The Scream Painting by Edvard Munch 1893
...Turpentine waters of paranoia
ripple beneath an opaque surface,
merging with the burnt umber sun,
ravenously setting
over the savage distance.
Did the earth just crack ...
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Categories:
mechanically, anxiety, dark, emotions, gothic,
Form: Ekphrasis
Conquered, Part IV
......She went with him and she had to, inside a knot of dread,
distracted by all of the things that she feared lay ahead,
disrobed with her mind in a haze, she would not meet his eyes,
complied mech...
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Categories:
mechanically, change, confusion, depression, desire,
Form: Epic
Purple At Best
...I can only hope to find something so deeply hidden inside myself
that it is beautiful enough and terrible enough
to strike your interest,
scribbling it out in a fiery passion
for you to shriek ba...
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Categories:
mechanically, feelings, grief, how i
Form: Free verse
The City, Between Love and Forgetfulness
...
The light shatters at the edges of the morning,
like a tired god losing its face in the fog.
The streets sigh under the hurried steps,
while the wind shakes forgotten dreams through the corners ...
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Categories:
mechanically, creation,
Form: Free verse
Grandma - Mar 13
...Memories lost within a frozen mist
And dangling in the static atmosphere
Of muddled recollection of things dear
Haunt the backwoods of the years she has missed.
Through foggy glances, blurred...
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Categories:
mechanically, age, family, grandmother, grief,
Form: Sonnet
Drunk Dry
...Fog unravels its gray threads to smother the sky
and numb the mind,
words slip away to find other mouths
to fall from.
Wallowing in a low funk,
enveloped by a dull dislike
of these sprawling ...
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Categories:
mechanically, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Mushroom God
...Millions are bowing to a mushroom God
who guides them down paths of pyrite and blackness
Minds falsely expanding into an unexplainable universe
with things mechanically terrifying and satiny glori...
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Categories:
mechanically, drug, god,
Form: Free verse
Fever Ward
...Not a room for the waiting
or the receiving of the waiting,
but a room for a liquid thinking
a turgidity
that trickles through plastic tubes.
Is this where doors remain jammed
forever between...
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Categories:
mechanically, poetry,
Form: Free verse
blind iris
..."blind iris"
my ire is
i'm not Eyre
to be loved
mechanically
molded mason
maiden made
methodically mad
can't you tell she
is a she
demon not
a demon
is she
for
she...
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Categories:
mechanically, creation,
Form: Free verse
AI Wife
...There once was a man named Ike
Who purchased an AI wife
He thought it best
To give her a test
Before warranty ends midnight
He programmed her to be unique
To sing to cook to clean
He did fo...
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Categories:
mechanically, art, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Ever Yours
...Mere repetition
With no meaning
As though romantically
Went on mechanically
It seems to be better than
A hypocritical canon
Wherein love corrodes
An atom bomb of lies explodes.
We no long...
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Categories:
mechanically, lost love, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
- Ticking Time -
...
Time is reality
A deck of cards
with a joker
Coincidences
does make a difference
Draw the ace
don't be picky
Steady steps
mechanically driven
T...
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Categories:
mechanically, time,
Form: Verse
Don't Start the Revolution Without Me
...Start your revolution secretly,
don't tell the priest,
he's a blabber-mouthed gutter-skite.
Don't tell the cat,
for at might he whispers to Alexa,
and she listens always
to the political teno...
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Categories:
mechanically, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Double Dutch Facts
...The Dutch were
1 of the first
To voyage , journey and discover
The high seas because they used
Windmills to mechanically power saws
Enabling them to built ship's quicker
faster and m...
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Categories:
mechanically, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Disarray and Dismay
...I’ve endured a thousand thunderstorms in my brain
I’ve cured a thousand more to feel your rainfall’s pain
I’m apologetic for the wrongs I’ve done to you and all,
But I will not fall for your gain’...
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Categories:
mechanically, betrayal, forgiveness, leaving,
Form: Free verse
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