Wringing Poems

Ego Death

...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 my neck,
wringing ...

Flamenco- Duende

...Joy and sorrow in staccato
Feet strike the floor
Heel and toe
Pounding from the knee
Kicking up the skirt

Hips sway
Spine arches
Arms encircle the body
Wringing and unfurling
Elbows raised...

Love Drifts

...Brackish nerves languish and latch 
like seashells clinging to the shore—
something in the water pulls them in…
some fervor from something 
Familiar and Ancient.

I’ve seen your eyes before… 
...

Things That Offend

...
Things That Offend
Miracle Man
3/5 2025

At eight o’clock sharp our telephone starts ringing,
Medicare telemarketers can drive us nuts.
Seven calls daily keeps both of our hands wring...

The Faithful Student by: Majed Dodeen

...The Faithful Student by: Majed Dodeen 

Life is but a trail of shattered dreams....  
Woven from memories...  
Its silence speaks,  
Its threads are thoughts...  

Paintings sketched in memory...

Smuggler's Boat

...Migrants on the move from violence
their only possession
breath-space on a smuggler’s boat
secured with back-bent harvests 
in pretzel-bent systems
weight of crates of strawberries 
hoisted on ...

Wringing Out the Rain

...A squirrel got into the homestead,
it picked a lock with a dry thorn.
The smell of dank fur clung.

We carried small talk above our heads.
Nothing put away but still dangles.
Denim droops, snag...

Looking Forward to

...Looking Forward to

I look forward to 
wringing my 
endocrine glands covering the 
top exterior of 
the kidneys; loving deeply, intensely, first respecting and 
approving the 
toilet brush; t...

Once Summer Ends

...pale scudding clouds turn sun less bright,
bikinis, no more, greet my eye,
and ice-cream shops stand shuttered tight,
fall's shorter days the reason why

bikinis, no more, greet my eye
where ba...

The twilight of the morning

...The holes of the lace curtain,
Having closed the winter windows.
Life shimmers like so coveted blueberries.
So many pieces of obscurity.
The tops of the trees are spinning in the wind,
In a semi...

One Light at a Time

...exhaustion of stars
wringing out the memories
one light at a time
perspicacious perspective
revives poetic express
...

If You Only Knew

...hexastich with rhyme

I drink my coffee standing on alert
knowing that my tasks move this chunk of dirt
on its axis... my world, my family.
Of necessity, I grab at moments
attacking life (with ...

Idealism on Standby

...Welcome to our generation,
We hope you enjoy this fantastic nation,
Kids here stand on a quicksand foundation,
And fear their schools are a gunned down station.

When they watch the news near an...

The widow's eyelids of the house gradually close

...The widow's eyelids of the house gradually close,
Over the empty rooms, where love once wove the velvet of longing.
My wife has dissolved into the echo of days, my daughter - a fleeting thought,
B...

The Hungry Stones XII

...Heavy and eerie silence reigned therein, 
The dark rooms looking as sullen as mean, 
As if they had taken serious offence 
Against me who had failed in their esteem, 
My heart feeling contrite wa...

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