Best Exhuming Poems

Words were meant to be shared, 
embraced, loathed at times, 
feared, and met with trepidation.

Words release that power within us
we need to express in tactile...

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I write of things that are real,
some difficult to express.
And encourage hearts to feel,
with a poetic caress.

My pen interrogates pain,
exposing the hidden dirt.
And redefines what...

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This lapse shed showers of sorrows
Piercing my diamond heart with its arrows
And as it breaks within my grasp furrows
It paints little hells on my minds...

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Iberia, I long to breathe you in
as long ago I did. . . and then exhale
sangria nights with lace against my skin!
Sweet temptress draped in...

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Coffin lungs unhinge a chest open bare, 
fragile skin ripping thin as bat membrane-
flutter in waves of vapor, from the heart that beats itself,
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I taught of it to be a day filled with ink and empty paper
Where ill paint myself rainbow 
Blank paper scribbled with ink should rain...

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love calibrates not
value systems
there is no judgment 
nor any hesitation 
in plunging into embrace 

the echo may not return
it matters not
love is an effervescence 
exhuming...

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We dragged the slopes to our feet.
On the summit, we burnt our clothes
for wood and there shuffled our feet
in the hush of the falling snow.
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THE DEMARCATING OF SUE
Between the edge of secrecy
and seething brink of lunacy
there went I to the very deepest
     darkest part of...

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Sprawled on my soft leather sofa
One Sunday after church service
Reading Okara’s “Spirit of the Wind”
And my infant son is sleeping nearby:
He would never leave me...

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Each subsequent process of cell division    
i.e. mitosis sans biological parlance 
erodes chromosomal cap re: telomere if u can envision
some juncture senescence...

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for Eric Mottram

           "Nur wenn das Herz erschlossen,
       ...

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Exhuming dreams buried in time,
you're in a state of denial.
And concealing your misery,
the truth's hidden behind a smile.

Forged upon empty yesterdays,
delusion warps reality.
And you're lost...

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And sadness reigns
Though never ordained
from the simple truth
Billowing joy
Subverting bliss
Standards too ephemeral
To lobby the naked
wishes we hold
Desperately close
To our heart
And sadness reigns
Our heart
once whole
Sputter and...

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She misses Europe
Since her anointed head’s hope
Lingers goodness of land’s womb

The backyard’s pale fears 
Massive mountains of king Leer!
Kristiansand in atmosphere!?
 
Her head is the...

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