#slash poems on Hello Poetry

Reg Mar 2015

Slash

"Once is enough," He said
All truth has fled,
Though, he trusted me

Candle light and razors blades
Each branch, shingles and shades
"I know it's tough," He cried
In the darkness of a cherry tree,
she shied

"It's just a phase," they taunt
But, smiles they flaunt?
You think that's easy don't you
You think that I can do it too?
Go right ahead,
"Tomorrow," is said, yet I crawl in bed?

"I understand what you're going through,"
You think you're so funny, don't you?

I'm sick and tired of it...

#sad #depression #stupid #razor #cut #understand #candle #bully #bullying #slash

Kyle Kulseth Aug 2014

Slash Marks

With passing days queued up
          for the forecast foreseeable
Tuck into the routines' reserves
          deplete when permissible

Shot through the feet
          with what we can't forget
run on through the limp
          past the end of the sentence
                                             and sit
                         In the glow
                  remain undeveloped
                  stay unreconstructed
                  drop the curtain
                 on scenes interrupted

Dot your i's
          with up-slanted slash marks
sparks fill my eyes when
                            I read through your retorts
Blank page.
                                                        Blank page.
A waltz through a minefield
reeling jigs over headstones
          when digging through
           plain white lines

#dance #notes #crippled #waltz #message #marks #slash #forecast #jig #predictions

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