Strange Love
...tears flood in burst shells
darkness gloom desperation –
I need you my friend
Quite used to apathy and sadness squared to infinity, my inner compass arrests on sorrow and shattered stars. The wo...
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Categories:
daggering, depression,
Form: Haibun
A Night At a Tumbling Edge
...A mottled crab scuppers its sea legs
in fluorescent foam.
Blue pods rattle on green tides.
Bladder wrack, Mermaid’s Hair
washing tangled ankles.
There are voices in my open mouth,
they roll ove...
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Categories:
daggering, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Twisted Fiction
...Deceitful seasons breed perfidy
Waves form the fantasy of the starry beam
The heart of crimson is bleeding
Reflection is a calm shade of blue
Blustery winds in the four seasons.
Yo...
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Categories:
daggering, analogy, dream, inspirational, moon,
Form: Free verse
She Knew a Lovely Lake
...Everything that can hurt
is chronic in an old body.
An arrow through the heart is acute,
a bullet in the knee is an in-the-moment pain
that lasts a lifetime,
however, a chronic chronicity is the...
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Categories:
daggering, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Under Your Cover
...Under Your Cover
In a cot
Sitting, waiting
Tears shed
Heart fainting
I watched as she drifted
Drifted away
It came so early
That daggering day
Shes gone
'they' placed the lid on
Under th...
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Categories:
daggering, bible, christian, death, faith,
Form: Free verse
Futile Leaders
...In crisis we swim
Hunger for education has made us slim
The beauty of dye was washed by rain
From ignorance to ignored we leave by cain
Solidarity of the heart some withstand the pain
Minors r...
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Categories:
daggering, absence, leadership,
Form: Free verse
Only In You
...Through the lonely woods, I may head,
Upon the autumn leaves, I may tread,
At the secluded horizon, I may stare,
And only you, I may see,
In those symphonies of silence,
In those melodies of cal...
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Categories:
daggering, adventure, angst, autumn, boyfriend,
Form: Free verse
Darksided
...Rage fills my brain
As these fists come up
Regrets visualize
Suicide some
Anger overtakes my body
Evil complicates
Goodness fades
Waking the death
Upon these grounds
I bring back those
Who once stood...
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Categories:
daggering, hate, visionary,
Form: Epic
Beyond Questions
...What hell was that met me in the night
And drove me from the path of peace?
What vulture sang like robins to invite
My soul to callous carrion's mangled feast?
What act, what word was the anest...
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Categories:
daggering, life, peaceme, me,
Form: Quatrain