Best Sutures Poems

~One key
             Two keys
         ...

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The surgeon generals 
are scalpel meeting once again
Fear doktors of war
are planning to raise another mar
on Earth’s topographical skin

Pigmented epidermal cells
are being prosperity lullabied put...

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I met a man who was a builder, harder life than some.
His lifetimes measure built of him the man he has become.

A carpenter who works...

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You never knew
what it was like to be bruised.
So obviously broken,
exposed to the open.

Sutures from past scars you hide
like nakedness in your eyes.
Something to be...

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There are wounds that may seem very repulsive, 
           they show on sleeves and inside...

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I am but only a human being
a women who needs material things
although I am materially blessed
I still need you Lord to give me rest

I try...

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I never wanted any barriers,
           or dark taintings with thick smears,
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there is nothing more beautiful     
than the scar of a fallen angel- 
in broken ivory feathers cloaked,    ...

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moribund she wondered what

the postmortem would leave

other than a dead body and wounds

made by the many scalpels of life

operations gone wrong and stitch-ups

with sutures festering...

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I just want to be me, free to exist,
rest knowing everything inside is seen;
The somber parts also need to be kissed,
if it's love then there...

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The One
by Rick Rucker


When you have found “The One,”
That person that outshines the Sun,
Then you will understand  the fuss,
Your heart convinced with the first...

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I guess I was left alone after sixth grade, wandering my way.
You believed in me, offered up openings and let me say
what I would and...

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Reaching for my favorite shirt and the iron-warming
Starched and ironed, complete with those creases that cut
It was made for me and handsome.
And you and your...

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My heart was skinned when you left.

And the sutures were just removed.

I have been to the doctor and the healing.

The scar is a reminder of...

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Teach each of us Lord, thy loving ways,
On our own we just complicate things.
We experience bitterness and malaise,
Cleanse us Lord from what today brings.

The surgery...

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