“A Few Poems From Words I Found In DIVORCED”
By Tony Haynes
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A Few Poems From Words I Found In Divorced
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Divorce Is The Unraveling Of Attraction -(Divorced)
Remember The Rice -(Rice)
Out Of Body Experience - (Void, Devoid)
I Let Love Kill Me Again -(I’ve Died Or I’d Die)
Nothing As Cold As You -(Ice, Core)
A Slap In The Face -(OCD Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)
Our Entire So Called Lives (The Director’s Cut)-(Video)
50-50 -(Divorce)
I Will Not Dignify Your Comment With A Response -(Dive, Rid)
Do Me Like You Want To Be Done -(Drive, Ride, I Did, I Drove)
The Restraining Order -(The Divorce Court)
I Do -(I Do)
A Poem With Two Titles: Cut The Cord & Weaned -(Cord)
The Pre-Nup - (Divorced)
Community Property -(Code, Red)
After Eighteen Hundred Hours Of Therapy - (Dr. Voice)
Holy Matrimony -(Divorced)
An Ode To Your Sense Of Entitlement -(Ode)
Lawyers & Legal Fees - (Dire)
It Works Out Better Than You Imagine - (Diver)
After It’s Worse Than What You Thought
Our Irreconcilable Differences - (Divorced)
Made All The Difference In The World
The Ungrateful Bitch & The Fat Rat Bastard - (Tag Team Divorce)
Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace - (So You’re Getting Divorced)
The Starter Marriage - (Edit The Relationship)
From Wedlock To Grid Locked To Locked Out Of The Bedroom
Romance & Finance - (Over)
Obligations - (Rod)
I’m Divorcing You - (I’m Divorcing You)
An Affair to Remember - (Divorced)
I Died (I, Died)
The Divorceasaurus Ex (The Divorceasaurus Ex Poem)
Done - (Dried)
Divorced, A Word Search Puzzle
A Workbook / Working It Out On Paper
Questions We Can Ask Ourselves
Introduction
As I so often attempt to do, I find words inside of a word.
Recently, I looked a little closer into the word DIVORCED.
I realized from the letters within it, you can spell a number
of relevant words that in their own way, heighten and enhance
its original meaning. So with rhyme & reason but in no
particular order, I present to you a few poems from words
I found in DIVORCED.
“Divorce Is The Unraveling Of Attraction”
Did we do something wrong in mid spree?
If we stayed together too long, did we
Violate a sacred trust?
Overlook what’s
Right for us?
Convince me
Each thing we took in spite was just
Do that and I will endorse any course of action
Divorce
Is the unraveling of attraction
Vehement with venom like no other
One bite
Reduced two people to tears
Convinced that
Ending it might lead them to another
Destined to make up for a break up…
…That broke through what divorces engineer
When lost causes have spoke up & spoke through
What still echoes loud & clear
“Remember The Rice”
Remember the rice
It was all so nice
Comforting too
Even though we didn’t know what hit us until it did
Rice engrained then strained us
It became the same as the love that waned & detained us
Conventionally in a pressure cooker
Even when we couldn’t keep it under a lid
Rice was thrown at us by every spectator
It was later high & dried
Categorically denied
Even in good riddance it would pro quo the quid
Remember the rice
It’s on a honeymoon in paradise
Covering all memories
Even as our vows are on the skids
…God forbid and so do we, with each regret
We dish out all we cannot take
As we so easily forget
“Out Of Body Experience”
Void where prohibited
Out of body experiences
If exhibited, they are
Devoid of nothingness
& unavoidable nonetheless
Devoted souls find a little something more
Experiencing the splendor of
Visitation rights in un-withered heights
Outside our selves intimacy no longer delves
In a surrender to a physical connection
Damaged by a rigorous love and beleaguered sensuality…
…An out of body experience sets a spirit free
From a body already out of its mind
“I Let Love Kill Me Again”
I’ve died at least a thousand deaths
Vowing to myself
Each time “I wouldn’t let love kill me again”
Death came to release me from my baited breaths
Inducing me to intercept
Each inept
Demand, so wherever I stood or understand…
…I would invariably let love kill me again
One blow to the heart was all it took
Rescue efforts failed
I poisoned a dart with my first look
Daggered my path and staggered my trail
Damn
I was introduced to the real me then
Evil twins – I shook one…
…But with my naked ass in the wind
I let love kill me again
“Nothing As Cold As You”
I’ve seen
Cold in my days
Eerie winters breezing through…
…But nothing as cold as you
Cold to your core
One iceberg slimmed down and fattened up
Roughed up frozen into cubes
Enough to infiltrate Antarctica
& over populate the tundra in one lifetime
I’ve seen
Cold, I mean way… below zero
Extra minus, minus two…
…But nothing as cold as you
Colder than abominable snow
On par with hardcore values incorporated into
Regional hell freezing, overly
Extended
I’ve seen cold, so cold it was
Classified as some scientific term I can’t
Enunciate past syllable two…
…Now that’s cold, ice cold
Like a North Pole in a nitrogen stew
Chilled when bad intentions brew
But there’s nothing as cold as you
“A Slap In The Face”
Overnight stuff changes
Conversion comes
Darn quickly when shit hits the fan
Our narrow minds expand
Condescending while extending
Delicate hands
Others might
Contradict how we
Damn the stuff that blows us away
Or spam enough to
Cause us to pray
Daily to get our stuff & shit together
Organization ain’t our strong suit
Could we have sucked it in and
Dealt with our ordeal better?
