Body Image Poems

   I OPENED A DOOR 
   IN THE UNIVERSE, 
   MUCH TO MY SUPRISE ,
   I STUMBLED...

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  haiku : bones

calcium dance shape
between stars of wisdom high
showering marrow

hiku
———
cal
             ...

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You who worship yourself,
listen carefully.
I won’t shout.
I don’t have to.
Truth cuts deeper when it’s whispered.

You raise your hands high,
but not to the God who made...

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"She looks just like you!"
 They say, and I beam!
But they're saying much more 
than their saying seems…
For I'd never say to her
 what I...

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I stare timidly into the softly lit mirror,
Its gaze staring back at me unrecognizable.
I've been told this person is my friend,
But its reflection paints a...

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The unseen ache,
the hollow feeling of being unseen.
To loathe each fragment of yourself,
a puzzle with no hands to mend it.

Like shattered glass filled to the...

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CLOUD DWELLING 

I choose to dwell among 
sailing clouds for a while
here fleshlessness is style 
silver state of bliss I soak 
to return...

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hanging out amongst those who are like minded
new to the group naive to the lies and deceptions
groomed with gifts fun spotlight low expectations
time goes by...

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Perhaps I’ll tear my eyes away
Let my crimson spill and stray
Sew my wounds with piercing thread
If you’d love me though I bled

Death does not seem...

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PAINTBRUSH 

Fingertips the bristles of a 
pagan paintbrush 
painting a Tree of Life
on pacified cheekbones 
instead of in liver
from whence it sprung
now it burns to...

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[ Y o u  c a n ‘ t  b e  f i x e d  i f  y o...

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Lying there, serenely, after a warm jasmined bath,
The thought hit me, what if I never again do awake?
Just wide eyed in heaven’s home to joyfully...

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The years have worn my body down;
and soon, I'll breathe my final breath.
Life has left me tired and rundown;
but I am not afraid of Death;
though...

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…grinds beneath a sky with blackened stars,
Its gears churn slow, relentless, fevered rot.
Time dips into a thick ooze, bleeding from rusted teeth,
Each second, screams swallowed...

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Self as living light, dwells in feeble form
We know this truth not because we’re in trance
Helpless like a leaf, caught in a thought storm
Save in...

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