Best Purifying Poems

She grew up in a time when sitting
on grandma's lap was security.
Walking in a gentle night rain was purifying.

Sitting in the desk behind Johnny Garber
was being held in captivity.
Her first dress-up dance was being "Cinderella."

The first time staying awake at a
drive-in movie was "Giant."
Liz Taylor's...

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Woman, I heard you
crying
whimpering like an
abandoned puppy
behind the bedroom door
and my
compassionate heart
broke in two.

The mighty hands
that had inflicted 
chronic pain
now distorted
arthritic, useless
disabled weapons
...lifeless duds,
yet throbbing
mercilessly.

Knuckles swollen
as big as macadamia
nuts, fingers 
warped
like barbwire,
no ass whipping
no pinching of flesh
no goose-eggs today.

I watched your
mouth twist
in agony 
no words
could...

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Purifying rain
Falls atop my head, cooling
My fevered spirit



Date written and posted: 12/31/2018...

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Chasing stars
Aligned with brilliance


Forging hearts
In stormy signatures

Rain falls as reverence 
Wetting the face of forgiveness
Extinguishing the fire of this soul’s madness
That drifts into the midnight hour
Where darkness searches for light

My blood flows red and alive
Awaiting


May 1, 2023

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