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Within these WallsFaces of death stare against my raptured skin.
Silently, they watch me in frigid judgment.
I used to run from them in unholy matrimony,
Peeling the sins from my teardrops
Wishing they would
Just go away.
The brown-skinned disease normalized her...
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Categories:
abuse, introspection, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Say my Name -- in my Way of KingsImpermanence by O.J. $traight
Inspired by Happy Hurts - Icon for Hire
My blood, my life source
I fear waking up
An atheist.
No atheists in foxholes.
Well I’m in the hole,
The pit,
The depths of despair, the
dead poets...
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Categories:
abuse, addiction, age, allah,
Form: Free verse
arrogationarrogation
August night, drowning in my sweat, an ugly
word I will not use again
A sudden gush of cooling air, the curtains
move like a ghost surprised in the armory
of an English castle
the gush is full of crematorium...
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Categories:
abuse, april, art,
Form: Blank verse
This isn’t fairBro this isn’t fair
How can they do this to me
How can they dare
How ruthless can they be?
I know my civil rights
They don’t even know
That i’m about to really turn on the lights
I’m about to expose...
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Categories:
abuse, anger, earth, environment,
Form: Free verse
RuttYou dont have time for conversation,
You dont have time to explain a situation,
I have to ask you how it was, or how did it go, because you never tell me you just expect me to...
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Categories:
abuse, anxiety, break up,
Form: Rhyme
TEARS GOT NO PAINTears Got No Pain
For Daisy Kirui
Can you hear the call far the yonder?
The still and clear mystery that afternoon? When Daisy took her heart to see you her son? And...And you still ponder?
"It's over, son,...
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Categories:
12th grade, abuse, adventure,
Form: Blank verse
Delayed JusticeDelayed justice is better than no justice.
The world will always be round.
Facts cannot be altered; prejudice
Is a major impediment to reach sound
Justice. Justice is all we want,
Fairness is what we fight for,
Justice is what we...
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Categories:
abuse, america, betrayal, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
holly day in MayA Holly Day in May
the building is eerily empty today, everybody
has gone to the beach, even those in wheelchairs
I sit on the verandah in the hope of tanning
my scalp looks so white in the bathroom mirror
I...
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Categories:
abuse, appreciation, baptism,
Form: Blank verse
Prince's Adoptees"I have been a stranger in a strange land." Bible, Exodus 2:22
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Hungry eyes seek substance, food matters naught--
sees...
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Categories:
abuse, bullying, corruption, fate,
Form: Ballade
abortionAbortion
Morning broke
pink rain and colors
Born was the day
incomprehensively
how stupid thinking
it had power
when it is just a mirror
of human activity
The morning hoped
to stay till the evening
and silently drift away
the fog of night
a rescuer
of...
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Categories:
absence, abuse, age,
Form: Free verse
Safety Pins and GlueDance with me through the sunshine,
Dance with me through the terrors.
To, forever, stay in love,
We'll glue our hearts together.
And if they rip or shatter,
We'll pin it all together.
If no old pieces can fit,
If no piece...
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Categories:
abuse, break up, dark,
Form: Free verse
stainsThere’s so many stains on my floor
From your cat’s
To the bleach
That spilled on the floor
I wonder if the
Scent of my room
Had changed
From the very presence
Of you
& not in a...
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Categories:
absence, abuse, betrayal, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
GoneIt's been months, still can't put myself together.
Stupid of me to believe I'd be yours forever.
The things your uncle did to you, your best friends suicide.
All the horrors you went through, for you I often...
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Categories:
child abuse, devotion, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Whisperings of a HostagePeople from all nations running for Their Lives, Pursued by Hamas.
That day 1,200 were slaughtered.
International hostages died! Few live ones do remain.
I do not even know what day this is!
Nor month, or even, what year!
For...
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Categories:
abuse, bullying, cry, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
Hey Diddly Dee A Poet's Life For MeAs a young boy my dreams and voice were shattered,
I was beaten with words like raging stones thrown in anger,
Threatened with violence until my life no longer mattered,
Spoken word became less as it placed my...
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Categories:
abuse, anger, pain, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
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