Excise Poems

Excise Exercise 3: Phantom feelings

...Phantom feelings...
stinging prickly reminders
that missing attachments
were parts of real healing.

Painful loss replays
trauma bond tricks and treats. 
Days of death danced a two-step
with ...

Excise Exercise 2: In a Wasteland

...Excise Exercise 2:

In a wasteland
decision is a choice. 
Faced with Life or Death
makes progress clear-
What are the options? 
Face the Fear of both. 
One brutal truth. 
Find love's surviva...

Excise Exercise 1: Today is the Day

...Excise Exercise 1.

Today is the Day she prints out her poems-
a careful first time collation of black and white,
and every color to be seen, in between.
Her Heart clings to words of lost love. ...

Life's value price

...The world is so attached to this perceived device
Lost is the romance of rolling the proverbial dice
What would it be like; if we remembered to entice?
Instead, we only tax each other to a...

Bereavement

...If splay open wide my heart I could,
to find the nexus of pain and agony:
Excise that particular node I would –
Reave and plunder it oh so mightily!
Sever, cauterise, amputate the point
from whi...

In Their Mothers' Eyes

...We've come to pay our last respects -
So hard to know what to say next.
It's just harsh truth that we excise
As we convey our last good-byes.

When words alone don't help us grieve
We search fo...

The World Is Dark

...I often think my world is doomed
evil seems to thrive so easily
Can my bloodied heart be saved?
Will the church help, will anybody?
News discourages my outlook  
orations from politicians do not...

Suspension

...Excise our non self
free ego belligerence 
full hearts wide open...

Cycle Logical

...a psychological exercise is
not...
a cycle-logical exert of
eyes...

it be a philosophical excise of a
knot...
a full-loss-of-fee
free...

for extra eyes...


stan sand...

The Figurative Nail Hit On the Hirsute Covered Head

...The figurative nail hit on the hirsute covered head!

Eventually vices will witness me crow king
cough'n affliction caw hearse courtesy 
smok'n since me yay high,
hence appellation (mountain) wh...

Covers

...I want to spend my life under the covers
They drape over me
And live up to their name

There are monsters out there that are out to get me
As soon as I take these covers off
So I try to bring t...

The Length of Time

...The Length of Time

Sometimes it takes the length of time to get us through our life,
And Sometimes it takes a length of time to see us through our strife;
Sometimes it takes the length of time t...

The Pirate

...Caverns, caves, and mystery
Along the Cornish coast
Pungent smell of misery
Did I see smugglers ghost?

Black Jack guarded his domain
Cutlass drawn and fighting stance
Willing to in...

Saint Chemo's Fire - Specimens 1 and 2

...Sarcomas hatch like caviar
in St. Jude chemo-fire inversions,
where leviathans lay magnetars
to suck the blood of
virgi...

Birth of a Poem

...With a smooth cut,
I cut sweetly
the silence...
  The word to be extracted
with precise technique ...
  The poem per se
it doesn't sprout or bleed,
  excise surgery is necessary
to abduct it ...

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