Flaking Poems - Poems about Flaking

...Spring the first winter, after a long war, was cold today snow was slushy, the beginning of spring a poor street, houses had not been painted for years not much foo, the ice was reluctant to le......Read the rest...

...Psych wards often lack mirrors Out of fear that they will be broken We cannot watch our faces stain with tears That privilege evades the hopless Yet still I remember staring at that wall In the ......Read the rest...

...In your silence I see colours, speech crumbling like flaking paint, dried; truth dripping from lips, black spittle on a brush. In the silence I inhale the scent of a feeling, what you think of me......Read the rest...

...Night's descent with heaven's catharsis Of white cold's drug for the dark; Even whirls of flaking bits loveliness— Winter's fresh, ice only shower. Of white cold's drug for the dark— Just righ......Read the rest...

...Growing up I've always admired the story of Icarus & the sun But as I matured I learned that I actually resented it and here is why... I am the sun scorching, burning Icarus. My heat leaving......Read the rest...

...I saw a leaf today in the up-draft -- one last dance and lift before the Fall Finale; crisping and fading, flaking...but only an illusion of death, for we know the chemistry, and the maje......Read the rest...

...I was born there, there between the grey days and ghostly nights. I came out of the warm cave fully encased with my mother's sadness. The ghetto walls moved in or out inch by crawling inch, th......Read the rest...

...flaking paint on peeling buildings throws clock fingers through the last plumes of yesterday Argus stained waiters Gargoyles chewing on cigars Smile till swede Worshiping the harlequins Sail......Read the rest...

...Walls were covered in cobwebs that chattered. Splash is flaking from the crumbling floodgate. It was flawed to wait while you were battered. Walls were covered in cobwebs that chattere......Read the rest...

...EarthCare Elders repurposed our red brick industrial BrownField Including a rusted metal box the size and shape of a giant's coffin orange and dingy brown metal flaking paradox floating towa......Read the rest...

...I have become a new person, shedding beliefs like flaking dead skin......Read the rest...

...Warriors Peeling back layers of guilt and regret Like flaking paint off old walls Looking for that core resistance That sacred bit that never falls Taking that mortality and draping it wide ......Read the rest...

...3/27/22 It all goes without saying At times it's mentally draining Physically straining In my head and heart constantly raining Still in training In order to reach great things Can't get......Read the rest...

...I feel you in the chill wrapped around my shoulders, a familiar friend, neither denied nor welcomed. Old shadows. Sweat. Flaking paint over iron. I feel you in the control of the shakin......Read the rest...

...The wood is too seasoned, the grain hoary. the moppet has grown insane, its wood now riddled with timeless lies. A cat in a dark corner will not look at it. Mice cower under its grim shadow. I......Read the rest...