Best Melt Off Poems

They enter the strip
joint like the last 
flurrie of flakes.

She hears the music,
hears the voice of the 
D.J. Wind, enters on cue.

Her cold poles await her 
as she moves to the beat.
One south, one north.
She works them both.

They call her Storm
she is the feature act.
Drawing her minions
in for months...

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i.

I’m stubborn in remembering you
even flayed like this around my
shoulder blades, and all those
hissing scales tipping time
over my wrists until the water 
around me runs red,  streaking crimson
unsurity through all the locks I thought I left
rusted shut, all my fingers broken off 
in the...

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So I built you of my own selfish
Visions outlined in sugar coloured 
Droplets of daffodils naked skin to
Rose petals caramel and cinnamon 
Lips her eyes burn sienna in crimson
Flames and we’re writhing in a mound
Of brown as if the Gods forgot to paint
Us outlines her...

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I go to sleep and wake up in the same day 
But I'm loving my life
I wouldn't change a thing
Chasing a toddler and chasing dreams
College full time 
Finding myself in between
Bad days - no sleep
Doesn't define where we want to be

It happens, sometimes life sucks
You...

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Give me that sultry yummy sauce that I like
Fried or roasted
Baked or smoked 
To slowly melt off my tongue as I lick it
Give me those brown pale sausages that I like
Hot and warm to the touch
Tasty and delicious to my glands
Give me all those things...

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i must write i must not be alright,
i see the image in my head,
it's unsaid what i read but you mislead,
the point i point out,
about the writing on the walls all over the floors behind closed doors,
 secrets that you start to regret for even...

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I am going back to the person I was before
That abusive thing I finally fought off
That reflection I clawed
Out of the mirror and choked to the floor

I am digging into my skin again
I am 
Digging down my throat
And every second I am alone
There is the...

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...The heathen knew not of his approach
until his men exploded out of the hills.
The foe tried to give fight, but siege-lines broke
as Prince Larren pilled up the kills,
they were not a true match for his will.
Chaos descended, the battle now a route,
in the milling madness,...

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Today

Times have changed from yesterday
when our problems fit neatly on the Sunday paper, and when we put the paper down, we could block it out. That stuff happened to other people...not us. 
We could put it on the back burner, and forget it was simmering,...

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I have burned the church yard down
danced on every hot red mound
and dug out wells with pales of red
and to the children gave stoned bread.
I watched the sea swell with delight
Gave hope to those with endless night
I grieve by every paupers grave
like lovers tears for...

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I hear those footfalls
on the floor marked only by footprints
of demons and the exiled muse and silence.

And your voice calling a name 
I know is mine etched on the walls
that themes mama's 
cradle songs gone silent
and the owls on the oak sang me
every nightfall till...

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Flowers bloom and grow,
Tall grasses sway on the fields.
The sun starts to melt off the snow.
Look at the colors it reveals!
Bright pink flowers are seen,
And purple and yellow and green.
Nature, so calming and pretty,
Humble, yet grand as a city!...

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Twelve years ago
Part of me died
Broken by heartbreak
Shackled to loneliness
Bitterly forsaken
The husk of who I was moved on
Never pure
But most certainly
Tainted
Red veins turned black
Corroding
From within
A deviant in a glass cage
Watched
By countless eyes
Ruthless and relentless they were
Watching me fail
Watching me slowly succumb
The youth in me
Died
I gave...

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Swiftly she started the flashing rain
and called to the kids to enjoy the pain
The melt off the trees in the summer’s breeze
as the hail tore the clouds and began to freeze
The asphalt clinging to heated steam
and car tires hurling toward their headlight’s beam
A hush from...

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After forty years of snow
Do you remember the watch you gave to me wrapped in a poem? 
It is still bound to my soul's meaning
The more time passes 
The more the letters jump into my heart artery
My heart is now pumping flirtation 
How many times...

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