Metal Bones
...Oh king atop your throne,
Why do your silent thoughts,
Drown out your own wails and moans,
You seek respite after the wars you’re fought,
By sitting atop your gold plated loft,
Trapped within yo...
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Categories:
slipknots, pride,
Form: Rhyme
Liquid Love
...My reflection is too heavy to bear
alone, it’s easier to look at myself and my failures
through the amber liquid, tears
through my system, warm and sure.
You left me gracefully, lackl...
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Categories:
slipknots, lost love, loveme,
Form: Free verse
Third Holler On the Right
...Slipknots of braided wool
lacquer the trees with the darkness of Spanish Moss
down in Kentucky hollers,
where the rules are scraped with twigs in dirt roads
to be washed away by summer storms
an...
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Categories:
slipknots, people, sad, social,
Form: Free verse