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"welting" poems
Panic, placed on the splintered edge of a dreaming mind, I spit and sputtered, like the dying wings of a dragonfly on a cold cappuccino morning. She called me in the dark moody blue hue of early morning as if to steal the broken moon from the attic in my chest. So early I could hear the creak of spider legs inching for a place of warmth. Still in dream logic, she was crying so quietly Melted spoons for a brain, I could only hear the groans and pains of the pet spiders on my ceiling, their so cute and pissy in the morning. She muffled "I need help" I snapped awake as if a reflex to fight a charging train wreck. This time advice came direct from my dream landscape the truth served dark black and without the vanilla flavor. I focus and get in gear "Hey girlie I am here, whats going on?" An hour goes by a like a cat sneeze on a stormy day. Again she laughs if I could see her, her smile would be wide tired and tear stained. I laugh with her, while aching at the corner of my eyes " well hey try that tomorrow and if it doesn't work we can brainstorm to try something else. Call me tomorrow my sleepiness is welting my consciousness, I am not much use now except maybe for some mad hatter talk." A pause she sighs as if pushing of sleep. I wanted just one more smile to be sure" Stand strong if you can survive this hit the sky will clear for you. We'll strangle the rainmaker if we have to" parting jokes and the call the ends, my moon back in my chest content spiders basking in rays of light I can almost hear the hum of the morning sun. I smile fading with the ceiling tucking me in, I can see her curled up with her stuffed animals half crying half terrified she falls to sleep drooling on her long time best friend Mr finkers. and Finally the purr of happy spiders lulls be back to sleep.
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Aug 23, 2012
Aug 23, 2012 at 6:29 PM UTC
I would strangle the rainmaker to give you a sunny day
Panic, placed on the splintered edge of a dreaming mind, I spit and sputtered, like the dying wings of a dragonfly on a cold cappuccino morning. She called me in the dark moody blue hue of early morning as if to steal the broken moon from the attic in my chest. So early I could hear the creak of spider legs inching for a place of warmth. Still in dream logic, she was crying so quietly Melted spoons for a brain, I could only hear the groans and pains of the pet spiders on my ceiling, their so cute and pissy in the morning. She muffled "I need help" I snapped awake as if a reflex to fight a charging train wreck. This time advice came direct from my dream landscape the truth served dark black and without the vanilla flavor. I focus and get in gear "Hey girlie I am here, whats going on?" An hour goes by a like a cat sneeze on a stormy day. Again she laughs if I could see her, her smile would be wide tired and tear stained. I laugh with her, while aching at the corner of my eyes " well hey try that tomorrow and if it doesn't work we can brainstorm to try something else. Call me tomorrow my sleepiness is welting my consciousness, I am not much use now except maybe for some mad hatter talk." A pause she sighs as if pushing of sleep. I wanted just one more smile to be sure" Stand strong if you can survive this hit the sky will clear for you. We'll strangle the rainmaker if we have to" parting jokes and the call the ends, my moon back in my chest content spiders basking in rays of light I can almost hear the hum of the morning sun. I smile fading with the ceiling tucking me in, I can see her curled up with her stuffed animals half crying half terrified she falls to sleep drooling on her long time best friend Mr finkers. and Finally the purr of happy spiders lulls be back to sleep.
