Best Cauterize Poems
Below are the all-time best Cauterize poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of cauterize poems written by PoetrySoup members
Festering FestivitiesTake 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 MeLooking 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 LovelyHow 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 NoirFilm 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
Bruce Walker, ElegyMy 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 NoirFilm 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
ShockingSHOCKING!!!!!!!! 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
Your Sharp TongueNo 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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Categories:
cauterize, conflict,
Form:
Rhyme
Thought the War Was OverThought 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
UndertowSave 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
FingerprintsI'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 HeartLove 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 LiesThe 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 KeepThe 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 MaskDo 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