I Found the Courage to Speak
...No torrid steel rod cauterized my wounds
for I couldn't lick the festering gashes clean.
Your sharp-bladed tongue bit too deep,
fangs plunged with each vile cursed scene.
No mere prick or scrat...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
cauterized, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Old Flame
...Unexpectedly, I heard she was still alive.
She had been living (as a flame),
in a room
I had made for her in my mind.
I had kept her there tucked away,
sedated and forever young.
Now I hear s...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
cauterized, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Coco Tabletop and Grill
...walk the urban sprawl,
where skyscrapers pierce the sky
cities bleeding_assoc.
carnival lights bloodshot dreams that flee,
like squirrels unconfined biting frost of winter,
within the tumul...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
cauterized, environment, extended metaphor, humanity,
Form: Free verse
of shuttered minds and darkened hearts
...What foul wind has blown them shut
Let shadowed fingers seize a heart
Silence the drumming beat of truth
Closed the doors betwixt age and youth
How has the acrid stench of doubt
Cauterized onc...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
cauterized, america, confusion, political,
Form: Sonnet
I lacked emotions where others concerned
...Back approximately half my life ago
dissociative disorder
if qualified to self diagnose
mein kampf psychological state...
I lacked emotions where others concerned.
That refrain replayed it...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
cauterized, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Broken Warriors
...Broken soldiers
Splintered dreams
Huddled
The horror of now
Haunted
By the horrors of then
Scarred, sutured,
But as yet
Un-cauterized
Wounds
Forever bleeding
Into their present...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
cauterized, anger, soldier, war,
Form: Free verse
Sunset Over the Bay
...It was as if all vengeance
was set to touch down here
upon the blazing waters
of the bay. The air turning
fiery red and a big sun burning
through into the sealed
catacombs of the head.
Bu...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
cauterized, sunset,
Form: Free verse
Proposals For Upgrading a Company
...It was a dragging argument
For the need to funds augment:
Ten voices in Duke's Department,
Their owners in Fred's Apartment;
Not sure of Duke's contentment
With talks on firm's new investment:
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
cauterized, absence, allusion, cry,
Form: Rhyme
Otis Trench
...This article is about the underground lyricist and outlaw musician. For other uses, see Zoltan Goliath, Brent Scorn, Lydia Fox, C. Günter Marrow, Elzbieta Bienga (disambiguation).
Otis (Trench Mou...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
cauterized, allegory, character,
Form: Epitaph
When Savages Sang Strongly 2
...Destiny demands that we be the debtor
that we sacrafice for the skin of our future,
We left the cradle of the Caucasuses to explore,
to plant the dreams of our Creator,
venturing into the virgin...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
cauterized, heart,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Viola Viscera Mr
...We set foot on dry grass at the cockcrow
of a nascent union.
Cheek to cheek as Cupid towers
over the rose inside my heart,
shooting arrows at a dyad draped in fire,
gliding through the tundr...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
cauterized, celebration, creation, emotions, environment,
Form: Prose Poetry
Old Flame
...Not knowing she were alive or dead,
I kept her memory sedated
in the three-walled room.
Now I hear she is alive
(though a little arthritic),
and living in Sussex with four cats.
Of course t...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
cauterized, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Sacrifice
...beat, bellow and decay,
is there nothing more,
cold liquid crimson,
colorful tainting,
fallen from within,
down dark corduroy,
to the bridge's end,
descending ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
cauterized, metaphor, moving on, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Saturated In Solitude
...SATURATED IN SOLITUDE
The sweat and toil of snowflakes fall like great big oaks.
Silent when no one’s around to hear, but I hear them call.
I sweep the bounty flakes with the soul of...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
cauterized, abuse, silence, snow, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Jerusalem, the Jugular -2
...It was not uncommon to discover a missing Brother Legionary
castrated, and decapitated
with a headless eagle carved upon his chest,
don't speak to me of morals and mercy
for I have seen and dealt...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
cauterized, history,
Form: Epic
Related Poems