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Butterflied
Wrapped in my shroud, I am blind to Your brilliance. Larval squirmings, procedural dues, envelop mind and consume corpse so that all I feel is the pain of becoming; the razor-edge ritual, this...
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Frosted Blades
Frosted blades scratch seamless sky, angry to find no scars. Serrated edge draws no blood, nor sawing motion, vein; Wind is no ally when renewed rigour results in naught. Pain pitched at a hushed...
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Unbend
Stiff with cold, he’s grown deaf - he no longer hears the cries of others; attuned to his inner demons, he turns his back on the masses, the empty bellies and outstretched hands. Pain blocks all sound....
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Grace Within
Frozen, frost is frothy coat, raiment on a hopeful note; dressing pain in beauty skin, allure without, and grace within. Filed under: A Wounded Heart, Beauty, Christianity, Courage, Dealing with...
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Surface
Whenever her roots begin to show, she heads to the salon for a second skin. ‘How long will this veneer hold?’ she asks her sparkling reflection, taking care not to scratch the surface. Filed under: A...
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Skin
This crackle finish, this patina of pain makes her a marked woman. Grafts, layers of insulation against the raw oozing egress of bodily fluids let loose from crushed conduits, won’t stitch to spasms or...
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My First Poetic Birthday!
Inscription to Evil Your eyes perceived the offering - ripe suckling pig offered on ego’s altar. Fangs tore flesh, and cud was savoured. Voiceless, innocence burned; Betrayer invoked betrayal, tearing...
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Born of Blood
Born of blood, in labour’s pain, life contracts, and breathes again; true love’s sacrificial start is pregnant with a bleeding heart. * True love bleeds – first, to give life, then, to sustain it. To...
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True Grit
Grief, that grittiest of sandpapers, rubs her frayed edges raw. Scars assemble, a vortex of baffling borders to rake in pain the more efficiently. And still, she blooms – true grit may render her...
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Diamonds
As carbon lies in hidden tombs, the weight of the world on its shoulder, its cells align, and, groaning deep, its troubles make it smolder; but as the pressures bearing down create unbearable...
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The Balloon
The day he burst her balloon her soul ripped in two and her very veins bled blue; jagged edges, raw to the touch, were misplaced (lone sock swallowed by the dryer in the heat of battle). Imagine her...
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Her Tears
Her tears have drenched her soul, burying the hatchet in rivulets running red, bloody gouges brimming with magna-cum-laude . (degree earned in the school of hard knocks, awarded posthumously to the...
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Complimentary Colours
If she stepped back, rocked on her heels and widened the angle, she would see that this birthmark, this season of purple bruising, is simply a piece of the mosaic that is painting her life story in...
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Pandora’s Box
She was sure Yesterday was dead and gone. She had, after all, buried it deep in a wooden crate under the old apple tree (the one that split down the trunk during the storm of ’79). So when it raised...
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What She Saw
A daylily, ruffled and still with folds of fresh linen (freshly made bed) soaking up sunshine on laundry-day line. She paused there, caught helplessly on its anthers, struck by the glory that...
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Visionary
Delicate, yes. Weak, no - veins that bleed for the world to see hold volumes, streams, encompass galaxies and implode with atoms, redefine strength by tracing survival by heart in colours too true to...
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In the Breaking Place
She raises weary hands high, knowing that if she aims for heaven, she just might touch God. . Tendons stretch beyond breaking point, in the places where pain collides with grace; she feels buds ....
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Chromaticity
She fought it hard, this slow death. Every photosynthetic cell that relinquished its green became the Enemy – each sag, each ache, each decaying limb strangled her dreams with dry rot, made hope a...
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As the Wheel Turns
And the colour wheel cranks out its liturgy – opposites make the best bedfellows, draw out the richest blooming. . So too this heart, when double crushed, rises atmospheric to negate the blow. So...
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The Sower
These blades, Guillotine to slice flesh From bone, shred all semblance of comfort. This rack, Gears ground like teeth on edge, Stretch faith beyond breaking. Suffering gouges,...
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