#tooth
The pain gnaws deep down at the root,
A buried ache no one can soothe.
It hides beneath what once felt true,
A silent cry no one can prove.
Food and drink just feed the fire,
Each bite and sip climbs higher, higher.
So I turn away to guard my soul,
Clinging tight to what I control.
Apr 20
Apr 20, 2026 at 11:48 PM UTC
I've got a sweet tooth
It's very strong
Every morning, evening, night
I want something sweet
The prickle in my throat
Telling me, to open up
My refrigerator,
Once more.
Sitting lazily inside,
The Birthday Cake resides,
It's layered sideways flavors,
Do no favors,
To my teeth,
No, they don't.
Each spoonful of sweetness,
Every grain of sugar of salt,
Rots my teeth to asphalt
If I had just one more slice
Wouldn't that be nice?
Apr 18
Apr 18, 2026 at 7:59 PM UTC
The tooth is out
The pain has gone
Now I have a sutured gum
Only a moment
Then it was there
Sitting on a tray
Beside the chair
So small it was
For so much pain
Thank the lord
For Novocaine
Jan 27
Jan 27, 2026 at 9:18 AM UTC
There once was a man from Duluth
Who they said possessed only one tooth
All of his food
Was either boiled or stewed
It's strange, but I swear it's the truth
While it's true that this man liked to eat
He couldn't chew solids like meat
He liked soft foods like rice
Mashed potatoes were nice
And bread, soft buttered whole wheat
Jan 4
Jan 4, 2026 at 9:45 AM UTC
I love brownie,
Just like I love you,
And everything sweet.
Nov 5, 2024
Nov 5, 2024 at 11:23 AM UTC
Shifting under my skin,
seeping into my gums,
a sensation of emence pressure,
and awareness to unbear.
Slouching with a blue bib chain,
hung around the neck,
and heavy floride notes
tickling my tounge.
Goggles sliding along my face,
Sweat rolling down wet strands of hair.
Pulling away like velcro strips,
the sound of eagerness
and hot summer swelter.
That office chair makes me shake with anticipation,
Spotlight in yellow hues,
beaming down upon me.
Staring off until team appears
and the numbness fades in.
Time for another change.
For inconvienient, expensive exposure
with a little bit of me set to be disposed.
Jun 13, 2024
Jun 13, 2024 at 10:15 PM UTC
Birds always fly south
When, a winner has a moment...
Sour old fall, of life into bed with a crowd
Of feelings; never a spoil or relent?
Acceptation and divorce, artily
A shrewd person knows more than a cup of tea?
Lights and party's, fights and smarty...
When a dalliance has the floor, a candor can be...
Hair is a smile, if first and foremost denial?
Simply airs, and the deified soul to prove...
A habit in the gray, hosts of decency known a while
You are the hero, I am the pact and the silence of love...
A wager in the shadow of a waterfall?
Since rainbows are so expensive, or a mutual cause...
Where is a life more naked, with terror or mercy for a salt?
The price of love has become even more, a sit with laws...
Knowing what I do, a reason has a voice to win every argument
Spill of light, or cover of darkness...
The tooth you share, is a peace with a realm to its redoubt, patience?
Has the time to remember me; when shame has become a seen, bless...
Sleep or sunshine, the dream is the same...
Sport of since, and the charity of a simpler sake
My moment in the borrowing of still, has come and gone with fame
Of a new time, in the shared forces of wishes, we've come to hate or make?
Oct 30, 2023
Oct 30, 2023 at 6:07 PM UTC
I said goodbye to my baby tooth; it went away
with all my youth. Goodbye—bye, bye, bye.
In my mouth for too many years, and now it all
tastes like tears. Goodbye—bye, bye, bye.
You know were gone to soon, and you've always
been my favourite tooth. And then you went to
steal my youth. Oh my—my, my, my. Goodbye—bye,
bye, bye.
You've inspired,—despite. Despised,—you were mine.
At your prime,—inside. Outside,—you were mine.
Goodbye—bye, bye, bye.
And I could never get you out my mind; even if I
pulled and tired. Oh my—my, my, my. Goodbye—bye,
bye, bye.
Goodbye—bye, bye, bye.
Aug 26, 2022
Aug 26, 2022 at 4:12 PM UTC
Later I am going to extract a tooth on camera to show mind over matter. I am a dentist, although it has taken two months of work to pull one tooth. It is an art. A rotten and infected art
Mar 17, 2022
Mar 17, 2022 at 4:46 PM UTC
So this is what pain feels like:
A rotting in the center of your tooth.
