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Black Bile Poems

Black Dog

...

Its raven skin follows without a 'woof,'
no bark no bite,
darker than a shadow in sunlight.
It reflects in the mirror,
staring with 'Edgar Allan Poe,' ebony eyes.

At dawn it's at the bedsi...

Categories: black bile, analogy, depression,
Form: Free verse

A Vision On An Island

...Nested like treasures priceless, eagle parents watch over the brood
On an island far away from the city, I beheld in a vision of azure blue
A rural settlement in waste laying, arid with black bile
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Categories: black bile, africa,
Form: Free verse

Acts of War Iv: Jihad

...I can bring you a holy war. 
Of souls and sour things…
I feel your slings and arrows of poison sight!
I dealt with your Hypocrisy your lies, your bitter night.

I simmer in your black bile of se...

Categories: black bile, anger, angst, anxiety, art,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

- Catastrophic In the Long Run -

...I'm sitting in the scissors
                   my own emotional drama
                   An all-night staging on the podium
                   Poor audience
                   trauma, loss and wo...

Categories: black bile, angst,
Form: Free verse

Even If Yours Truly Could Repeat Every Grade

...Even if yours truly could repeat every grade...

Without fail, I would flunk preschool
farcical scenario aside
truthfully, metaphorically, emphatically
resigned to life as replayed
male live vi...

Categories: black bile, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Melancholy

...Melancholy

A black bile veil becomes the widow -
Her euphoric beauty, now cursed.
Onyx gloves cover her silky soft hands.
Her tears, like wax, permanently fixed.

An imminent dark...

Categories: black bile, depression, sad,
Form: Rhyme

The Element Earth

...In ancient Greek philosophy
			and science, Earth was named as one
			of a quartet of elements.
			The other three of great import,
			we're taught, were water, air, and fire.

			The ancients ...

Categories: black bile, earth, history, science,
Form: Verse

Nosecandy Snow

...NOSECANDY SNOW

crack white
mojoblow
night flight
nosecandy
 snow

photographic 
eye chambers
capture it all
seizure lights
rainbow walls
nerves and veins
plumbed too raw
doubl...

Categories: black bile, addiction,
Form: Free verse

Closer

...I spent the morning retching
out black bile, fear,
insecurity lining the walls of 
thought, a constriction within 
the cage of failure, 
purged with tears,
and I cried for freedom,
cried for my incon...

Categories: black bile, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Parable of All Parables

...I, Oracle tool of eternal, placid in mental state. 
High-intellect mortal, dropping parables to educate. 
Special emotional properties, concepts of four elements. 
Fire; earth; wind; water, mind o...

Categories: black bile, imagination, inspirational, mystery, passion,
Form: Quatrain