Pain Body Poems

   Exploring regions unexplored heretofore
     my body springs to attention like a rusty door…  
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Things drop on the floor.
One can't reach them any more,
in a wheel chair..
Furniture must be moved, to
get around, and just maneuve..
in a wheel chair..
High shelves...

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Written: March 31st, 2024 for Matt Caliri Coagulation Contest

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When the mind react
The body gets pain, unfazed
When the mind relax....

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Her goodnight clothes send me an invitation that reads: come play with me
Oversized sleep tee leaves room for my palms to follow your skin 
Fuzzy...

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‘Hey stomach,’ says anus,
‘Would you cut the crap.’
“It’s not me,’ stomach says;
‘I won’t take the wrap.

It’s what they’re eating,
So blame teeth and mouth.
I’m innocent,’ says...

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the pain is a mothers warm kiss

but my mother never kissed me

kisses were replaced with hits

words of love were twisted into hateful stabs

my mother could...

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"Finally my blood began to coagulate,"
the second stage of hemostasis -- how great!
First I applied pressure to the bleeding spot,
the platelets circulate to stop it...

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We’ve all been crippled
in different ways
To hobble or stumble
 alone in our pain
No one is reprieved
as years take their toll
Till that day we return
one body...

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You say you're old, but I don't see it
Your wrinkles are just lines of wisdom
Your hair is not gray, but silver
Your eyes are not dull,...

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If I'm your stress relief just say that don't call and sugar coat me and say you miss me when all you want is my...

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Resolved was I to exercise,
To utmost try to slenderize.
From flabby bod I'd poundage peel
To Grecian god beneath reveal.

But soon my straining torso frail
Becomes complaining, moaning...

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a doomed affair


when a young doctor/padre came to the convent 
to check on the nuns' health, he met the young abbess, and their world ignited
when...

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I walked from the office with a newfound vigor;
it was around 2:15 PM and my guts were at ease.
I'd had a good night's sleep, a...

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Just Call Me Miracle Man
By: Miracle Man
January 31st 2024

From life events I’m left scarred and bruised,
so “Tough Old Bird” are words others have used.
Due to...

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