Sharpening Poems - Poems about Sharpening

What words can placate

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What is it they say to chase demons away?
When scars inside ache, what words can placate?
What meaning is found crawling on ground?
When you feel you’re nothing to see.
When you see what they t...

Rebirth of the Soul

...When the mind faltered

Alternate timelines were born

Lines of realities blurred

Rifts of possibilities torn



Truth fading into the abyss

Chained to the unknown

Silently waiting f...

A Good Sense Of Humour Blunts The Sharp Blades Of Reality

...Razor sharp reality creates the deepest wounds.
Heartbreak bleeds through the tears of the soul
Blanking the mind, making life a blur
While we seek to find a way to make ourselves whole.

There'...

long deep angry looking gouges on a tree

...cat claw marks on a tree
long deep angry looking gouges
a huge animal, possibly a leopard, tiger or lion

I envision this beast sharpening her enormous claws
maybe a velvety black puma with yell...

Crime of Sex

...They called it short gratification—
but I lost my soul in the trade.
A moment’s pleasure,
for a lifetime of emptiness,
a spark that consumed
the temple I once was.

O Woman,
your body is not ...

Compassion's Rage

...Your name leaves a bruise on my lips,
like a ghost that lingers, life to strip,
with eyes that threaten as they smile
and a voice that cuts, low and vile.
My heart cries out in silence dark,
whi...

In all the books of history written with ink of blood and dried tears

...In all the books of history written with ink of blood and dried tears,
There is no war that was not hatched in the shadow of palaces of power,
Governments alone, like birds of prey sharpening their...

BRITAIN

...Britain
 Why did they fight for our freedom of speech? 
when we as a nation are afraid to speak 
Led by a government that’s corrupt and weak 
the future for our children looks dark and bleak.
 
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FACES OF BETRAYAL

...Some hand you smiles dipped in napalm,
Then turn to poison the second you drop your guard.
Humans, Moral plastic caught in flame,
Deals of décor, rotting behind the facade.
Draw your lines, don’t...

I have seen falling stars in the eyes of shadows

...I have seen falling stars in the eyes of shadows,
dancing on the dark sky of unspoken words.
I have stood in ballrooms filled with sculpted smiles,
hiding glass daggers in velvet pockets.
I have ...

Life, in its cruelest joke, gives us only enough time to discover ourselves

...Life, in its cruelest joke, gives us only enough time to discover ourselves,
we toil through the years of uncertainty, forging identities like soul blacksmiths,
sharpening our talents, enduring bet...

Once Again

...Once more, I am thinking about writing -
coils are uncoiling,
snakes study the intricate anatomy
of legs and next steps.

My audience of one
must be propped up as if yet still alive,
geriatric...

My Son I Still Sing To

...My Dear Son,
It’s March
I can already hear you—
small feet like birds’ wings
fluttering through the air
skipping, hopping, laughing
chasing me chasing you

your laughter—
a ch...

no way out

...No out

A man coming home from work saw a shadow 
 a figure leaning against a dead olive polishing 
his hoofs and sharpening his scythe.
The man said no, you are too young to harvest 
he then t...

Whetting The Stone

...Whittling the point
paring it down
cutting the volume
honing the sound

Sharpening each line
words drop and fall
meaning to thunder
— lightning recalled 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2025)
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