Anger
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The Tempest in Me
Dark shadowsTrembling treesCower and beholdAt my thundering Mountains shakeAt the foaming seasFor now they seeThe tempest in me Spinning cloudsCoalesce withinThe white billows ripplingAs they turn black and grim The ground tremblesThe paper quakesAs the words within meStart to awake Continue reading
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Writhing Dragons
Two dragons reside In the pit of my stomach Their roars echo In the walls of my gullet One is coal-black With glimmering red eyes Who blasts its bitterness In my brooding skies The other is of emerald A deep merciless green Writhing in jealousy At all that it sees Sometimes they wrestle Sometimes they… Continue reading
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Release the Words
I may be rash I may be raw But I must give voice To these words I have held them in For far too long My aching fingers Worn to the bone But now my insides Are clogged with hot oil And I must release it Before I boil So I let the words out… Continue reading
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Lava
A lament My stomach is filled With molten lava And always it threatens To spill over A tirade of fury Spews from my mouth Like sewage water From a poisoned fount It turns my insides Into congealed mush My skeleton warps As it is slowly crushed The pain I holdThat I cannot share Has blackened… Continue reading
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Wolves of Wrath
White wolves Mouths of red Gnashing teeth Cruelly wed Sharp barks Sharper bites Silver shadows sulk In streams of moonlight Eyes like fire In scowls of steel Unyielding stance Prepared to kill I call these monsters In close to my chest And bade my anger To finally rest Continue reading
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Burnt Heart
My heart burned black Festering with fury Anger glowered as embers Scorching inside me Bitterness oozed out Viscous like oil My skin blistered with rage Throbbed with boils I knew this anger Would eat me alive So I planted something Deep inside A golden seed Of truth and hope That purged my clogged arteries With… Continue reading
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The Bitter Crowning
The prince honoured blameWith a throne seatHeld on to grudgesAnd to the bitterness of defeat He had been wrongedAnd it had to be acknowledgedBut he used it as an excuseInstead of using his courage So he crowned bitternessAs the chief emotionHe revelled in itAnd drank its poison It rotted his worldAnd stagnated his dreamsAnd he realised that thisWould… Continue reading
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Awakening Beasts
Sleeping beasts Stirring from rest Their heavy-set jawsLaden with dread Their fearsome roars Shake the earth Cause dormant memories To begin to emerge Fearsome dragons Towering giants Attack siege walls With shouts of defiance The ground trembles As emotions awake And the fortress of the mind Is exposed to their rage Continue reading
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The Masked Man
A lament No one cared who I wasUntil I put on the mask Until I made fitting in My most important task Only then did they Let me in their circle Even though for me It was extremely painful So I tightened the mask To keep the pain at bay But this meant I had… Continue reading
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Dragons of the Heart
She raises dragons In her chest Beasts of fiery fury Of blood-soaked red Her heart trembles At their churning Her hands write To sate their yearning Endlessly they eat Words and phrases Little chunks of knowledge Severed from pages They spewed out flames Dark and bitter But their thick clouds of smoke Were making her… Continue reading
Dawn & Dusk 