Sad Body Poems

My arms are moist, uncomfortably.

Standing in the humidity of a tiny bathroom after an overdue shower. 

Heat hovers disgustingly around my squeegeed sack; a pink...

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There is nothing wrong with me
Besides the curve of my bones
And the curve of my two eyes.

There is nothing wrong with earth
Besides the razors on...

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When you adopt that title
you can boast, drink a toast, enjoy a roast.
When you lose that title
and face the coast,
you may feel the most
sadness.

You see...

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Time is a river that flows endlessly
Carrying memories and dreams along the way
Sometimes it is calm and gentle, sometimes it is rough and stormy
But time...

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My body is too big
My bones loom over me
and my flesh wraps around them
Heavy like the bricks of a lighthouse tower 

The waterfall of my...

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Longing for attention in so many ways high brows, mean brows, sad puppy eyes and smiling sparking eyes...

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My dad has aged and so have we, in our reflection it was so clear to see

As he struggled to sit up in bed, his...

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Soon it will be a cold winter's day, 
hot chocolate is great for any holiday. 
I want to go out and play, 
let's go riding...

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To go out with friends
Without having a care in the world
To find people
who just get me
And accept me the way I am
To be good at...

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I was in the hospital at only five, 
the medicine gave me a big hive. 
Sunday school taught us to be alive, 
my spirit soared...

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A remarkable suicide

Johan Borgen 
had an elegant pen and a charming story near his typewriter, but he was also a serious writer who deeply plowed...

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thank you to the ones who carried me here
the ones that became my parents when my parents couldn’t hear me
the ones who took in that...

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My eyes tell people about me 
they can tell when I'm tired 
when I have energy and I'm alive 
when I'm excited 
when I'm sad...

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someone took something from me that wasn’t theirs 
i did not let them take it 
and now i can never get it back 

they held...

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Traveling shoes on got on my traveling shoes traveling shoes yall got on my traveling shoes I can travel now got on my traveling shoes...

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