Best Suture Poems

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How blonde he was! How smooth was his veneer!
My poor heart raced whenever he was near.
He was a wizard! His blue crystal eyes, 
if fixed...

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Aunt Ethel said to Uncle Fred,
Let’s attempt the starfish in bed,
Old Ethel insisted,
Till Fred’s back got twisted,
They best stick to sleeping instead!

Original poem by Jan...

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"Marionette of Flesh in a Borrowed Dress"
- Daniel Henry Rodgers

The hourglass, 
a skeletal jester, 
mocks in the tomb's chill,
Each falling grain an emaciated sigh, 
"Soon...

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I left the past, in all its fullness, thinking, surely life isn’t complete.
     Next came the present, a flower in full...

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The sun emerge from its hide, smiling bright and it glide
Promising a fine stay, for those who toil by the day
Oaks surround the landscape, as...

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Self-pity became my days in so 
        many messed up ways,
if only the bottle in my right hand...

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Raven Shadows



Ravens fly in an ebony pool out of the mouth of evil
Someone please suture the mouth from which they come
Then let the beasts fly...

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An abstract button, controlling people
the end and beginning joined with a gum
the sky will always be blue not purple
steps calculated since when out of mum
from...

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FREE MY HEART 

An extreme sadness engulfs my heart...
like an ebony cage... of frozen tears,
Within, my heart beats in obscurity,
emotions trapped in a turmoil create...

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Before time was created lived an hourglass draining of sand,
the sand sank and there came the desire for true destinies,
Before the...

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Vows sworn for a sacred true commitment,
lust has become trust lost in just two weeks-
I’m living my days in pure resentment,
I'm no longer able to...

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From my window, I watch children at play,
their color blindness encourages me.
They do not let skin shades stand in their way
playing there together, where all...

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Only she knows the weight of this veneer
that emanates from her aloof demeanor. 
An ebony goddess, she waits in obscurity 
ever ready to do the...

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Oh the woe, for woe is me,
I said, "I do" to a teacher-to-be!
I tried to marry my best friend,
Now strapped to him, I stand condemned.

I...

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