Deep Seated Poems

Not Enough

...I told you to be careful, but my words were made of dust,
Blown away by a new face, a shallow, fleeting trust.
I saw the red flags waving, the warnings in his smile,
But you waved them all away an...

a letter to my editor

...a letter to my editor
I have tried to get more cash to spend
on introducing me to a bigger audience
I contacted many of my readers on X and asked for
A contribution sent to Hillshire will not com...

NIGHT TERRORS CONTINUE ALLAH WILL PROVIDE

...MY PTSD HAD BEGUN TO CAPTURE MY THOUGHTS MY DREAMS OF COMMITING SUICIDE QUIETING THE RUSSIAN VOICES IN MY HEAD THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION SPECIAL AGENT LEROY HEIMBACH MY MIND WOULDN'T ALLOW ...

Kundalini Empowerment

...
O raja reigning is the light of all lights
electric rays beaming  oscillating  waves
I embody my spirit in a physical form
I kindly request her divinity to roam
beseeching with contr...

The Sea of Hope

...
Written: May 11, 2025, for contest by Joseph May

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A crimson sky breaks the distant shore,  
Whispers of dawn amidst a quiet uproar.  
The sea...

The Letter to the Acolyte in Poetry Month

...(A lone voice writes)

Some whisper and will
In secret occult circles 

About these sad days of 2025

That Humanity will fall into unruly petulant desire

Consumed and devoured by a blazing ...

Drowning

...Drowning in Fear


This feeling of sudden, impending doom 
corners me with strong arms. 
A deep seated ache of guilt 
for what wrong doing, I know not... 
begins tearing at my insides
 like a...

Pray For Me

...A final rest clamps down on my eyelids
The shadow grows hovering over my soul
The hand of death weighs heavy on me
Not the death but a drifting from faith

The good I would do I do not, I do mor...

Emancipation proclamation from Samson fixation

...Emancipation proclamation from Samson fixation

Otherwise titled deep into my fiftieth year of passive aggressive rebellious puberty.

Yes, I chickened out getting a haircut yesterday August twen...

Attachment to Things

...

Close your eyes gently.  Breathe deeply and slow.
Take a calm, stolen moment to consider what you know.
Open your eyes slowly.  On what do they fall?
You see things all around you.  They mean ...

Hiding Away

...Hiding away all of her dedicated love poems,
Hiding them all away deep within the largest of tomes,
Hiding away her deep-seated feelings of lust and love for him....

To which image should we cling

...Line of inquiry:
“We have been here a thousand times before
Memory erased, each time we begin anew
Of hands held tenderly, we’ve lost the score
Each embrace virgin like fresh morning dew 
 
To ...

CHAOTIC WOMAN

...Chaos ensues when she enters the venue
Deep-seated insecurities and childhood issues
She takes the beauty and makes it problematic
Chaos is a defining feature of her habits

She aughts be in pic...

Ants

...This morning
whilst brushing my teeth
and trying
with very little success
to obey the dental profession's plea 
to brush in a circular motion 
and not 
in a side to side motion 
I noticed som...

Memory Loss

...I am almost asleep
comfortably drifting
when a troubling sense of loss 
settles in behind my navel
it feels like a piece of me
something that I’ve done
a place that I’ve been
someone that I’ve...

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