Harshly Poems

Sweet tarts Rondine

...Circling the drain my world’s changing,
trying to salvage the best parts.
Naiveté and those soft hearts,
they slide down disintegrating. 
The hardest fist is now banging,
this is how sour become...

A Street Kid

...In streets of stone, I wander alone,
A life of scraps, a soul overthrown.
Each meal a quest, each day a test,
I beg for crumbs, and pray for rest.

They judge me harshly, with eyes that don't se...

When my Life Changed

...
                                         When my Life Changed

                                     In midst of my journey of life
                                   Starkly I was shattered by f...

My Own Heart Is My Enemy

...Each time I’ve loved, the wound ran deep,
A crimson truth I could not keep.
So now my heart, in self-defence,
Builds iron walls, immense, intense.
When someone stirs that fragile flame,
I whispe...

True Voice

...Times when I've run out of rope,
out of second chances, out of hope,
and I don't know what to do - 
I'm all alone and lost.
I've been too harshly tossed.
I'm drowning in a river, uncrossed. 
Fr...

lies

...i am my father's child
a wicked tongue 
to match a lifelong trial
lies spill from my lips
sweet as candy
soft as summer rain
life under my mother's strict gaze
never quite entertaining
new st...

The Wrong Train

...London fog, harshly early with strained warning,
Looms all over the image of the hectic city
There’s the smell of mists and the taste of
Frozen rain gathered before dawn.
Pulses brake and start,
...

One dumb mistake

...Marijuana from a farm in Oklahoma
Chemicals added that could put you in a coma
Grown by a Chinese Mafia, on American land
They don't care if you die by their hand.

Marijuana from a Siskiyou Cou...

The Wolf

...
after The Raven by  Edgar Allan Poe

The mist fell over the lake like a grey blanket.
Only the sound similar to a ranket.
The water still and lifeless, not a ripple to be seen...

SCRIPTED SUFFERINGS

...My life’s a movie, roll tape, lights, cameras, action
Playing every scene with pain as my main attraction 
The life I live is more like a devilish transaction 
Said I quit the drugs, but slowly I’...

Misuses of Charismatic Privilege: The Violent Pressure of Personality

...
after Privilege of Being by Robert Haas

A tipping point of too many
are talking harshly. Down below, 
demon-dead in the unstirred inferno 
and perdition of animal thirsting
are coil...

Summer

...Fireflies at night. 
Are busy. 
They light up with attitude. 
And land on my shoulder unexpectedly. 

In the summer. 
Cars going by sound crisp as they sweep through town. 
My head is unmuffle...

The Pied Piperess

...Orchestrated they succumb onto her board scene ~ As success thrills the ordained Queen of mean—poet

Once upon a time,  there was a Queen with a magic flute in her throat
Beknownst to all...

the breath of forgiveness

...the breath of forgiveness
.
 some say the music still plays
 in the empty doorway, shaded with time
 past an eternity of yesterdays
 and melodic songs with words that rhyme
 .
 only in ...

Unintended Innuendo

...Line of inquiry:
“as we passed her she did wilt
which caused in us sense of guilt
since our stance perhaps did cause
to put her heart’s joy on pause

though we’re gentle, not hostile
we dimini...

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