Hate Words Poems

“If a picture paints a thousand words
Then why can't I paint you?”
Bread 1971

Married 41 years. Hmm let me see 
If I can make 1000 words...

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Words can wound, and also heal, they have a power to alter, the atmosphere. 
Words can make us feel like a star, making us glow...

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Basking in the sunlight 
In a field of flowers 
A peaceful look in her 
She looks up to the sky 
And realises how much she...

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We have all had that moment of frustration
We search for words that hurt out of desperation
Having a hard time sorting out our feelings
That's the moment...

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They told her,
"Words are just air".
But air can bruise,
and silence can tear. 

She learned to bleed in quiet tones, 
Each syllable a crack in bones....

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Renee Vivien English Translation

Words to My Love
by Renée Vivien
translation by Michael R. Burch

This is Vivien’s “coming out” poem, although the term wasn’t coined until many...

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Love you shine day and night, sending your light into our thoughts. 
Spreading your love with words, that sound kind and have some thought.
Like a...

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The extermination of my self-identity
comes easy when taken from the tongue.

Words hanging in the balance,
breathe in the air in which they are strung.

Wrap tightly around...

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The will to feel each other skin to skin while sleeping in one bed

you want me, don’t deny it 

you know it’s not right, it...

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When problems come, we want to blame God first!
But the truth of it all is your actions put you under a curse.
The Bible says when...

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Why do I write?
These words rise from an invisible force.
Where the mind is taut and released in drips.
Cherry-picked random phrases find their way
To a virgin...

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two sides to every coin
sometimes, 
the head speaks
while the tail roars
twisted by the pain
tales of their fame
an infamous villain
sent to the stockade

Tales told, and evils...

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Words spoken in haste can’t be retrieved,
so damage they’ve done can’t be relieved.
Words that upset,
you now regret,
And apologies don’t help those aggrieved
...

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My Sin

My sin is always before You Lord,
cleanse me and make my heart pure.
With my lips, I want to praise
rather than curse others.
With my heart,...

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A thought

There was a day when I used to be happy,
There was a day when I felt like alive,
But now I am not even me...

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