Scorched and Singed
...Yesterday
I cried my heart out
For I wept tears of glass
To lay a path for you to walk on
Barefoot on the hot pavement
naked as I bleed
In the hopes that you won’t taste my fear
Teeming with...
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Categories:
cauterizes, addiction, anger, angst, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Undercover Operation
...He chafes the prayer beads against his wrist
Has died lesser deaths of exasperated rage
It’s not forgiveness he seeks but purifying anger
To feel the rawness of emotion he focusses
On undef...
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Categories:
cauterizes, anger,
Form: Free verse
Tortuous Beating Drum
...Blinding flash of light;
sword pierces my eyeball and sears;
a burning scorch of nausea,
cauterizes my stomach lining.
Unfolding bellows force the pressure,
throughout my blood s...
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Categories:
cauterizes, how i feel, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Puny Pin In a Sin Tin
...Hang in the den
When lions roam in wait
To snatch your serenity from Eden
Where the Devil’s threat
Roams to pounce
On the dignity you espouse
In more bounce per ounce
To rouse and arouse
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Categories:
cauterizes, poems,
Form: Free verse
Static Interference
...by Mark Miller 07/29/2017
Sterile relic of born conscience sleeps fitfully
Under carrion comfort slipper condition
Stones drown status creature's treason
Into vipers cavern wall containment
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Categories:
cauterizes, anxiety, art, bereavement, earth,
Form: Blank verse
Stimulated, Simulated Horoscope
...In our stimulated, simulated brain wave
Collectively entranced, supplanted reality
The new wave of an old groove
As hypnotizing self-suggestion induced
The destiny for recently awake stars to imp...
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Categories:
cauterizes, adventure, computer-internet, imagination, people,
Form: Free verse
The Phone
...The phone rings empty into the night.
Filling a void that brings strange comfort
to thoose around.
Rage eats away untill it bores a hole
straight through are hearts.
Whiskey cauterizes the wou...
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Categories:
cauterizes, angst, confusion, depression, introspection,
Form: Narrative