Gash Poems - Poems about Gash

...There was a time when you stood at the center of my sky, and I, small, humble, gazed upward in awe, letting your brilliance shape my world. Every word you spoke carved meaning into silence, eve......

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...Charles and my predawn jog was a sweat-athon and as the sun rose, a heat-dome brightness tattooed crisp shadows in every corner. Any lingering coolness was burned off - evaporated. It was 94°f, 3 ......

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... Discipline is not the gash, it's the flame you agree to reside beside. It requires the band to be held taut tight, in an unrelenting challenge of will. It is not the strength of de......

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...The subtle thread which mends a laceration is woven through fresh, tender flesh to bind disreconciled horizons, disentwined by words sharper than the knives of damnation. Then, even once that p......

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...Streetlight dander. Jawbone asphalt. Blink razors carve her iris script. Rib stars ovulate in feral grates, mechanical tongue juts a bloodline breath. Keystroke ruin writes in collapse, a wavefo......

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... Written April 11, 2025, for Contest Sponsored by Edward Ibeh Quote: 1/ “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ? Rumi 2/ "Many times we pick at the bitt......

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...I dove into the deep end, headfirst, quite a splash, Not of the pool, you see, but grief's enormous gash. It’s Olympic-sized, this sorrow, chlorinated blue, And I’m the sole competitor, with nothi......

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...Post-its, coat the Brain I keep controlling sticking to my skull Without holding their notice Maybe I have spiraled out of focus Leaving all my thoughts to obliterate my homage It's really ......

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...The ship of dreams Opulent surroundings Fancy bed linens Luxurious dinner plates and tablecloths Gleaming virginal utensils Dazzling crystal chandeliers Polished walnut woodwork Gold gilded fi......

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...a blood-letting sun sets as slow as an amber tear in a shot glass dotty is lost in oz ruby slippers run on a treadmill of long summer evenings avocados turn brown drowned by a late light ......

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...As swift assaults endeavored to prevail, the magnitude of death was asinine. ‘Twas such a toll above a measured scale that no explicit value could define. As battles raged, no exploit could surmo......

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... Ashamed of all the tears, the pain, Pouring from her heart, like rain… Feelings shattered but who could she blame? Hearts are broken and lives – sometimes changed. Lives, sometimes remain,......

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...aye! ye sing nay dance! demanded o' the demon in brighten'd tar but wizen'd burr gave sudden slip did gape ‘n gash ‘pon cracken'd jar fell he into a midden pit so ran the blood ‘......

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...They struggle with a violent grace, the bawdy cries of a bandoneon, the open gash of her torn stocking. They both understand that naked desires come last, first there is this ceremony, the ri......

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...Finally my blood began to coagulate a graceful gel, gently thickened, so – whatever I might feel, the settling of the wound, has begun… in sensitive silences, the shadows echo the fear, felt b......

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