"amputating" poems
I just want to sleep
close my eyes
relax
then wake up in the sweat
of my dreams
from the murderer
swinging the axe across
my arm and amputating
the only leverage I had
Mar 28, 2014
Mar 28, 2014 at 2:58 PM UTC
never hearing the applause
or the symphonies he orchestrated
amputating the legs of his piano
to feel the vibrations on the floor
only to get down on his knees
for music
Apr 17, 2014
Apr 17, 2014 at 5:51 PM UTC
Banished from my life
To me, you are dead.
Amputating your white knuckles
From my lungs I revive the breath
Which had previously been taken.
Sneakily, I crept upon you
Stealing away the blinders—
Regaining my peripheral vision
And ability to see the world around me.
I plug my headphones into my body
Drowning out your drill sergeant
Yelling at me to run faster,
Push harder,
Be better.
Removing your sparkling diamond ring
From my finger,
I cancel our engagement.
No longer will we live together
Intimately sharing our space—
MY space.
There is no space for you here.
Quickly and ferociously
I throw your **** out the window
Leaving you mute, homeless and limbless;
Unable to communicate with anyone else,
Or invade their space.
An exterminator has been in and out
Killing the parasites ingested
From the food you tainted.
With the worms removed
And the eggs uprooted,
You’ve lost your control over my body.
My firewalls are up,
Protecting me from further infection.
I know and understand your acid rain
Will fall upon me again,
But I have built a house
Upon strong supports
In which I can enter
When I am enticed
By the tingling burn of my skin.
Jun 20, 2012
Jun 20, 2012 at 9:56 PM UTC
Word of the Challenge
{Cerulean}
I tried smiling and pretending,
Amputating my memory of your sea lover,
Simply there’s a cerulean hue when I see you,
Again thoughts of her mermaid hands on you,
Gashes a pain from my heart in ICU,
And realisation of my flatline faith in you.
Jan 6, 2022
Jan 6, 2022 at 5:02 PM UTC
I fell of the stairs for the 2nd time today.
(This is a joke ssshhh)
(I did fall off the stairs though)
Jun 8, 2019
Jun 8, 2019 at 6:32 AM UTC
I don't think I know what love feels like anymore
Since all I can gather of it
Is equivalent to amputating your leg
Without anesthetic
Jun 30, 2016
Jun 30, 2016 at 1:36 AM UTC
I never write poetry anyway
What am I doing with my life?
and I'm not looking at paths
but spheres
that can cross and weave
that's my life, breathing and living for
progress and change searching
far across the plains of my mind
making reason and emotions combine.
Do I want to go to art school?
God ****
Who am I anyway?
I want it so badly but shutting a part of me feels like amputating
I was never one for pain I didn't derive pleasure from.
Pride is a silly thing
Apr 25, 2014
Apr 25, 2014 at 10:35 AM UTC
It wasn't the fierce words
thrown with malicious intent
that happened.
It was the cold silence that
demolished tender moments
replacing laughter with tears.
That dreadful silence that supplanted
every gentle touch and
amputating all knowing smiles.
That repugnant silence
which slowly drowned
any love we knew.
It is that silence -
Forever ringing in my ears
That I simply
cannot
forgive.
Oct 15, 2015
Oct 15, 2015 at 10:59 PM UTC