Best Lessening Poems

I pressed a barb
under my tongue
to remind me

I pierced glass
into my heart 
to awaken a story

as blood dripped
a memory formed
in the pain and suffering
an effigy wavered

then I knew
some stories 
should never be told
and forever remain

locked under my tongue 
speared into my heart
and silent in eternity...

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Dear Lord,
I thank you this day
for the things that I don’t have

Ain’t got no troubled mind:
Some of those creditors circling,
wanting a pound of debt flesh
for the bills that ain’t yet got paid
Presently, 
it’s gonna have to be late fee 
sent that way
Long as the heat...

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Whatever each of us thinks, says or does 

Must aim at the lessening of human pain

Otherwise null and void his efforts shall be

That would make him feel so empty and vain!  







© Demetrios Trifiatis
      08 June 2020...

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The carnations spoke to me
teaching me of sorrow,
but the message was broken
by the scratching on glass


it was not until 
the rattle moved from the window
and into her chest
that I knew,


whose it was


I lay frozen,
with each breath she took
in each movement of hand
I found a victory


I...

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