A Lantern Made of Suicide Notes: Suicide by Metaphors
...I. The Hour of Approach
The poem I was writing refused to end—
it kept writing me.
Blood didn't ink these lines—
the ink bled me.
Each stanza a hidden-hematoma
across...
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Categories:
hematoma, creation, literature, mental health,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Anniversary V
...On pain's bed, after the operation, my body rests*
Motionless the view out of the window tries to enjoy
While my soul the opportunity of peace grasps to think
How the gifts the spirit provi...
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Categories:
hematoma, god, life, love,
Form: Quatrain
God's Presence
...The storm has subsided
The wind has died out
The sea has calmed.
The night has passed
The sun has risen
Darkness is dissipated
Fear is gone
Hope has returned
My dream is revived.
God ga...
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Categories:
hematoma, death, faith, god, life,
Form: Free verse
Weapons of Peace
...Let us, my friends, the most powerful weapons of peace to create,
Weapons that would surpass in force all those that war possesses,
Able to carry to every heart: reason, compassion, and love
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Categories:
hematoma, humanity, peace, war,
Form: Quatrain
Death's Claim
...In the middle of the night, you came, oh, death,
Wishing my soul to harvest
Vehemently, I refused to surrender it to you
Fact, that made you so angry.
You said your divine right was to claim it...
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Categories:
hematoma, death, hope, life,
Form: Free verse
Ascending Heavens
...I tumbled,
Hit hard the back of my head on the ground of the trail,
Felt dizzy but stood up and kept walking
Alas, the battle between life and death had just begun!
Many days later I felt an ...
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Categories:
hematoma, death, god, life, wife,
Form: Bio
Schooled In Oklahoma
...When Len traveled to Oklahoma
to obtain a ranching diploma
a bull butted him hard
out in the training yard
and he but earned a hematoma.
... CayCay
July 25, 2019
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Categories:
hematoma, abuse, animal, change, dream,
Form: Limerick
Braving the Stillness
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Radiating waves of thoughts unseen,
the battle gallant rages
in sub-hematoma nether places
An invisible clash against dark principalities
from the shadow realm,
the stricken valian...
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Categories:
hematoma, bereavement, dedication, love, spiritual,
Form: Elegy
The Son Also Rises
...What is "love"? Consider ...
Each biting lash of the ragged-toothed scourge,
Skin, muscle and sinews flayed and discarded to dirt,
Each hematoma raised and bone broken,
The shame of b...
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Categories:
hematoma, appreciation, christian, easter, faith,
Form: Free verse
What Fire Works
...What fire works
Fire works crackle crunch coagulate
send the guiding stars of darkness into space
from Phoenix to ashes ember amber empathy
forgotten exploding in the heart of unremembered kin...
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Categories:
hematoma, firework, humanity, planet,
Form: Free verse
Tied With the Mighty Chain
...Drowned by the fears of being criticized
Pulled in the earth's inner core
Tied with the mighty chain
Unto the rock unbroken by the mightiest power
Cyanotic, hematoma: they're the foreign object...
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Categories:
hematoma, abuse, bullying, death, depression,
Form: Free verse