Short Wring Out Poems

Shapes of words wring out

           Page penned fonts illuminate

                   I break my own heart...

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Be You
wring out hurts
toss away regrets
wave griefs goodbye
Be the ultimate you!
enhance your talents
live each day as if it is your last day
for it might be...

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Mist between the pavement cracks,
fog patches sew the sky loosely together.

Walking, talking to my self like a crazy person;
it's words that do this
words as thin as a damp haze
words that float in a thought maze.

Back home
I will wring out the sponge in my head,
say something to the deaf walls,
listen for echoes....

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Fall, you fickle flower,
Live to love a love in vain.
Live to be the painted beauty
Left to bleed into the rain.

Wait upon a whisper,
Wring out words til they allude
To the love you hope he echoes,
To the love you can't conclude.

Make your heart your captor,
Be your own worst enemy.
Thrive on self-dealt torture,
Fickle flower, falling free....

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There is in you 
a schizophrenic flicker, 
pucker-lipped,  
ready to kiss or to blow itself out, 
a hermit flame still with a ration of passion,  
but dissuaded by bruised recollection. 

Allow me to try, then, 
to wring out your reserve of tears, 
until your skin is paper,  
flammable.  

And let me try, if I may,
to put my arms around you,  
cup my hands around your core,   
and feed your anorexic fire....

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With three more weeks of holiday vacation,
Lisa and I’ve started studying 5 hours a day.
You can read a novel for atmosphere
but you have to puzzle over and wring-out academic books
- with their essays and worksheets after every chapter.
I feel a simultaneous focus and boredom
- but the pull of school is staggering
- like resisting it could break me apart.

you can’t wait - all around the country, thousands of Yalies are already back hard at it...

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