Best By The Skin Of Your Teeth Poems

(This is a fictional poem)

When she turned on the lights, I screamed and screamed.
I pinched myself because I was hoping it was all just a...

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Thrust a dagger into my heart
Lay me on a bed of thorns
Give me a chalice of hemlock
Thrash me with a flail
Haul me over the smoldering...

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Tough skinned -strong, take it and dish it out.  
Thin skinned - overly sensitive.  
Skin of our teeth -
struggle for life, survival. 
Skin...

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“God bless us all when the door is shut behind us, 
only then will we breathe our first breath,
and awake 
from the long dream…”


Forging past...

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Open to me your cryptic chasm

I hereby relinquish my spiteful state

Swallow my soul into your pit

Where nothing save void exist

 

To them I am nothing...

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My Beloved Has Come

T’was a day we might say like any other
we were pouring over the long to do list for the day, 
when suddenly...

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We all know that death awaits us, how will it come
 to me ,in my sleep I hope and not in some horrifying scene.
 Like...

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(21st century pearly white prosthetics,
restored jaw bar wah key) 

Aye noel hunger bristle,
and when false teeth soak at night 
     in...

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The cold and drafty dark castle nights,
eating boars head like its going out of style,
having new battles every other week,
God forbid if you had a...

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A stitch in time could save nine that makes sense
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket, that’s recompense
By hook or by crook, by the...

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neighbor Maggie hear a noise
 last night outside the window
 she see two man in the yard
 they stealing she ripe mangoes

 so she call...

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This is it
I give up
I throw in the towel
I draw the curtains
I pull down the shades
I close the doors shut
Finito
The end;

No more haggling
No more beseeching
No...

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Tonight I'll talk too much and try to and complicate my friends.
Distant conversations, eye contact only now and then.
I try and drown myself in futile...

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I suppose the transcendence that is sought after
Will come from a potential difference 
Belonging to an electron surge that will fill my cup
To the brim
So...

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8/15/17


Beyond guns and funds
Involving moons and suns
From here to kingdom come
And then some


By the skin of one's teeth
Above and beneath
Any peak
Near and far from fields...

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