Long Welted Poems

The New Year has come wafting on the wings of winter
The high latitudinal areas of the northern hemisphere
Would be in the grip of frequent snowstorms severe
Throwing life in desolate isolation and out of gear.
The cold...

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I'm a beautiful mess in a dress or some sweats
I confess life is hectic right now and I'm stressed
Wont forget that I'm blessed but it's hard to remember. When I'm stayin at the shelter
With my...

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Sea of searching tore hope without explanation 
Crucified crests cascaded, crazed static fall crashing
Thrown spontaneous needs, unclean situations 
Wayward waltz of flotsam incongruity, faith attacking

Tossed by tumult of quick duty drifters expected 
Wanton women sought...

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For a moment, I thought
that we were sisters.
I always see you at family functions.
We share the same skin.  Your voice,
your eyes are the same as mine.
Your shoulders are broad and sturdy.
Just like our mother's,...

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Their bodies stumble through the dark,
No mist of air to keep them high...
No circling the beaten ground  tonight. 
Voices  won’t sing, they will not feed 
a single blade of welted grass this day....

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When I was young
And felt a little glum
My Mum would cheer me
With a plum.

I began to eat them daily,
Demolishing entire punnets
With aplomb.

How I loved those big, fat,
Red-purple fruit bombs
Juicing between my lips,
Never failing to elicit
A...

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What gallant form from vaunted perch doth alight
Leaving tailwind that unassuming gawkers affright
Whose tawny shadow the sun's rays doth blight;
Swarthy silhouette shading glint so erudite
Whose tan-welted oars the azure seas doth smite;
With swift strokes the...

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Boys just spread their poison
infecting every flower until the whole garden is wilting.
I was withered, and you pollinated, which really had me blooming
but then your poison spread..
My leaves shriveled and fell off, my stem dried...

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The razor strap always welted my skin
And quickly crippled my soul as a child
Balled flesh of a hand to my head a sin
The angry pain over time I have exiled
No tears fall now from my...

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Tonight, I miss God, though I doubt he IS;
All sense of Providence stripped away
Like my wife’s gray smock last time I saw her
Walking naked and welted to showers
From whence the sole cleansing is soul release
From...

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Half eaten box of chocolates
A card never read
Welted roses
Burnt toast left from breakfast in bed
Eating a rubber steak
With a no label wine
Such a lovely holiday
To be a valentine
Going through the motions
That are expected
Hoping for sleep
Wanting...

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Into the Blue


Pain faded into the blue
purplish clots
pooling beneath welted skin

interstitial fluids coalescing,
coagulating, collecting
swallowed tears.

Day had broken the grasp
opened the ever-locked door
taunted the terrified

incited the torment
of acquiescence -
silenced  anger.

No locks barred open doors
chains hobbled...

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If I can raise a new sun at dawn in dark horizon
I'll color shadows of your broken heart crimson.

If l can become the unfurling petals of flower
I'll bloom as smile in your welted face of...

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