Best Coercing Poems

“Dreams Coercing Memory” 

You want cherries jubilee
with a little Krug champagne
but soft custard is just the same
when reality plays its game
by the spoonful
morphine comes 
to save the day

the light changes 
subtle refractions 
of dreams coercing
memory

long elegant fingers

poised painted apricots
those false '70s fingernails 
tremendous talons 
for...

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Emerge the invocations of begotten falsehood.
 Lying dormant.
My screams no longer withheld.
Anointing savagery bred of ancient tongues.
This depraved submergence beckons in a righteous hand.
Born of opposition in the courts of folly, enormities ascend to the arch of flame.
Emptiness divine.
Adversary! Consciousness springs fourth with teeth, capturing...

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I dream in the morning
As lowly constructs constrain at night
Coercing my memory:
Death's cousin makes me their dancing fool

As a child, I had nightmares and thieves--
They indulged their appetites from my solace
Now, I only dream in the daylight
For my sleeping beauty calls me at night

"My Heart...

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I'll speak of you with glass rings 'round my ankles
jangling in the Southern sun
at each turn as I walk.
I'll serve the guests their lemonade
and in the sun, I'll slowly fade
in conversation born to run
a background 'mongst the trees.
I'll smile the winning, loser's smile
and think of...

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