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morning the city is gruffly petted with heat          buildings quiver in the primeval whither wide mouthed and whiskered          the catfish thrive in the sewers taking aggression to the air and fixing to the trees         the insects speed into vigorous breeding in the populated afternoon    city is sternly scored     pressed down on    its wilted fur pushed    from back to front each itchy person   is its own greasy hair salt beads from brows    and stinging eyes are blinded scolded and bonded      the witless humans slow natures patient pace is not kin to their will           antsy ticking noises and electric whines whittle the air discomfort makes life immediate        a deal to be flustered with every enduring breath is consciously felt        alive and in suffering i crouch my form in shelter a jilted couch to lean against     bordering a grown over lot watching the foxes patrol in sweltering sun what expected prey   brought them into the light ? i release my hurt understanding   (it patrols also) my hurt snakes through the long tough grass   and tacky broken glass it moves further   raised in a mirage hover over welting heat from the melting tarmac this way   i please my way into nurture this way   i ease my suffering hum with the wires and smile at a good day putrefying
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Sep 18, 2022
Sep 18, 2022 at 6:24 PM UTC
swelter
Racing heart, fluttering eyes Putting on a fake disguise Tremors running through my veins Chills are driving me insane Feelings of anticipation Doomed to ultimate damnation Snapping bands across my wrists Returning scars that still exist Welting up and turning red But these poor scars have already been bled Crying both inside and out Nothing left to talk about Charred soul and swelled up arms Isn't there a saying, the third time's a charm?
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Feb 9, 2015
Feb 9, 2015 at 1:35 PM UTC
Hanging
The sludge of mud        that creeps up to my eyes squelches me down like quicksand ***** a large breathing object                          into its grainy film an antithesis        of sea lungs sputtering out brain reeling in remnants of clusterfucked, panic –driven welting and I am ready to burst out legs trapped yet voice high heart squealing in the fire bring me to somewhere it’s a situation                     dire this madness cupping me through time-realms and I must find it that liquid that wet flow of writhing struggling breaking             free of those heavy bands of slimy kelp holding me squirm me out I don’t care if I get the muck of centuries in my hair for in my veins my blood does see I crave the sunlight's strokes and         I             must breathe
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Nov 13, 2016
Nov 13, 2016 at 6:35 PM UTC
Breathe
i am incredibly foolish & repetitive foolishly repetitive repetitively foolish; there is a pebble in my heart, small but firm, impenetrably set still, demanding to be felt coercing the blood supply to soak it all up as if blood can seep through a pebble it cannot; but it won’t stop demanding attention it is smothering and relentless; i have shortness of breath and my heart pounds like a door slammed shut and then opened and then slammed shut it’s almost as if i can feel the pebble rattle within the walls with each pound, welting the vulnerable tissue; open, slammed shut, open, slammed shut; we all forget how to cry when we most need to
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Sep 9, 2013
Sep 9, 2013 at 4:16 AM UTC
cold sweat anxiety
I am tired of being told what I should and what I shan't. And I know this platform isn't for ranting and yet here I'll rant. I am sick of being empty, aimless, vague and out of place. I am sick of wasting all your air, of taking all your space. And my claws, I use to tear my skin, so that I could be set free, And my screams I let out muffled and hushed to spare you my agony. And my body feels imprisoning, my breath is getting faint And my eyes are melting, face is welting, dying from the paint And the bathroom doors complaining from the numb and from the tear And my psyche getting tired of all the sorrow and the fear. And the voice inside my head, always saying I'm not enough And the lies I tell myself like "you can make it, you are tough." And the people I looked up, lived with, shared with my days And the lies they taugh me, unconditional love, they said, stays. And the God whom I once worshiped and for whom I often cried And the deaf, the blind, the disabled, to whom he's closely tied. And the fact that I am beyond your repair, beyond all that can be done And the way I feel at the start of each day and with every falling sun. And the creature biting on my heart at every given chance And the demons sitting in my head, not letting me advance. And the love I always had, different faces every while And the feelings that I gave away and never even got a smile. This is not a ranting place, and yet here I wrote. Is this a good place though to write one's suicide note?
