What God is This
...What God(?) is this
That walks warmly alongside death
A malingering menace
Feasting on the pain of life’s limitations
A sadist, reveling in life’s clinging pain
Supping on the angst of agony’s d...
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Categories:
venomed, angst, death, god,
Form: Free verse
Lock Up
...I’m going to lock it up
I’m going to build walls
No, sky scrapers
Im going to surround it with thorns
And fire will burn all the way around
I’m going to lock it
Turn the rusty key
Watch i...
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Categories:
venomed, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
The Unseen Conflict
...The conflict that I’ll never let you see
Is one that rages here inside of me
I face the day and smile away the pain
Yet deep inside these doubts drive me insane
I strive to show a strength I kn...
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Categories:
venomed, conflict,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Hell Beating Night
...From the far distance blue and red lights flashed
Hearing the news my heart full of surly disease
A lumpish venomed puking stir in me dashed
The soft quiet cries in the night never cease
Seeing y...
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Categories:
venomed, abuse, anger, conflict, how
Form: Sonnet
Love and Hunger and Love and Passion
...That rage of anger flung from your mouth,
Spat at me just like a punk song.
Rehearsed groups of words making toxic ideas,
Ideas that make me sound wrong.
And my blood flows hot, veins erupt in ...
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Categories:
venomed, anger, love,
Form: Quatrain
Thoughts At the Ironing Board
...I grasped the steam-iron with left hand,
the right was straightening trouser band;
it felt different, unusual, its hiss and feel,
serpent’s thought made me reel
I imagined it come up from lake...
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Categories:
venomed, wisdom,
Form: Verse
The Clench of Fall
...cauldroned lakes of steam
wafting up in fevered plumes
labored breath as life exhales
venomed arctic gales
plunder trees on sun starved days
brittle claws of tumbled leaves
17 Sep 2014
Choka...
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Categories:
venomed, seasons,
Form: Choka
From Livius To Livia
...(Inspired by the film: 'The Fall of the Roman Empire')
She was with him
in the great gore of battle....
Where skulls legion were cracked
and limbs hewn from sword,
ax and spea...
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Categories:
venomed, history, love, war, daffodils,
Form: Rhyme
Hardships Butter
...by Michaelw1two
The stars of society,
great notion once did scintillate;
their glow burned too fast,
ash, cinder, sloth, agnominate;
what, gifted fate's skewers,
sole reply, a dross adumbrate;...
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Categories:
venomed, political,
Form: Free verse
Bitter Lemon
...BITTER LEMON.
I want to cut my teeth
On the rind of a bitter lemon
And feel the veins of wintry night
Caught in eddies on the frozen lips.
To follow the paths of the sea
Or to the creatures of ...
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Categories:
venomed, passion, philosophy,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Each Day Awake
...Each day awake
With a soaring heart
I face the earth anew
Baptized by nightly dew
And morning rain
I spring fresh fountains of love
Like a seed
In a sweet fruit -
I carry tree, flowers
And m...
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Categories:
venomed, art, faith, lovemorning,
Form: I do not know?
I Am a Better Man For This
...I am a better man for this
For the blank rebuttal of the waging tongue
I lost nothing to distraction
My ruin was I missed
The song I should have sung
I am a better man for this
For walking when...
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Categories:
venomed, introspection
Form: I do not know?
Duck Billed Platypus
...The duck-billed platypus is odd and, if the product of a god,
it's difficult to understand, why such an animal was planned,
but maybe when the rest was done, there was stuff left and so begun
o...
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Categories:
venomed, animal, nature,
Form: Rhyme