Lameinsane's Poems

Here's the list of poems submitted by lameinsane  —  There are currently 5 poems total — keep up the great work!

New Geography

Glowing embers nip, like carrion birds, this cage of scorching flesh
Spastic ticks map a new geography on skin
but this crucible holds no rebirth
Follow the twisting river deltas
Trace along the ridge of mountains newly molded
from melted fat and...

– by John Giordano

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A lying shroud

I mad to miss the pain of your loss?

After initially numb, flattened by the utterly incomprehensible gift of spiritual closure, of forgiveness,

I am now...

– by John Giordano

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Chains

Oh could I but see these chains of fate that separate you from me
I'd pay any price in flesh or pain
to tear free this iron skein
Do you struggle, oh love of mine
at the end of destiny's leash?
and would your hand close in mine
if only we could...

– by John Giordano

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Misery

This misery does not like company
Though I meet it for coffee each morning at 6
It shuns the beseeching touch of others
Though each night we sleep entwined like lovers
  Or vagrants huddling together for warmth
This misery turns all words of...

– by John Giordano

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The Last Metaphor

The last metaphor died today,
a final flutter of verbal plumage
made barely a semantic shudder of sound
as it struggled to bridge the gap
from abstract
  to...

– by John Giordano

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added 2 years ago
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