War Paint Poems

Lefty The Left Handed Poem

...
They built this world for the other hand,
Every door, every tool, every scissors command.
Ink smears across my palm like war paint,
While spiral notebooks mock me with their constraint.

But I...

Ash Tree Gospel

...They buried my name in a saltless grave
and left my voice in the bark of an ash tree.
I was born breathless,
wrapped in the skin of something ancient
not animal, not spirit,
but a memory unfinis...

Self-Portrait with My Shoebill Friend as We Rebrand Spirituality

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This time,
Janice is wearing a priest collar
and I’m the altar.
She hisses when I open my Notes app
during communion,
calls me a heretic
for spellchecking my trauma.

I tell her my whole pe...

I want blue war paint

...I want blue war paint
so my enemies will cringe
it could make me fierce

red if you do not have blue
green if you do not have red
I need to cover up this soft face

so I can terrorize my enem...

Spirits Of Saturn

...The avalanche crashed   an ax from nimbus peaks
these shrouds a pall   a maul splitting my shield
this smur slurs my weakened war paint
my skin  my beat  my breath  my breast
gray matter clouds —...

War Paint

...Bold stories mark skin
Ancestral markings scream fierce
Warriors inside
...

Like A Thousand Fires Affirmations

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 Like A Thousand Fires I Blaze Inwards and Radiate in a Solar Explosion of 
 Light. I AM The Sun Up High, Scintillating like Stardust in the Night Sky. My 
 Eyes gleam like Sapphire, my Heart pul...

If Adam Had Not Met Eve Hitler Should Have Met Freuid

...If only Eve hadn’t met Adam
And angry Hitler had met Freuid
If Stanley never met Ollie
And David Gilmore had never been in Pink Floyd
Shakespeare had run out of ink and quill for a pen
Mother Hu...

March Of The Light Horseman

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 Charging through the Mystical Chords Of Time
 The March Of The Light Horseman On The Frontlines.
 War Paint on my Soul, I AM a Warrior 
 Armorial, I Gleam like a Super Light Soldier
 Coursing ...

I Am

...The loudest, fiercest fighter brave
Amidst a sea of coward men 
I wear my war paint bound to save
The underdog that might have been

Or sometimes quiet as the night
Entangled, buried, rooted de...

The Valkyrie Bill

...The woman who stands before you,
She sheds her armor,
To shall her honesty,
The truthfulness of her heart.
Her pure of heart.
She takes charge.
She never backs down.
She let's them see exactly...

5

...
"5" 

benevolence and favour
seemed to be absent
in the world 

grace, a name 
whispered before 
a meal shared

5 fingers 
on each hand
steeples, hiding people 

g...

Beautiful Disaster

...Messy hair, flashing eyes 
over emotional battle cries;
Sadistic screams startling spectators,
war paint like a gladiator; 
Ferocity in the veins of a warrior 
Perfect storm, beautiful disaster....

Seeds

...
"Seeds"



Blue reaches reflections
touching ripples 
tears in time ephemeral
caresses fragrant Green my canopy

opens the light
inside me 

cracked eggshell 
golde...

History Is a Wind Up Doll

...we are puppets 
and
we are paintings of puppets past 
historic yet breathing 
living but not alive 

we are dancing upon your no mans land
and we are spinning to the melody of the tears our mo...

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