Calcified Poems - Poems about Calcified

... Written on April 19th 2025 for Sara Jama's The Chaos in my Heart Contest I am wrapped in darkness, crippled by the chaos in my heart. Swallowing tangled foxgloves of regret, I spiral.......

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...Washed adrift, unable to reach the floating shoreline, Lost in a sea of bitter loneliness. Saline-soaked clothes stick to weary bones. You become just a mere mirage under the intensifying sun. Pa......

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...(“A Moment of Grace aka The Empty Mirror”, 2024, original encaustic) A Hollow Place Sometimes it seems that who I am Is nothing more than the dripping sediments At the edges of a hollo......

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...I surf through the crooning crests of warm, blue waters, breathing poetry and prose, carved in topaz and turquoise, for I am the goddess of the bittersweet estuary, crowned with foamy salt ......

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...I stand at the precipice of remembrance, Caught between the rotting crops of yesterday And the crisp dawn of reality, While a torchbearer beckons my soul to Dante’s Inferno. Ashen raindrops drenc......

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...Candle wax drips calcified tears, riptides of dreams burst boundaries; Drops become circles never squares; Out of the box locked in a freeze with rough edges it aims to please; There’s no hidin......

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...It's only my heart. Chipped away, calcified fragments all over the place. Coherence that's all. The blue butterfly a toy in the hands of little Catie. Always fluttering touch and go playing ......

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... It looked like a bleached tongue pulled from a mouth, petrified and incapable now of letting a word slide over its calcified silence. I picked it out of the wet sand and held it in my hand. ......

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... To wallow in the fires is a tempting surrender. A swan dive into the maelstromic implode of mushroom clouds, return to sender. If I let it take me into its vespered aqua......

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... In the depths of desolation where death is presiding in a smug kind of cocoon of parasite, lies, a heart of calcified care, buried deep inside a grim stalactite of unrequited te......

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...“Wicked Web of Woes” Is there a reason to rhyme when lifeless fingers breathe toxic agony, whilst disgraced quill suffocates from wildering riddles swerving to the stillness of calci......

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...Well maybe I should apologize Maybe using free verse on the internet Isn't the best way to vent my health But its just the facts man like officer Friday on dragnet I cant really help the miss......

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...What is that central pole does it hold up a voice like a brazen spine? And the many rooms all of them built to be seen with no modesty nor privacy. Rooms where ......

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...The soundless scream of my tortured pain, The story of which I cannot explain. Ashamed of my needs, yet I want them met, Manipulative, deadly, pointless threat. Blind is the audience, mac......

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...it was that dull ache that kept her going a longing for freedom whatever that meant confined to the straight-jacket of her mind she tore at the shackles until her heart bled clots obstruc......

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