#barbed - Hello Poetry

We spread our blanket on uneven ground, bodies embracing in descent, They lay on the boxcar floor, fingers twisted, clutching slats. Transfixed by the spell of evening, limbs entwined, interlaced, Barbed wire punctured palms faces creased as in old photographs. We stretched in dawn’s light, poured coffee out of cups, and left as it merged with the dust. Bones upheave ground unsheathed fingers clotted with soil. Copyright © 2003 Gary Brocks

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Aug 28, 2018

Aug 28, 2018 at 9:45 PM UTC

gary-brocks

PICNIC IN A FORGOTTEN CLEARING

We spread our blanket on uneven ground, bodies embracing in descent, They lay on the boxcar floor, fingers twisted, clutching slats. Transfixed by the spell of evening, limbs entwined, interlaced, Barbed wire punctured palms faces creased as in old photographs. We stretched in dawn’s light, poured coffee out of cups, and left as it merged with the dust. Bones upheave ground unsheathed fingers clotted with soil. Copyright © 2003 Gary Brocks

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darling they've found the body curled up among the leaves echoing the quiet decay savoring the dying day darling they've found the body crying under the porch choking on the insects still she swallows more pull out the nails unwrap the barbed wire cut the noose pull out the nails unwrap the barbed wire cut the noose darling they've found the body on you're side on the bed shes wearing white sheets there are no eyes in her head darling they've found the body sitting in your place talking with your voice wearing half your face pull out the nails unwrap the barbed wire cut the noose pull out the nails unwrap the barbed wire cut the noose darling they've found the body her hands are around your throat settling into indents she put there long ago darling they've found the body they dig her up wherever we go

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Mar 3, 2015

Mar 3, 2015 at 6:04 PM UTC

kathleen-m-1

Darling They've Found The Body (a song)

darling they've found the body curled up among the leaves echoing the quiet decay savoring the dying day darling they've found the body crying under the porch choking on the insects still she swallows more pull out the nails unwrap the barbed wire cut the noose pull out the nails unwrap the barbed wire cut the noose darling they've found the body on you're side on the bed shes wearing white sheets there are no eyes in her head darling they've found the body sitting in your place talking with your voice wearing half your face pull out the nails unwrap the barbed wire cut the noose pull out the nails unwrap the barbed wire cut the noose darling they've found the body her hands are around your throat settling into indents she put there long ago darling they've found the body they dig her up wherever we go

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After Henry Taylor On a peaceful night just as the stars had risen and the chilled dew was beginning to form on the grass, a set of steel tracks resting atop an ordinary hill began to hum with warm vibrations as a steam-powered engine came towards them, pulling along an assortment of goods, it came fast and came loud, breaking all of the solitude by the hill, but perhaps it was going too fast or maybe the tracks were a little wet or it may be that the train simply wanted to jump, but just as it reached the turn atop the hill, it leaned off its path and like a rubber band; the rest followed, throwing to the air everything held inside, tumbling down the hill, splashing through the water droplets until finally coming to a rest at the bottom, where splintered lumber and distorted steel had torn up earth to show a mound of fresh dirt, riddled with gravel and twigs, the hill became quiet once more, just as the train whispered its final gasp and the dew began to form on its wheels.

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Jun 25, 2014

Jun 25, 2014 at 6:11 PM UTC

sebastian

Steel Tracks

After Henry Taylor On a peaceful night just as the stars had risen and the chilled dew was beginning to form on the grass, a set of steel tracks resting atop an ordinary hill began to hum with warm vibrations as a steam-powered engine came towards them, pulling along an assortment of goods, it came fast and came loud, breaking all of the solitude by the hill, but perhaps it was going too fast or maybe the tracks were a little wet or it may be that the train simply wanted to jump, but just as it reached the turn atop the hill, it leaned off its path and like a rubber band; the rest followed, throwing to the air everything held inside, tumbling down the hill, splashing through the water droplets until finally coming to a rest at the bottom, where splintered lumber and distorted steel had torn up earth to show a mound of fresh dirt, riddled with gravel and twigs, the hill became quiet once more, just as the train whispered its final gasp and the dew began to form on its wheels.

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The barbed wire is wound and catches tight around the torso. Razor wire loops limbs and worries the skin to stillness. There is a hot wire passed through the skull and down the spine pulled tight and taut and electrified. Pain only lives roasted in the core of reality. © M.L.Emmett

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Mar 3, 2016

Mar 3, 2016 at 10:23 AM UTC

magicpoet01

Barbed Wire Wound

The barbed wire is wound and catches tight around the torso. Razor wire loops limbs and worries the skin to stillness. There is a hot wire passed through the skull and down the spine pulled tight and taut and electrified. Pain only lives roasted in the core of reality. © M.L.Emmett

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seminal squirt didst sanctify an anonymous boulder when mercury dipped below hashtag mark registering colder than usual temperatures circa winter of year 2000 in proximity to the sacred chapel at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania (house zing carillon player) rifling thru manilla folder first inn search of apropos mailer daemon ***** muse sic, thence finely pitted secretly riddled with holes encoded sheet threaded thru bell jar contrivance sans, handy dandy mechanical holder to accompany prurient powerful ******* pang bubbling (like the **** kens), and didst smolder especially, cuz a free ranging NON GMO, **** in boots hello kitty sauntered (emanating pheromone heat hand dill lee pronouncing feral passe faux foots), dripping, seething with hormonal secretion uttered via vow welled roots gluten and monosodiumglutinate free ***** hapt tabby on the prowl ready for par laid view ****** piqued Saint Peter to enter heavenly labial shoots rather than suffer frost bite the above mew wing tigress attempted to keep toasty warm ('thru minuscule tunnel lacked add **** quit light) prickly endowment fired raging testosterone with braggadocio, brio, bravura and might owing pretentiously pusillanimous feline fur reed black as night hood hit attempt to cap cha moxie ******** thus ensuing a mutually satisfactory plight until a park ranger back his utility truck than gregarious, felicitous, erogenous then quick as greased lightening ***** creatures disappeared out ta sight.

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Jan 9, 2018

Jan 9, 2018 at 10:19 PM UTC

matthew-scott-harris2p

**** rock - schlock ad hoc

seminal squirt didst sanctify an anonymous boulder when mercury dipped below hashtag mark registering colder than usual temperatures circa winter of year 2000 in proximity to the sacred chapel at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania (house zing carillon player) rifling thru manilla folder first inn search of apropos mailer daemon ***** muse sic, thence finely pitted secretly riddled with holes encoded sheet threaded thru bell jar contrivance sans, handy dandy mechanical holder to accompany prurient powerful ******* pang bubbling (like the **** kens), and didst smolder especially, cuz a free ranging NON GMO, **** in boots hello kitty sauntered (emanating pheromone heat hand dill lee pronouncing feral passe faux foots), dripping, seething with hormonal secretion uttered via vow welled roots gluten and monosodiumglutinate free ***** hapt tabby on the prowl ready for par laid view ****** piqued Saint Peter to enter heavenly labial shoots rather than suffer frost bite the above mew wing tigress attempted to keep toasty warm ('thru minuscule tunnel lacked add **** quit light) prickly endowment fired raging testosterone with braggadocio, brio, bravura and might owing pretentiously pusillanimous feline fur reed black as night hood hit attempt to cap cha moxie ******** thus ensuing a mutually satisfactory plight until a park ranger back his utility truck than gregarious, felicitous, erogenous then quick as greased lightening ***** creatures disappeared out ta sight.

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