Chafing Poems - Poems about Chafing

Pilgrimage

...I sit, this morn, on the bed of
A dried-up rivulet,
Head-bent and full of compunction.
It’s clam-quiet except for the impatient
Squawks above which prompt my heartbeat.
I raise my head, heavy wi...

Chafing

...

                                                                                Mum used to cater
                                                                                       my every ...

Indispersed Echoes

...my psychic energy 
[contained]
like a Matryoshka doll—
chafing for release … to see the light 
beyond mere existence

to flow freely
         unbound
              by constraints

the Victo...

Deus Absconditus

...
God Absconded – Holy Saturday

The morning of that blood flow day
As Christ was dragged across the way,
Beaten, scourged, purple mockery,
Crown of thorns, tempting apothecary,
Force walk thro...

Streams flowing into a river

...
     Streams flowing into a river
        ebbing and flowing
        rising and falling
     The river separating them 
                     back into streams

      Many lives merging 
    ...

sighs

...We’re coming up on the spooky pumpkin-latte season, when days suddenly end, while I’m busy in some sterile, fluorescent chemistry-lab and there’s nothing to do but walk down dark science-hill to the ...

The bane of a cold sore inside my mouth

...The bane of a cold sore inside my mouth

Sent my smooching life south,
whereby I felt like poor Georgie Porgie,
pudding and pie,
who kissed the girls and made them cry.

The medical term for c...

And the Dog Laughed Too

...He stood on the street corner
Having a much needed smoke
Somehow we got chatting
And he told me a joke 
And i started laughing
The way that you do
He looked at me smiling
And started laughing ...

Home

...there was never any need 
to sway from the bunkers 
that evening the way the tall 
pines swayed mastering 

my innermost self to a tiny 
craft beneath the woods 
as night shattered the small 
...

A Cold Coffee Type of Month

...It’s a cold coffee kind of month.
It’s a day when I stare down at a cold liquid in a clear plastic cup and think about that day so long ago when I met a girl near the window.

When we had a conver...

Heat

...Sidewalk hot, 
you could fry an egg. 
Arizona summer heat, Phoenix roast factory. 
Sweat pouring off my brow like Noah's flood. 

Sky, light turquoise, tweaked into a 
sun radiant reflective fu...

Summer Nights

...
I smother my face 
In the coolness of the nighttime breeze,
Gently chafing my cheeks
Singing its nocturnal lullaby,
And the soft creaking of my rocking chair
Adding to the melody

I watch 
...

Living In Yesterday'

...





Let go the the past, it's so over and unflinchingly dead.
We walk in its rotting gardens with hearts full of lead.

Your dream, didn't come true as you wished?
Write it on paper, a...

Parachuting Squirrels

...Parachuted squirrels glide onto leaf piles and laugh at my heroic efforts
to keep them from taking apart my bird feeders.

With xylophonic fingers they lift the lids and unscrew until the feeders ...

Heat

...one cold dark night,
 
        two bodies, chafing...

        against the other;

kindled fire!...

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