Short Ligament Poems

We could not think it
were it not yet a
part of us, a lethal ligament
of mental connection

a cobra of self 
in the brush -- 

We must dare to go in

confront

travel beyond

if humanity
ever to out-right live

the Light-side of eternity.......

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I remember when my mother died.
I held the phone away from my ear
while the nurse ran through
her rehearsed lines.
“Gone” she said.

A strained ligament
of a lifetime relationship
finally snapped.

Mother you are deeply dug
into my mind now
much more close
even though you’re gone.

I knew then
that "gone" meant, never....

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There, 
the blush upon my cheek
brilliant red 
           evading my lips from speak
but sensations throughout my body rise
and love unsaid 
           is only delusion and lies
and every heartbeat,
 breath, ligament and sinew
embraces the heart's obsession 
           over you.











Capture That Emtion
Nina Parmenter's contest
2/11/19...

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i want to be more
than a bother
to you

more than the 
thorn or
torn

ligament that
stops 
you 

from being what
all above me
could ever

become
but to some
they say my sore

is the
worst that
i could in any

way could
be but i
hold

my tantrum as if
a secretly sacred
rain dance that

will
not by chance
bring down drowning

tears to
resounding
fits of sobbing...

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Ties

The squealing of
the glowing ties in 
my bottom chest drawer,
 ties I seldom wear and 
definitely don’t think 
much about, spreads in 
my knee to 
affect the 
lateral collateral and 
medial collateral ligament; affect the 
lateral and 
medial meniscus; of course too 
affect my 
patella, femur, fibula, and 
finally tibia. As a consequence, there are 
days and nights I can’t 
walk and 
I can’t 
thank them all enough!
...

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