Cauterizing Poems

Nightmare

...I saw in her eyes the sallowness of festered love.
My drum had beaten to the resonance of celebration,
Of the deeds of love evaluation.
Her art bemuses me, especially when spoken and
Sketched to ...
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Categories: cauterizing, heartbreak, love, romance,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWombstorm: A Herstory of Hysteria

...I. THE WANDERING

I was born with a life that bled—
a seafloor womb
dragging tides of fern
and marigold char

The priests brought saffron
and fear

crowning me with d...
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Categories: cauterizing, body, history, mental illness,
Form: Dramatic Monologue


Premium MemberWabbling World

...The task begins with awareness, and freedom without it is harmful. So let us not look back in fury or forward in panic, but rather around in awareness. By Poet



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Categories: cauterizing, analogy, angst, inspirational, war,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberLandsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 4

...His reverie ended as he was brought back to reality when he stepped into a patch of deep fresh snow and promptly fell face down in a hollow on the leeward side of a boulder.  He was not angry. In tru...
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Categories: cauterizing, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic

Courting the Sublime Significance of Nothingness

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"Courting the Sublime Significance of Nothingness"



The blue lines ripple like waves
to the right side of the page
vacantly calm 

from the shallow depths 
of the pon...
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Categories: cauterizing, bullying, poets, symbolism, word
Form: Free verse


Enflame

...Answer with passion,
  or don’t answer at all

Cauterizing my questions
  —as ashes they fall

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)...
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Categories: cauterizing, passion,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBlue Horizon Rainbows Promise

...In your weather beaten mind;
Clouded with mistrust and filled with guile;
Alone and trouble child son of man;
Son of God;

Crashed and trashed venom cauterizing your ears;
Sneaking pass the lev...
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Categories: cauterizing, appreciation, celebration, dedication, god,
Form: Free verse

Cancer

...Perdition's registry of effort's track,
this viscous cycle, memory causing lack
malignancy, a timeless, soulful wrack!

I pace the effort, then abstract
a set of rules, or understanding's feign
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Categories: cauterizing, cancer,
Form: Monorhyme

Premium MemberBlinded By the Light - For Contest

...Blinded by the Light


The lightning, it was over-bright
vengeance, slashing a darkened sky,
awakening the sins of night.
The lightning, it was over-bright,
usurper of the dead souls sight,
c...
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Categories: cauterizing, dark, heaven, leaving,
Form: Triolet

Soul Surgery

...As I saw your
caged
soul rioting for my
attention, I knew
you to be my 
perfect
victim and started
envisioning how to
ravage
your beauty so it could 
ensnare
and impersonate my
lifetime w...
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Categories: cauterizing, allegory, deep, devotion, love,
Form: Free verse

Dread

...Sleep denied, binding sheets
restrained hot, apprehensive form;
beneath the bed, dragons' tails rapped
red staccato on the rails,
those blaze colored beasts
restlessly groaned embered tones,
ca...
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Categories: cauterizing, abuse, fear,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Human Seasons: Elements At War and Peace, Part Iv

...4.

Each dawn, the cold steps back a pace,
In the lengthening light the cold steps back
As the lands rise fresh and free from deathlike sleep again,
To play the full young mother dressed in life...
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Categories: cauterizing, change, feelings, forgiveness, future,
Form: Free verse

Extended Hand

...so fragile we are---
broken eggshells on
the pavement,
split ends tearing,
puzzle pieces 
scattered all over the
place with no one
qualified enough to
put them together,
selves upon selves
upon selve...
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Categories: cauterizing, life, , western,
Form: Free verse

When Passion Goes Public

...she said he said that all it was 
was a **** all it was was sex
all it was was a good time & 
they both wanted to just up &
leave it alone like two young 
thangs hangin’ in the city just
wanting to w...
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Categories: cauterizing, life, time, time,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberI Have An Answer

...It’s on the tip of my tongue,
On dusky lawns where smiling is essentially
Lit parks with ghosts running along fences in the dark
And the nocturnal renewal of joy from within young and old,
A coll...
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Categories: cauterizing, visionary
Form: Free verse

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