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Thumbscrews Poems - Poems about Thumbscrews


Virtual Trophies Wife For I

...Virtual trophies (wife for I)... 

offered, husbanded, and collected 
when winning solitaire
Nothing beats that exaltant rush of adrenaline
watching the computer generated cards
automatically r...
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Categories: thumbscrews, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberNaught For the Faint In Heart

...Naught for the Faint in Heart

Harrowing bloodcurdling decapitations, decomposing cadavers, and spine-tingling minions of apparitions, 
          that unravels in this gothic horror too spooky...
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Categories: thumbscrews, halloween,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberPredictable

...Crocheting needles waved her fingers from a self-disclosed mind

Texture and pattern set lines like predictive text and autocorrect

Wool over her eyes would know how to stitch up her soul-scape
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Categories: thumbscrews, friendship,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Drummer

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The drummer beats slowly, the drummer beats loud
     as he beats of humanity wrapped in a shroud.

Well he beats of the rape and the killing of war
     and the mind mangling sorrow we blit...
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Categories: thumbscrews, freedom, history, humanity, peace,
Form: Rhyme

Nosferatu

...in the fetal hours of the morning,
when insomnia laces my eyeballs with crimson gauze
and my bones disintegrate to chalk -
when the heart plays cat-and-mouse with the mind,
and my sledgehammer bl...
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Categories: thumbscrews, devotion, fantasy, lost loveheart,
Form: Free verse




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