Vertebra Poems - Poems about Vertebra

... 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......

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...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 ......

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...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......

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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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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 ......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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