Short Haemorrhage Poems

Barefoot and barely awake,
I'm yawning in the shower.
Church bells score
the chilling of my skin – 
the grim gander of goosebumps
along porcelain arms.

House veins haemorrhage
baptising me with gore.
The murder encircles, closing in.
You're mad; you must be
I shattered one of your eyes.

I am the tempest's tail,
the tainted within your walls;
a trojan horse of egregious energy,
the eventual ghost in your belly....

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Harken! blasts of thunder 
pressurised magma sears 
Pyroclastic hearts collapse
a spanner jams the gears

Distended fiery fissures 
augur unquantified fears
Cataclysms bring rupture 
down path’s not very clear

Aneurysms bursting veins 
popped drums burning ears
Brain function touch and go
haemorrhage out red tears

Earth ripping itself asunder 
black raw ground appears 
Man plugs his inner wounds 
holding on to love so dear 

By 
David Kavanagh...

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