Mechanisms Poems - Poems about Mechanisms

..."Where does it hurt?" She asks, clipboard like a shield, pen cocked like a firing pin. "Here," I say, pointing to the silence just beneath my ribcage. Not the lungs. Not the liver. The place wh......

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... When you’ve been subjected to violence, scars and bruises tell. When you’ve been subjected to violence the mind doesn’t trust people that well. When you’ve been subjected to cruelty the scars d......

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...Under the fortune of a bent life, I was comforted by the love of many women, waves of silk that soothed my soul, Delicate fingers twisting through my hair like the wind through autumn leaves, Warm ......

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...Lisa and I played a round of frisbee-disc golf today—let’s reminisce. I love the ‘live performance’ of sports, how you must physicalise discipline. You get this instant feedback that you have to ......

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...In the Wake of Fear Some have fainted, collapsing in fright, While others are weeping, lost in the night. Tears of joy mixed with panic and dread, Flow from the heart, where fear once had sprea......

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...You, Mariana—deepest trench of my knowing I call you by name not to possess it but because it is the only prayer I have ever known how to say You are the sea—each wave not an argume......

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...Beauty has an expectation. It can be damaging and filled with infactuation. Growing up in a world of a certain dedicated beauty, It can be confusing. Beauty is defined at first in a home. It is i......

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...MOVING FORWARD REHAB Record 2025/01/25 09:57:23.webm Moving forward, my time at rehab. One door and corner at a time. On time here at the door. There, at the table. Eat or play. Group it......

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... Self-defense mechanisms take over in times like these … No matter the provocation Don’t forget ‘thank you’ and ‘please’ ......

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...After the doomsday clock struck midnight... a blizzard of blinding demoniacal highly radioactive fueled banshees (analogous to a bajillion barenaked ladies raging against the machine) barreled......

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...Reactions Far too many years my Daughter has suffered heart ache from what I did not give. Many ghosts linger on, haunting her subconscious, making it difficult for her to live a normal existence,......

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...Viewing window made as skull hits stone Domes are forged in shattered bone Trapped inside this open space Shadows obscuring expressionless face Reflections of the hangman's noose As arms outstr......

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...America is immune to all appeals, a metal colossus that does not know the echo of the heart, A nation ensnared in chains of concrete and glass, above the fields of forgotten dreams, A cacophony of ......

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... "Sliders" 500 clicks down, was code phrase for battle ships gone all depth charge. The deeper you go down that black-holed sink, the more you understand in your oxygen deprived brain,......

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...This life's trying to kill me, Grind me down, Beating me slowly. Looking at pictures of the old me, I see my face but I don't really know me. Who is this person I've become? At what poi......

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