Healing
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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
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Rage
His intestines writhe Like a decapitated snake His bowels squirming From the force of his rage His jaw is clenched Bolted shut His tongue restrained Like a rabid mutt When he speaks, he spitsLike an agitated cobra Like a bubbling cauldron His fury spills over He let it spew Out of his mouth And lets… Continue reading
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Spiteful Vapour
A spiteful vapour Rises from a glen To hunt and haunt The hearts of men Travellers freeze Goosebumps bristling As they sense a presence Disturbed by their visiting Icicles form On a furrowed brow As a local kneels And breaks old vows Lips trembling Heart fiercely beating As an ancient hatred Starts retreating Continue reading
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Box of Fears
She packed all her fears Into a little boxShe did this when She was still very young It was not deliberate It was subconscious She did not suppress Her pain on purpose It rattled in her mind For years and years As she filled it with more And more of her fears She did not… Continue reading
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The Orphan Girl and Her Suns
There is a sadnessEntrenched in her heartA bastion of evilA castle of dark It leeches out poisonIn viscous, black fluidsThis river of despairTurns her dreams into ruins This castle laughsAt her myriad of dawnsWhen one sun risesThe other one starts to fall Until one dayThe castle crackedAs her faint suns of hopeShowed their true impact Continue reading
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The Lost Traveller
She had journeyedOn dust-swept roadsCrossing bleak desertsAll on her own But one day she stoppedAt the side of the roadAnd gave up the dreamOf ever making it home An old man found herHis face worn and crackedHe sat down beside herWhilst she lay on her back He told her storiesOf kings and of beggarsWeaved wonderful talesOf triumphs and… Continue reading
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Spit Out The Bones
Take what you need And spit out the bones Take from my words What helps you grow I do not have All the answers But I will share What brought me advances I can only show The path I have taken How my joy From its sleep, was awakened What sticks in the throat What… Continue reading
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Ocean of Doubt
I felt adrift In this mindless ocean Each wave a voice Begging me to listen They urged me to chase Riches and fame That these would be The antidote to my shame I drowned in this cacophony Of utter nonsense Each wave driven By a desire for profits So in the depths I quietened my… Continue reading
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Lost Words
I sang a songBut a silence ate itI wrote a letterBut the ink was wasted I let words flowLet truth beBut found that the wordsWere nowhere to be seen I poured out my heart’s sorrowThat tender emotionAs a raging riverBut it was swallowed by an ocean I lost those wordsBut now I seeThat all those wordsWere building something… Continue reading
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Scars of Ink
Black shadows On the page Slowly contort Twist and change Shaped by sorrow Into a scar of ink Paper crinkling With a bitter wink This congregation of letters Is silent yet speaks Delightfully elegant But certainly not weak The bruised paper breathes After a writing session Knowing the shadows in the mind Have slightly lessened Continue reading
Dawn & Dusk 