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Feb 19, 2017
Feb 19, 2017 at 3:00 PM UTC
Final Rant
I am tired of being told what I should and what I shan't. And I know this platform isn't for ranting and yet here I'll rant. I am sick of being empty, aimless, vague and out of place. I am sick of wasting all your air, of taking all your space. And my claws, I use to tear my skin, so that I could be set free, And my screams I let out muffled and hushed to spare you my agony. And my body feels imprisoning, my breath is getting faint And my eyes are melting, face is welting, dying from the paint And the bathroom doors complaining from the numb and from the tear And my psyche getting tired of all the sorrow and the fear. And the voice inside my head, always saying I'm not enough And the lies I tell myself like "you can make it, you are tough." And the people I looked up, lived with, shared with my days And the lies they taugh me, unconditional love, they said, stays. And the God whom I once worshiped and for whom I often cried And the deaf, the blind, the disabled, to whom he's closely tied. And the fact that I am beyond your repair, beyond all that can be done And the way I feel at the start of each day and with every falling sun. And the creature biting on my heart at every given chance And the demons sitting in my head, not letting me advance. And the love I always had, different faces every while And the feelings that I gave away and never even got a smile. This is not a ranting place, and yet here I wrote. Is this a good place though to write one's suicide note?
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Flames of passion dying red Ambers fading - turning black Dreams of love filled thoughts Turning into pain filled doubts Mind caught in purgatory Of self inflicted speculation Angels falling from skies above Demons raising from hateful contemplation Roots never had a chance to take Roses welting from the lack of faith From the start you already knew That what you felt was so untrue Black roses is what I’ll give to you To signify the end of what we meant to you.
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Oct 5, 2018
Oct 5, 2018 at 8:25 PM UTC
Black Roses
Layers peeled back everyone's wearing so many layers. Under my thin thin skin the words I haven't spoken the thoughts I haven't registered yet beating right inside my chest the dirt I let in you can't see the lines, scars, burns, cuts wounds make up me wounds made of me angry, welting, scorched fade to cool pale shapes in my soul j'ai faim, j'ai faim mais je n'ai pas vui la nourritures pour ma vie for my soul I can't see breathe feel think move bleed love hurt all I can do is be. But I can't even do that. I can barely speak. So I write.
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Sep 5, 2013
Sep 5, 2013 at 7:13 AM UTC
Layers
I’ve lived in the thrush and hot candle wax a palm of welting skin pressed against a foggy window damp with the grit and sweat of dawn I stepped into the copse bundled in its swarthy tightness there is rot here and flesh the pulsing of a heart giving life to each sapling and elder branch if one wants to find the heart of the forest look no further than up the moon a woman in her own right no celestial body can deny this truth there is a certain relativity to one’s heart and to the extent of which blood and flesh and bone define us I wanted to believe in something not purely physical that could tell me what I was or could be but my blood and flesh and bone bind me to the dirt and to the heart of the forest which I hope I believe is not purely physical in its own right
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Sep 20, 2015
Sep 20, 2015 at 12:11 AM UTC
Untitled
The jitters building up A psychological blowup Welting in the pit of our stomach As we are wishing for luck Mentally preparing For what’s coming Keep on hoping To be the best as we are nearing Close to the very biggest Most important step to us Breathing for tranquility- in and out Losing ourselves, just about Deep breaths Sad attempts Calm the nerves Mind moving through curves Scattered pieces Mentality ceases Minutes turn to seconds Limits go beyond- The bar Reaching the stars
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Oct 31, 2017
Oct 31, 2017 at 7:07 PM UTC
Nerves
One winter day He leans in to me to say 3 words aloud Because our boat is about to drown Like Ice melting Our cuts are welting Into a scab That was once a stab Silly sticky skates Rolls on our date He says, my baby blue I love you Love love love Is this true? Love love love Or is it a quick fix like glue? But falling for his eyes And not realizing My lip touches his Forgetting out troubles But now our love doubles
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Jan 28, 2013
Jan 28, 2013 at 10:02 PM UTC
Cold Days
Red petal maw Growing wide And Gasping deep On the sill like skin Grown Ink bled red Making scrawled critique in patches And the poppy addled spring Blooming rich and red All over the ward Till the air smells sweet And clean and white Dancing in the rattle draft till the breath grows soft And still I saw the hemorrhaged gorge of deeper red That welled inside him Like the blossom When I pressed his hand And held his head I watched the wither Beside him in the night Wondering with him at the dreams of dying poppies At the furrows of their season The Welting swollen purple and blue Heaving And dripped in IV's Pluming in blood And pooling its petals One by one Like forget me not At the crest of spring Making breathing a shallow Easy thing Forgotten among the poppy's blossom
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Feb 9, 2014
Feb 9, 2014 at 3:26 PM UTC
Charlie Hobbs
I, ripe fruit, a-wait dreams, legends, storms~ In song, become girl, with voice, hair, lips, let me ex press to you the welling, welting of the cardiovascular. Precipice of a smile, sultry swirl of cloud before the wet. Orange skies cut to red. Brok en clocks because maybe without time they'll get here before I wilt.
