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ANOTHER REFRIGERATOR POEM 7/2/2022

A NOT-S0-SILLY ANTI-POETRY DITTY

In And In Between The Silence 6/21/2022

Not Alone In the Darkness (As I Once Thought I Was)

Miss Tilt-a-World@



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Lights Out

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That No One But I Will Know (anti-poetry)

To Be In The Way

For My Brother T. J. ( 7/15/2022)

That Once Respite Cave

Dr. Frankenstein's Surprise (Re-Galvanized)

A Stranger In a Strange And Angry Land.

Crimson Lake (From 2008, flashing forward to 2022/April 19)

Words Being Yours...Until The Grave 4/23/2022

The Fire Once Within Goes Cold From Lack

Summer Storms / Electric Monsters

Your Candle Burning In the Wind

On Sunny Days , As I Pose For The Skies 3/17/2022

You Are Not What You Think 3/7/2022 11:56Pm PST

We'll Decide That For YOU

Fisherman's Woman's Lament

That Time Love Took Off Running On Its Achilles Heels....

VALENTINE--WITHOUT YOU 2/19/2022

His Bitter Chocolate Heart (refrigerator magnet poem)

THE HOOVER DAM/NEWLY RE-CONSTRUCTED 2/19/2022

Tender Love New And Quick...

I COULD BECOME SOME KIND OF LUCKY 2/19/2022

UN-THREAD THE NEEDLE (OF TIME)

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The Fire Once Within Goes Cold From Lack


with time
the heart disappears
fading into the chest
until I could reach in
and no longer find it

its beating grows labored
and weak
from searching
and no longer being
what others might seek

my heart
now an ember
once caught fire
and pumped wildly
beneath my breasts

its a lie
that hearts beat on their own
encouragement
tenderness
keep the blood moving
but the thought of an occasional
puncture wound in the neck
no longer prods me on

maybe that is why
so many hearts die
near dawn

waiting alone
tears and years in the dark
knowing there is no mark
nor takers
to hold it...

and so the fire
once within
goes cold
from lack.

 (the heart without a tale....)



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