You don’t want to touch it (that’s where the real pain starts),
So you leave it.
And a dull ache becomes a sharp one;
Decay on the inside becomes decay on the outside.
And then your tooth is black.
It hurts more than you’ve ever felt
When the dentist takes his drill to your tooth.
It somehow hurts even worse
When he tells you that he can’t salvage it.
You can’t turn decay into strength, he says.
You can’t bring death back to life, he says.
Now, there’s an empty space where a tooth once was.
You run your tongue over it, mindlessly, daily—
In a few weeks, the raw flesh becomes toughened, smooth—
It’s like nothing was ever there.
No tooth. No decay. No death.
But you still remember.
You still feel the ache.
Oct 8, 2020
Oct 8, 2020 at 9:56 AM UTC
Polish
by Michael R. Burch
Your fingers end in talons—
the ones you trim to hide
the predator inside.
Ten thousand creatures sacrificed;
but really, what’s the loss?
Apply a splash of gloss.
You picked the perfect color
to mirror nature’s law:
red, like tooth and claw.
I thought about titling or subtitling this one “A mini-ode to manicure” but thought better of it. Please note that this poem is not about female predators but the way the human race “glosses over” its predatory nature. We may appear to be “civilized” but what are we doing to the planet and its other inhabitants? Keywords/Tags: polish, nails, talons, claws, predator, gloss, loss, red, tooth, claw, pollution, climate change, global warming, mass extinction, genocide
Apr 1, 2020
Apr 1, 2020 at 3:58 AM UTC
i had a necrotic tooth
inside my mouth
i tasted death
Sep 6, 2019
Sep 6, 2019 at 5:00 PM UTC
I know a lady dentist
Whose touch is not as sweet as her smile
She seems really nice
But not with those tools in her hand
It will take just a minute she says
But the pain that follows lasts for days
The whirr of the drill
Sends me down the proverbial hill
The shades of whites and blues
Puts the frenzy on cue
Not even her soothing words
Can make the pain less worse
Whenever I have to eat a candy or sweet
I stop to consider which is meet
The pains I can hardly bear
Or the lady dentist's smile so dear
May 22, 2019
May 22, 2019 at 8:24 AM UTC
Today I lost my tooth.
A place where wisdom now sprouts
in dark, well watered space.
An opening to gather truth and speak it
as other teeth join in.
Today I lost my tooth,
and I feel free, and fine.
Fine to sing in poetry genre.
Fine to speak with power grand.
Fine to kiss the day with gratitude.
Fine to eat for nourishment
and to fuel more verse.
Apr 19, 2019
Apr 19, 2019 at 10:53 AM UTC
Just got my tooth pulled
They called him Mister Sixteen
I lost an old friend
*******
Tooth had to come out
Sir Sixteen left to dentists
hands I knew it well
*******
I went to dentist
tooth by pain screamed let me out
Its name was Sixteen
*******
Bye Bye to my tooth
dentist was his ticket out
His chatter is gone
Apr 19, 2019
Apr 19, 2019 at 10:15 AM UTC
You smile-
With new spaces between your teeth,
Newly lost teeth
Cast off to the tooth fairy,
You trade in
to get your new teeth
I hear your laugh,
You flash your toothless smile
I smile back,
The twinkle in your eye tells me
of the wisdom born in you,
The landscape inside your mouth
growing upwards
Like mountains in your being,
Your innocence birthing into new life experiences
shaping who you are,
Your new toothless smile tells me
of your growing confidence,
You pat me on the back
"It's OK mom, I know who the tooth fairy is,
You don't have to explain."
Your eyes sparkle with magic,
You tell me who the fairy
Really is.
Jan 26, 2019
Jan 26, 2019 at 8:55 PM UTC
I appreciate the time we spent together.
You know I used to come to you in any weather.
But you denied me my friend.
This is how I know this relationship will not happen again.
Now I will make sure that odium becomes reality;
Because of you and your fake personality
With these thoughts I aim at you with such veracity.
If only you could feel what I feel just to understand me.
Some would say I have chosen the wrong path,
I guess I will pull out the claws and never retract.
Thanks to you I am more idiosyncratic;
I have no more friends to make this situation less chaotic.
I am certain that all the little things I do add up to nothing to you.
That is why I am saving the best for last, because that is what I am due.
