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Tourniquets Poems - Poems about Tourniquets

Premium Member Coagulation
...Coagulation Starter – 3-28-24 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Coagulation Finally, my blood began to coagulate, Flowing like insomnia Between the wounds of dawn and dusk When......

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Categories: tourniquets, health, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Last Goodbye
...He would beat her up for the last time It wouldn’t be hard to provoke him The usual wrong word did it most days Why do you make me do this What is wrong with you Forgive me She would enjoy ......

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Categories: tourniquets, dark, death, jealousy, journey,
Form: Free verse



Unrequited
...Unrequited Sam VanHook How could you possibly think to love that which you do not understand? Among the multitude of stars that shine in your midst You, of all people, stare unrelenting at t......

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Categories: tourniquets, boyfriend, crush, farewell, grief,
Form: Free verse
The Dope Man
...The dope man drives a car 9 miles long and 3 miles wide Those are someone's daughters who will have to pay for this ride There is gold upon his fingers rings jingle-jangle from his nose Peopl......

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Categories: tourniquets, psychological, write,
Form: Rhyme
5,438 Steps Into Madness
...I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. Edgar Allan Poe The crowd approached the lens of the mega camera. Its gnawing rose up in the smoke of 5,438 cigarettes encircle......

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Categories: tourniquets, cry, hyperbole, prejudice, riddle,
Form: Prose Poetry



When the Smoke Clears
... The fog of war is lingering long on these golden amber grain shores In the bar, in the synagogue Count the missing fingers in the high school cafeteria tomb Tally the tiny toe ......

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Categories: tourniquets, society, truth, violence, wisdom,
Form: Elegy
The Damascus Room
...The room is an object in its entirety. Singular in form and mind, and multiple in purpose and pleasure. It is a secret capsule. Though it was once adorned with bright reds and greens and plated g......

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Categories: tourniquets, art, culture, image, islamic,
Form: Free verse
Lessons In Losing You Twice
...It wasn't difficult to learn the history of you, to wipe away the foreign imprints of other souls, and misplaced fingertips on the geography of your body. The hard part was allowing ......

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Categories: tourniquets, goodbye, i miss you,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 6 Am
...6 a.m. I saw your pain compressed in Tourniquets and plungers. Memories condensed to tears. Cooling your hand holding bottles. Dripping in puddles that flowed, With white wind down gl......

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Categories: tourniquets, addiction, dark, farewell, friend,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Alphabet Constructs 3 2 1
...Annotated Achilles amends fallen frame amputees Bulimic Barbies browse media monkey banalities Cameo clouds cling to beaded breath curios Dopamine dreams delineate check cash desires Echo......

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Categories: tourniquets, analogy, beautiful, body, corruption,
Form: ABC
Asylum
...Blink Blink Blink Florescent lights Rolling past above Chaos around Just a blur from her eyes In focus the faces Coming close Flashlight checking For what? She hopes Blink Blink......

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Categories: tourniquets, suicidelight, light,
Form: Free verse
A Cutter's Guide To a Romantic Evening
...You bring the razor blades I’ll bring the tourniquets We can slice our skin in midnight’s moonlight And unify our wounds so they bleed in the same river But we won’t die No, not tonight. Tonight, w......

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Categories: tourniquets, love, romance, teen, world,
Form: Free verse
Death of Tears
...Unfettered passions congeal with confusion each night as in darkness, my mind's journey roams depths of desire, deviant and untrusting leaving me despair. Twisting tourniquets ever-tightening g......

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Categories: tourniquets, depression, introspection
Form: Sapphic stanza
Premium Member The Ravishing
...A chill wind bites coyly at exposed necks, not yet draped in tourniquets of wool. A wrapping of white, buries ribbons of asphalt. The ways fills with metallic horsepower. Goblets of slush like spittl......

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Categories: tourniquets, naturewinter, winter,
Form: Personification
Programmed Youth
...Rolling along like a stumbling tumbleweed, Programmed youth respond like robots. Social norms are tightening tourniquets, Restricting the flux of creative flow. Wiggle room is considered a luxu......

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Categories: tourniquets, social,
Form: Free verse

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