Best Edginess Poems

from "The Waking" by Theodore Roethke:
"I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going...

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Watch me walk through the sadsands of stupored time 
trading youth for aged ashes, suredness for shyness
knowledge for retirement, candor for cowardice, 
diligence for dunceness,...

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Forever the square peg
seeking entry into the round hole,
the smart kid pushing
when the sign says “Pull”.
wandering in the midst
of the hurried,
a dreamer adrift among
those who...

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I dove boldly in to my psychosis
this gave me a kind of leverage
a tiny fragment of sanity
shiny bevel of edginess to my personality
so vulnerable, derelict,...

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Going home

He had come back different, or maybe he had never really come back at all. 
It had changed him; now eyes withdrawn, furtive,
Looking out...

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*Image of Me Flirting by Gfycat.
Tatiana Needed Support To Come Out

Lil' Tatiana her stomach like butterflies,
Could not speak in public, had doctor analyze,
Prescribed taking lessons...

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A funny thing happened this evening
My littlest daughter sat too far back on the toilet, slipped in and was stuck
(Have we all been there? I...

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Numbness prevails over me,
Masking me… sending me pangs of suppression
Deadness tears its way inside of me,
Consuming me… devouring me with yanks of oppression

Darkness frowns upon...

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come to me my darling, my deary,
my sweet cheeked youth.
though snow may curl lovingly 
about your brow
and life trace deep paths 
around your ardent eyes

snuggle...

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The army intruder

I live near a stream that has been running dry for years
into a winter lake that has been drained to a helicopter pad
trees...

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He was just another foulmouthed saint
“halo” tilted jauntily to one side
wings tucked neatly into a dirt stained jacket

aura – lightly tinged with a sparkle of...

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Within this bleakest loss of day
I reach for you and find you gone
without a soothing word to say
and here am I your willing pawn.

Yet circumstance...

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Yesterday, what to say of yesterday to make today seem here? 
What was that emptiness of nothing hounds' baying unheard and close? 
Uselessness showing fanged...

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Gently smile along when the flowers grin;
Freely fly along when butterflies glide
Divulge the veiled exuberance within;
Set your worldly tribulations aside.

Pace along with ever ebullient breeze;
Crazily...

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Tomorrow is the near future.

I live near a stream that has been running dry for years
there used to be a winter lake too, now drained
as...

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