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Maw Poems - Poems about Maw


Filthy Rat
• The filthy rat that was living in my walls • Had left the house before the rain fell • When it left, in its maw • It carried a rusty old bell...

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Categories: maw, 11th grade, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member snail rabbit and his boy Maw
faerie boy and his snail rabbit had a rather lovely habit of traveling at night in the woods doing what others wished they could they were not seen by human beings light and lithe, fully playful and fleeing we empaths sensed but never saw the snail rabbit and his boy Maw...

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Categories: maw, animal,
Form: Rhyme



The Gulls Maw
A raw red crater of hunger; the clacking tongue a buckram spear shaken at all comers. The gulls mouth is the gull, the gullet is the gull the torso, the snowy pale blue plumage, that dark under-feathering all the body of the bird a perfect bow for the arrowing beak and its raucous bugle. A neck stretched for greed; above that gorge, hard-set and avaricious, glint eyes long...

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Categories: maw, poetry,
Form: Free verse
For Those Thrust Into War's Maw
For Those Thrust into War's Maw by Michael R. Burch This poem is dedicated to Harvey Stanbrough, an ex-marine who was nominated for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize and has written passionately and eloquently about the horror and absurdity of war in “Lessons for a Barren Population.” No, I will never know what you saw or what you...

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Categories: maw, courage, hero, military, patriotic,
Form: Verse
Midnight Slaughter
In fields of green you cannot be seen. At night you wait while your targets prepare their plates. A combat knife you have. for tonight there will be a blood bath. All the terror you will cause blood will be dripping from your maw. Bodies mangled and mutilated your senses were truly stimulated. Into the night you...

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Categories: maw, dark, death, evil, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme



Rip Maw Maw
It's been two years today, since you went away. Life without you, just isn't the same. I would give anything to see you again. Fly high my angel in heaven....

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Categories: maw, angel, death, grandmother,
Form: I do not know?
The Maw of War Opens Signs
The maw of war opens signs the sepulcher of promise denotes a rose bleeding all those who suppose in time battle axes and saviors bite the head of the snake drooling gibberish of bravery drained batteries on mobiles an old man pants and drools a childhood lost at sea (infernos rage in crime) inspired by those who wish to wash you feel the scrape of...

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Categories: maw, spiritual, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Winter's Maw
winter's maw haze of...

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Categories: maw, winter,
Form: Haiku

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