becalmed
* Content Warning: this poem touches on physical/emotional abuse*
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“dabble, dabble
roiling to rabble
toes in the water
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Categories:
becalmed, abuse, analogy, murder, ocean,
Form: Free verse
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
Becalmed
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