Best Steeling Poems

Please don't take 
What's not yours
Because I need it

And don't think 
Your welcome to
What is mine

I've worked hard 
Earning all
These sad feelings

And I'm steeling memories and time

I'm steeling memories
One string at a time
It cries out with heartache
It bends and it whines

This old Emmons pulls
And it...

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The knife was in my hand, I know,
I felt the blade against my thigh. 
I thought the steel would cut you off,
I thought that I was being kind.

The knife was in my hand, I thought,
I thought that I should sever ties.
But strong and steel and...

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steeling into the attic

how much is contained
in these boxes and bags of stuff?
all of life, now, then and before.
some able to warm the heart strongly 
as when newly minted.
cruelty, giving rise to the chill of fear, pain
a very few, sharp as this minute,
tear into the...

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