Best Carvings Poems

I looked at the heart-encased initials on the table, 
a couple's lifelong promise turned  employee's weeklong cleanup project, 
I wonder if it's gone yet,
Love is set in minds not etched in someone's regret...

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Mind Carvings

Mind relies on carvings to create what it thinks

How tensile this airless life
like a sponge submerged again and again
its weight becomes its intake from all around
seeks relief by disgorging

First a sprinkle
the droplets imagined
spurring cups to runneth over
to flood the pavement of fingers and hand
to...

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Ancient carvings 
from a mythic age
where children 
played in everyway.

Now they scream
lost in a dusky dream
crying: “Help – save us”
from this polluted stream....

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giants and monsters 
     walking the Earth
            in rock art

                 dogs 
  ...

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The blade.
The pain.
The blood.
My wrist.
Slowly and carefully
carving my sorrow and inner-most
anger;
leaving reminders of my pain
on my soft flesh;
watching dark crimson beads blossom on my arms
and flow down my finger tips
numbness of my senses sets in
and my limbs become light as air
blurring vision and vertigo
standing upright,...

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Gray wings
at the edge of a threadbare blue.
A feathering that attenuates
and denatures.

Beneath somber clouds
stone angels watch
green granite deathbeds
crumble
in darkening dens.

October slips
through our eyes leaving no footsteps.
We are unaware of its coming
until we close those eyes tight,
then under squeezed lids
they glint starbright.

Sea-deep into a restless night
we...

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