Long Sutures Poems

"ALL THE LITTLE PIECES OF YOU DIED"

If only there was a way I could have given you a piece of my peace…

Maybe your brokenness would be mended 
with my loving sutures. If only I had...

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The phrase "Music to my ears" has been injected toward the 
wrong part of my body, and most unpleasantly personified. 
There is a record player that I let skip and scratch on purpose, hearing 
colorful...

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Kindness and Lament

Money never to be found or spare
Funny how people just sit there and stare
Honey now you know this really isn’t fair 
Sunny for those who genuinely care 
Affection for those who are broken...

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I once heard and had myself a taste
The emptiness of hell is as vast as space
I entered the vortex trying to find
How to drive the demons from my mind
Like a snake I learned to shed...

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I flood my pillows with tears.
I cry myself to sleep.
Everyday I continue to wake up,
My soul grows a little more weak.

I understand that I am not perfect.
I punish myself when I am wrong.
But are my...

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Abandoned for being who I hate that I am, 
Ridiculed for my defects I cannot control-
Feeling like no one will ever give a damn, 
Suffering from the embers of pain’s coal. 
On a roll, downward...

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Manila folder,
Growing older,
Lying on table,
Watching other files,
Grow bolder,
It was earlier looked upon,
Now ignored,
As if it was dead,
After a bloody gore,
They had submerged in its custody,
A lot many papers and notes,
Carrying dates and events,
About people and...

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I guess I was left alone after sixth grade, wandering my way.
You believed in me, offered up openings and let me say
what I would and delve into the sun and world and stay
and even you...

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Rome was always a playground for me,
Where lovely girls thronged around the streets:
The Fontana dei Trevi where people threw coins
Hoping they would revisit enchanting Rome,
Or on the Spanish stairs amid the delicate flowers
Exuding fragrant perfumes...

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The surgeon generals 
are scalpel meeting once again
Fear doktors of war
are planning to raise another mar
on Earth’s topographical skin

Pigmented epidermal cells
are being prosperity lullabied put to sleep
under the celestial lights
Souls with eyes and minds closed...

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You think your mind rules your thoughts when you find your lost at heart and part is feeliní societies grasp on the situationÖsit impatiently waitiní for your lips to read the scriptÖthis mystery will trip...

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There are wounds that may seem very repulsive, 
           they show on sleeves and inside of a painful soul-
Some demons just become too much and...

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"The Looped Vision of Futures"



The loop plays non-stop
the needle steps out of time 
into the groove of you and me
all of us played for time we are their revelry

hockey pucks struck by 
the quiet hidden...

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~One key
             Two keys
                   ...

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I   
Am shame  
In my vice   
Hate the acclaim    

Help me Jesus Christ    
And take away this pain    
My wounds are...

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My body lies
Under an inch of snow
Frozen, broken,
Half-dead in the cold
My spirit is gone,
My eyes fixed, unmoving
My mind is blank
And my self is losing
My veins are frozen with your passing
Now winter has come and it...

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Passion fell by the wayside
Cold Phoenix doubt rose from the ashes
smouldering on the inside

Broken candlelight date invitations
rue glow leaves grey matter with dark, unsettling thoughts
Giving restless peace of mind, 
plenty wary settle down reservations

Apache war...

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An innocent miracle abandoned like a mistaken memory,
no saving grace for her who has a heartbeat at only weeks old-
There is no reason to take a life, no matter the circumstance,
when she could have had...

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I watched stars, as around me wound
the night like a shroud disturbed by wind,
and I wonder which will be first to bow,
that wretched wolf who takes moons lead,
or maiden alone with a single tear -
both...

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The One
by Rick Rucker


When you have found “The One,”
That person that outshines the Sun,
Then you will understand  the fuss,
Your heart convinced with the first buss!

Your lack of  focus is normal, don't worry,
Love will...

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I met a man who was a builder, harder life than some.
His lifetimes measure built of him the man he has become.

A carpenter who works with hands, grown tough through each nail driven.
For each connection...

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We Look For Holy Moments, 
And In Looking, Overlook

Moments Blessed And 
Filled With Things
From Mountains We Once Shook.

Small Events Unfolding, 
Each One Smaller, Briefer Still.

As Cavernous Creases 
We Call Brains, 

Migrations Fill.
Spark-lit Seconds 

Speak For...

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September 14th the day I lost my life
Wait not life I’m still alive
Yet every cell is screaming that I’m in hell
That’s the day I was in an accident 
That’s the day everything went to 
You’ll...

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moribund she wondered what

the postmortem would leave

other than a dead body and wounds

made by the many scalpels of life

operations gone wrong and stitch-ups

with sutures festering at the seams


as a mere mortal she had not chosen

the...

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At the end of sanity I stand here misunderstood
Wondering if my life will improve or if I should
Let my inner feelings and fear come true
It is hard to fight anymore I don’t know what to...

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