Short Rummages Poems

I rummage through old memories 
 like an old woman rummages 
 through a handbag, 
 Searching for a reminder 
 of who I was before. . . 
 looking to find a way back 
 to being me without you....

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Black Noon
The restive wind 
weds the surging waves
merging spirits and souls
leching away meekness
spiced with weakness
as the way is paved 
for the destruction 
that rummages at noon
...

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he rummages through my trash at night
scurrying off in mist of daybreak
I rarely catch his masked face,
but sometimes glimpse his striped tail

he brings the family, they scavenge together
slapping each other when a cracker is larger than another
I watch them and laugh, they are entertaining
my woodland raccoons...

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Trials and tribulations
emerge in the eyes
of a woman whose life
is spared by lies.
Her shell of a soul
has been bruised by truth
and has seemingly made
this woman uncouth.
With love in her heart
and hate on her back,
she rummages through sand
to disclose what she lacks.
Fire in her veins,
bleeding from her ears,
and pain has begun
to be educed through her tears.
Slowly dying fast,
in search of relief
and desperately needing
salvage from the streets....

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