Angst Sapphic Stanza Poems

Like a pack of howling wolves in need of prey,
A wounded urban psyche strains its gnarled voice,
Motherless, fatherless, ice cold pavement waif,
Wee small hours plight...

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It hurts when you quarrel with the one you love,
pent-up pressures begin building up inside
till a trickle of tears spawns a raging storm,
fueled by anger.

As...

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Beware, social media's worldly platform,
Blameless, guilty wannabes shower esteem,
Heady headlines bathing in common manure.

Knowing one’s neighbour.

Selfie, groupies searching for public reason,
Poetry kindled reframed and lovers...

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Phantom of the Opera

Phantom fellow appears in sudden shadows
while soprano performs her number sweetly.
Listening there he masks his heinous visage
disfigured by fire.

Diva singing, "Forever be...

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Waiting only forces the old wounds open - 
suffer, silent, pray that the guards will falter,
standing vigilant at mistrusting doorways;
ego, their master....

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Certain, certain be when a heart is breaking,
banish doubt and conquer the simple truth: that
love does not defer to the circumstantial
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Falling in the beauty of graceful silence,
wanting but the echo of lover's glory,
mourning for the death of the passing hours
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