Angst Name Poems

Say My Name
    I lie here and consider the night sky
The stars flickering as clouds
 go drifting by
Time skips
Across the fingertips
Of God
As...

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It would seem
That age should
Soften and feather
Our memories
Smooth off the edges
Make them user friendly.

As I get older
As in being “old”
Longer than most are “old”
I still...

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I posed no questions 
before my erroneous conception
I never asked to be or not to be
Serenading deserted streets with dirges 
exploring absence in back alleys
reciting...

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Ring the bells for me
Fairytale clock keeper
I wanted to meet a beautiful end of my own design
But those sticklers at the bureau are obsessed with...

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My name is Iris
And I got the virus
You say you've got it too
But you can't sneeze
With the greatest ease
And your lips aren't turning blue

My names...

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Sometimes I forget my name
I was rocking back and forth in a fetal position, 
Sitting fully clothed in a dark bath half-filled with cold water
I...

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There was a day, 
A very good day,
So long ago now, 
I hardly remember,
Before I was here,
At this low point in life,
Before pining for love,
Consuming...

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It's been too long, it hurts to open my eyes 
It's been long enough so I wake up to your face 
It's been too long,...

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My name is, and I find I'm nearly there
Breathing amidst life, not even the mirror stares
My name is, as I continue to wonder where
Breathing amidst...

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Fabled Streets into spaces of loneliness,
field hospital in central park
and the wailing of ambulances, their serpentine allure
claiming its wild certitude amid
full tides of sacrifice in
ERs...

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Contaminated on the news of a bat,
or is it just a distraction?
Really are we even looking at facts?
Opposition controlling the images we see
never wanting us...

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A Wrong Name

People always get my name wrong
They always say another’s name
And I don’t know for how long
This has been the new game
For others to...

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Holidays Together

We stand tall next to each other, 
in the choir before Our Lord. 
We are happy to sing, 
for Him…

We are humble 
that are...

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Things of Need

When I open up my cupboard, 
I find it full of items, 
lost…and then found. 

This piece of glass, that item made of...

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Forgotten Soldier

Service to my family, 
those I love with my whole heart. 
Service to my country, 
the nation that I hold dear.
Service to my God,...

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