Down The Middle Poems

Strapped

...strapped to a chair while wires
pierced my skin, tested my knowledge 
Will this ever end? Come forth not 
My tongue tells all lies, as it splits
down the middle towards your
demise.


My eyes...

You Know You're Past It When

...Do I need normal shoes equipped with cleats?
I’m not as steady as I used to be.
The town in which I live has narrow streets: ...
So where’s this poem going? Bear with me!

I’ve always had an eye...

NO KINGS

...
We our blessed with many freedoms in America…
We may not always agree on what freedoms each of us select…
and where we often get into trouble is when our opposing views of freedom intersect.

W...

Blood Eagle

...You bind my hands,
Command me to kneel
For what you know are my final moments.
(Surely you know this will kill me)

You take your axe,
Split me down the middle-
Clean.
And I open.

You rip ...

Half-Life

...
My face is in two halves
smashed together in flawed symmetry,
each half squirming to get supremacy,
Oh Two-Faced One!
Split so, halved down the middle,
which side are you on?

Do I see my be...

Stuck separated together, part 1

...They say that when two people are together for too long, they begin to lose themselves. They start to shift, fade into each other like colors blending on a forgotten canvas, and, in the end, you can’...

Black Gutters, Painted Ceilings

...Between the black gutters and the painted ceilings,
Dogs teach dolls how to die.
	 Study the rot in my bicuspids, file down the calluses and watch the heartbeat
	Shake the skin like strychnine...

Highway Thoughts

...I like to get lost a lot.
I was driving down this highway, that you'd barely call a highway today,
and I was thinking about the yellow lines painted down the middle of it.
The middle of nowhere.
...

AFTER THE RAIN

...
I know I write a lot about my morning walks…let me now explain…
You see…each walk is different…like this morning…after the rain.

Last night’s rain was over but it’s vestiges were everywhere
Dr...

Dance of the Fairy

...The light between the leaves, 
is where she likes to play. 
Dancing on the dewdrops
as the bubble gives way.

Slurping up her body
until she's nestled inside.
Resting on the giant leaf,
water...

Witch from Minnesota

...Her spell remains over me 44 years later

Once a bumblebee has kissed the nectar of Snapdragon
The creature is fever of succulence

She says, “You kiss so softly I think it’s a thing with guys w...

Fair and Square

...

Allemande left to your corner;
Go right and left grand.
When you see your pretty gal, 
don't squeeze too hard her little hand.

Head ladies chain; side ladies too down the middle
Your partn...

New seam

...So many thoughts in my mind
Life can be kind
I see so much I can now do
Endless possibilities this is true
Thinking I had no tomorrows 
Yes wishing for that land of no sorrows
Did not want to e...

One in Unity

...????1 Corinthians 1:22-24 KJV??
[22] For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: [23] but we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishne...

The Turn of an Unfriendly Card

...Turn of An Unfriendly Card
(Tarot 3 of Swords)

I cannot empathize with a shattered heart.
That image of a fragile, breakable baby pink orb
Is insulting to how I feel.
The turn of an unfriendly...

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