Short Clotting Poems

Blood stains in my memory,
clotting in my heart

Arteries of pain and loss
—hemorrhaging the dark

(Dreamsleep: June, 2021)...

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the clotting of her 
soup hydrogen soup carbon 
timebomb becomes blood

the bleaching of hair
black turn brown then back to red
timebomb becomes blood

6/22/19...

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Burned at the edges,
Fire brushed patches 
Nothing is left of the shadow;

Leaking colors
They are not clotting 
Trails of scratches down your back ;

You can try and try 
to suck me dry..
But I live forever in the Ocean,
You chase the Sky...

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Calcium is found great in the human body
99% of it found in bones and teeth
But where is that remaining 1% of calcium found?
In the blood
Calcium plays important roles in nerve conduction
Muscle conduction 
And blood clotting

2032015...

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SEQUENCE


Thirsty
dryness cracks
seek cloudless shade.
The lips of river’s banks
unlicked.

Deluge
clotting dust
choking relief’s
anticipated joy
mud slide.


John G. Lawless
11/9/2014

For Dr. Ram Mehta - Cinqku Poem – Poetry Contest...

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I'm Scott the Clot and I am mighty mean.
I'm spreading the virus called covid19.
I'm trying to get rid of all my astrazeneca vaccine.
A blood-clotting vaccine,
A potential killing machine.
I love that word, vaccine.
One jab only costs a dime,
And I'll open up the borders in a short time....

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My heart bled
and writing
was an open wound 
As words
poured out
in hemorrhaged pleadings 
No suture
or hemostat
clotting their flow 
The nearer
the end
the harder it pumped 
In gushing
pulsations of
finality  
Bleeding out
what time
— could never give back  

(Dreamsleep: February, 2025)
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They say we evolved from apes,
  but an ape would never destroy its own environment;
  or be unwilling to share ---
  having an endless amount of anything,
  or have itself as its own worst enemy ---

Is this what they call standing upright?
  (Bananas)







***Darwinism and evo!ution could not happen without blood-clotting***...

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(for Chris Okigbo)


Briefly …
She makes a watery presence:

Singing
Before our oil-bean;

Clotting in departures:
Cloying with the shrine!

Singing
Worshippers have come;

We have come,
Singing but in sudden tears;

The goddess and her priest,
They have twinkled from the shrine:

Wiping their foot-prints
From Heaven’s Gate!...

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Take me out tonight
I’ve survived all the junk that I can oversee
These pursuits are haunting me every dark
The sun seems to simmer my chance
Blood is clotting every bit I cry
Carry me to the places where others gave you happiness
I need to smile with awakening fantasies
Be a eunoia to my darkness
I have to recompense to my past
Please take me to satisfaction land....

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The rolling sky self-reflecting as it froths above God
Whispering lacey silhouettes as it curdles in my mouth
The baptismal rain sanctifies itself endlessly


My imperial Eden and unannounced abomination
Severe with conviction; let my body weather here as marble death
My deepest river, you swarm my blood as butterflies clotting me with unashamed resolution


I remain as ever, unchanging....

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Drop by painless drop 
Washed down the drain, 
Flowing to a stop 
Free from my brain 

Hysteria and torment 
With regret to follow, 
Make their descent 
Amongst fear and sorrow 

There they all go 
No need for them now,
Still learning to do so
Was never taught how

So deeply instilled 
And clotting my veins, 
Their intention fulfilled 
Until I took the reins 

To draw the old strife 
Siphon all the negative, 
Right out of my life
For a chance to live!...

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