Best Madwoman Poems
MadwomanErin Healy is her name
Congresswoman is her game
She tweets 'bout what's 'extreme'
You can almost hear her scream:
Kids who have a married mom and dad
She deems 'dangerous and un-American,' all bad
How did this madwoman...
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Categories:
madwoman, children, crazy, marriage, parents,
Form:
Couplet
Focus of a Madwomanfocus of a madwo/man
just how many psychotics
have we had to endure
passing through our lives
since the lies began being
told? how many madwo/men
quoting “scripture” as if it
validated their acts, as if their
lives had been determined, as
if “fate” had driven them
in the direction of something
total, something...
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Categories:
madwoman, life,
Form:
Free verse
PAINTBRUSHPAINTBRUSH
Fingertips the bristles of a
pagan paintbrush
painting a Tree of Life
on pacified cheekbones
instead of in liver
from whence it sprung
now it burns to feed
HeartSpace with witty
wood for Eternal Fire
From cheekbones
it slid to jugular vein
which throbbed like
scintillating sciatica
all jumbled chaotic
timelines tangled in
spherical...
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Categories:
madwoman, allegory, art, body, color,
Form:
Alliteration