Bleed Poems

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A broken heart has no hole, yet it bleeds,
So time will heal the wound your hatred breeds.
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Categories: bleed, hate, heart, heartbreak, heartbroken,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberSevered Veins Bleed on Moon

Earth bloodies the moon
its face drowned in severed veins—
harangued in the sky
for all to see Sun's disdain
in being eclipsed usurped

The heavens lament,
scattering rust into dusk,
for the blood red burns
when what's seen is black and white—
space smeared with wrath set ablaze.

A blood moon warns us
every orbit has peril,
in being dethroned
by an unyielding eclipse,
tainting our shadow of
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Categories: bleed, anger, angst, moon,
Form: Tanka


We Bleed Red

We Bleed Red
If I were a king or queen you would notice me, and respect me no matter my race.  If I had riches you would befriend and talk behind my back not to my face. You see me as a different color and not as a person with faith, with thoughts and feelings.
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Categories: bleed, faith,
Form: Free verse

blood and ink

as a child i often found myself participating in sadistic activities.

 i felt my sins rotting into my body-
 into my soul as-well my veins.

 it kept my blood pumping throughout my body that i did neglect.


i protested against consuming meals as if they’d make me feel holy again,
sick i was.

the blood that clawed out
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Categories: bleed, addiction, atheist, childhood, cry,
Form: Free verse

I Bleed Everywhere

Even in beautiful places,
I am not allowed to litter—
not even a word.
I bleed even in happy spaces,
beside those who worship
or simply enjoy their meal.

And I am dying inside,
in silence and in shame,
for I do not belong—
and I have never found a place
to bleed
and heal.
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Categories: bleed, grief,
Form: Free verse


The Petals Hurt Too

Each petal cuts me in my sleep—
you call it soft,
but I bleed every time I touch it.
The mirror doesn’t cry with me anymore.
Only the fog stays.
It hums like a swallowed scream.

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Categories: bleed, absence, cry, love hurts,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Juniper

J=Juniper berry oil for hair,
U=Urinary health wellness care.
N=Natural detoxifier if I dare,
I=Improving circulation with a prayer.
P=Promoting healthy aging is what I need,
E=Evergreen small shrub I will plant and feed.
R=Reducing skin irritation so I do not bleed.
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Categories: bleed, green, hair, health, joy,
Form: Acrostic

For How Long Shall the Innocent Bleed?

In the echoes of Ukraine’s broken streets,
The cries of mothers replace the lullabies.
Children learn war before they know peace,
And rubble replaces their dreams of skies.

A theater of power, painted in blood,
Where egos clash and empires pretend.
Yet not one soldier, not one soul,
Asked for this play that may never end.

Zelenskyy, the people's hope, now dim,
Your laughter
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Categories: bleed, war,
Form: Free verse

Only I bleed her

"The painting is her. Her ruin, my hunger. Every stroke on the canvas carves her deeper into me. I own her screams now."

I don't mind saying the ing word now.
I’ve been an *******—
it doesn't ing matter.

The painting on the wall taunts me,
staring, silent, brutal—
reminding me of her.
Of the way she smiled
before I crushed it.
Of the
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Categories: bleed, emotions, love hurts,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberI Bleed


I bleed
Dark crimson drops
Dripping into water
Sounds like, 
“Wo-man, 
        wo-man, 
               wo-man.”

I bleed
Pain, pain
Irrigating the soil
Of my now fertile womb
Seeds planted
Growing into life
I bleed
Only blood prepares 
Where life begins
Blood for life

I bleed
Blush rose, Just
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Categories: bleed, bible, birth, faith, jesus,
Form: Free verse

Women bleed too

You'd be wrong to assume it just affects only male
And even more wrong to overlook women's plight 
Cause just like men, they too experience it
It's just sad that they'd been left behind

Maybe because it kinda feels like the usual periods
Just a little heavier, going on for more days
And for most women, they go undiagnosed
Cause they're
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Categories: bleed, children, community, health, mother,
Form: Free verse

The cut that always bleed

I want them to tell their children about us.
Make them afraid of what love can do.
Make them sit up at night, wide-eyed, whispering our names like a warning.
Say-they clawed at each other's throats, they swallowed their own pride until it rotted inside them,
they stayed even when it tore them apart.
And in the end, love left
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Categories: bleed, birth, celebration, child, child
Form: Free verse

When I Bleed Out In Front Of You

{"Hadn’t you known, or care to acknowledge that I am wholly fond of my life as of right now? 
I’m in love with the lighting that shoots and grazes my neighbor's balcony as I sit in front of my own, just by looking or glancing or stealing a glimpse at the projection of lights that
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Categories: bleed, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse

To my younger self

To my younger self,
Here's a message to you,
A reference for all you go through,
Take heed from the start,
Cherish your giving heart,
It'll push you beyond limits,
Without even counting minutes,
Pushing yourself till pores bleed,
Working hard is your creed,
You are actually addicted, 
Making social life conflicted, 
Don't forget to smell the roses, 
Understand the threat that poses,
This physical
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Categories: bleed, christian, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme

Roadkill


No one knows the coyote that bleeds in me.

   No one knows my heart is an open road

No one knows the sound I softly whine

  But I do. I do.


I will wake today and carry my body

     I will wake today and carry my bones

I will tread until
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Categories: bleed, animal, fate, growing up,
Form: Free verse

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