvet shadows
swarms of amber
luminance of daylight
and elusive flits
of faerie embers.
Veiled in jeweled which
rhymed with
Calyx e...
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Categories:
taxidermy, analogy, angel, appreciation, life,
Form: Free verse
Flounderings
...Mid-November skids into a white-boned sky
Frozen fish dream of warm tape water.
Every step is a cliff-top for the weakening.
Meanwhile, beautiful people wash-up on sandy beaches
create more but...
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Categories:
taxidermy, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Derelict Museum
...Coal hearted caretaker
never could accept or give love
has a collection of wounded women
placed them in his half dead heart museum..
he painted over one with an oil colored tongue
stuffed her in...
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Categories:
taxidermy, abuse,
Form: Free verse
New Moneychangers
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And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them t...
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Categories:
taxidermy, corruption, religious, spiritual, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Leaning On Light
...But for those who forced darkness to take flight,
And could never by grounded thoughts abide,
But for those who fought the accustomed fright
At the new thunders rebel minds confide,
Fossil dreams...
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Categories:
taxidermy, books, courage, inspiration, light,
Form: Sonnet
The Badass Yodeler
...I was in a bar in Texas,
in the eastern back-country,
with three beers already inside
and another draining quickly.
It was a perfect redneck bar,
the kind of place I love,
with sawdust on the f...
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Categories:
taxidermy, anti bullying, bullying, drink,
Form: Narrative
Professor Ingram's Collection
...At the top of the stairs there's a musty room
Full of curiosities weird and rare:
Seashells,
Hummingbird nest,
A globe of all the world,
A two-headed snake kept in a jar,
Newspapers from near...
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Categories:
taxidermy, books, education, family, nature,
Form: List
Stuffed
...I'm a taxidermy with a soul
But I've seen foxes on display that look better than me....
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Categories:
taxidermy, angst, animal, beauty, death,
Form: Verse
Scarred Streets
...the streets are scarred for good and we know it
after the hits of untamed hearts
after this abstract damage of cyclic returnings
there's a window in my chest
a sight of iron garden and crystal ...
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Categories:
taxidermy, imagery, lost love, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Museum
...This is a monument.
It was born from us a town illegitimate; we never married.
A great hall of artifacts, plucked still-gunked from our livers,
Others clean-picked from our birdy bones.
Over ...
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Categories:
taxidermy, absence, analogy, change, imagery,
Form: Free verse
New Future of the Internet
...New Future Of The
Internet
Cable cost are up
too high
You turned to the
internet and so have
I
My Youtube channel
is the way to go
Now I can even make
video shows
I group the video...
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Categories:
taxidermy, business, career, film, grandparents,
Form: Free verse
Vegan Taxidermy
...a hardly morbid paper mache crane full
of jolly rancher candies.
blindfolded children wildly
swinging bats on the backporch.
the wise sit back and drink
diet shasta grapefruit soda.
f...
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Categories:
taxidermy, allegory, perspective,
Form: Blank verse
Grandfather's Clock Original Part Two
...“My grandfather was strong and mighty, till he died at age of ninety.
The clock then stopped to run no more.
Then one of my relations wrote a song, sung for generations.
I think of it more and mor...
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Categories:
taxidermy, confusion, farewell, humor,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Human Taxidermy
...I'd like to be stuffed when I die
Then, when I say I feel hollow
and soft
and dead,
I won't be some emo tw*t
crying about nothing.
It'll be true.
I'll be the...
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Categories:
taxidermy, death, emo,
Form: Free verse
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