Twin Heart Rate Monitors
...I couldn’t even stop myself from sacrificing everything for you
How could I be trusted with your last breath?
My recital of a photo albums worth of memories
Induced a coat of water in everyone's e...
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Categories:
rope burn, bereavement, death of a
Form: Free verse
Hold This Deeper Thought, Love Is What We All So Badly Need
...Hold This Deeper Thought, Love Is What We All So Badly Need
Black shadows from a bad ailing sun, little to no hope
Stains that inch their way into a most badly bleeding heart
Why does the rope b...
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Categories:
rope burn, art, humanity, imagination, love,
Form: Sonnet
Take a Breath
...Puff puff pass away the pain,
Puff puff pass around the pleasure,
Puff puff pass away our brains,
Puff puff pass whatever weather,
Puff puff pass because the good,
Puff puff pass because the bad...
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Categories:
rope burn, absence, addiction, dad,
Form: Free verse
Rocket Ship- I Spit Fire
...I spit fire
to remind you
to strategically align your verbs correctly in a sentence
or perhaps you'd like to see me correct you
oh wait, You correct I?
That seems about right
that sums it about...
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Categories:
rope burn, break up, goodbye, grief,
Form: Blank verse
Retail Therapy
...Yesterday I found myself slumped
into the saddest of trenches,
for no particular reason
other than a new moon cycle.
Instead of flopping myself
in my studio’s armchair to write,
I drove to the ...
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Categories:
rope burn, funny, happiness, introspection, loss,
Form: Narrative