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Strength has rusted deep into my spine, a beautiful, corroded iron

...Strength has rusted deep into my spine, a beautiful, corroded iron,
Twisting through each vertebra like a vine of steel, a bittersweet trap,
They call it resilience, but I call it a silent tomb, a ...

Categories: vertebra, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Just How Evil Is Humanity

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Some days I think we were born tilted,
a vertebra out of place in the spine of the world—
a child learning to walk by stepping on ants,
the smile never quite guiltless.

We touched the stars w...

Categories: vertebra, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

The Scream Painting by Edvard Munch 1893

...Turpentine waters of paranoia
  ripple beneath an opaque surface,
    merging with the burnt umber sun,
      ravenously setting
        over the savage distance.

Did the earth just crack ...

Categories: vertebra, anxiety, dark, emotions, gothic,
Form: Ekphrasis

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

How to Make Love to a Didgeridoo 19

...She snaps like a brine tendon,
spilling embryo chords across the basalt shelf.
Tongues of nacre split her sides,
each vertebra strung with gravid silence.

Kelp-blind, she threads the continenta...

Categories: vertebra, allegory, america, angel, animal,
Form: Concrete

Cacoethes

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Written: December 30, 2024 for Contest Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh

Fearful individuals may find claustrophobic environments enticing. He battled his formidable opponent Cacoethes for t...

Categories: vertebra, conflict, health,
Form: Rhyme

NIGHTERRORS I MY SHADOWS

...Stone and steel is my embrace, 
A petrified dance in the grey expanse. 
A cold monolithic grace…

I am jagged edges…
My soul claws at the barren sky.
I lie, a silent scream against the fading n...

Categories: vertebra, allegory, angst, art, corruption,
Form: Free verse

Fishbones

...She has a good future ahead of her
The roses that grow from her vertebra look to the sun
Intertwined around the marble she calls a mind
The other day she called me crazy
For we share the same dre...

Categories: vertebra, art, color, dedication,
Form: Free verse

Anterarch

...her spine that musical instrument
I strummed plucking sounds chords and tones
in axis, the toothed vertebra
she turned her head saying she knew
everything I know she didn't know
about heathen...

Categories: vertebra, analogy, body, pain, symbolism,
Form: Free verse

Your Why

...YOUR MISSION

Where are you going?
What do you want to do?
Are your energies flowing?
Can inspiration get through?

What is your why?
What is your mission?
Are you feeling stuck?
Would you ...

Categories: vertebra, appreciation, celebration, change, creation,
Form: Free verse

Fear Not the Clause

...FEAR NOT THE CLAUSE

There is no cause to fear the clause
It has no teeth, has no sharp claws
Though analysis may give you pause
Dissect it, then you’ll be the one to dictate

It has a subject...

Categories: vertebra, graduation, language,
Form: Rhyme

Aphrodite As An Anthropomorphic Map

...The goddess we call Aphrodite
Is not just an old Grecian deity.
  The Phoenicians did make
  Her a map. It's not fake.
Her body is cartograffiti.

The Punic war destroyed her face, 1
The Roman...

Categories: vertebra, africa, body, imagery, language,
Form: Limerick

Black Iraqi Woman

...Black Iraqi Woman
Written by Faleeha Hassan
Translated from the Arabic by William Hutchins
Shortly before my father died, he whispered to me longingly: “Daughter, treasure this, because it authent...

Categories: vertebra, me,
Form: I do not know?