Chafes Poems - Poems about Chafes

...Clearly a misguided romance can cause great grieve, but chances that’s forgone chafes, cheating us out of the possibility of our chivalry in an hour of need. Youthful, yet ambitious, yearning ......

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...Sri Lal Crows i. I come from nowhere, and I have nowhere to go, I tell the crow perched on a low neem branch beyond the Periyar River. He agrees. He and I are free. We speak the sam......

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... Meaning is over there, beyond the burnt paddocks and blackened hills, the crumpled, flattened ruins of houses. It is further out than that nothingness glazed upon the distances of a vacant......

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... Written: November 17, 2023 For Charles Messina Contest ___________________________________________ In peace of mind and unwavering pride Draw out your inner disgruntled ......

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...Prominence walking barefoot Check out the chaos below The soundless roar of foam and smoke The banshee howls at the rising tide Dragged and swept away The wind chafes. Tortured thro......

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...Whatever turns your crank Whatever tickles your pickle Whatever dunks your donut Whatever waxes your dolphin Whatever buffs your buddha Whatever pops your cork Whatever pets your monkey......

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...Clouds loom drifting, passing by, The west wind gently tempts them on Though no one knows what cause them cry And no one hears their pleading voice As all their acid tears well dry. Snowy wh......

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...I quit I throw my hands down and sit, sometimes they called for reconciliation without justice They called for justice without truth Now they ask for prayer without confession, umpteenth,......

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...It is a plant’s life. Up in the continuous night, I saw a streak of light a dying comet’s last hurrah. Bedroom in darkness couldn’t sleep too much death for one night. Got up and read a book a......

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...I don’t want to end. The arrogance of thinking this skin, heart, brain, these lungs, eyes, hands and feet Won’t become binding Feckless thought An inescapable limit that presses and chafes Y......

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...The wind is an agent of change so I face it head on and welcome its cold embrace its cleansing properties its whirling breath that chafes my skin and chills my core and I ask it to ......

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...Adventitious existence birthed introverted spiritual outlier i.e. me Speculative fictitious flirtation imagined courtesy grown old male offspring (me) begat when mine late mother and father met ......

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...Each new person is a gift Some wrapped in shiny foil paper Tidied up with ribbons and bows Others trussed inside brown paper Restricted by an extra tight string That chafes them, tearing into......

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...This shoe that doesn't fit sorely rubs the tender sole, to wound and then to harden. The roughness of sin’s garment chafes the skin to make that hole, where naked freedom first was known, in per......

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...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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