Short Contusions Poems

People who leap to conclusions
Dwell in a world of delusions
Always quick to blame
Throwing tarnish on your name
Subjecting themselves to contusions...

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will the bruises in
my heart heal
the deep contusions
black and blue
from you
when everywhere I look
songs that I hear
remind me daily
the discoloration
left on my mind
as well as my heart...

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On aspirin bottles these words are clearly written
Take two in the morning and “keep away from children”
Does it mean "stay away from your kids"
At least till the threat is eclipsed
You could wind up with blood red contusions...

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The heart feels the resolution
From the minds illusions
Drawing adverse conclusions
Cause for contusions
A product of evolution
Searching for a solution
Matter filled with pollution
Causing anxious delusions
In need of conclusive solution....

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non notables
same is to same old
repeat offenders 
nothing new
back scratch revenues
old poets club.
canned scriptures
wasted words
post mortem phrases
casket contusions
dead dendrites.
old poet network news.
boring, blatant, bygones,
corporeal cripples....

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Physician’s convictions to poison their patients,
Procedures with Ether, cold X-Ray stations 
A thousand scans in milligrams, 
Lobotomies and Amputations…
 
Surgeries to transform me, 
Imperfections to augment 
Blood Transfusions, concussions, contusions- 
For just a small improvement!...

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Supple, limber perfect leather
Graceful in it’s agility when I
wield it by hand. 
Supple are the contusions upon 
your back as I teach you
to tease my attack-

When I train you, bull whip in hand.
Supple is your insolence- soon it shall
No longer exist, 
after my punishment.
Darling I love you so supply and intimate....

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Is it still worth it bumping walls alone just to fight for the truth and what is right, when those that you fight for do not even understand what you are doing? How could they appreciate the depth of contusions that you need to endure and the number of broken ribs that you must suffer just fighting for them? 

May 8, 2023...

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Allegory illusion
Misconstrued contusions
Clouded mind mental block 
heartbeat stops
10 inch asbestos floor tile
~
1940's steps gone wild
Making perfect sense, making it very clear
Daunting doubting rainbows, Blended in the new atmosphere
Atomic bombarded Warfare debonair
World War 111 we're all out 
...

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On both sides of drunk
and on both sides of sober,
both sides of the truth
and both sides a lie 
lie the two of us.

You own the license to my pain,
I hold the leasehold to your wounds,
we hunger for the ritual       
embedded in our souls,
contusions that won't heal.

We can't breathe 
but what we're bleeding, 
leeching out the worst 
of how we feel....

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It was a dirty war 
of moat 
flaying the legs in emotional outburst.

No stings.
Only mandibles will do the job of chewing
on your dark fingers. 

Flat, the taste of milk: 
a synthetic formula to eat your entrails.
The plastic nose will smell the rose.

Unbuttoned,
message will bring the fishplates 
and birthmark of violence. 

Death has a cult of contusions. 
You bleed to bones
for illuminating the street. 



Satish Verma...

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