I have been put on the path of least resistance;
Because the most dangerous things in my life will always stay persistent.
Now to make a stand for myself in any light.
The carnivores have me and with a jagged tooth they will bite.
This is my pure unadulterated return.
For years and years my hatred flame has burned.
Never do I want my friends to be enemies.
It is better for me to count sheeps with a Golden Fleece just ahead of me.
Now that is said and done to you.
I hope you do stick in my head like glue.
All of us pay the price for a chosen few.
I hope to never see again.
I hope this remains until the very end.
Sep 13, 2018
Sep 13, 2018 at 9:41 PM UTC
He's cherry liqueur,
keeps his cards face-down,
sweet enough to be a sweet
but still a little bit sour.
Deep, dark thinker
but not one to wear a frown
and so he puts me in my place
from the inside out.
Jun 15, 2018
Jun 15, 2018 at 3:54 AM UTC
Are we getting milk from the cow
And how just do it now
Chosen Pick
Like Hockey Canadian
Cup the puck
"Grand Waterfalls"
it beacons me
enlightens you
Smiley whites you
just got to see
My tooth got pulled
Sweet jammed
Not such luck
Did it become the
Expedition I
was deep 2-B
fooled
To Teeth me
schooled
Or text me
The next tooth
It's a sign which
you will never
understand
It's about teeth_______
Not you're first
baby teeth
Just take a breath
The picked wrench
The tooth spy is sitting
on the bench
Fortune Gypsy
tellers
Gold diggers
tooth dwellers
Who got the worst
teeth sinners
The winners of
blackmail
The white pearly lie
Email teeth smiling
Eating hard taffy
Like she is dying
The tooth fairy
is coming lie__lie
Pinnochio_________
This is a hell
video Mario
I am gamed
We had a deal
Big bad tooth
Chosen Hybrid
Wolf
transformation
****** Vampire tooth
bleed demonstration
sensation
Chosen one she got
frozen ice vibration
How he picked me
out of random
The good bones he was
my biggest
Fan broken tooth
he leads me
in his pick me
electrocuted_____*
His chair the fandom
The scared vibe
The proud tooth
Indian Bow- Wow!!
Tribe
The Patheos
Chosen Dino
Rhinoceros
Posterous
Serial killer
Eating her tooth
In her Cheerios!!
Cheers to Miss
Cherries
Near the tree bark
berries
****** strawberries
Stained her love teeth
He was called Mark
Teeth me
Don't iron me
Stark white
My hero's
Sidekick
Upper bite
Hard candy
My Cousin Vinny
Tooth lawyer
So canny
Some Sport
Teressa Tomei
Fantasy-Court
Island
Pompeii
She chose
Portofino
My biological
teeth
are clicking
Mr. Buck's
big lotto
Starbucks coffee stained
Yellow below---
White armor pillow
Godfather fellow
Apple computer
Electrified plugging
Pulled some
Mob of teeth
The horse's mouth
Desperately Susan
Tooth swelled up
Made her Mom
fed up
Her smile
Snow White
and the seven
decks of dwarfs
The surf and turf
internet
Being dragged like
pulling teeth braces set
Brooklyn born traces
song duet
More teeth
chattering
Painful fee's
Down to her very root
Like a fern tooth twisted
She needed more
calcium what a knock
out tooth came out
Tackle
Football pick her
"Apple Snapple"
Movie stars
Teeth daily double
What fossils of bones
Her toothache
sadistically
he raves****
The Dentist showed her
the Xrays all time
delays
Like a woodchuck
chucking wood
Her teeth were
discoloring
Blame Snow White*
She felt like he was the
The Dentist like
King Kong
Her tooth on display
She was wearing her
thong
Eventually, her tooth
came out
Just my luck
seven teeth to
be pulled
The professor
Commentator
He didn't know how to
love her
What a guesser in both
He knew every tooth
He didn't want to
lose her
To be pushed and shoved
This felt like a painful love
the right Dentist
shaped tooth
cup
Do ***
The Cop
Just stop him
His tooth
Got capped
Bullet shots
Teeth me again
We will see what remains
The proof is in the pudding
Big smile proofreading
The bite of her apple
her teeth started
to have more
bleeding Eve yuck___
Life descending Adam
Her tooth for his tooth
Like a job of swapping
Never Ends______
The back of her mouth
Her root canals never end
Romancing in Venice canal
She turned into the dark
Goth
Crooked Smile
Hannibal
Tried to make her smile
She was the hunter
Crazed like a cannibal;
"Lighten Up"
Pearly more cultured
Yellow up
Girly more dentures
Cleanse your teeth
Save your tooth
The sign of the man
of the cloth
The Sentinel for both
Ready to be Chicken hatched
Not giving up her tooth
But painful enough it was
a tooth decay
The classic
Leave it to
Beaver's teeth
Mom changed getting
an extraction
she went with her
Mr. Cleaver
The Driller
Her big tooth mailbox
Inside her chosen tooth
Like the Psychic lady booth
Told her tooth is worth
The pain
Wall Street
She had loads
to gain
Their teeth collided
money chilling
Her gums sherlock
changing
Like cinders of Cinderella
in ashes her smile he passes
At birth, the luck tooth was left
by her crib the fairy took it
It became a fortune so worth
You never know who you
will meet at birth?