Obviously we
Could have
Done it differently
Our shit stinks, our stuff adds up
Controversy sucks the life out of love
Despite our best efforts
Outside interests intervened
Complicating the delicate balance between
Darn it, damn it & shit in place…
…And all the stuff that tore us apart
Is seen as a slap in the face
“Our Entire So Called Lives (The Director’s Cut)”
Violent tempers raging
In cages tempered with desire
Dramatize, traumatize and
Engage
Our entire so called lives
Volatile we turn
In tandem, staging
Domestic disputes
Engulfing, disparaging & rampaging
Our sick & tired temperaments
Vile unveils
In increments
Details at
Eleven
Or 9 & 10 or 6 & 7
Vixens grin as pricks & men
Inflict a sin for tricks and then
Dictation ends when flirtation sends in
Expectations then our friends bend
Over - backwards & with exact words…
…Rewind, re-write & redirect
Various versions of our entire so called lives
In HD, 3D,
DVD & 4th dimensionally
Editing out what shouldn’t have been
Offered in our you-know-what
Virtues are spliced
Into the
Director’s cut
Everything nice is
Opened but the lens is shut
Vanity & immaturity were temporary
In perpetuity the tempest is
Diluted & dissolved
Exes exit and though we aren’t quite camera ready
Our entire so called lives have evolved
“50-50”
Divide it all 50-50
I wish it was on a
Voluntary basis
Okay, what’s mine is mine & what’s yours is yours
Replaces our original
Covenant and it’s sad
Each of us gets half of what we had
“I Will Not Dignify Your Comment With A Response”
Dignity compels me
I heed it
Value it and need it – I am
Ensconced
Rather comfortably, so
I will not
Dignify your comments with a response
“Do Me Like You Want To Be Done”
Do me like you want to be done
Run me ragged till I reach a milestone
In
a long run
Vertical
leaps are all I’ve got, along with
Empty promises yet to be fulfilled
Rub me like you want to be rubbed
I’d love for you to teach me the right way
Dub me “A Strong One”
Energized by horizontal sweeps
Into higher consciousness at home with…
…Inner peace from the outside in
Do me like you want to be done
It will rub off on me and when I have
Done the do the way that you did
I will have ran the run and from it rid - myself of…
Double indemnity from either side
Running to remedies that neither have tried
Once in this
Vicinity I’ll
Extend my long run…
…And do you like you need to be done
“The Restraining Order”
The restraining order
Heightens tensions in a way that
Every unhappily married couple fears
Distance is kept
In conjunction with
Vulnerability no longer jeopardized, so that
One’s misjudgment clears & disappears
Readily when receiving paperwork
Clarifying that to go near a once “near & dear”
Entitles one to time in a bigger house…
…Behind barcodes that don’t scan the same
Condemning a spouse who fans a flame
Over official service to restrain and
Uphold a border
Redlined in
The restraining order
“I Do”
I do what I’m told
Do what I’m
Obligated to do
I honey do
Do over
Overdo
I do what I have to
Do what I need to do, to
Outdo danger ensuing
I’m in the know & I know what I’m doing
Doing my duty in morning dew
On duty subduing when evening is through
I get my just due
Doing what comes naturally
Only catch would be
If you snatch from me
…The will to freely accrue benefits long overdue
Doing that
Oh Lord, could bend the continuum I’ve gotten used to…
…Then I wouldn’t know what I’d do
“A Poem With Two Titles: Cut The Cord & Weaned”
Cut the cord according to your
Own desire to be weaned
Remove you before you are
Demeaned
Claim the sword
Of Camelot
Romance the guillotine
Defend a dream, a dreamer and be weaned
Cut off completely from anything
Outside love’s glory
Ripped away neatly from every thing
Derogatory
Carve out accords supporting your
Opposition to stress
Renounce a stranglehold while staying abreast
Denounce the message-in-a-bottle sight unseen…
…Cut the cord, upgrade the model and be weaned
“The Pre-Nup”
“Do you love me?” He asked
“If you do will you sign a pre-nup?
Verifying before knot tying
Our accumulated stuff
Remains our sole property, should we
Commit adultery when there’s a passionate lull
End it because of irreconcilable
Differences…
…Or if our marriage is annulled”
“Do you love me?” She sighed
“If so will you sign the pre-nup I supplied?
Validating that after consummating
Our lives will be one, but we will if pain rages
Revert back to pages
Conceived prior to I do’s getting done”
Each of them nodded and their lawyers agreed
Drew up new pre-nups…
…And they were cleared to proceed
Down the line they did get divorced
It seems one was caught having intercourse
Violating the terms
Of husband & wife
Romantically linked with some other than partner for life
Covered in this pre-nup
Every moral
Discretion…
…Mishap, faux pas, whoops & obsession
Did they go into it thinking
It wouldn’t last forever?
Virtually insuring
One self fulfilling prophesy
Ruined from the start because these two
Could not foresee
Enduring heart-to-heart towards
Destiny, but how could they…