Best Sloughed Poems

Fancy Light  (COLLAB) Dr Ram

by~ DR RAM:

Once her tumbled hair was bright with flame
That her eyes sapphire with twinkling stars 
And her lips were...

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 For a time,
I want to shed my earthly existence 
Like the sloughed skin of a snake
To rise high and still higher like a bird
To...

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My fingers grasp at the void, empty-handed...
My heart lingers at hollowness, emptied out...
reminiscent when time got wrinkled, worn
when night and day left,
and only nothing remained.

The...

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(not to take too seriously; I think I am immune 
to my "enemies" by now!)

How near to us are foes we can’t resist
when cells, like...

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Fancy Light - A collaboration
Fancy Light - Dr Ram -
Fancy Light  (COLLAB) Dr Ram

by~ DR RAM:

Once her tumbled hair was bright with flame
That her...

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Nautdah
Nautdah, they called you, 
In your real life they named you,
When you knew yourself,
When you lived out on the unforgiving plains.

As Nautdah, Comanche captive, 
You...

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A year ahead my skull was taken by a diatribe- storm
Her face formed a bead in an invisible dorm
That was right I did feel with...

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Into space, a rammed ship the passing Star spewed.
Feverish, life into its bowels forever doomed.
Survival hopes by a tumefying Sun aerified.
The void, blindly the last...

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To say her goodbyes, she was forced to wait,
'til final mourners long since departed.
Twin jet-black feathered wings shaken out straight,
forever alone and broken-hearted.

Celestial voyeur she'd...

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A rippling of shivered skin
Convulsing tides of sweat
Induced spasms of chaotic
Visions of cataclysmic madness

Choking down pharmaceutical
Faith in medicinal fists, full
Of killers
Of pain

Where writhing in torsions...

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This poem was inspired by the interviews by Earl K. Pollon and S. S. Matheson conducted with native Sekanni peoples who were negatively effected by...

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]=           THE STRANGER MAN  (1)

Once a foetus when I began the venture
And sloughed from...

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Tumbled hair eyes sapphire with twinkling stars           
Never to be missed to kiss were her...

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By: Jeremy Aguire
Contest: Build Your Own Sand Contest
Date: 09/17/2013

I didn't measure up.
Within your plans, I wasn't enough.
My life was sloughed.
Back to the pencil and I'm...

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Our minds like leaves 
Fall in brown and gold 
Flickered green light 
Before winds changed the old 
Peel of skin 
To dry lignin. 
Thoughts sloughed...

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