Welt Poems - Poems about Welt

... My hair ripping as her fingernails entwine pulling my head back She slaps me harder than she should Her smile slightly offset My cheek reddening from the welt of her hand Shifting herself fo......

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...Haute Couture Leucoindigo she said holding these fancy blue jeans the pigments a striking ric......

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... “as we passed her she did wilt which caused in us sense of guilt since our stance perhaps did cause to put her heart’s joy on pause though we’re gentle, not hostile we diminished her soul’......

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... Welcome. I'm the one they left behind. An alter ego of sorts— just the keeper, the inventory clerk, interim ghost. New items arrive every day— spat out from my boss's pockets, sometimes st......

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... A woman at the gas station is unremarkable besides her name tag reading Clarity and her teeth, saying never mind. She asks if I need a receipt. I say no, like I'm not collecting evidence......

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...—it’s the black boil on bursting, boiling ribs— on my midleft chest, brewing bungled churns, [tighteningmybreath], again, again, it yearns, it begs*, “just one (just two) more (well-earned) rub(s)......

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...Listening to folk records in my room all day, as a kid, to another world I'd withdraw to the streets of Laredo, as cold as the clay. Later, in music I heard, in pictures I saw, the Irish roots ......

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...I'm sitting with device in hand, Trapped in forked thought, Derailed, enqueued, attention spanned, All plot but ought for naught. Zephyr-jostled oriel, Jalousie jingle jets, Venetian pi......

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... Written: January 08, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Hilo Poet ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Fields of snow are starting to melt, Pristine whiteness turns to brown ......

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...Serging through life, I whipstitch, weft, and welt, But always, my thoughts are pick-threading. As stippled patches of emotion rise and fall in me, See me, feel me, touch me, heal me Just too m......

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...All aboard and fasten well our seat belt Focus on new flight, trip for new success Travel light, sit tall, forget fears we’ve felt. Our past storms and snow in life will all melt Over dream-clo......

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...Legacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RING uninvited GUESTS linkedin as the themes of mein kampf. Despite countless factorial permutations & combinations, this cyber surfer avails left and......

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...Written: August 26, 2023 ______________________________________________________________ Oh world, all swollen with pain, The opulent smell emits an almost harsh refrain. Languor fil......

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...Thoughts regurgitated though repugnant, coil of self loathing tightens its noose, venal thoughts a fragmented whisper, to sabotage, undermine, disrupt, one’s frail ego under siege, wounded whisp......

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...Man, seldom a straightforward animal, Long lost in the deserts of weariness, Wants to flee from a life of denial, Wallows no less still in piles of warm ash, And feeling hurt, he nurses hidd......

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