Best Disfigured Poems

Love is but a mist that veils the moon,
A beautiful instrument played out of tune.
Love is but a lion that after the hunt devours it’s pray,
And leaves the bare carcass to rot away.

Love is a gentle ghost trapped in a material world of nothingness,
Which is...

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Displaced

shattered

disfigured.....

aching on the ground

I fall into the stream of disregard

forgotten by all

I thought held me

in contempt of heart...

brittle skeletons

left to move

fast through vast

dreams and memories

left to be stranded, to be strong

and I wonder

can I do it

and be proud

of who I am

of who I was

before you

branded...

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Someone disfigured our car
And really, I think, went too far.
No tires were slashed;
No windshield was smashed
But the perps seemed to lower the bar.

A sticker was placed on the back
Which felt just like a coward’s attack;
On the metal, not bumper
And left by a Trumper,
Both reason and...

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mother
here no longer 
but forever judged
you were everything
the self-sacrificing
source of all love and comfort

and all rage and rejection
you made me
and i am somehow part of you
and i was your mirror
showing what you did not want to see
weakness, neediness 
the object of your shame and self-loathing

now
(just...

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