A Poet’s Qualm

Category: Poems

  • BBC “Bikini Bottom Church”

    Start puzzle with drink in hand.Place your balloon paper outside.Find Spongebob treadmill-skipping and,shouting “People need less hives!” Puzzle pieces collected turn,to stone when placed askewIn the places used by starfishWhat would Jesus do?

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  • Blind to Pain

    Blinding blankness is a term I’ve used, and to use it twice may be abuse, but it seems to me the best excuse for a sudden lack of thought or muse. Staring down onto the page my mind is filled, but not with rage—anxiety, rather. Anxious to relieve my pain. Anxious to dig deeper into…

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  • Love May Lie

    “My heartbeat pounded in my head. I felt it in my throat. No scarf for her, no shoes or shirt, no culottes, cloak, or coat,”

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  • 5 Minute Poem

    Can I write a poem in only five minutes? Is that enough time to decide what goes in it? What would it be about? What is the muse? Racing the clock? Love, or abuse? With only five minutes, what would I say? Or should I take that time to pray? Then again, why pray when…

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  • Translucence

    Why is everything you say just, “okay”? It’s like you don’t even bother to try and portray. Your eyes are blue, but your world is gray. You pretend like there’s something that is always in the way. Cold and alone, dark and damp. The mark you make is a blurry, smudged stamp. No one ever…

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  • Comfort

    In pulling myself together, In making my own decisions, In having plans, but not fearing derisions, I have it. In quiet nights, In the frosty, sparkling breath that dances underneath the starry canopy of the Universe. In solitude, I have it. In a peaceful drive, In the orange and yellow bursts of light that crest…

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  • Feel A Lot: A Letter About A Thought Within a Thought.

    You Feel, You know how people say, “I feel that,” a lot? Well something that I “feel,” a lot, is that I feel like there is a lot about a lot. As if to say that people feel (and feel about) a lot of things, but these are only feelings, and feelings are only one…

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  • Insomnia Again

    I’m tired and I can’t sleep My mind feels numb and weak I woke about two hours ago, And felt I was wide awake But now the silence screams at me Like a feeling I can’t shake. I hear the fan turn off, But never hear it start And when it dies It’s always a…

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  • God Complex

    Show me god and I’ll show you a sinner. Show me a sinner and I’ll show you god. I’ll make them believe they are less than me. I’ll speak widely of duty and destiny. Let them smack at my words of bitter taste; I’m Divinely inspired, so take full embrace. My power un-halted, you should…

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