Poems
By cormacru999
a selection of poems I have written over the past few years.
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Sacrifice
Sacrifice – It should start with A piano Quiet somber notes To pull at your heart Then time goes by so fast & it’s been months since I saw you last And while time has passed
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A Distant Desert
A Distant Desert A distant desert Holds my heart. A red sun I cannot see. Skin burned In the fires of love. You must let them go When they flee. Like a carved out pumpkin Lost words
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A Respect Known in the Eyes of Dawn
“A Respect Known in the Eyes of Dawn” ‘For you there is a Land to Defend A bull snorting at the most silent of vows What Honor What have you Laid Your body Down For
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Alone
There’s a peace in this. In giving up, In letting cold darkness Swell within you. It’s quiet there, No more cheers, No more fanfare, No more hope. Hope is heavy and hard to carry
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Bloody Diplomacy
Bloody Diplomacy You were whispering lines of fantasy about gifts & fate. I’d heard it before, Your praise like a smack I’ve learned to tolerate. I dream of bloody diplomacy
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Bull Horned Bear of Reason
Bull Horned Bear of Reason I want answers, solutions to the old problems of thighs & ideas, this sack of issues I carry in a coat neither too big nor too warm.
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Cicada Songs
Cicada song Do not test yourself here Don’t break yourself against this shore. I have my feet firmly planted, My hands fingering the key – I have journeyed through the first flame
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Desire
Desire When I was born I was so many baby boys. A foreign Prince The one no one loved A single man’s salvation On my own Desire was sunlight & laughter But storm clouds gather
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Dreams for Christmas
When you sleep without dreaming In the arms of your beloved – Only then with the sun return. Perhaps you will remember me kindly, In my forest of bloody dreams,
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Every Junkie Fears the Miracle
The miracle cure has come. But – What if Jesus himself looked you in the eye? Whether in the beginning, Your own genesis, bathed in sweat Wrapped in heated blankets
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Eyes or Wrists
We were right about where we came from. The spit & fire, nails & razors, The lashing of bicycle chains behind the knees, Father’s handprint bruised to the side of my face.
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Final Thoughts
I always knew you’d be the one The one who would leave. I knew it from the beginning. And I decided to dance with you anyway. So, This is Love then. Solitude & memories,
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Fingertips in the Dust
I see fingertips in the dust From the last time I was suspended on this ledge. This blood has burned deep streaks in me, My scars throb with the heated drumming.
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For Friendship
It’s been a long, strange road A hundred conversations That never happened Words I’ve waited for That are never spoken But I’m glad you finally learned to spit
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God's Eye
this is a poem about a friend of mine who committed suicide.
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Goodbye
The understanding of impact hurt more than the landing My foothold lost in battles for self So I drink my last vice from chipped glasses Hoping I won’t cut my voice
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Hands Alone
The ring finger has always been the most sensitive, It searches for hairs grown backwards & thin, It carries promise, Sometimes an honor – Other times a curse.
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Her Fire
I have drawn my death one thousand times. I have never written it, So I continue to breath, But breathing brings thought And thought is like the fire – A common mistake
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Here With Her
I could wake Here Every morning Not this room, Not this drive Or even this town - I could wake Here Every morning Under this sun Next to her This beautiful girl.
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Home
Time to share the words Of the only story I know. Crushed & swallowed, I am defeated often, Always drawn to barns Filled with old religion. Clover, pine needles, snow covered rivers
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I Am Her Fool
Can’t you please stay out? I understand that you had to go, But couldn’t you have taken all of you? Everybody disappears one day. I thought for a moment you might stay A little longer.
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My Father's Treasure
This had been my father’s town. We gathered together For an evening of fire. The gathering was habit, not discipline. We never traveled to imposing Africa Our mysterious seductions
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My Xmas With You
Out there. Somewhere. I’m sure of it. Grinning at our attempts. But you’ve given me Treasure in a smile & Hope in your hands. Beneath the scent of the xmas tree
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Old Grudges
I dance – Winding movements of tooth, of claw, Wandering steps of Dante’s dreams, Tracing tracks of those who received Odin’s eye – This time he will demand more.
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Roman Mother
There is a certain peace when it snows Makes the youth melt away. Broken buildings wink out a murder of crows,
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Sharing a Drink with the Flying Pig in Hell
It was good to see him again, My old friend. After clasped hands and the baring of teeth, We sat together. Predictably, he conjured a flask with tumblers, His smile brilliant,
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Spitting Truth
So used to spitting truth thru broken teeth, I am unfamiliar with a smile. This is new territory. Didn’t realize I was so embittered Until after. Like moonlight on a waterfall,
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Suck
Autumn colored bumps & brushes were getting stronger We could not hold up under the pressure They glare at the stranger Forcing them away, I smile less
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The Day It Rained On Gardiner
He taught me to read He taught me to write He taught me to love them both Along with all other arts & learning The passages we leave for others to contemplate
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The Long Walk
He walks Long through life The lines worn into his feet our filled with crusted dirt from the unseen miles Fractured vertebrae and exposed nerves (Why couldn’t I be your girl?)
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The Title Was
I slept dreaming of those brushes Triple betrayals in the faces of friends & lovers Stripped away masks & pounding at the door We’ve been in every room of this town
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Thing Under The Chair
The coldest place in the house Is below the chair you never sat in I am making it a religion To explore all the breezes that blow Only inches above the floor
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Less
I survived on oranges and hope but I have encesed my heart in steel & ice yet dreams still crack the case owls & whiporwills sing you to sleep & never again will my skin touch yours
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TATTOOED BONES
Tattooed Bones. I want to be Alone. Each time I say it, I Tattoo it in my Bones. I’m searching for something Half-remembered, Half Created, A Union stronger than a coupling.
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Holidays
I think I’ll get a Christmas tree this year, Even though there won’t be presents beneath it, Because you don’t come here anymore. I think I’ll string it with lights, Just to pretend
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