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caress of an old friend

...Depression
Its darkness.
A cold embrace,
An old friend.
It welcomes me,
like a lighthouse after a tragic storm.
I feel her claws like a deceiving caress
Her words drown me in blanket of numbne...
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Categories: maws, dark, deep, depression, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDown the Whale-Road's Stream

...Tides
Billow
The boats quake
Her sailors scream
Davy Jones' Locker
Opened its grisly maws
Who can hope for salvation?
When the devils of the whale-road
Cast down wretched tendrils of ...
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Categories: maws, ocean, sea, storm, voyage,
Form: Etheree



Premium MemberAncient Home

...Haibun 

Inky dark night. Jewels in the heavens sparkle like diamonds in a necklace. The Seven Sisters wink seductively while trying to sit in Cassiopeia’s Chair. Orion chases Ursa Major and her cu...
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Categories: maws, sky,
Form: Haibun

Seven Minutes Until

...|SEVEN MINUTES UNTIL OUR DEMISE

{"Seven minutes left; the insistent buzz in my skull would never abrogate, it preserved on being continuously strenuous. 
My whacks on the veneer of the tiles went...
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Categories: maws, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberEldritch Hysterical Annihilation Syndrome

...I walk o u t...

I am lost in unapproachable light—a spectral broth
I am tasting the screaming silence—the archetypal observer
dissects my essence-fossil Passion
a seismic rupture betwee...
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Categories: maws, halloween, horror, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



'long hern bella

....

                 'long 
               hern she
              'long each
             her camberz
                  each
             mine sheath

            her crystaline
            ...
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Categories: maws, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Romanticism

Premium MemberAN INKY DARKNESS

...I poured the dark ink on the page
To warn the once and future sage
That somewhere in this cryptic maze
Within the laughter resided rage

For poetry’s a field of mines
Of prickly thorns and clin...
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Categories: maws, dark, words, writing,
Form: Verse

I live in a world of brutal ice and cold

...I live in a world of brutal ice and cold

Despite the temperature being five below...
these fingered handy limbs
awash with profuse sweat
dripping palms analogous
to a bloody busted gushing wat...
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Categories: maws, 7th grade, abuse, allegory,
Form: Free verse

Omnipresent lurch toward authoritarianism

...The views and opinions herewith extemporized to spur discourse with me, or to be mindful when exercising the right to vote in the country of your existence, which expressed intimation predicated upon...
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Categories: maws, abortion, abuse, america, anger,
Form: Free verse

up the creek

....

 I'm in the pickle mine
            Think

This morn mine palate
      In concert with
         Mine maws
      the empanadas
         hern dulce
Mine thank you waved
        She winked...
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Categories: maws, adventure, beautiful, character, engagement,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

On being emotionally bankrupt

...On being emotionally bankrupt

Sentient beings distraught
psyche rent asunder
courtesy false accusations
heated words exchanged like gunfire
pox upon the house of Deborah Hunter,
a vicious vin...
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Categories: maws, anger, anxiety, april, betrayal,
Form: Free verse

hers her's and hers'

....
           I saw her's at the
                 distance

          I tried the whistle
             It flew out like
              tweety bird's
         caught by sylvester
              f...
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Categories: maws, analogy, imagery,
Form: Dramatic Verse

trinkle trinkle riddle star

....

                         there
                           up
                     keep look'n

                   'tiz the riddle

                         yum
                       i me...
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Categories: maws, extended metaphor, riddle,
Form: Verse

February 13th, 2023 old man winter gave a one two punch

...February 13th, 2023 - old man winter gave a one...two punch

Overladen snow covered crackle and crunch
though, this skeptic owned a doubtful hunch
that such 24/7 round the clock whether coverage
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Categories: maws, abortion, abuse, age, anger,
Form: Rhyme

Collide O Scope

...Perceptions of the world around us, 
                 are shaped by what we’ve lost or found in the 
         dusts of membrance, trusts of memberment
    busts of everEssentialEssences 
        ...
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Categories: maws, art,
Form: Rhyme

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