Reconstruction Poems - Poems about Reconstruction

Daddy's specter plectrums mercilessly Fraying my nerves raw with oxidized guitar strings. my thoughts relentlessly hemorrhage onto clay vinyl grooves s p i n n i n g endless nights of suffocation. a midnight jazz wail lacerates the void of your absence. notes gnaw through bone marrow ravenous maggots in the corpse of our love. Chords violently crash splintering my fractured vertebrae a car wreck in slow motion. plucking the frayed synapses of my misfiring modal limbic brain. feel...

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reconstruction recalling much less than half i wrote though long ago and miles remote i remember when an old black man walks out from his shack to fetch his kids' dead kitty cat then walks back as I pass by and glancing up see his eye meet mine in the mirror and with...

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Breaking down the barriers That propped us up this whole time Decomposing our identity down to the studs As contemplating our next mountain to climb Shattering our version of self Loosening what was tightly wound Refreshing to start seeing the whole picture Discovering what we thought could never be found Rightly reshuffling the deck Rebuilding today better than before Purposefully putting the puzzle back together Realizing...

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Sticks and stones may break my bones Fires and screams and fading tones Children are running from the fires of hell A little old story Im dying to tell A rotten of a smell I t sure aint peace I’m trying to sell Lies and fears and frightening cheers Hanging from her toes , split ear to ear Almost reminds me like...

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Lincoln never imagined today’s white victim zeitgeist, pouting persecuted supremacists, their clenched jaws and fists. Civil war rages in limbic memory. Encoded somewhere, the panic attacks and mirages. Nobody is qualified because everybody is responsible. So many whites have graduated from the struggle, showcasing their diploma from the mill. Lincoln never imagined modern virtual vitriol, merciless memes lashing out at specters, infusing, inciting depravity among the...

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If I am honest, the faults I see in others are a true reflection of me... Oh Lord, help me to recognize my own hypocrisy. Sometimes it's easy to point at others and see all the bad that is... But we must be loving and forgiving because we're one of His. I have plenty of faults that are plain...

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this period of my life is my period of reconstruction i seek God for advice instead of those of this world of overt opinions yes there are intelligent ones to whom i am lead to seek advice from however when i need the most essential tools to rebuild and renew, i know that God's truly got me because...

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i started a joke that i would like for you to finish maybe then i could see that smile of yours again it used to always make my problems fade away....even if for a little while life's merciless stratagem has chewed you up and spit you out the unorthodox maneuvers and sneaky foreign objects have left you battered and...

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Am I forced to watch you leave again? My hand is left holding empty air hadn’t I just held you as we walked? And now, there is need for repair. For there is a stitch in my heartbeat, it snags on something in my chest another broken piece of myself left trapped inside my breast. You took the photo; I got the empty...

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I would like to share the destruction of my life How I sold all my dreams to a world of pain and strife I hope some youngster reads it and can clearly see That to walk down that path is no place to be I believe it all started the day I watched my mother die Devil crawled inside my...

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