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Contort Poems - Poems about Contort

Blood Eagle
...You bind my hands, Command me to kneel For what you know are my final moments. (Surely you know this will kill me) You take your axe, Split me down the middle- Clean. And I open. You rip ......

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Categories: contort, analogy, dark,
Form: Free verse
Glass
...mother, I’ve been twitching in your sky with chains masturbating to a blood shot stain you crawl like I want to melt to bone and blue you float like angels do when I touch for ecstasy and blee......

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Categories: contort, addiction,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Persistence of Memory Painting by Salvador Dali - Collaboration with Dilly Dally
...Caustic memories dissolve on my tongue Lingering tastes of battery acid and nicotine Cause me to choke on putrid saliva. Staring at melting walls, clocks tick in unison. Distorted bir......

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Categories: contort, art, deep, imagery, poetry,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member The Persistence of Memory, Collaboration with Sara Jama
... Caustic memories dissolve on my tongue Lingering tastes of battery acid and nicotine Cause me to choke on putrid saliva. Staring at melting walls, clocks tick in unison. Distorted birds......

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Categories: contort, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member There's no need to contort yourself into the architecture of a man to be sovereign
...There's no need to contort yourself into the architecture of a man to be sovereign, You don't have to reverberate his thunder to be heard by those who ignore your whisper, Power is not a costume to......

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Categories: contort, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Keeping Fingers Crossed
... A silent ritual, a whispered plea, fingers intertwined, a fragile lattice of hope. We bend them, contort them, these extensions of our will, as if their awkward posture could sway the univer......

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Categories: contort, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blight
...Blight,   Growing,   Toxic seeds   Festering deep   Within cracking souls,   Shaded beneath blackthorn,   Watered by innocent's tears,   Blooming like demonic cancer,......

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Categories: contort, dark, death, deep, gothic,
Form: Etheree
Implant Within me a Seed
...Implant within me a seed monthly, though the pulverization derides me. Let it conjure hope and solace to shatter my reality as venomous weeds entwine it, sickening me as I lay still in the liquid bir......

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Categories: contort, allegory, anger, angst, beautiful,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Sky Veil Instinct
... Written: March 27, 2025, for Sponsored by: Mystic Rose Rose *********** Waves into twilight that is now absent. From flowers clipped just before their ideal flight. I......

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Categories: contort, analogy, space,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Do you truly believe that I have torn through the centuries with invisible claws
...Do you truly believe that I have torn through the centuries with invisible claws, unveiling the arteries of time like strands of silk, only to evaporate into the mist of forgetfulness? That I have......

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Categories: contort, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
-I Will Always Be With You- 1
...“I fell in love with one whom I believe to be my only soulmate; she showed me the world-- she was my world. And my world was taken from me. Love stories have never appealed to me, yet I have never b......

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Categories: contort, abuse, adventure, angst, anxiety,
Form: Narrative
The last dance
...Night. Walk in, light the candle, watch as the flame dances across the wall. Finally, it feels okay. Kneel by the side, hopefully by the side of the one who watches. Tell me that, that it will be......

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Categories: contort, beautiful, betrayal, bible, death,
Form: Free verse
The masks we wear
...They taught us young, the fine art of concealment, Threads of ideals tightly woven, hard to unbind. What is perfection? What is normal? These are the whispers we inherit, soaked in like brea......

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Categories: contort, 1st grade,
Form: Free verse
Demons and Fireflies
...Major depression crept in, seeped through my defences like smoke, the devil shimmying off my shoulder, setting up a nest in my brain- a puppeteer of despair, fingers dancing on my strings, turn......

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Categories: contort, dark, depression, feelings, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Mother Snap
...As I pivot to confront my offspring, I anticipate the sight of terror etched in their innocent eyes, a reflected horror that would mirror the abyssal darkness that has long resided within me. Inst......

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Categories: contort, dark,
Form: Free verse

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