Composure is the beige of a new suit;
It whispers like ghosts
And coats the inside of your tongue like medicine.
It smells of bodies forced against one another in a small room;
It is the rotting body of someone forgotten.
It confines me.
Composure is grass-green in the morning dew;
It whips like the wind in trees
And tastes like dirt.
It fills my skull like the burning smoke of a fireplace
And stands tall and firm like the trees.
It empowers me.
Composure is the distorted clear of fresh water.
It grates like stones crushing one another.
It drips down the back of your throat like the blood from your bitten lip
And has the unmistakable scent of rusting iron.
It is murky like a dirty pool and filled with mud.
It burdens me.
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Author:
Kinsey Peterson (
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I love this, and I would love to be your teacher receiving these jaw-dropping poems all the time. Lol. Never stop!
If I had written these words, then I would be a very proud and happy man indeed .. and no kiddin ... Neville
beautiful similes and imagery
I love poems that take a word or a subject
and dig, dig, dig
unfurling, excavating everything
it represents to that person,
such reads are always
an enlightening experience
I feel,
thank you! dear gifted Poet
really well executed
(forgive my tardiness)
we experience the world at our own paces- no need to apologize (:
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