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Jean May 2018
Night like these
The lights turn off
And it feels like someone’s hand clenches my stomach
Twisting and twisting and twisting it into a perfect knot
And I can’t untie it
Nights like these
he or she
the him
in
her

her misery rhyme hearse
nursery timee curse

he or she
he
calls

it words channels
who greets
satan

what cult shoe strings you lace
**** this poetry

here


here


here


there are only flames you shall **** from me
this life's lesson
of
words
you try
to
breathe

i
am
an
three
year old child
being filled
with things
very vile
hold
my
hand
while you stick it
in my mouth

what spirit are you
channeling your members
into your mouth
did you channel
my
rapes

did or could your foolish nursery rhymes soothe me

did you wipe my chin
of
the
fluid
we spit
up

we're you an good little girl
before they made you channel
he slaps me off the bed
my face feels his palm print
he made me turn the channel
was that you
we know
who
you
are
we
are no
longer an child

that you would let that channel into you
call me now
to my face
call
me
see the channels get changed

we found peace
in
an
name
?


















...
..
.
good morning good morning
toss on your socks
we ready
to
chunk
...
..
.
Mystic Ink Plus Feb 2018
A new wrinkle,
Searching mirror for answer

Untangling knot
Genre: Haiku
Shared from my Anthology, Canvas: Echoes and Reflections, 2018.
a knar in this tree
like dinkum squat
where a pin rest in confederacy  
round her bark density
that root of Liberty
only widen orchard latitude
Elise Jackson Aug 2017
if i said that i wouldn't die for you, i'd be lying.
such a naive thing to say, i know.
but it's my honesty.
it's the rawest thing i can give you.
i'd **** for you, i'd do anything for you.

an open letter can become a treasure chest if you open it the right way.
a technicolor dream of gray, a projector screen of pink.
a hallucinogenic vision i dreamed about a year before i saw you.

this was meant to happen.
all of the things in my life have happened for so, all of this is supposed to happen.
i was always supposed to feel this way.
i do.
i have.
and i always will.

i don't believe most of the things she's said about you.
most, because somehow she'd like the truth to be told.
because you're wonderful, but she'd rather make the bad things noticeable by lying.
maybe she's angry that you don't love her.

it's the miles deep pain i feel in my abdomen that shows me the truth.
it's the heart attack i experience when your eyes light up that shows me your real heart.

it's the knot in my throat when you talk, that shows me you're alive.


and so am i.
Maria Imran Jun 2017
This pain is too familiar.

Is it bad that I went back to have a glimpse of you,
lover lost in haze and days,
and got myself this deep knot tightening every minute?

Is it bad that I miss you without loving you
it's 02:02
Nathan Collins Jul 2016
Eldredge
A simple knot

It was all I had
My only souvenir

From my travels

I had only worn it on special occasion
And thus

All events of significance
Wrapped up in a few turns

Of a piece of cloth

Eldredge
A simple knot

Maybe the life
I thought I’d live

Was snagged on another loop of thread
And wrapped up forever

Or
Maybe

All that’s needed
Is to tie another
Giraluna Gil May 2016
I made a loop with a running knot around my neck
A snare, a lasso
A hangman's hassle
I tightened it up
I pushed the chair
Only to blame the only person who actually cared
umi kara May 2016
there's a knot in the middle of my spine -
a knot made with flaming fuchsia rope -
that i have never been able to untangle.

my fingers aren't able to reach it quite right;
no matter how much i rub or how far i arch my back against the mattress,
the knot remains as taut as a lifeline.

and i can't cut it loose also,
i don't leave no scars on my back for i have promised myself the blade's lips can kiss my wrist and my wrist only.

there have been people who have encountered me in this life to whom i have mentioned the knot.

a couple of people only nodded and avoided my troubled eyes.

some people have had the pleasure of fastening it even tighter.
experienced sailors with impressive tying skills,
that can secure an entire ship of agony and relentless torture to a worn and raw anchor as heavy as my body,
with the vessel of malicious fingernails and empty words.

most people have only soothed my aching back with gentle fingers;
caressed and patted the knot with a tight lip drawn upon the face
and pitied my sorrow with forbearing eyes.

no one has ever cared to untie the unforgiving knot.

no one has reached out to pull the burning end of the rope and set it loose.

no one has carelessly ripped out of me the sigh i have been guarding in the hollow of my throat for so long.

no one has set me free.
Simon Soane Apr 2016
Although things fall apart
in constant movement
our ties suggest,
for now,
a loosen unknown;
a knot not seen
in the swift of melding.
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