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Pause for thought
I can feel my tendons contort The sickening crunch of bones breakage The skin across my face pulling to a snout My lips ripping apart as razored enamel adorns a snap Can’t stand Beneath me legs bevel lowering me earthward I can...Read the rest...
Categories: poems,
Form: Free verse



Lilith, Finale Moon
Zenith swirls of black rose petals, burst into a flock of circling crows, descending ash and rain on my frozen form. Viscera and scarlet pools flash, feet running of a child, car screeching tires with broken glass. Piano motif grave into...Read the rest...
Categories: poems, beautiful, change, dark, death,
Form: Bio
Family Reunion
Breast beat for her I doubt you fathom crude Understand thus gravitas of thy actions true This must entrust you knot the thread bear Bang thy drum roll knees follow you we share Needless pain inflicted as I stroked...Read the rest...
Categories: poems, crazy, dark, daughter, death,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Where Have all the Comics Gone
~ To the tune of: 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone?' ~ Where have all the comics gone ...Read the rest...
Categories: poems, dance, farewell, humor, nostalgia,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Guns and Roses
It was 1986 I was setting in after giving birth to my first son after wearing wires pregnant for the FBI buying large amounts of weapons ammunition boxes the dealer loaded hand grenades silencers scopes gun...Read the rest...
Categories: chicago, integrity, poems, power,
Form: Dramatic Verse



To My Husband
Being without you is like the stars without the moon The hole I have in my heart that's forever torn apart Without you by my side and the endless days I cry Not knowing when If I'll ever see u again For that...Read the rest...
Categories: poems, for him, husband, i
Form: Rhyme
Here I Go Again
Here I go again broken deep inside Try to run from my past and still got nowhere to hide Having nightmares all over again Waking up gasping for air wishing this would end I no longer...Read the rest...
Categories: poems, abuse, anxiety, feelings, leaving,
Form: Rhyme
The dream killers have
all night too plan would I be their tortured for another day their shapes trickling from the edges of the fire See I magine a group of shadows gathered round a fire I am weird cause none of ewe Are me like Freak my...Read the rest...
Categories: poems,
Form: Free verse
Checkmate You Lose
Do you tremble, as the monstrous cadence, of the rhinoceros' stride reverberates, like the buffalo's onslaught? Vipers at the water's edge, darting hither and thither, not above but beneath the surface, their sinuous silhouettes fabric of nightmares, tearing sinew from skeleton, swifter than...Read the rest...
Categories: poems, adventure, animal, change, dark,
Form: Rhyme
A sweet death
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Categories: poems, confusion, depression, leaving, moon,
Form: I do not know?
Elf and the Drawf
Elf and the Dwarf In the heat of battle, amidst the clash of steel and the scent of blood, they found each other. Their gazes locked, and in that moment, all else fell away. The Elf's...Read the rest...
Categories: poems, anger, betrayal, conflict, death,
Form: Free verse
The world
The world was once just a lonely space Until these two souls have met Now it's a much more beautiful place Since their love has placed its bet. The night has turned to bright sunny rays Since his elegance met...Read the rest...
Categories: kiss, love, poems,
Form: Rhyme
They never flap
what birds might think about planes They obviously shave everywhere Ehh you can see into it’s stomach His farts stick the smell is everywhere I talk to him not a peep from him I might do one what sheep...Read the rest...
Categories: poems,
Form: Free verse
First Poems
Nanna traces finger-rhymes around my hand: tickling poems. Pictures in my sister’s book speak poetry, and I want her book to be mine. Miss Fernside points to words beside her drawings on the easel; I love Miss Fernside. First...Read the rest...
Categories: child, grandmother, poems, teacher,
Form: Free verse
Poetry Police
People should be warned, people should get wise, Or else they might find, a nasty surprise, Early hours, Tuesday, sirens broke the peace, That was the sound of Poetry Police, Rushing to the door, I asked “what’s my...Read the rest...
Categories: books, judgement, poems, poetry,
Form: Couplet

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