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Vertebrae Poems - Poems about Vertebrae

Premium Member Born to Rage
...I woke with blood in my mouth and no memory of the scab that sealed the rasure. I’m cat-spitting dog-growling peregrine-divebombing rooster-flogging badger-flipping hornet-stinging wolveri......

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Categories: vertebrae, anger, animal, childhood, grief,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member In Case it Comes Up: Kundalini is Covered by Health Insurance
... I told the nurse I swallowed a snake. He charted: religious mania. But I felt her— three and a half turns sleeping just south of the back of my clavicle. I called her Vera then, f......

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Categories: vertebrae, identity,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Suspicious Upper
... Planned a pretty picnic, yet didn’t predict Pigs begged - please eat us Allocated table had laid out a feisty feast Mince never been seen since Rolled in cracklin......

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Categories: vertebrae, absence, angst, betrayal, bullying,
Form: Free verse
A WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS
...A WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS Where did individuality go, all toeing the same line As all seem to be reflections of a similar persuasion A wilderness of mirrors, each shows the same face And of disti......

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Categories: vertebrae, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bars
...LC I drop bars, that break bars, and start fights in dive bars “Emotio est pons, amor est finis.” I am the spark between the medulla oblongata and the thalamus. The protector of vertebrae, ......

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Categories: vertebrae, 12th grade, animal, appreciation,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member She is not impressed by your borrowed brilliance
...She is not impressed by your borrowed brilliance, By the overly polished theories that hang from your lips like cheap jewelry, No—she feeds on rarer flesh, nourishment for the chosen soul, She fea......

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Categories: vertebrae, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In my brain, a neon butterfly flickers hysterically
...In my brain, a neon butterfly flickers hysterically, Drawing with antennae of light the map of an unknown city. Its streets are pulsing veins, the buildings - vertebrae of crystal, And in the squa......

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Categories: vertebrae, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member if our eye be single
...Our third eye glistens, as we watch bliss magnetism rise, notch by notch, until each cell of feeble form imbibes these currents, cool and warm, dancing on our spine’s vertebrae, the tease divin......

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Categories: vertebrae, spiritual,
Form: Hybronnet
Premium Member Ashen Aqualung
...Daddy's specter plectrums mercilessly Fraying my nerves raw with oxidized guitar strings. my thoughts relentlessly hemorrhage onto clay vinyl grooves s p i n n i n g endless nights of suffoca......

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Categories: vertebrae, abuse, father son, mental
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Zen mode
...magnetised spine as a seamless whole reviews purity of thirty three vertebrae each is a string on which bliss beats play such dear soul is the way in which we pray......

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Categories: vertebrae, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Manipura chakra
...navel chakra appears centre stage perhaps it has something to say it is best we let it have its way lest fire god takes umbrage meanwhile on our forehead a quiet potent bliss mist ris......

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Categories: vertebrae, spiritual,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member Zen mode
...thirty three strings of our vertebrae reverberate with music of the spheres a harp upon which Divine Mother plays nectar flows upward through the medulla settling finally in head ovoid at the Bi......

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Categories: vertebrae, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mother plays the harp
...as bliss pheromones mingle we feel our enlivened spine tingle poised in stillness, our attention sharp kundalini ascends upward, playing a harp the harp we speak of has thirty three str......

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Categories: vertebrae, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Convalescence of Richard McGeehan
...Convalescence of Richard McGeehan Spouse of my eldest sister marital bond fixed in place strong as mortise and tenon, he hales of hearty Irish stock genes of said septuagenarian analogous to ......

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Categories: vertebrae, absence, america, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Zipper
...A snaking mouth sloughs two spines, the rattle of small vertebrae and delicate teeth. A woman learns to ride them, feels the trombone slide of a dragon’s tail. A man lifts tugging fingers, ......

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Categories: vertebrae, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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