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Vertebral Poems - Poems about Vertebral


Marionetta

...From the chthonic chasm, I materialize in sarcophagus
Spectral filaments of the netherworld
Spiral in a maelstrom around my silhouette
Osseous structures fracture contort
I ascend from the fecund...
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Categories: vertebral, crazy, dark, death, extended
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberUnbelievably Great Contest Entry For Brenda Chiri's Photo Contest

...WARNING: THE CONTENTS OF THS POEM MAY BE
DANGEROUS TO YOUR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL WELL-BEING

(Photo of the Two Lovers is available on contest site),

As any physical therapist worth his salt will ...
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Categories: vertebral, anger, assonance, how i
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberMysterious and Magnetic

...- - The way we were
           in poetic form, underlined and understood,
                        unlaced and then,
                                exposed –

  Like chapters taken from the vert...
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Categories: vertebral, simple, words,
Form: Rhyme

The Boy Is Deep Asleep

...there he lies in cool African shade
ear-cuffed with strings of music
feeling lost in the world around
caring less about everything else

a wood-pecker stands on his back
pecks neck, mouth, vert...
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Categories: vertebral, africa, satire, youth,
Form: Elegiac Lyric

The Gaza of Africa Rejoices In Ruins

...I mourn for the Gaza of Africa stripped naked
Innocent women, children regret being alive
Cities, villages sit in ruins with broken bones
Vehicles sleep with broken backs, burnt bellies
But anger...
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Categories: vertebral, conflict, metaphor, music, war,
Form: Elegiac Lyric



Premium MemberThe Pedicure Virgin

...I don't know what came over me that day - an instant of weakness after years of resistance, I suppose.

My beaming spouse leads me, a dog on a short leash, into the forbidden citadel, the sanctum s...
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Categories: vertebral, humor,
Form: Prose

Premium MemberQuizz With Broad Hints For Blind Poets

...Quizz with broad hints for poets

the nose bridge
an ear sans fold kneeling on a slab (sometimes
	an upward curling lobe)
two upper ears sans lobes both folded into each other
two narrow nos...
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Categories: vertebral, scary,
Form: Free verse

Warlord of the 21st Century

...Small visions
Staggering insolence
muted souls pinned by vertebral thrusts 
lay in feathered wasteland

Spinning tongues imperial  platitudes 
Right of passage  misguided 
impenetrable to the ...
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Categories: vertebral, social,
Form: Free verse

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