A thousand cuts
...Severing of ties with our allies.
Court orders blatantly defied.
Plans to privatize, those federal
agencies now downsized..
Green card holders traumatized..
A thousand cuts.
A thousand bleeds.
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Categories:
hemorrhages, america, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Crossing a Continent At Night
...Down a runway skybound
to cross a continent,
see from a window
a city fall away
with bright beads
strung along a coast,
then turning inland,
clumped townships
shrinking to solitary lights...
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Categories:
hemorrhages, flying, night,
Form: Free verse
Be Very Careful To Make a Woman Cry
...Women are created in the image of God just as men are
Females are seen by Jesus as genuine persons
Not simply as the objects of male desire
Every family has disagreements, conflicts
Some men t...
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Categories:
hemorrhages, beauty, blessing, bridal shower,
Form: Prose Poetry
Psychotherapy
...Dear Patient, Welcome to the asylum of your mind.
Let’s get rid of the boundaries to which you’re confined.
Let’s sit down and discuss your medical record:
Schizophrenic disorders, Anxiety, hemor...
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Categories:
hemorrhages, confusion, mental illness,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Red Ink
...Midnight to dawn, our instruments work;
Exploratory surgery on heart and mind;
Sharpened words slicing skin and nerve;
Poking, prodding, invading, always bleeding.
Tissue splits, guts spill, t...
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Categories:
hemorrhages, 12th grade, poems, poets,
Form: Free verse
Broken-Hearted - Wailing Ladies
...We are ladies-in-waiting and martyrs,
as tears are hardened like trails
of muddy barracks…
yet in the aggressive power- courts;
each detonating bullet hemorrhages
all veins of war- t...
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Categories:
hemorrhages, war, women,
Form: Free verse
Dying Dreams and Epitaphs
...My eyes swept over the epitaph
tracing letter and syllable like a finger on braille
with each read the lines smudged
it all became a hazy blur
the message struck my eye with a blinding glare
I...
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Categories:
hemorrhages, art, best friend,
Form: Free verse
Tin Man
...I am a tin man;
corrosion ravaged, tin man.
Staring placidly o’er countless hills
marred by desolation rills;
unfeeling, here I fade.
Black oil hemorrhages
and I fade.
Tic-tock heart song...
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Categories:
hemorrhages, abuse, anger, betrayal, break
Form: Free verse
Bigot
...come protest us and flail your skinny arms
say how we do society so much harm
Hyperventilating while stomping your feet
screaming your slogans in tune to your beat
chorus
Bigot, Bigot- an ...
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Categories:
hemorrhages, baby,
Form: Lyric
Rampage
...Let’s engage the minds gauge
Torque the imagination and take it hostage
Gouge the intellect with an over dosage
A ravenous binge
To my brain damage from under usage
Free the soul from bondage
U...
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Categories:
hemorrhages, education, poetry, society,
Form: Rhyme
Get Up
...Get Up
The further I run into love I lose more and more of me
Seeing the water run off the rocks and not understanding the rain
Knowing that life has not aided the thoughts that I think
Endless...
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Categories:
hemorrhages, allegory, change, confusion, feelings,
Form: Epic
Pain's Penmanship
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Pen hemorrhages
Rorschach ink blots reach in need
Analyze anguish...
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Categories:
hemorrhages, emotions, pain, psychological, writing,
Form: Haiku