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
Down 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
Ancient 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
Eldritch 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
AN 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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