Contortion Poems - Poems about Contortion

...My hands are sutured behind my head. I lie like a fallen yield sign on the side of the road. My path is yellow and humble. My hands separate. Pull. And split open the back of my skull.......Read the rest...

... I was flying beguiled in my seamless sapphire sky, surging storm of agony from nowhere slashed me down. No one ever cared for the injured beleaguered bird that I hided within me clasping the ......Read the rest...

...Sunday cockcrow nascent aural essays reveal laissez-faire raptures. Enigmatic silken piece compost ushered in by trenchant trademark tremulous signature. Doe-eyed instrumentalist’s strident bras......Read the rest...

...White rope of sunlight Tethered through my chest Shot clean through to my spine. Gordion knotted to my backbone. I can feel the knuckles of it Between my shoulder blades. Pinching rope with a y......Read the rest...

... "You must never say never." Quote _ Rowan Atkinson Rowan Atkinson the hapless Mr. Bean with his facial contortion v......Read the rest...

...(I) Lust, the colossal burden its jagged edges chisel into my crystalline spine (II) Lo! it appears that fragmentation swamps my fragility, my feet, in mimicry of origami, be......Read the rest...

...Mirror contortion Confidence is everything Twisted alchemy......Read the rest...

...Echo world behind the glass, I make the same faces I did at twelve. The grinning Cheshire Cat with teeth like piano keys, mendacious and coy because viewing my portrait with sobriety forces me......Read the rest...

...Rhapsody of rainbow morphs to morose mélange Bleeding colors bleached from the twilight cloud Rainstorm daubs as blemish on the broken heart The shades of grey paint the frayed linen of love. ......Read the rest...

...'Liberal,' merely a sentiment 'University,' no longer a word 'Zionist,' perverse contortion 'White privilege,' racist extortion......Read the rest...

...Sentimentality Most curious duality ... this Sentimentality Excessive tenderness, sadness, nostalgia corrupting modality, distorting reality's social edifice Brain-cramping co......Read the rest...

...I have mirrored the whole of my life On this mercurial surface I have painted myself on this glossy canvas My pen has bled words in red You can look straight into me As you see my reflection o......Read the rest...

...I have fondled and drowned in a toxic contortion, I know not whether to drink it or spill it, I know not, whether to swallow it or to spit it, I know, it is a venomous adoration, Yet, I like it.......Read the rest...

...A Texan observing contortion Screamed, "That's gotta be an abortion! So pay me ten grand Or I'll take the stand To further the cause of extortion!"......Read the rest...

...I sat in church last Sunday morning, watching as a boy struggled hard to keep from nodding off. To stir the child, an older woman, sitting by his side, every now and then would feign a cough. Sta......Read the rest...