Short Subcutaneous Poems

Senryu 3/26/2018

winter’s blanket
subcutaneous layers
over six pack abs


John G. Lawless
©3/26/2018...

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I listen on your belly 
Moist subcutaneous gurgles
Brown nipples above my eyes
Your fingers stroke my brow 

Fleshy mines inside  
Gastric wonders active hive
Imagined by the sound
The living hum 

My heart is thumping mad...

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Slam.

And the beat goes on
pounding on ribs
temples pulsing
words clenched keeping
explosions inside
adrenaline lines ripping
subcutaneous quakes raging
and as I fiercely pedal away
all I manage is

"Have A Nice Day!"



17.11.27

Composed for Lewis Raynes'
"Emotional anger, hurt, rage"...

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subcutaneous
chemicals flow through membranes
ions form in cells

microscopical
potassium-sodium
particles invade

electricity 
flows in and out of neurons
lightening strikes brain

inevitable
thoughts form through countless charged clouds
a poet is born
 

08/25/15...

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If I were that scar above your rose tinted lips,
of whom you keep picking and removing dead cellular dust,
out of hatred that rises from your porous subcutaneous layer
of insecurity,

I probably would have bled more than you think.

I couldn't have shed tears, possibly.
But I've heard every little wound needs love to heal,

And so will I-
your dearest hideous scar.
...

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