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Cuts Poems - Poems about Cuts

Dear Federal Senators, I am asking you to protect Medicaid because
our home care workers would lose their essential care taking jobs and their clients would also lose their necessary services. If you are on Medicaid, you should send your own cards to your Senators. They are more interested in providing unnecessary tax cuts for billionaires who don't really need them instead of protecting the very best interests of lower income...

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Categories: cuts, care, caregiving, work,
Form: Prose
Premium Member HOME INVADER CUTS HERSELF GOING THROUGH DOCUMENTS
MY VIETNAM VETERAN HUSBAND AND I RETURNED HOME TO A HORROR INTRUDERS PICKING OUR LOCKS RIPPING PAGES AGAIN AN ONGOING 23 YEAR HEIST FIR DOCUMENTS MILITARY IMMUNIZATION RECORDS OF MY KIDS THE DAYS I WORE WIRES PREGNANT FOR THE FBI I WOUKD OFTEN TAKE THE KIDS TO GET SHOTS BEING IT WAS THE BEGINNING OF...

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Categories: cuts, allah,
Form: Naat



Premium Member A thousand cuts
Severing of ties with our allies. Court orders blatantly defied. Plans to privatize, those federal agencies now downsized.. Green card holders traumatized.. A thousand cuts. A thousand bleeds. Our wounded democracy falls to it's knees,, Lawyers and judges receive death threats. Freedom of speech being suppressed. Deportation with out due process. Defunding colleges and PBS.. A thousand cuts. A thousand bleeds. Our democracy hemorrhages. Our rights recede, as we sleep walk into...

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Categories: cuts, america, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
The Silence That Cuts
She speaks in whispers, soft and low.. Yet in your silence, she won’t grow. She reaches out with trembling hands.. But all she finds is a heartless man. Her words dissolve, unheard, unseen.. A ghost inside a hollow dream. She stands before you, bare, exposed.. Yet you turn away.. your heart is closed. The quiet burns like frozen fire.. Each day a grave for...

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Categories: cuts, betrayal, heartbreak, hurt, lonely,
Form: Rhyme
Cracks, Cuts and Curls
Capsulate, wrenching wore around the nook Never asked to swing her lips and hardness hook A scary flood of fumes, fire her tears And the invoice innocence of her beats Enormously resonant as the dark dirt Self-like a famished, fainted convert Echoes the intensity of despair, she oftenly hides Yet, quietness and lowliness wove at every side She the rose’ pearl, mourns with...

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Categories: cuts, dark, grief, heart, longing,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Cold Cuts
The old ham smells wrong tonight. I check the expiration date, masquerading as an anniversary, but it doesn’t matter. I fold new slices into my mouth, the meat is rubbery in my teeth against my tongue. It tastes like something borrowed— a blue memory I want to give back but can't return. ...

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Categories: cuts, allusion, food,
Form: Free verse
Silence Cuts Deep
Words rest on my tongue, sharp and heavy, like shattered glass, aching to spill. But as they press against my lips, ready to slice their way out, a voice pulls me back: They are not worthy of your fire. And I pause. I ask myself— what’s stronger? The urge to make them bleed, or the strength to walk away and let their silence swallow them whole?...

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Categories: cuts, betrayal, conflict, fire, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member PAPER CUTS
I have in haste Enraged the paper’s edge Soft slit of idle pain Awaits A dash of sweaty salt Red dots upon the page Unmuttered curses Venom spit Through gritted teeth No bandage Will adhere to finger tip Lest it hit keys Before their due Doth did I try A bit of Crazy Glue Thus, am I stuck In keyboard “L” ...

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Categories: cuts, humor, writing,
Form: Free verse
A Thousand Cuts
Like ancient rivers carved in stone, These marks tell tales of storms now flown, Of battles fought when night was long, Of learning, slowly, to belong. These faded paths upon my skin Speak not of where I've fallen, but where I've been— Each one a chapter, not an end, A reminder of my power to mend. They whisper now of distant days, Of how...

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Categories: cuts, addiction, change, depression, emo,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cold Cuts
Cold cuts carve up a serving style of meat ~ humblest eaters they entreat ...

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Categories: cuts, food, identity, satire,
Form: Monoku
Death by a Thousand Cuts
We come to experience an array of emotions Feelings in our bodies, set into motion Heartbreak and anger, sorrow and fear These things that bring our eyes to tear But the thing that kills my soul inside Is the betrayal of friends, their words pure lies Nothing can hurt the heart as much Not even a death by a thousand cuts So we...

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Categories: cuts, betrayal, dark, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Cuts
She stopped cutting her wrist She started cutting her thighs The lies "No, I don't cut anymore" Tell that to the blood on the floor Sometimes, she hopes the cut will go to deep One time is all it takes But until then She just fakes "I'm okay" She tries to say....

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Categories: cuts, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Cuts
Addicted to the cuts With the bathroom door shut Crying on the floor As the blood began to pour Her life is rough She has it tough Never feels enough She loves to cut But she hates it at the same time She feels her life isn't worth a dime...

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Categories: cuts, addiction, depression, suicide,
Form: Rhyme
Our Co2
Hydrochloric acid fell on my hands and my eye The sharp moon and the terror of the dim sky It cuts me off with a spun of petals and a sigh The ink of the pen on my cheeks, then my paper Then words I didn't smoke in my bathroom sink A mosaic with feces and the atoms of the...

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Categories: cuts, addiction, africa, age, allah,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Blade Cuts Both Ways
No cut can be made from a rusty blade. No blade can sever a noble endeavor. No great divide from a loss of pride, Your character shines forever and ever. No peace of mind with an axe to grind. No one to blame for personal shame. No place to turn for a failure to learn, History echoes and calls out your name....

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Categories: cuts, character,
Form: Rhyme

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