Best Twinges Poems

Twinges of familiar sadness
Threaten to overpower my very being
Can I truly be unseen?
Perhaps I never wanted them to intervene
Silence is all I can give you...

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you’re nameless and faceless
some shun you, claiming your existence is baseless 

you’ve been with me right from the start,
always together, never apart

you’ve spoken to me...

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What’s the use of trying any longer?
Nothing comes out the way I want it to flow
Words perpetrate my every being
And I strain to get my...

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Blue
twinges 
of lament
cast gaunt shadow
o’er my dreadful  pang
as a grim mist segued
into dark claustrophobic 
cantons where rabid zeal of hearts
once smouldered from magma’s deep...

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Cardboard boxes filled on the floor,
   Photos gone from nightside table,
   Where we read a bedtime fable.

Twinges as I walk by...

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MIND MUSCLE

Steroid cocktails, metallic flavor, Viagra rush; 
Mind numbing mush!

Sightless vision, cloudy comprehension, silent violence, whimpering misogyny; a blood-curdling hush…

Nervous perspiration, brain freeze, lactic acid...

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Unsung heroes of the garden fringes
Perennial favorites for a colorful bouquet,
Purple coneflowers with yellow twinges.

Violets are sweet…, yes, they are okay,
But they are too small,...

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There are no words to describe the agony.
Sun soaked tulips
Jammed into your mouth.
Though that’s not true, you’re flying,
Your days are warm and women are guiding...

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FASCIST STATE 

They did not come upon us like blitzkrieg in the night 
or goose step into town like a plague of parasites. 
They crept...

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Embrace happiness wherever you find it 
Relish the good times happiness will bring 
Absorb all the happiness your mind will permit.  

Release sorrows that...

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In a world terrifying
One must make oneself hard
Because if you speak honestly
You will be feathered and tarred
To avoid heresy seekers
You willingly commit sin
Thus every time...

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With summer coming to an end very soon
I went on a long hike to escape my feelings of doom
my trusty walking cane helping me with...

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Mid-July 
Hospital

Sun pungent, not cold; 
But the snow dwells at my feet, 
The heavy air squats above my lungs. 
 
Took awhile to shake off...

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Shuffling wreck, legacy of a life well spent;
Knees creaking, clicking articulations, a
Spine complaining, shoulder crunching. 
Legs spindly toothpicks beneath a pregnant olive,
A-cups sagging. Lungs afire...

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