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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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Sharae Burris
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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Noah Ramirez
Categories:
contort,
addiction,
Form:
Free verse
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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Sara Jama
Categories:
contort,
art, deep, imagery, poetry,
Form:
Ekphrasis
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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Di11y Da11y
Categories:
contort,
art,
Form:
Ekphrasis
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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Dan Enache
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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Bernard F. Asuncion
Categories:
contort,
hope,
Form:
Free verse
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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Sara Jama
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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Reya Suri
Categories:
contort,
allegory, anger, angst, beautiful,
Form:
Haibun
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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Sotto Poet
Categories:
contort,
analogy, space,
Form:
Rhyme
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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Dan Enache
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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Reya Suri
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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Ella garden
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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Junior Missakidi
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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Lauren Tilley
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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Beatrix Macabre
Categories:
contort,
dark,
Form:
Free verse
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