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Best Cauterize Poems

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Festering Festivities
Take the skin off my back turn me into a rug

Treat me as everybody else, something to walk over

Tell me i am important and original...

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Categories: cauterize, anger, dark, depression, metaphor,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



There For Me
Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Categories: cauterize, 12th grade, character, hope,
Form: Rhyme
How Lovely
How lovely, isn't
It, to have an 'off' switch, shotty wiring
And all,
And a presence lined up to ****?

They are always there
To cauterize the wounds of emotional...

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Categories: cauterize, abuse, addiction, angst, courage,
Form: Free verse
Film Noir
Film Noir

By the lampost at night
with the pale moon shining bright
but obscured by the fog
I saw her in the harbor
standing where my boat lay moored
but...

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Categories: cauterize, remember,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Bruce Walker, Elegy
My teacher died.
   
   His lungs failed him.

He taught me that the lungs
harbor grief.

   His lungs are gone.
My grief...

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Categories: cauterize, death of a friend,
Form: Elegy



Film Noir
Film Noir

By the lamppost at night
with the pale moon shining bright
but obscured by the fog
I saw her in the harbor
standing where my boat lay moored
but...

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Categories: cauterize, forgiveness, i love you,
Form: Ballade
Shocking
SHOCKING!!!!!!!! WHAT? THAT?


Bad taste?
They know not what is at stake
They do as they please
Then later beg for forgiveness
A right sin
And a dismal business

Nothing is shocking...

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Categories: cauterize, allegory,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Your Sharp Tongue
No torrid steel rod will cauterize my wounds
I cannot lick these festering gashes clean
Your sharp-bladed tongue has bitten deeply 
fangs plunged with each vile cursed...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cauterize, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thought the War Was Over
Thought the War was Over 
By Franklin Price
10/17/2015

Thought the war was over 
When I returned from Cam Ranh Bay
Skin cancer popped it's ugly head
And still...

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Categories: cauterize, cancer, encouraging, health, how
Form: Rhyme
Undertow
Save me from this charged mound,
swirling in mundane cynicism's break
where styrofoam vultures circle overhead
and snap their beaks with convoluted grace.
Pull my flesh back,
and cauterize my...

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Categories: cauterize, how i feel, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Fingerprints
I've built with sand.
I've made a life without a proper plan,
and you kicked before I hardened it.
How do I supply demand?

A ship unmanned.
This is the...

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Categories: cauterize, angst, betrayal, identity,
Form: Lyric
Love With All My Heart
Love with all my heart
every nuance I have left
'till it stops working

Love with all my heart
broken echoes of lost time
to be upon us

Love with all...

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Categories: cauterize, life
Form: Haiku
Dirty Little Lies
The secrets whispered through my ears 
The lies witnessed by my eyes 
I hide them all inside 
Now no one will ever know 
What's behind...

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Categories: cauterize, abuse, anger, anxiety, conflict,
Form: ABC
First Light To Keep
The first cut sharp and burning red,
  don’t edit away its fire

Keep the wound both fresh and raw,
 never cauterize your ire

The horizon breaks...

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Categories: cauterize, fire, french, light,
Form: Rhyme
The Mask
Do you synthesize your anger,
 do you cauterize the burn

Do you anesthetize the wonder,
  when your dreams are left forlorn

Is your judgment tempered badly,
...

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Categories: cauterize, dream,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things