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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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