Short Cleaver Poems

A meat cleaver slams;
Needle piercing talons clench
My brain; a migraine!...

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To cleave means to cut
   
    It can also means to cling
     
       ~ Rather intriguing!...

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She’s Funnier than me
her wit
is cleaver
cutting
sly

She’s funnier
   seriously
 she must die!...

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back bearing tramp stamp
body piercings everywhere
today's, girl next door
raises the dead eyebrows of
aunt Bea and Mrs. Cleaver....

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The Queen of the local beaver
Is crowned "Saturday Night Fever"
But all of her dates
Meet quite dreadful fates
Her dad is the Rabbi Cleaver...

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There was a butcher from Elmsgate
Who drank every day to celebrate.
One tipsy day at the chopping block
He swung  his cleaver ad hoc.
Now he knows just how to amputate....

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The uncertainty of life is deeply rooted in my mind. I am transfixed with the notion of death. 
It stalks like a cleaver assassin, waiting patiently hidden beneath a quiet mind....

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Autumn's, veil, misty,
Intrigue prowls-horror’s echo,
Halloween's chill creeps.

Masked-truth’s cleaver guise,
Secrets whisper ‘mongst shadows,
Fear stalks-night’s cruel jest....

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Oh you poor dear, no comments either?
Maybe you were a little to hard on the beaver.
I’m sure some you will get.
You are their prized pet.
Just like Eddy Haskell and Ward Cleaver....

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Do you recall that ornery rascal
  Who played the role of one 'Eddie Haskell' -- 
    Good morning, Mrs. Cleaver
    And how's my friend, 'the Beaver?' --
  Like a laughing hyena ~ or jackal...

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Morality is just a word when you have the cleaver.
Blood seeps into the linoleum like crimson ink.
I'll love you to death, and beyond the autopsy.
Your going to be a masterpiece, the face of darkness....

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Shake from a nightmare; 
Farmer sharping his cleaver. 
To freezer, he went; 
T-bone for Thanksgiving feast. 
Boasting round, ruffling my wings.

11/10/2021

Soup being down screwed my tanka to a one liner... how upsetting......

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The butcher
in a trance
this death
then many more
The cleaver
paused in motion
destruction 
to the fore

The blood
is pooling downward
in images
besmeared 
Its stain
a violent crimson
tattooing life
— with fear

(Dreamsleep: March, 2025)
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She has a certain savoir-faire;
always clever with the cleaver.
Young leveret wants to believe her,
follows signs for trim of hare.

Too old, her title to recoup,
waits patient at the barbershop,
then takes a little off the top;
a tortoise makes delightful soup....

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Behind your face 
was cleaver 
releasing past poem.

The sensual milk
flows from the palm
into your lake.

Grieving for 
the torn wings of pink
light.

Cruising on thighs 
with eyes closed
death utters a shriek.

The eternal flame
closes on pollen 
to tell a lie.



Satish Verma...

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Baby 
I don’t want to be 
Pricks on your way
Baby 
I don’t want to be 
Your rainy day

Baby 
I don’t want to be 
Sand in your eyes
Baby 
I don’t want to be 
Your fruitless tries

Baby 
I don’t want to be 
Too much cleaver
Baby 
I don’t want to taste
Your sweet flavor...

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Chicken, get back; don’t peck me
For the cleaver in my hand
Just think, could be, soon chopping thee.
Dinner captured, cleaned and panned.

© February 16, 2012
Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen

Written for Poetry Soup Member Contest: Chastushka Form-Russian Poetry 
Sponsored by: Gwendolen Rix...

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The forest was shrinking
But the trees kept 
Voting for the axe
For the axe was cleaver 
And convinced the trees
That because his handle 
Was made of wood
He was one of them
And they bought his story
And they believed him
But the time the trees realized
The axe has destroyed them all...

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speak out
silence hangs

unproductively

*if you are not part 
of the solution, you're part of the problem

act with mercy and kindness but, do act non-the-less
you were born with mind and spine, so soldier on doing what needs be done 


2,3,5,11,13,17 
*Philosophy Of Eldridge Cleaver [1935-1998]...

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if i had just one question 
i could be cleaver like
asking for all his knowledge 
or all his power
i could ask for more question
or ask him to stay
i could ask him anything
but looking around 
at all that i see i know
i know there is only one question 
i would want to ask
me i'd ask 
hay god you want to smoke a bowl?...

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Florida Evans
Ethel Mertz
Theodore Huxtable
Michael Scott
Mary Albright
Bob Vance 
Dr. Johnny Fever
George Jefferson
Esther Anderson
Mayor Quimby
J.J. Evans 
Lily Aldrin
Lisa Douglas
Gloria Stivic
Uncle Fester
Oliver Wendell Douglas
Arnold Ziffel
Archie Bunker
Gomez Addams
Baldrick
Gomer Pyle
Lord Percy Percy
Grady Wilson
Wally Cleaver...

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The candle is consumed. Darkness reigns.
The heavy hailstorm hits the windows,
and the wind weeps and creaks through the shutters.
When the doors slam, 
a fugitive flash of ghost dances and vanishes
in crazy laughter.
The torn paintings on the walls bleed.
On the kitchen table, 
the knife and the cleaver glisten.
And on the front gate, a hanging panel:
for sale....

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I've been dealing with sniffles and snotty sneezes
But it's not Covid or other dreaded diseases
Feel a little stuffy
And my eyes are puffy
I need to get well so I can have hugs and squeezes

The good news is that I no longer have a fever
But don't exactly feel like being an eager beaver
Now I have some issues
I've used all the tissues
I should just cut off my nose with a meat cleaver...

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Mr. Emmanuel Cleaver has an old Testament name
It means 'God is with us;' of that he's not ashamed

   But 'Amen' is sexist, or so he's decided
   On that, Mr. Cleaver is sorely misguided




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'Emmanuel' is a name derived from the Hebrew
words 'El,' God, and 'Imanu,' with us.

'Amen' is a Hebrew word meaning 'belief.'  It has 
nothing to do with men or women whatsoever....

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Before I Sally Off

	Lost in Chicago

State and Madison. 
Saturday, high noon. 
Everyone and me.

Surrounded, I give up. 
Against the curb, 
the sea foams up

and in the distance
white birds soar, 
black apostrophes

cleaver split 
but still tangential,
rising, falling.

The light goes green.
Before I sally off 
I look down and there

against the curb,
great white waters bowl
and people drown.

Donal Mahoney...

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