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by Fyn Author IconMail Icon
Rated: 13+ · Poetry · Other · #1294514
A reaction to being cut loose from Ter's 21 Days of Poetry challenge.
Knotted Wire

Barbed.
Breathing, fire-edged spines.
A live
coil of slicing razors
striking my soul;
a bowline around my stomach,
clotting my heart.
Mind frayed like salt worn rope,
hands tied behind my back in frustration.
Hindsight blindsided by euphoria:
a prompt, required words
lost in the explosion of a poem
leaving words shattered on the street
and me lost in a dark maze.
Six days into twenty-one,
fifteen knots tighten,
a tourniquet
cutting off soul's blood
from heart and mind
and a poet near dying
crawls off into the darkness
trailing a loose end
of knotted wire.



1st Place in
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Lexi's Poetry Challenge Open in new Window. (13+)
LPC Round 54 open. Pick a title, create a poem.
#701412 by Lexi Author IconMail Icon
25 July 07
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