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zebra Mar 2019
Cuckqueen
in a kink clutch
breaking a twisted angel
on the rack of
onward Christian solders
in ecstatic flagellations
for ***** saliva  cliterature
with a mouth black window widows bite
in a white lie light  
of cruel dark night
while jazz ****
layonaise spatters
where its soft and hurts good  
and fossil **** *******
drive down the armageddon highway
in a bright burn
with ***** feet on clean sheets
and drooling tongues
lickalotapuss
JR Rhine Aug 2016
What is this
Satirical mask
That weeps self-deprecating tears
Through plastic slits
Down over a contorted smile
That mocks society
In pictoral flagellations
Of an aching conscience.
David Barr Dec 2013
Orphan roots are banished into Bermudan-like triangular realms of presumed stability off the coast of Neptune,
Whilst abandonment firmly establishes her ancient dendrology.
Are your connections deeply entwined in the postmodern era of presumed certainty and deluded rationalism?
The method of self-transfiguration is evidenced on the mountain-tops of vanity, where the purging of the soul with self-flagellations is an archaic and scornful memory to those who claim to be enlightened.
How rooted are your roots? Does your reason stand trial in the docks of uncertainty?
The autumn leaves are changing color, and the birth of death reveals a beauty which, when embraced, flutters her powerful wings in the dawn of a frosty voyage.
I believe in ripples of probability.
David Barr Dec 2013
Purge the soul with self-flagellations, if you so desire.
Vanity finds no fulfilment by the power of conscience and the rhythm of Jazz rocks the intricate aspects of familiarity.
So, my brothers and sisters of our Great and Mighty Family, I urge you to relax and to abstain from your impulses.
Guilt is empowered by unsubstantiated perceptions of what we think is reality. But what is in it for you?
Freshly baked bread conveys a pleasing aroma that is not unfamiliar to the patriots of New England.
The Early Settlers understand.
I would recommend that you let it go. Do not rise to it. Simply feel the pulse.
Shannon May 2015
I will love you with a fierceness,
coal burning stove hotness.
I will fire with the pistons
of the seven deadly sins.
I will love with  great sorrow
for all the widowed and the ghosts
of what is yet and
what has wandered
woeful, wistful warm and wry.
I will love you with a wetness
thick like oceans foam
and I will hide it-
All my anger
at the bottom of a wave.
So you can dance on the shore of it,
so you can wade in the salt of it
so you can watch it recede-
So you will know it must leave you.
I will love you like a clover.
In a thousand clovers hovered
in a field of the wheat and grasses,
long and itching.
tall and reaching
trap your ankles as you walk.
And in that glory green
I will be in the shadow patient
with your wishes, clover me.
I will love you like dark loves you.
With no motive, with no hue.
with your fears and self-flagellations.
with your faults and accusations-
I will love you as dark finds you,
in the shadows, in the grief.
I will love you.
And when I love you
you will know no other self.
When I am stone,
when I am marble
I will love you ever so.
When I am stone
and I don't grieve so-
I will love you evermore.


Sahn
5/7/15
Thank you. I write because I have to you read because you want to- and for that I am grateful.
Scarlet McCall Jul 2017
to the tune of "My Favorite Things"*

Poems in all caps and no punctuation,
Mixed metaphors and clichéd observation,
Roses and rainbows and angels with wings--
These are a few of my least favorite things.

Morbid obsessions and self flagellations,
Self involved rantings and dull ruminations,
Exhibitionists’ ****** preoccupations--
I’m just not dying to read these creations.

Statements of true love to those I don’t know,
Plodding prose poems that go way too slow,
Syllable stresses that aren’t found in English--
If only I’d see them no more is my true wish.

When the urge strikes,
When the words flow,
When you grab that pen--
Just take a moment and think…again.

A good Dictionary, and a Thesaurus,
Some time to read poets who wrote long before us,
Revising, rewriting and time to review--
It’s only these small things that I ask of you..
Revised slightly for HelloPoetry
Russell Thayer Jun 2019
In the final hour--The annihilation of thoughts.
The death laden hour.
Desperate men take up scythes,
And cut away at their intemperate dispositions,
That are not so much flagellations;
But grand inquisitors that extinguished their brand of prognositicating medicine,
And took them gently by the hand,
Down the thorny road of intellectual suicide.

What became of their volition,
From what abode did the compulsion spring?
It may have been the tyranny of words,
And from that terror the sickness befell them,
Each in their time,
But what did life mean?

It was, for most of them, a dialog--A semantic game.
Some of them were only so many percents certain they existed at all, even if in existing there stood anything to gain.

The future, unnegotiable.
The past, vaguely remembered.
The choice, never made, is still a choice.

So let the existential barrier exclude man, to whom nothing is owed.

“I only want what I deserve,”

But that damnation is self-inflicted,
Perpetuated
Inculcated,
Ever so diligently Initiated,
By Prometheus,
The other Son of Man.

The fall was impecunious,
No dividends, accrued interests rates;
Exempt from the detriments of the lack availability of silver,
The gross domestic product,
The Consumer Price Index,
Or the ******* price of gold.

Now the tangible is irrelevant,
And value has none.
The journey of journeys is upon them.
It’s terror unblouses the hideous *****,
Of the mother of nature’s hidden agenda,
The milk of whom--before a work of sublimity--destroys a spirit belonging to a toad.

Nature is turned backwards,
And no longer feeding but emaciating,
And taking such impassioned joy,
In destroying life that before was its progeny,
Seeking now, to return being to a shapeless void.

And now absconds Father Time,
The harbinger of toil.

— The End —