The Bleeding
...No earthly mortal
Nor any intity can
stop the flow.
Like a river, it gushes
Through the toughest
Barrier and crosses
Boarders with no regards.
Its causes are mixed and multiple.
But every...
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Categories:
hemorrhaging, pain, peace, war,
Form: Free verse
Swallowing a knife
...If only swallowing a knife could cut the words from my minds eye
So complex open wounds would slowly bleed until its veins run dry
Carving a way for my vexations, though my heart will never be free...
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Categories:
hemorrhaging, deep, emotions, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Quatrain
I am
...I am…
Washing a stormy night clean, its promise
this empty grave,
where sunshine suddenly erases the shadows,
who sigh like dejected, broken tears,
surfacing in the dewdrops,
lifting the dar...
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Categories:
hemorrhaging, faith, forgiveness, hope, inspirational
Form: Free verse
I Been Sick Again
...It seems I've been sick again.
Got hit by a car last Jun.
Got no broken bones,
Was told to go home,
And sign up for physio soon.
Massive muscle damage diagnosed.
Pain pills, heat treatments, ...
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Categories:
hemorrhaging, endurance,
Form: I do not know?
Malevolent Maverick Mailer-Daemon
...Malevolent maverick mailer-daemon...
wrought maximum monetary mayhem
within mein kampf
Incomprehensible inhumane
inquisitorial imp incarnate injudiciously,
ineffably, indescribably inflicted
...
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Categories:
hemorrhaging, abuse, america, analogy, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Existentialism Emancipation Proclamation Manumission
...Existentialism emancipation proclamation manumission...
Flourishes amidst freedom
once invisible (alice in) chains shucked
when soul no longer kept linkedin
to jane's addiction
with corpore...
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Categories:
hemorrhaging, allah, angel, appreciation, atheist,
Form: Free verse
Crimson Clarity
...Funny, it is how witnessing the root form of greed
Can cause an otherwise healthy vision to bleed
Humorous is a poorly conceived disguise
So much so that blood drips from my eyes
Hilariou...
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Categories:
hemorrhaging, deep, extended metaphor, hyperbole,
Form: Rhyme
Numb
...Sensing the death of something
That once brought more life than
The heartbeat or breath, faith
In the beautiful and intimate places
Where light kisses away the darkness
And music replaces the m...
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Categories:
hemorrhaging, anxiety, divorce, emotions, pain,
Form: Free verse
Flaming Hot Cheeto Apocalypse
...screaming wind
crosses wires
transformers boom
sticks in the rain
spewing sparks
hissing
sizzling
vomiting
smoke and steam
trees topple
creeks overflow
rivers rage
we beg for it
and it ...
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Categories:
hemorrhaging, storm,
Form: Free verse
Yours Truly a Tried and True Philly Buster Ii
...poetically, and zealously
oozing, gushing, bubbling over
with faux snobbish suave re:
pulse sieve literary fatuous
haughtiness, and ludicrous narcissistic pre
ning all the while chuckling to me
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Categories:
hemorrhaging, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Environmental Hemorrhaging-
...Nectar clear skies secluded
Antique rose blizzard included
Emeril black canvas alluded
Zest for life pyramid uprooted
11/17/21
Written by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...
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Categories:
hemorrhaging, analogy, appreciation, break up,
Form: Rhyme
Bleeding Out
...Blood stains in my memory,
clotting in my heart
Arteries of pain and loss
—hemorrhaging the dark
(Dreamsleep: June, 2021)...
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Categories:
hemorrhaging, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Sable Poetic Leakings
...assiduous
spiritual voices
whisper veracious words:
faith tested
is faith strengthen…
firmed like tested muscles…
flexing mind
expands and joyful spirits
dance as mental quills
ink blood of ...
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Categories:
hemorrhaging, analogy, destiny, faith, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Government Largesse Courtesy Uncle Sam
...(Tidbit of trivia: associated with
businessman from Troy, New York,
Samuel Wilson, known affectionately
as “Uncle Sam” Wilson. The barrels
of beef that he supplied the army
during War of 1...
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Categories:
hemorrhaging, 12th grade, absence, angel,
Form: Free verse
Vindicta
...Buried in the shadows,
hiding at night
Valor pierced and left to bleed,
hemorrhaging with fright
Fangs exposed and deadly,
searing from within
Readying to pounce and strike
—vengeance to b...
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Categories:
hemorrhaging, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
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