Wombstorm: A Herstory of Hysteria
...I. THE WANDERING
I was born with a life that bled—
a seafloor womb
dragging tides of fern
and marigold char
The priests brought saffron
and fear
crowning me with d...
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Categories:
prescribes, body, history, mental illness,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Pills and Profits
...They came not with swords, but with silence and smiles,
White coats cloaked in corporate trials.
The syringe is a dagger, the pill a chain,
Each cure a contract of hidden pain.
They fed us fear...
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Categories:
prescribes, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Liturgy for the Damned of Progress
...My wounded heart drinks deep from the rotting gut of misery,
Humanity vomits its relics onto the oozing tiles of the real.
I see kids chewing syringes like candy canes,
Their innocence smashed, fa...
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Categories:
prescribes, america, change, christian, community,
Form: Rhyme
at the doctor's
...at the doctor's
There are days when I feel bereft of the people I knew
are all dead and no one is coming to take their place
there is a sense that I'm a waterlogged tree floating
in a sullied i...
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Categories:
prescribes, addiction, allusion, america, art,
Form: Blank verse
Why
...A virtuous man stands tall, far ahead,
Preaches mercy, yet calls heretics dead,
Speaks of hell, if he had seen,
Prescribes salvation and condemns unclean,
He sings of heaven till his last bre...
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Categories:
prescribes, april, arabic, art, assonance,
Form: Other
On My Way Home
...
Wind song rains dewlike intuitions
Through autumnal leaves and sunset’s peace,
Coloring the gentle seas in melancholy
Breathing light through the edges of nature’s prayer,
As she seeks to she...
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Categories:
prescribes, appreciation, god, gospel, heart,
Form: Free verse
Goodbye Six Pack Hello Poetry Scribes
...Goodbye six pack hello* poetry scribes
My poetic side COSMOFUNNEL
wordsmith thanks tumblr in his noggin
ofttimes triggering babbling brook
to swell after deluge
becoming stream of consciousne...
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Categories:
prescribes, adventure, angst, april, body,
Form: Rhyme
Preference Poetrix
...i prefer getting aged being wild
as prescribes my destiny in life
than young, to die child being mild...
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Categories:
prescribes, allusion, analogy, appreciation, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Ekwensi Cyprian
...I call you ekwensu
Because you are the witch doctor
Who conjures with paper and pen the oracles of the muse.
You are the pharmacist
Who knows best the treatment of heart ailments
And presc...
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Categories:
prescribes, art, death, eulogy, funeral,
Form: Free verse
I Hear Folks Sayin'
...I hear folks sayin' they have the right
To determine what goes into their bodies,
They are putting up an audacious fight
While scarfing down alcoholic toddies.
We have no idea what’s...
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Categories:
prescribes, body, how i feel,
Form: Quatrain
God's Love Brings Light - the White Light Style
...~ God's Love Brings Light ~
(White Light )
~O~
God's
Love brings Light
And His Light is bright
With God there's never darkness
Go to Him and He gives me Hope, Peace
I smi...
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Categories:
prescribes, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
Friendship Can
...Friendship can prevent a blip,
By steadying the ship
And steering it clear of a rip
So it does not start to tip,
And the mate does not need to look for his whip,
With nobody needing to strip,
D...
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Categories:
prescribes, analogy, appreciation, baptism, blessing,
Form: Personification
Each Thing a Dark
...Obviated by passion
I could as much apply each person
Exfoliate my heart.
Such tormented fragments
Seeking reconciliation therein,
Where all refrains come subject to warm
And, as my oath pre...
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Categories:
prescribes, birth, change, destiny, encouraging,
Form: Prose Poetry
Milanda Is No Longer Alone
...Milanda keeps the voice to herself; she likes the keening of it.
The wails keep her on her toes, as the poltergeist rules her.
The shudders are drawn, and there are ghoulish shadows.
This is as it...
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Categories:
prescribes, abuse,
Form: Prose Poetry
Vbt Practice 35 of 112
...How deep is our stillness
Is it yet still in the void of no-thingness
This practice prescribes
That as bliss continues to rise
Let it be in the void of emptiness
Energised by Gods lovingness ...
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Categories:
prescribes, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
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