Just smile if your tooth
is aching
May 3, 2018
May 3, 2018 at 6:10 PM UTC
We all know the story of the tooth fairy..
She'd leave a gift under your pillow
In exchange for taking your lost tooth
A perfect trade, A perfect dream, A perfect fantasy
My first lost tooth?- Not so perfect
You see I never saw your fist hurling towards my face
The hands that held me so close as a baby
Now became a tool of your aggression.
I just wanted to tell you good night...
To tell you everything would be okay
Because through your silent glares and late night yells,
I saw the tear of despair roll down your face...
I saw how broken you must've been
Underneath the weight of the world
Drowning your stress in bottles
Of what you called "your medicine"
All I ever wanted was to make sure you knew
How much I still loved you
Despite how many times you hurt mommy
All I ever wanted was to make sure you knew
How much I still cared
And that you were going to be okay...
We would be okay.
We could take our bikes out again
Ride down the street and dance in the rain
You could take me to our favorite park
Where I would be the superhero and save you
From the sand monster in the sand box
Then we'd go get some pizza
And watch the sun dip below the waves
The angels, you said, would paint the sky for us
And we'd ride our bikes back to the place we called home
You and mommy would tuck me in at night
And kiss me on the forehead to tell me
That I'd always be loved...
That it would all be okay
Instead,
I went in for a hug
And you punched me in my face.
You
Punched Me
In my face
....
The one person I ever trusted
The one person I ever loved
Was the reason I had blood on my lips
For the first time I could rememeber
You didn't flinch
So I didn't cry
But seven years later
I'm still stuck wondering why
You took away the happiness I was supposed to feel
When I lost my first tooth
And replaced it with this monstrous nightmare of you
Because the next morning I woke up and realized
The tooth fairy never came
To grant my one wish of being happy with you
And every morning after that I woke to realize
The tooth fairy was a fantasy
And so was my childhood happiness with you
-To: My First Heartbreak
Nov 26, 2017
Nov 26, 2017 at 4:00 PM UTC
She's the type of candy that gives every man that comes across her path a sweet tooth.
Nov 11, 2017
Nov 11, 2017 at 1:14 AM UTC
My tooth aches in my mouth,
the space where it use to be.
A gap
In me memory,
drinking
remembers my smile.
Oct 18, 2017
Oct 18, 2017 at 6:26 PM UTC
Round and round my fingers
complex patterns and moves
humming like an pop rock singer
with nothing left to prove
I may have my issues
ADD or hyperactivity
distracting, and annoying
but not that way, to me
Round and round, in perpetuity
the bearings in melody
blurred and whirring, invisible
so you can barely see
Just another way, to ignore my mom
and also, ignore my lame step-dad
these toys are the ultimate detachment bomb
yea, I know that I've been had
I'm it's latest fan, and that don't mean, I'm bad
Succumbing to the beck and call, of the latest ******* fad
Jul 6, 2017
Jul 6, 2017 at 2:19 PM UTC
Heated cheese, gooey head
as screams writhing.
Voices cackle, sense long fled,
nails board scrape, fleece,
dry scything.
Metal taste in jaw arriving
of sharp magma lead.
World is bent as pitch striving,
hot, red muddle increase,
coals spread.
Head beating as jaw swoons,
vice builds steel grip.
Confusion by drugs flail moon,
as soprano screeches piece,
tune shred.
Sauce pan cooks on shoulder,
steam heats, thriving.
As ventures across my left ear,
in fingers of molten grease,
pile driving
Dec 1, 2016
Dec 1, 2016 at 7:14 AM UTC