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Digesting Poems - Poems about Digesting

Digesting Toxic Issues

My stomach
and lower core rumblings
and dis-communionations
hope for some further feeding 
consuming way
to not merely tolerate
but gratefully digest
what my gut 
won't easily 
organically appreciate
and comfortably eliminate

Can only traumatically depreciate

Has trouble resonantly ingesting
what eyes and mouth
salivate to masticate.

Chewing
swallowing massive trauma
to consumers so enlightened
and healthily empowered
we cannot bow
to southern fried chicken-wing
mighty bite makes digestive right
toxic dogma
not nature-spirited
indigenously bright

Confused

Categories: digesting, body, culture, health, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum

Digesting the Past

Digesting the Past
David J Walker

Or
We can forget about it 
And start over
Telling everyone we have
Taken new names

Or
Change the number 
On our iPhones prone
To robocalls

Or
Take an alias on Twitter
Delete each other on tender
Another catfish on Snapchat

Or              
move to the mountains
through back trails that
no

Categories: digesting, love,
Form: Rhyme

Digesting a Poem From a Writer

Everybody has a story to tell 
Publishers put the pages together to sell 
Leather bounded and sewn 
Message marketed over the phone 
It takes days to years 
Sweating blood emotional tears 
A package arrives in the author’s mail 
Books for donation or sale 
A commentary on life shared 
Creative interpretation setting off an understanding flare

Categories: digesting, art, books, conflict, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Interesting and Easy For Digesting

Interesting and Easy For Digesting

What we found had been interesting; 
Things are always easy for digesting;
Waiting for,
To adore;
New birds arrived and are nesting.

Jim Horn

Categories: digesting, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick

Digesting Thankfulness

chew your food slowly
your daily bread
grateful for each bite

thankful for those
who sit at your table

wining
masticating
jittering

elbows leaning
mouths wide open
babies crying

but imagine no one
no food at all
not a crumb

mouse nervously chews his tale
dreaming of cheese

chew your food slowly
your daily bread
grateful for each bite

thankful for those
who sit at your table

12/29/2017

Categories: digesting, family, food,
Form: Didactic

Digesting Happiness

What did your grandmother tell you about happiness?

Bottom line,
All you have is your health.
Nothing about money or celebrity status at all.

Yes. That sounds familiar.
And, what did your father hope for your happiness?

He was more nuanced about happiness.
Or maybe conflicted would be a better word.
Happiness was maybe not the right question.
Certainly not the most important one.

Did

Categories: digesting, father, happiness, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse

Digesting the Wooers

Like stomach acid
Your observant scrutiny
Digests every flaw;
While the weak wooers scurry
The patient one grows stronger

Categories: digesting, dedication, judgement, scary, strength,
Form: Tanka

Digesting Hypocrisy

His flock was really but a few
When incarnated as a man like me and you
But he had faith in his Father up above
As he taught us to defeat our enemies with love

He suggested we turn the other cheek
And reap the reward from the strength of being meek
There are many who say they’ve heard his word
Yet

Categories: digesting, life, political,
Form: Rhyme

Digesting Affection

I swallow my secrets,
sharp little shards of the bizarre
that would gossip of my weaknesses
if allowed to converse 
with the light.

One by one, 
they scratch along
a cervical bridge 
between my heart and mind

before being accumulated
in a churning pit 
of reason and conscience
that constantly folds self into self
and manipulates the flavors
of my life.

I never intended to invite

Categories: digesting, introspection
Form: Free verse