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Desperation

A Poem by Patrick McCombs

Sparks fly as swords clashFire smolders into ashLights extinguishingHopes diminishingMen giving in to desperationIt provides amplificationWith their b..

House Fire

A Poem by Patrick McCombs

Air rushed from her lungsThe spring has been sprungHer vision twisted and turnedAs she tries to salvage the burnedHer eyes can not comprehendHow her w..

Comfortable Silence

A Poem by Patrick McCombs

I was reading my bookSnug in my little nookEntranced by the flowing proseI was in my comfy clothesWhen you came upstairsYou sat in the little egg chai..

Returned Things

A Poem by Patrick McCombs

Its a rainy Tuesday afternoonAnd the sun disappeared way too soonWatching crappy Tuesday afternoon TVSipping some weirdly named herbal teaI hear my kn..

Where to Begin

A Poem by Patrick McCombs

Sitting on the windowsillMoney to burn, time to killMy full name passes your lipsLike a specter slithering from the cryptsThe old blue wallpaper is pe..

Green Light

A Poem by Patrick McCombs

My thoughts are a messA side effect of the stressI cherry pick the loose strandsAnd hold them in my handsThey are written in an unknown codeI think I'..

Untitled

A Poem by Patrick McCombs

I can feel it in my bonesI can hear the dissonant tonesI see the clouds shifting aboveI hear the cry of the mourning doveIts song kicking in my headI'..

Brief spasms of lucidity

A Poem by Patrick McCombs

I imagined your touchIt was almost too muchAnd the wind screamedAnd I no longer dreamedOf soft liesOnly foreign skiesAlien landscapes that stretch on ..

Normality

A Poem by Patrick McCombs

She has this airthat she doesn't careThat she doesn't give a shitNot. One. Bit.You'd think of her shallow.All marsh but no mallowBut that's not the ca..

Sky

A Poem by Patrick McCombs

Clouds bounce against the edges of the skyI let out a long sighMy breath visible in the frigid airI'm shaking but I don't careThe sky is a deep after ..