Swallowed Poems

In the deep night, I swallowed myself

In the deep night, I swallowed myself,
A shard of glass sharp in the throat of silence,
Shards carving the outline of a lost being,
There was a girl who wept like winter rivers.
With a heart split, cold and merciless,
Drowned in the hunger of being too much, never enough,
I pressed my face to the mirror of cold cruelty,
Trying

They ask me why I write like this, as if I have swallowed something I cannot digest

They ask me why I write like this, as if I have swallowed something I cannot digest,
I tell them that I do not craft poems, I survive them, I carry them as a burden,
Each verse is a wound that decided to speak, a silent cry in the quiet night,
Each stanza is a bandage pretending to

Swallowed Butterflies

Now I keep a dead rose in my pocket 
pressed in old pages of a faded book.
To hold you like a palm stone of garnet 
I’ve stuck you right inside the story’s hook.
A frozen bud I can see how we met,
feel my gut fall with that very first look.
I peered into those dark skies of

Goodbye

It lingers.
Not on the lips. Lower.
In the fiber of the tongue, 
in the spasming depths of fear,
where words no longer light paths,
but only fester in ancestral silences,
like icons submerged in sacred rubble,
beneath the cracked beams of a church welded shut from within,
where even devils can no longer enter.

Parting is not spoken.
It is torn between teeth,
swallowed

SWALLOWED BY PAIN

I have long been swallowed by pain.
My face has been sinking in tears pouring like rain.
My walls hear more cries more than anyone 
My pillow wipes my tears when I have no one
I have always taken death slightly until it came home
Since that day, like a lost puppy I began to roam.

I have always felt

Swallowed Whole

I've walked a thousand miles , lost in my mind ,
A thousand lies spoken , tears left behind.
Anxiety's dark abyss has swallowed me whole ,
A never-ending hole , where shadows take control.

Hurt a thousand times , I've sighed and cried ,
Lost in darkness , where light has died.
This journey's paved with potholes and pain ,
Life's

Earth has swallowed blackwoman pure seed of life

#Earth_has_swallowed_blackwoman's_pure_seed_of_life
Hopes and wishes, dreams and expectations, observed as they derail, watched as they grew thorns, losing their shape, changing into pain and nightmares, tormenting and devastating, turning bitter and sour, daily. Like a cancer virus, festering 

Watched as a blackwoman, shook her head in disbilief, braking down into tears. Diagnosed with medical conditions, she never

Ready to be Swallowed

A giant road is emerging. My sandy path 
is ready to be swallowed. Gambol, amble, 

ramble, saunter, stride… My way knows
a variety of my gaits. This is a stamped 

path in my gene as an elephant corridor. 
It’s open for the rat snakes, mongooses,

cats, and men. When I lose my way, no 
one will come

Expulsion

Through the front Mr. Jonah was swallowed.
In the sea monster’s belly he wallowed.
In the muck and the gas
unhygienic, alas,
was the back door expulsion that followed.

1 Corinthians 15:47-58 Death Has Been Swallowed Up In Victory and Collections

1 Corinthians 15:47-58 Death has been swallowed up in victory

The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven. v 47
As was the earthly man (Adam), so are those who are of the earth; and as is
the man from heaven, so are those who are of heaven. v 48 And

Swallowed

Stones,

Mortar, and brick

Nowhere to turn without feeling sick, stoned

To my stomach

A bottomless pit

Unheard, smothered by a thousand succinct voices' verbose drone

Speaking as they spew toxic, putrid bile in the pit of my stomach

Plummeting, swirling dizzily in circles - a cyclone - cyclically, alone

Booming, the whispering silence of lucidity's susurrate disruption weighs heavily on my thoughts,

I Swallowed Greed

I swallowed greed too
The seed flourished and grew
And shaped me anew
I could not put on my shoes!

29.6.22
Sponsor: Margarita Lillico
Contest: GREED

Swallowed

You captivate me;
I just want to say goodnight,
my words are swallowed.

Swallowed Sounds

bitter cold voices
lost behind woolen mufflers
definition blurred

written December 7, 2021

Swallowed By a Whale

A man was swallowed by a whale
And lived to tell this humpback tale.
While lobster fishing, suddenly,
Below the waters of the sea,

He felt a bump then all went dark.
In fear, he thought it was a shark.
Not feeling pain, which sure was good,
He was confused, then understood

He’d somehow gotten swallowed whole
By some huge whale out on patrol
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