Tainted Poems

Stained Letters

They know your face
Your body

You turned on the camera 
You let them in
Unknown editors

When they asked for more 
You gave it freely 
You didn't know
You were a blank paper

They pry for more 
To see more
To get more
To know more
To write more
You were drawn to the attention like paper and ink

You let them pour into you
Their

Tainted and Toxic

All these thoughts trapped inside my brain.
Visions, delusions, writhing in pain;
As I scream out in vain.
I keep calling your name,
Only to be met by silence again.

Why can't you hear me?
I just wanted you near me.
How can you not see?
I'm not as bad as I seem.

It just all fell apart,
Almost at the start.
As soon as I

Mountain of lies

By: Khomotso Makitla

Dear loved one, It’s me your UNREQUITED LOVER. 
In hope I hoped that this day never unveil.
As your WHISPERS still roam free in brain, whispers 
and hisses of broken promises.
I nearly fumbled to open my heart once more, 
But I once trembled on your mountain of lies.

Stone by stone I was there but

TAINTED

*TAINTED* 

Butterfly, spread your wings to stair my womb
When everything said my life  will end
Unbothered yet growing with love
Your posture like a queen, my sorrow, your Joy
Happy to see the world,  while I birth you in pain
When heads popped out yours was dangling legs
     Oh! My little feeble
Wonders from

Tainted flowers

Darkness surrounds me 
I can no longer move
The flowers you once gave me 
Now entraps me in its roots
How could kindness turn so rude 
Yet I will never stop loving you
I watch as these flowers now black
Suffocate me 
Wrapping around choking out my breath
Keeping from me air needed to survive
Voices whisper in my head
This is

Tainted Blood

Tainted Blood 

They lost me because I loved them enough to let them go, If you love something, set it free; if it returns, it’s yours. Or perhaps they wanted to have their cake and eat it too. 

As poets, we often shy away from lines like these, Odium-filled phrases that don’t necessarily mean failure.

Tainted Travel

Time and mind unravel 
A maze of rose tainted gravel 
Whispers life’s secrets

Tainted memory

Your bare form would have the Devils' on their knees.
Your sculpted model makes my heart freeze.
As the sun sets below the fiery horizon,
The inevitable lust in me rises.
As though you were the only star
That could make me forget my scar.
The silk bedsheets haunt my thoughts,
You were the only thing my memories brought.

Haiku Morally Tainted Unveiled

Morally tainted,
Shadows dance on conscience's edge,
Soul's burden unveiled.

Tainted Mindset

Tainted mindset 

This world is going in shambles 
Has it become more than we can handle?
Yes 
Time to get this off my chest 
Wonder when will the world not stress 
Value people life 
Instead of cutting their life short 
We abort our situations and concentrate 
On a world that no longer represents love but hate

Tainted Dinner

The meal seemed amazing
Apple pie hot out of the oven was blazing
Ice cream with caramel sauce made it very pleasing
Now one more toast we are raising
The night become hair-raising
Eating something tainted
Do I get out of bed~I fainted

 

Date Written: 11/7/2021

5 Place  

Note: Acrostic Rhyme

1. tainted          

Tainted Vision

Conditioned since birth by customs, family, society and ego
We go about with a clustered mind 
Complicating our simple life with our thoughts and self-imposed restrictions
We don't see a human as human rather we attribute adjectives to them
Innumerable adjectives to prove we are better
In the process, sinning again and again

We believe in all the false love

Tainted Depths

Sour ground ... 
burial lots, where the worms defile
Tear moistened dirt
hardened by fretting hearts,
fearful of the pulse pendulum clock

Time moves mournfully on a crooked drop,
six-feet motion of tainted tick-tock
The skeleton key
can’t open casket thoughts 
bound by 
an unrepentant lock

Half-life decay of terminal haste
has an unsweetened
paper taste — 
Rectangular sawdust placed in toxic space,
as gravedigger eyes

Tainted By Love

Damaged my heart drips; the  
floor black from blood stains 
Splintered from your beating;  
crippled from the pain 

Quiet I beg it become;  
through tears I pray it be still 
For my heart you asked and it  
I gave freely; whole and distilled 

It was not supposed to be abused,  
stepped on, and forgotten 
Now

Tainted Love

It must be nice to speak of love so fluently
                             without getting stuck in memories
            

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