Tungsten Heart
The venom drips, a sugared lie,
A serpent's smile behind your eye.
You claim to cherish, hold me dear,
While whispering poison in my ear.
A double-faced, deceitful thing,
The cruelest song a hater sings.
For open foes, at least, are true,
But you? You wound me through and through.
I bled for love, a sacrifice,
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Categories:
tungsten, betrayal, feelings, heart, poems,
Form: Free verse
Tungsten Memories Break Hearts
Every time I try to get around you
I end up strangled in lies of tungsten memories.
You're like the seal I can't break,
The song I can't take,
The bonds I long to make.
You stole the ground from underneath my feet,
And the heart that kept them standing.
What kind of a gift would a heart be
if it's not
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Categories:
tungsten, betrayal, emotions, heartbreak, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Tungsten Lights
Commercial success
the lie of tomorrow
Wrapped in the death
— of today
(Dreamsleep: March, 2024)
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Categories:
tungsten, money, success,
Form: Free verse
Tungsten Or Wolfram
Super hard alloy
With such a high melting point.
Tungsten carbide drills!
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Categories:
tungsten, nature, strength, stress,
Form: Haiku
Tungsten Kiss
So hard, these lips that crush my own,
feverish granite as dense as stone;
dew-sweet with perfume moist and raw,
enamel and sinew in locking jaw.
Hot metal blood so quickly drawn,
tart and tangy, fresh as dawn;
hungering lips empowered by desire,
alive with passionate, light-pink fire.
The hardest kiss, the longest night
whence petrol tongues set mouths alight,
and I tell myself I
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Categories:
tungsten, life, love, passion,
Form: Verse