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* Content Warning: this poem touches on physical/emotional abuse* ~ “dabble, dabble roiling to rabble toes in the water ...

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Categories: becalmed, abuse, analogy, murder, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Becalmed
Becalmed Slipping slowly from her moorings she drifted without sail rudderless on a darkening sea. We stood helpless upon the beach calling against the roaring surf as she shrank into the horizon. Distant winds of memory would allow her return to a once familiar port, coax a smile, moisten a tear, refuel the anger of the battle to regain the vessel’s helm. Sitting now in dry dock becalmed by...

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Categories: becalmed, lost, memory,
Form: Free verse



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Lost in wonder- inner light envisions our way igniting imagination A 'Poiema' Poem for Good Friday...

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Categories: becalmed, inspirational
Form: Fibonacci
~becalmed Beneath the Storm~
With shoe cast eyes buried in inaccuracies of leather life lines, and no cries to shatter walkmans sheath, we traverse those macadam’s, hoping to slip beneath all the broken flowers that pray for sun, as they wilt in the gutters ignored by everyone. No time to leave our tunnels lest we slip between the cracks, and show hope clinging to an outstretched hand we have the...

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Categories: becalmed, life, social
Form: Free verse
Becalmed
Let Genesis speak of light with arcane vocabulary, Shafts of dawning, worms of glowing, Splitting through the black night-capped skull, Pale scimitars of drizzle painting winds blowing. Now the storm had died away, mere twitching left, Nerves of branch and reed, spasm crippled and crawling, Bristling combs of dead god breath, sighing, Rippling the dew dropped grass, restless trawling. The brandy tincture stained...

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Categories: becalmed, nature,
Form: Verse




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