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Cortex Poems - Poems about Cortex

Monster

...There is a monster in my bed and I let him in. I supplied the pillow to rest. His quiet wickedness I don't address.  As he fondles my body while I lay still undressed.   I don’t reciprocate his love ...
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Categories: cortex, confusion, emotions, happiness, life,
Form: Rhyme

Sessions

...Regret has found me knocking at its door again. Shame answered immediately as if it had been waiting for its old friend. Opening its door where the comfy couch is that I turn my thoughts over in exch...
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Categories: cortex, deep, inspirational, mental health,
Form: Rhyme



Jasprit Boom Boom Hurrah

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Camera zoom...Boom - Boom shakes the room


All eyes on the prize

Rise & lies of franchise

Moolah the crueler ruler

Sparking doom and gloom

Marking Test cricket’s demise


If ther...
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Categories: cortex, sports,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBreathless in Silent Collapse

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Breathless,
words like cordyceps adhere to my throat,
Choking me as the unspoken wrap around, seizing vocal cords.
Sticking fingers down, I claw to clear closing airways,
Yet the more I str...
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Categories: cortex, dark, death, gothic, imagery,
Form: Free verse

Sexually explicit meme more real day

...Sexually explicit meme more real day

originally written May 31st, 202_
humorously, posthumously, 
and tempestuously expressing woes
from the top of my talking head 
to gnarly nails of 
(this ...
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Categories: cortex, 11th grade, adventure, america,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberThe sharp snap of branches masked the bark of distant dogs

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A stolen life. A split-second decision.
Disorganised thoughts, jumbled—
Tangled around an anaesthetised cortex.
Clocks mockingly ticking,
Ticking down inevitability,
As a lone fly buzzes r...
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Categories: cortex, dark, deep, gothic, horror,
Form: Free verse

Waves in the Brain

...Waves in my brain
to your cliche songs they entrain
Background music in the store
It takes me over to my core

Others keep looking for merchandise
Or converse with each other to break the ice
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Categories: cortex, art, character, dance, emotions,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberTheory of God

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I. Of Circuits and Litanies

Somewhere between the limbic lobe
and the ache of late-night Eucharist,
you touched me—
not in flesh
but in the soft mutiny of neurons.

They do not teach us
t...
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Categories: cortex, god, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe 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: cortex, art, deep, imagery, poetry,
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium Membercortex of the cosmos

...the sky h o m e s 
        what the sea
                      cannot confine 
as clouds crawl and croon
       carving contours
of compassion
          to calm the chaos unseen
within
the <>
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Categories: cortex, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberInsignificant Monster No More

...Drained of opaque innocence
Perfected by your toxicity,
I was laid bare beneath the narcissistic sun,
Searing deep within dehydrated pupils,
Stripping my soul of all humanity,
until your siniste...
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Categories: cortex, dark, gothic, imagery, night,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMusings of a Diehard Behaviorist

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      What’s on the old mind tonight
       the good old frontal cortex
         the ole gray matter
           ~ not that it does… 
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Categories: cortex, perspective, philosophy, prejudice, psychological,
Form: Free verse

My Mother Was Catatonic

...My mother was catatonic, symphonic chronic is what I smoke.
Livinin it bougie, choosin floosies no uzis and then I choke.
You can be me, insane cerebral cortex is
just what I feel.
Living pervy s...
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Categories: cortex, abuse, mental health, racism,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member- Thinking Out Loud -

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                                         prefrontal cortex
                             "thinking brain" - the unconscious 
                                      can become conscious...
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Categories: cortex, philosophy,
Form: Senryu

Election Musings

...Between my thicker and thicker lobes
Lies a much less thick wick
Which reflects a dimmer and dimmer glimmer of what was once brimming with more than a shimmer of hope and optimism
Two parties bick...
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Categories: cortex, emotions,
Form: Rhyme

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