Best Catharsis Poems

Tears of the past invoke frozen footprints
When fears rekindle flares of dire misery
Feeling the ache, straining blood streams
As wrinkles pop up swelling deep worries,

Holding dialogue with sustained poverty
Attempting to traverse shuttered streets--
Bent, but not broken, in grip of tragedies
Trapped in the pathos of agonizing grief
Building...

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A dark angel writes in the air,
“There will be no tomorrow for you.”
Then puffs of shiny cloud ebb,
Ebony night surrounds me.
I tremble in fear.
 
I hover between now and never,
as if I'm traversing a rough river
on one bank: life, on the other: death.
I feel an...

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Catharsis
By Carolyn Devonshire


heart
wisdom
comes with age
experience
so many emotions and events stored
flushed quickly from memory to my page
release, let go
catharsis
gives me
peace



*Entry for Michael’s “Where Your Poetry Comes From” contest....

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stared at the two passionate lines for the longest time,
       what I wrote ..I created ... as if in a trance, as if in a surreal dream ..
           ...

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Ah, ‘Love’! a lover’s repeated mantra!
I see me mutter it, just now, very now.
Sigh I high, a busy, burning furnace,
scrolling lines with aching, grieving woes;
she, a charmed worm, wriggles, snorts,
while floating on a fluffy, velvety cloud.

Is this repeated mantra pricier like a jewel: 
a sapphire,...

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Why don’t you come now
To the plot of blue river shore 
Where we would
In an intense chocolate mood
Sit in a sun rise satisfaction
On the grainy sand
And create pearl drops of time
From the rhymes of waves
With the vibrancy we behaved
Exchanging those fine chimes
From our moonbeam dialectics
And...

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the pearly night---
moving into dawn now
catches me
half-awake at the window
breathing in tangy air
and scent of golden leaves
that twirl as quickly as they fall...
 
from the sidewalk
created for prancing around,
a dove whispers from across the lane
gazing back at me
and knowing I will place both feet
on grounded...

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a mystic poetess in her thought patterns
of iambic heartbeats, makes new rhythms
with a symphony...joy and pain in cadence. 

in her confetti of stars moonbeams cadence
caressing love in ivory and ebony patterns
perforated feelings careen melodic rhythms

in her sonnets, words entice in rhythms 
lovebird's lyrics drift in...

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I feel it
Shifting within me
Wandering in open space
A gypsy striving to get
From place to place
Whether it slithers
So slowly 
 At a snail’s pace
Or simmers in an 
Utterly poignant disgrace
I feel it
Gliding amidst my organs
Making my heart race
Venturing forward
As if on a wild, stormy
Chase 
In search...

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Catharsis of a King


Twisted trees, gnarled and warped
by wicked winds, curled in crippling
curling toward faint warming of the sun,
clinging with clutched roots to rocky crags,
overhanging the crashing roar of foam tipped
breakers.  Stone face of shear cliff etched by
fine chiseled rivulets, tears shed by dark...

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The mushroom cloud stunk up the smog,
And milled the metal into the ground.
We were left with all our hairs blown off,
Soot black, standing without a sound.

All of the earth was madly aflame,
Like the wick of a thick, drooping candle.
People were pulling their skin off of...

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Loose lips and smooth hips
In movement, in rhythm
I couldn't fathom the explosion of ecstasy that follows. There’s dripping
on the sheets, walls are skinny;
ears perked to hear the neighbors trying to compete in a competition of
positions, twisting and turning like two master physicians riding sexual collisions;...

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Purification
Rinsing away the debris
Hidden for decades
Until one day you woke up
Trying to regain lost years...

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Pisces woman
come to your Pisces man
riding an ocean breeze
goddess of water...
She is angelic
a native mystery
her eyes pierce
my wildest imagination...
She is all
the love stories
and soap operas
of the world...
There is a
faint shade of light
in her eyes
transforming grief into relief...
She speaks
in Creole cascading rhymes
overflowing music around her
that soothes...

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Attune yourself to see the miracle of music.
Merging with the dance is truly ecstatic.
Hey! Swing, sway and frisk, every way it’s fantastic!

Stir your senses, I wanna hear your riotous roar.
Unbound and bounce, in you I see Terpsichore
Just dance, just dance! Forget every frightening chore!

 I...

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