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Dec 5, 2017
Dec 5, 2017 at 1:38 AM UTC
wormface
Under the dead leaves they lie. Measuring the sights of the land. Sitting, waiting and welting. Constantly drumming their shaking hands. Under the dead leaves they lie. Grabbing sticks and melting tragedies by drowning down. We wonder, we wait, we sigh. Looking for a reason to move. Under the dead leaves they lie. Pressing up thoughts of the grey chain. Mimicking the great sorrow. Embracing a new companion in vein. Under the dead leaves they lie. They lie and lie and lie.
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Mar 13, 2013
Mar 13, 2013 at 5:00 PM UTC
Under the dead they lie.
I'm boiling. The littlest things flick the switch. Impatience coursing through my veins, welting like little bitter bullets sent straight to the heart. I swallow them whole in an awkward embrace. Mask the fury, the white anger. The rod is in the trunk of the car.
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Mar 28, 2015
Mar 28, 2015 at 1:02 AM UTC
Shattered Spine
Back to my growlery white porcelain tomb last night hammers on me pecking my lune Inundated I am cestus- hewn illustrated by full moon Welting my hands against wall the palisade is built tall Forced gorged feelings torch where they hide weighted tactics lying beside this great divide Shiver to a nosedive I traverse the night holding dearer contrite and struggle to overwrite broken glass, a mirror, eyes say- though now mute- with each heave, “et tu brute?”
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Aug 20, 2015
Aug 20, 2015 at 12:24 AM UTC
Soliloquy III
Sadness is crimson red, leaking from the skin; He smells like gasoline; and tastes like cool liquor sliding down your throat.  His mother is like black oil, coming and leaving with deadly amounts. While his father, is like a warm summer breeze not rough, but comforting. Sadness carries welting lilies in his pocket, Maroon Convers tied securely on his feet. His best friend is like the mountains, Cold… sturdy… Distant… His black- blue hair hangs in his face like vines from the amazon, his green eyes staring intently at by passers. Curious… Firm… Dominant… He eats fear for breakfast; And pain for dessert. His dream is to be free of society, and its flaws. Sadness loves distressed lonely people, He moves like a lion stalking its pre, Silent… Low… Ready to pounce…
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Nov 1, 2017
Nov 1, 2017 at 3:55 PM UTC
Sadness
Untruth churns in depths of elden castings Falsehood turns the pacings, everlasting Duplicity in everything avasting Misinformation station Take a ticket, wait, debate, Assail, avail in love of liar's nation Circuitous circumvention Of mindful morsels of intention Swept beneath the rug No worth be mentioned As suffering and death explain The qualms and qualities Of life beget to life in vain Entrenched in their dualities Thine incision thought deranged Transcribed in abnormality The pointed lance, in hands estranged Whence masking actuality So stir the *** of melting For it may cool and thence congeal It seems we're strung about and welting Punished in penchant to feel
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Jul 22, 2019
Jul 22, 2019 at 7:21 PM UTC
Fight Fallacy in Friendship
the shine of her shrine brings fair smiles to some, young lies fester and spread faster than flies hatching from larvae. Days by days - weeks at a time - content is a constant crisis to our protagonist summer is welting while winter is begging to stop the talk of death, but change is soon - somethings are better not stopped; the same as letting the flame from the candle die with the room...
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Jun 1, 2021
Jun 1, 2021 at 1:05 AM UTC
& so he overthinks