Hollow Eyed Poems - Poems about Hollow Eyed

... "In memory of Eliza and Emily" Twelve Years a Slave, Eliza Berry's life marked by cruelty, a tragedy of slavery. She rose to lower heights as she plucked the cotton with ......

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...I wake up heavy, hollow-eyed, a war inside I cannot hide. My chest is full of aching glass, each breath I take, a splintered gasp. I try to speak, but words betray— they twist my truth, then s......

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...The winter stared at me, hollow-eyed and grim, flakes of snow draped the earth in silence. My lips quivered, teeth rattling their cold refrain, and they danced—not with legs, but with their whole ......

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...In the dim-lit dusk of a shattered world, where shadows gather but souls do not meet, I wandered—a hollow echo of Virgil’s path— between the ruins of ambition and ash. “This is the way the worl......

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...Migrants on the move from violence their only possession breath-space on a smuggler’s boat secured with back-bent harvests in pretzel-bent systems weight of crates of strawberries hoisted on ......

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...As time shortens The aisles fill Hollow-eyed scavengers Prowling ransacked shelves The challenge Of the “tic-toc” clock Santa will get the credit They will get the debit As they sit deluded ......

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...Hamlet, sharpen your sword of trust, for Macbeth is surely waiting. The specter of ‘Civil war’ stalks the land and the ghosts of senseless violence, so long docile, have come to hollow-eyed attent......

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...They tell me to put one foot in front of the other But why should I do that when I don’t know where I’m going? Maybe they want me to wander forever Alone, starving, a hollow-eyed husk of a girl ......

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...Something's changed, I don't recall this door. The mat that once read 'welcome'...now gone. Am I lost in the night, or had I forgotten some slight.. had my address been quelled by another time? ......

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...I saw the swifts again today, High on the wing and weaving the crags to the clouds. I watched them last from my Fall lawn, Flickering between fantasy and truth, And whistling their secrets to t......

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...The West is slipping away. On the East side of this living space light slips its shadowy leash, paints a last frameless image upon a bare wall. Moving closer I study a shape as it shifts slig......

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...I don’t know if we were the first, other's had sailed away. There were rumors of settlements. Years later, pleading petitions to the king, then silence. Months of turmoil and torment upon the......

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...Coal hearted caretaker never could accept or give love has a collection of wounded women placed them in his half dead heart museum.. he painted over one with an oil colored tongue stuffed her in......

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...Our eyes shy away from the watchers amid the nets. In an empty apartment, the gossamer gloom of old lace, back-lit by a spectral light. Faces long gone from empty rooms, scan hollow-eyed eac......

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...Some Tsunami……. Today is calm. The end of the ocean licks the land, salt fingers idle townward, chortling shingle laughs into new born pools shattering a thousand iridescent suns ......

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