Tagged: poem

The Poem page groups all the poems published on Image Curve that fall in the more classical realm of poetry.

6:01 am

Beguile Through Love

Poem Half truths, empty lies that’s why I left you behind Cringing in the light of the sunrise I have slowly started to strive Mind ceasing emotions blind I don’t know the wrong...

Favourites / Free Verse Poetry / Poetry

6:02 am

A Good Little Girl in a Big Bad World

Poem Like the echoes of a crumpled sketch I threw into a tin waste basket the beats of my heart continue. It is empty except for the ripped, wrinkled, discarded outlines of the...

Poetry

7:03 am

The Trip

Today we ate blueberry pancakes with warm maple butter after waiting an hour for our table at the baking company to take the train upstate As the yellowing trees whooshed past our windows and...

Poetry

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Clumps

My mother shrieks in the shower. I look up, see her holding a chunk of reddish-brown hair. She gets out, dries, dresses, and now it’s everywhere – in the drain, on her sweater, a...

Poetry

6:01 am

Hangnail

Poem If my heart were a hand you would be the hangnail that, no matter what size or sharpness of tweezer I use to pry you from between the dry, exposed skin and...

Poetry

6:05 am

Eyeblink

Poem The fur around her neck stirs in a puff of chill wind Each hair covered in glistening drops of frost. Her eyes look up as the birds pass by overhead. Their silence...

Short Stories

6:00 am

The Art of Letting Go

Poem The creature of my memory collage Came creeping out the subway yesterday It licked its fur as it was dirty And looked perplexed at all the people walking Keeping their distance It...

Poetry

6:02 am

Seesaw

Poem We are both on a seesaw and you are higher so you think you can see more. Look up at the stars now; beyond the darkness, beyond the park, beyond our town. Maybe this...

Free Verse Poetry / Poetry

6:01 am

Waterbed

Poem To the naked eye, it was a fine mattress. The woman, supine, seemed serene on the waves- gentle and small (it’s only a waterbed, after all.) But zoom in- you may notice her...

Free Verse Poetry / Poetry

6:03 am

The Thrill in the Chill

Poem If you feel it is too cold You are missing out On the plenty of warmth Many want to share. Never too cold Always warm Where it counts In my heart. The...

Poetry

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Ode To My Vices

Poem You dull my mind And turn me blind But I need you Don’t I? Don’t lie. I need truth too. I hate you, so much, But I can’t give you up. “I think...

Poetry

6:04 am

Poem About Life They still pick his pieces off the pavement, Careen. Puzzle pieces pick such somber songs. Astonished explanations, all strewn insides, vacant Empty manhood. Cheating mothers leave only nothing. Here he flies...