Triggering Poems

Greengold Dragon

...way down into womb was  C O L D
I traveled with Greengold Dragon
red-eyed wide winged, known as GD 
crowned, dripping tears where I was to 
disembark, severing divine connection 
to know emotion...

No exit allows egress

...No exit allows egress...

forever dooming how the missus and I relate
where interplay, foreplay and coldplay 
insinuated themselves within mine pate,
once I espied and entered trap door to late,...

BLUE NUDE IV

...
cut-out
a
simple
 abstract shape
 surfaces
as
 the Blue nude

the
image
triggering
stark sensations

drawn patterns
pasted
pastiche
   enssemblage
        modelled
in
abstraction...

Beneath The Clouds

...Waves dance beneath the clouds,
tossing fish that fly high in the air. 
That hot storm was triggering foam
as square ripples erode the shore. 

Tossing fish that fly high in the air,
so enticin...

Sessions

...Regret has found me knocking at its door again. Shame answered immediately as if it had been waiting for its old friend. Opening its door where the comfy couch is that I turn my thoughts over in exch...

Modern Poet's Pinball Machine

...
Roll up to the amusement arcade.
Behold all the video games you can play -
Dodgem car driving games, smash-'em-up derbies.
Claw-crane lunge-and-snag-a-toy games,
Pop-a-shot in basketball hoops,...

TETRACTYS ekphrasis- exampled DIDACTIC 3

...
The  challenges of Ray Stebbing's TETRACTYS form are

A.each line of 5  is required 'to stand on its own ' 
B.the poem to express a complete thought,
C.within...

Incessant flagellation no longer torments nor assails psyche of mine

...Incessant flagellation no longer torments nor assails psyche of mine...

until courtesy amazing grace interceded
in the doggone guise 
of Canis lupus familiaris
unwittingly timely deliverance
v...

Every minute matters

...In a world of alternate reality
choices made lead us down
to different destinations

We zigzag leaving patterns forging pathways 
with consequences hardly insignificant
each triggering a chain ...

Triggering

...We listen to you
Act the way you want
We stand in the queue 
For the things which you can’t.

You don’t hear me
I had a blister in my knee
Taught to stay in the igloo
In the summer out of blu...

Nine Months Ago Part 1

...These next _ minutes are going to be hard...

I open my eyes
Not sure what time it is,
but I bet I can guess.
The drugs never work 
for more than 2 hours,
and the distress from the
pressure i...

Overwhelmed Avalanches of Doubt

...So many ways to say one thing
More than one way to turn pawn to king
Too many turns to the grocery store
Which turn shall I take?

Countless words to choose from
From sunrise to sunset
Too man...

Once Upon A Time

...I used to look to the sky,
I used to play with the clouds,
I used to talk to the moon,
I used to love butterflies
and rainbows too.
I used to run free
I used to love absolutely
Everything

I...

Galore of buzzfeeding, needling and scamming female hustlers

...Galore of buzzfeeding, needling and scamming female hustlers...

with a scheming, loving, and enticing guise
alive and well seeking gullible guys
(once upon a time just like me),
who experiences...

a fickle flip scares the butterfly

...
Oh the power of the narcissistic 
would be king enthroned,
crowned not with wisdom, 
but with arrogance, 
delusion and nihilism.

The crowd waits on his every word
which has the power 
to f...

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