The Final Emptying
She has gleaned the bare root of her captive.
Soggy dressings fall away, dissolve on calloused feet.
No point in changing these regretful bindings now.
He tells her he understands, that he once loved her.
She is beneath his nails, in his mouth, between his teeth.
Rubber tubing snakes from his torso, head, and neck.
Pushing out the slow but
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Categories:
emptying, death, murder, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Emptying the Pot
The golden pot of gold
at the end of the rainbow
hands made the pot run dry
It is time to put a plug
in the money that flows
from pockets of people
take it away from eastern flow
because the westerners know
nothing good will come of it
the pot of gold empty now
colours of the rainbow faded
how will we ever refill the
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Categories:
emptying, political, , western,
Form: Free verse
The Emptying Hourglass
There’s a voice inside that’s killing me,
slowly day by day
Each line I write, each word I speak
—is paid with time reclaimed
(Dreamsleep: October, 2019)
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Categories:
emptying, death, voice, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Emptying the Reserves
Growing older, one observes
That energy starts waning.
Though it’s not what one deserves,
There’s no use in complaining.
Aging throws us learning curves
To deal with verve that’s draining.
When nothing’s left in the reserves,
It’s time for some refraining.
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Categories:
emptying, age,
Form: Rhyme
The Emptying
Jails-asylums are bleeding out because of naivety.
Now the unhinged mad dogs are working out their kinks.
On the neckbones of society.
Nowhere is safe for your sons and daughters.
Not even pine needle trails, where they seek peace.
two legged copperheads behind trees and under every leaf.
You've passed them before-those wild-eyed things.
Firecracker souls looking for a syringe of gasoline...
They're
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Categories:
emptying, judgement,
Form: Free verse
Emptying the Treat Bag
For some time, I've put his last day in the back of mind.
But one morning he put his ancient head in my palms...
for as long as I would have let him.
Though his eyes are still kitten star bright.
He silently told me his time with me is coming to an end.
Every now
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Categories:
emptying, friend,
Form: Free verse
Emptying Myself For You
What I poured out to you
was me;all of me
that I had sight but I have chosen blindness
so that I'll be walked by you alone
i have left my past behind;
walk me to the future.
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Categories:
emptying, best friend,
Form: Free verse
Emptying the Spam Folder
Emptying the Spam Folder
By Elton Camp
Whenever to check mail I go
There are few from folks I know
To keep my computer neat
The spam mail I then delete
At the titles I take a peek
Wrongly filed ones I seek
There’s one from dearest friend
Offering to share millions again
Then, all kinds of weight I lose
If their expensive plan I choose
A
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Categories:
emptying, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Emptying
scatters the fragile cohesion, a spectre
looms on the wrinkled face of an old tree,
the bee-eaters have flown away ;
annual rings on wooden panels were defying the age
of smile on the mouth of bright doors
petitioning to the naked beams of body;
infusion of totality for antimutagens
of nude spiders weaving a lethal design:
the tender fall of deathless night
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Categories:
emptying, art,
Form: ABC
Emptying
perversity behind the orbs tilts,
scatters the fragile cohesion, a spectre
looms on the wrinkled face of an old tree,
the bee-eaters have flown away ;
annual rings on wooden panels were defying the age
of smile on the mouth of bright doors
petitioning to the naked beams of body;
infusion of totality for antimutagens
of nude spiders weaving a lethal design:
the tender
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Categories:
emptying, epic
Form: I do not know?