Swallowed Poems - Poems about Swallowed

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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#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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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

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bitter cold voices lost behind woolen mufflers definition blurred written December 7, 2021...

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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 To...

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River Ethiope has swallowed another big ...

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