Betrayal Free Verse Poems

Quietly it happens, as it
Undermines the artist,
Erasing anonymously
Exactly what the writer had said.
Ridiculous, pusillanimous poseurs.
...

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"I’m Still Here, And I Will Shake You"

I’ve walked roads you wouldn’t whisper about.
Where shadows don’t follow, they lead.
Where the air tastes like sorrow
and the...

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My mother bathes her mother’s feet.
She kneels in quiet reverence,
Raising the one who raised her.
Hands cupping water as if it were holy.
Her hands speak a...

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Piercing the heart,
yet, no bloodshed,
killing just the same,
words.
Eyes fixed, frozen like death,
discordant silence,
reluctant surrender,
forlorn, aching expectancy.
Imploring, why?
Succumbing, melancholy anguish.
Deceived.
Defeated.
Divorced.
Divorced, and thus—
the walls remain, yet bear...

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You speak, and my spine remembers
that I was built to bow.
Your breath: a nocturne in C sharp minor—
unasked, entering…
disarming, following. 

You lean in like Chopin...

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The candle trusted the flame,
So warm, so near, so bright.
It leaned into the dance of fire,
Believing it was light.

But love that flickers, fierce and fast,
Can...

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The black pen with black ink is running out,  

The paper on the desk is clean but creased. 

It must hurt to have been...

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Trump I-Fucation
Flickering beacon of light.
Red core inflamed.
Elites on the dole.
Narcissists
Me Trumps We.
Fraud:
Ace in the Hole.
GOP Rats pilfer the hold.
Viral blight dissembles.
Emperor fiddles
While chaos reigns.
Diagnosis: Deep...

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My days were filled with limp lifts of your hands,
  each a tear steeped in lost compassion.
You made me swim in a cold, clammy...

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Some hand you smiles dipped in napalm,
Then turn to poison the second you drop your guard.
Humans, Moral plastic caught in flame,
Deals of décor, rotting behind...

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Why is the heart so confusing 
You’ve been told it’s wrong
You know it’s wrong
But you crave for them more
Not even physically
Just their presence is more...

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Repeating myself
Over and over and over again
You can’t begin to imagine the pain.
The anguish.
The derelict feelings born of a journey
To better thyself.

To become the best...

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Alas, we stood in horror,
But thy pride—we stood to honour.
Memories passed away as legends,
but these heroes are not forgotten.
From the gun fires and wild gases,
Thou...

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You held the knife.
All along I thought it was fine because you held the knife
But apparently everything was wrong
I was wrong
Wrong about you and all...

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You held the knife.
All along I thought it was fine because you held the knife
But apparently everything was wrong
I was wrong
Wrong about you and all...

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