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Gnawed Poems - Poems about Gnawed

Laughter
...Just as you did yesteryear I wish I could cut you out I now know a life without You doesn't go into high gear I gnawed your flesh away While you demanded a refund On my life it had me stunned......

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Categories: gnawed, angel, child abuse, identity,
Form: Rhyme
A frozen heart
...The night was as cold as her heart, a December chill that seeped into every corner of the room. She stood there, her breath misting in the frigid air, a flicker of hope in her eyes. She had gathered ......

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Categories: gnawed, feelings, heartbreak, heartbroken, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I Choose to Dwell in the Clouds
... I don’t think I have ever written another poem of such emotional intensity! I was bedridden for almost four months. It was at such a desperate moment that I thought of scribbling down my feelings o......

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Categories: gnawed, angst, depression, health, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Painting with mum
...My knees wear the dirt like a second skin, bruised to the bone, bright as bitten apples. You press your thumb to my wrist, her laughter, once light, now flickers in the air— a kiln and the clay, ......

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Categories: gnawed, age, child, cry, dark,
Form: Free verse
Ring Around The Rosie’
... {"-Every second of my life in which I cherish, So that I will never burden myself with the thought of you, I try so hard to cope with the idea of straying yourself away from me, of you not being th......

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Categories: gnawed, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Chateau Makes it to London Town
...on a bet, Chateau decided to walk to London town We told him it was futile but he was honor-bound There is an ocean, we reminded him, as we told him bye. He gnawed off part of the mountain, and be......

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Categories: gnawed, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Through gray shadows, I follow your heart, an indecisive cerulean butterfly
...Through gray shadows, I follow your heart, an indecisive cerulean butterfly, Searching for joyful meadows, showing me paths to unimaginable colors, "Hold me," you seem to whisper, "a......

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Categories: gnawed, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Dear Governor DeSantis
... Last night I was in your head, as we slept, Remember the dream that you can't quite place? Where shadows of need through your mind softly crept, And strangers bore kindness with no hint of disgr......

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Categories: gnawed, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Woven arrows of bleakness
...1. Raucous winds sweep pristine waves against gods' sepulchral canvas as stagnant, sharp wings' frames rose from malnourished hearts; ends of elongated crosses marked beginnings of rotten, veno......

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Categories: gnawed, corruption, dark, depression, farewell,
Form: Free verse
In marked territory
...When my inkless isles become drenched with icy wintergreen embers of apologetic auroras ~ and l i f e loses its lyrics in lilith's labyrinth, this soul orchestrating in origami ri......

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Categories: gnawed, angst, betrayal, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member beach bones
... not a bone to pick on beach walks with my lover just pleasure and leisure strolls in the sand of time and togetherness joined at the hips of mind body and soul sizzling fingertips and footste......

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Categories: gnawed, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Ohio Ashes
...She’d kept the pewter dusted and displayed since 1969. A verdigris had leached out of the urn nevertheless. She had been hard on him, had forgiven little, but felt much closer now. The televis......

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Categories: gnawed, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I wait for the words to burn within me, like flames licking the edges of paper
...I wait for the words to burn within me, like flames licking the edges of paper, To erupt from the depths of my stomach, raw, gnawed by bones, To make me lose nights, turning in the darkness, Tangl......

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Categories: gnawed, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Future Self
...Shame is a feeling I do avoid. Too often, something like it has me, destroyed, and yet, to be a better man, I must look at myself as best I can, and that may entail shame. I look at myself, no......

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Categories: gnawed, self,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Nothingness
... The Nothingness began as a small, black smear across my smile. It wormed and gnawed its way past my unsuspecting defenses, Until it settled finally in the center of my heart, Numbing my smile ......

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Categories: gnawed, anxiety, courage, depression,
Form: Rhyme

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