Long Slitting Poems

Piles of poetry yet to come falling in the fingers of the readers
Scroll through my lines as much as your heart and mind eagers
Remorse and anguish is what I feed on when I sin senselessly
Did...

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Through Their Eyes

The Poetry Murders Part 3 in the series

Murder She Wrote

It was a dark night with a full moon
The alley narrow, my hopes high
My footsteps echoed in the ears of the invisible
I quicken my...

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I am bound in the chambers of doubt
I want to run His ever-redeeming Route
Believing in You is getting more difficult, so difficult
Faith in You has been disappearing…and it’s my fault

I must trek these mountainous tribulations...

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The Mask of Fate
(This poem deals with the Corona Virus. 
It is very intense.)

My kid's school called.  
The college. 
They said that there had been...
a national concern; regarding the Sun. 
No... 
That was not...

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I was in second grade when I started comparing myself to other girls.
I asked myself, “why am i not her?” “why are my thighs bigger?” “why can’t i have her blonde hair that seems to...

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Le vieil identique problème – Translation of Kevin Gilbert’s « Same Old Problem » by T. Wignesan

(For Kevin Gilbert – cf. the introduction to Inside Black Australia (1988) – as quite obviously for Oodgeroo, too...

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A Hallmark card would have sounded sweeter than that 
My shiny badge of defusion and falsely sworn merit 
I’m the worst this town’s ever seen!
But I want justice for this
I keep retriggering your created catastrophes...

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I met a teenage boy last night
He inspired me to write
His words penetrated my soul
He made me evaluate my purpose and goal
He asked me if God was real
Then why does his mom go out at...

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Let our hands interlock into a 
beautiful zipper of prayer and 
take pride in being african! 

"What is the pride of being 
african"

Asks a girl- unknowing of the 
roots from which her family 
tree grows...

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My sad, deplorable glory is a nightmare for another
This knowing is sickening to the bone
The need for anothers' pain is like a virus
Slitting the veins of truth and delirious want of false
Watching the bile flow...

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Life as of late has been a path I have not perceived that I would go along again. I thought that I was getting better then I ever have been before but now I see...

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The Dreamless

Now that he had freed himself of the past looking forward 
to think thoughts not hampered by dreams of childhood and
the embarrassment of teenage years and sexual clumsiness
falling in love with the most unsuitable...

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BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WRITE – IT MAY BE TRUE



It is a myth that people can be objective in their opinions.
People focus on qualities in others that they themselves have.
A kind person sees only kindness...

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Break the silence, come out of your shell
Don’t hide your fears and pain, when the world out there is waiting on you to tell
How he abused and beat you purple and blue
In-laws finding a reason...

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Love gave me a reason to: 
commit suicide
Slitting every warm sensation from my heart
Leaving my wound open so you can see inside…
             ...

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During the Second World War, people were panicking everywhere in the world.  And of all continents, Asia was one of the most devastated in the history of wars.

  So many people in Asia...

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i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go . . . "
              ...

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Can you hear their cries? Each minute another
will die. Graveyards are filling up; all the 
victims of suicide.

Once a man was loved; betrayed by his girlfriend. 
She promised to never leave him; another promise 
broken...

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LEAST WE FORGET THE GIRLS’ KILLING CRY
(Apropos The Boko Haram Girls)

                i
We no longer hear
the screams of the young girls
nor...

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~~Chronic Pink~~ 
(Parents Peril * The Nightmare)


Evil sits and whispers - sweet lullabies
Chimes within my head,
Damnation scratches at my conscious
Of what was and is!

ASLEEP……………….

Water runs down my toes
Rain taps at my windowpane
A fear; I relive...

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Crime scene investigators were searching in every corner
Looking for that last piece of evidence to convict
All that was found in the dark room with no furniture
Was a lightless halo, few feathers, and blood as though...

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Jesus Spends the Day Slitting Gizzards

By Elton Camp

Jesus came to this town one month ago.
At first he found the going rather slow.
What he said made no sense to most.
Little accomplishment could he boast.

Were it not...

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THEY WERE SO EXCITED ABOUT GETTING A FOSTER CHILD.
CHILDREN CAN BE MILD OR  A LITTLE WILD.
FOR HER THEY LONGED,
BUT IN SO MANY WAYS SHE DIDN’T BELONG.
SHE WAS SAD ALL THE TIME
AND THEY DIDN’T KNOW...

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black rotten salad shoved in between my lips 
It was always the poison or a kick in the hips 
I would’ve thrown it away but the witch caught my hand 
Took a fork and shoved...

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I want to drown my urge to die
I want to kill my pulse inside
I can't breathe, I'm paranoid
Everything in life I avoid

Don't speak to me, I'll look away
Inside my eyes is just decay
 I'm already...

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