Short On Pins And Needles Poems

where my cats lie
my leg is deep in slumber
pins and needles
I hardly feel
a loving touch...

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Grimacing with eyes closed
And staggering to stand
On cranky legs and feet
With numb prickings shooting
Like a thousand points of light...

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As long as the wheel of fortune 
of your heart spins
I'll be on pins and needles
until when I have found myself 
dangling in the clear green waters 
of your eyes...

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Your pins and needles adorn your face
your hair the colour of liquid grass,
your universe of hard knocks your grace
places you for me top of the class.

 © Harry J Horsman 2020...

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pins and needles sewn across the bed in threads of yellow-brown and rosy, red stitched across my sheets and embroidered to my bed and pillow eye to eye with pins and needles a prickly pair pinned to my bed and pillow...

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How do I rid you 
oh sweet pain, 
this longing confusion,
of soulful tears.

Guarded by pins and needles of a tortured heart
Your words touched me like that of symphonies played long ago.
Bringing life into this once deaden soul....

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dirty carpet.
plastic hearts,
the colour of fresh blood.
a lovers refusal.
a crickets harmony.
the chill of august before its pain is unleashed.
biting nails and tongues.
feeling pins and needles on a left hand.
on edge.
off topic....

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Let's take these pins and needles

That we're always sitting on

And sew up this relationship

Before it goes completely wrong

Piecing it all together

These used lives, tattered and torn

We'll make a quilt from wanting hearts

Into something beautiful...

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Empty heart
Wheres the love?
Empty soul
Could hear a pin drop
Empty life
Filled with lies
Empty hope
Was it ever there?
Empty happiness
Full of fears
Empty home
To busy walking around on pins and needles
The only thing that ever seems to be full is your glass of shame...

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Shaking on pins and needles,
awake can’t sleep , no time to waste; 
Breaking away from everything 
take a bite, savor the taste;

Running on that ‘feel good’ 
fun, adventure, it begins with a hunch; 
One minute two, a smile starts to creep;
Undone, the buzz devoured in a crunch....

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Today I paid the bills and the piper
Now I find my treasure and a friend
I know that the future will be brighter
Today I paid the bills and the piper
I'm on pins and needles I'm so hyper
I feel as though my life's without end
Today I paid the bills and the piper
Now I find a treasure and a friend...

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I
Have fallen 
Breath hitched 
an earthquake trapped within my ribs
 Pins and needles up my body 
not a whisper of a thought

Your thoughts calm like the ocean
Felling of paresthesia in your arm 
church bells rining at a steady beat in your ribs 
Your breath hitched 
You 
have fallen 

asleep.
...

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Imagined pins and needles
Hobbling my swarth
Homes sweet hearth cradling your whim
The sound and safeness of home farmed hands
The vastness invites in colour hued
But shadow and soul will not conform
Stepping over limbless torsos of people falling to pieces
Devil shunned faces turn inwards
As outside stays outside...

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It rained.
A long dead dog got wet.

I fell head over heels in love again.
I think I died - thought - thunk.
Hot coffee revived
black no sugar.

Walking now on pins and needles
same ol same ol.

Good to be me and not that guy
without a raincoat.

Listening to Shostakovich.
Do I make myself clear?

Going to the bathroom - I mean toilet.
Have to floss.

Exit....

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Bowling is what I do during Spring time
And swim hundred feet touching the sea floor
Flexing like a gymnast, swing overtime
Holding my breath, a bowler underscore
Bowls of clear blue waters I play for more
Bowling pins like needles for life I strike
Bowling and swimming, sports for life I like


Don't swim too deep without an oxygen tank...
Life is precious to keep as waters know no rank!

(Prosebite)...

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(Oh how I) love your soul
It's see through
How you rip me to shreds
And put me back together again
On pins and needles
You get me started all over
All over you
You caught me
I was wrapped in your lust
You breathe air of fire
I am consumed
Want so much more
More of this soul of yours
Tonight
I am thinking of you
You're relentless
Like uncontrollable bleeding
The smell of your skin
Makes me breathe fire...

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Pain surging within, pins and needles. 
The end is coming and I can finally rest.
Bringing a white dress along to marry in.
Filing for divorce from a decrepit planet.
Kissing oblivion, wishing it a goodnight.
Remembering only the heartache filled past. 
Wishful thinking, rendered unnecessary.
Proper slits in wrists, no stitches needed.
Property of a dying world, never ending.
Smiling into the darkness, sweet naivety....

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 heartbreak pins and needles it runs in the family
Treehouse turnips in the spring heartbreak it runs in the family
Spring heartbreak terracotta prickly pears
It runs in the family heartbreak spring runs into fall fall turns to Winter
Come on and come all it runs in the family pins and needles
And just over the Horizon the Great Plains it runs in the family 

10/23/19
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr...

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i dont feel well at all today
i think ive got the flu
the sweat is pouring out of me
like ive had a vindaloo
its minus three degrees outside
the frost is on the ground
but i am burning up and now
my head is spinning round
the pins and needles in my arm
are shooting down my side
and now im going dizzy
like im on a fairground ride
a crushing pain is in my chest
my breathings getting slack
i cant beleive i chose today
to have a heart attack...

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The be all and end all
So rapid in and out of context
Illusion mostly, loitered in
Facts change 
We are not in a whirlpool
The end and the beginning
Interchangeable often
Pins and needles 
Reminding us to move
Yet we just switch our footing
I can walk in any direction
Choose flight and land
Destinations can be haphazard
I can map it out, plot
Yet I'm unaccustomed to spells
But perhaps recipes and scripts
Should resume
To be conjured into existence
Is all anyone ever wants...

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Open the back door
And run out 
Into the pouring rain
Squish my toes in the mud
Gargle the raindrops
Wash away the sins
That stain my skin
Fall to my knees
Arms extended
Breathing heavily
A crack of thunder
A flash of lightning
Energy in the air charged 
Drawn to my fingertips
I touch my lips
And try to wipe away 
The icy liquid 
Dripping down my chin
The rain pours even harder
Pelting me with its fury
Being stabbed with pins and needles
I collapse in the mud
Face down....

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Once Upon a Time illumination,
 black tie Chevron
Wild mushrooms Spice Market Rusty
Dried mud puddle now crusty
Breath of fresh air Pearly Gates
Tongue-tied Showtime polish Stone
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Once Upon a Time terracotta
Hot potato first kiss pins and needles
Once Upon a Time croissant
Cream of the crop Rose Colored Glasses
Tulips in Spring hot pink
Prickly pear Driftwood tree house
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Time illumination once upon

3/28/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr  2020...

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