Angst Age Poems

Snap of The Past Forgotten
A fragile snapshot trapped in time,
A smile etched deep within my mind,
One moment captured, yet so profound,
An image shared, yet now...

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The battlefield is filled with blood,

Washing the whole field like an ocean that will never end,

My comrades kill to defend themselves,

I kill to survive

My enemies...

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October morning
who needs their shoes repaired
Remember the silence
broken by the arguing
October morning used to bring me down
Daughters and Mothers
send each other down
they angst amongst themselves
desperation...

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I could have been their time,
It should have been their time,
With the kids now in their own time,
And retirement giving them the time,
To take their...

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i’m here, nor there, sometimes everywhere
a storm brewing

inside i’m darker
i’ve sailed these seas before

repetition becomes habit 
take me back to simpler times

an early childhood memory
just...

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In shadows deep, where dreams retreat, Hope deferred, a heart's defeat.
A whispered promise, lost in mist,
In longing's grip, where souls persist.

Each fleeting glimpse, a flicker...

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Invisibly tortured courtesy existential nihilism

Psyche wracked with agony
impossible mission to extricate lovely bones
they wanna remain permanently abed.

I chiefly function to amass knowledge
courtesy assiduously, habitually,
and judiciously...

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For love cannot walk away
From a searing pain
Scathing its senses
Nor flee the distress
Of fractured tears
Dried at their origin
Thus, does it hide
Within a bit of humor
A...

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("Mrs. It Dances Through It", 2014, original pen and ink)

Turning Point - Coming of Age - Acceptance at Last

Finally at age 65 I reach a...

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May We Make Love At The War Front?
May I Know You While Iron Leads Flies Over Our Heads?
May I Know Why Our Bodies Tangle In...

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blood drips down my sickly body.

blade like a brush dancing across my delicate skin.

painting a lovely picture.

a puddle of blood and tears pooling at my...

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it happened again.

i got bad.

but this time i was alone.

where did you go?

you know i can't handle this alone....

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6 W's

So it is again.
Caught in the cycle of life.

Where everything is responsibility, expectations, and decay.
And the bastards beat you down with their rules and...

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the pain is a mothers warm kiss

but my mother never kissed me

kisses were replaced with hits

words of love were twisted into hateful stabs

my mother could...

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I'm broken
Like a porcelain doll
Her straight A's shattered
Along with her perfect image
Society
Has always called me odd
And now there's a reason
But apparently it's not valid
Because for...

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