Life Muted Poems

You consumed me whole,
unshackling secrets
stitched close to me,
eavesdropping on
each whispering word of
my muted confessions

Your carmine lips
relish my
rugged refrain,
your touch,
a lustful lavender caress
blossoming like
spring tendrils,
drenched in
the...

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I know the scars caused by time and space in us are plenty,
We bleed as though we have been attacked by tigers or bears;
More than...

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Anger has me. 
Rage has me even better 
This now what I experience is sadness in my eyes because of the pride I carry. 

There...

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When the plastic kitchen chairs
begin to crack
and the fabric on the footstool
shows its stuffing,
when the sink begins to list
like a sinking boat

pulling away from its...

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guard the garden (we are the only instructions)
faced with sand, glass, and mirrors… did you

hear that? (sounds of plunder) the fangs of birth
crying…waters demanding life…effluvia…spit...

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It occured to me the other day that nothing makes a sound.
It's the whiteness of the noise you hear when nobody's around.
It calls the spirit...

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They never predict the consequences 
Of their hurtful words;
To them, cruelty is a way
In order to make all pay! 

You all have witnessed how it...

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Muted shyness

A failures frown and a sunken smile written across my face
My uncomfortable eyes and suspicious looks darting all around

I try to hide these tremoring...

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I muted my Heart.

To shut off my Brain.

I did it all. 

To numb the Pain.

Why Love, when it Hurts.

Why Feel, when it Burns.

My Soul Bleeds.

My...

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A ripple, then a bubble,

     sparkling in the light,

          swaying to the...

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