No Name
...No Name
by Cathrin Stuart
Do you know how it feels
when you say nine months you carried me,
but could think of no name?
Do you know how it feels
when you say you held me for the first time,...
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Categories:
abducting, birth, child, feelings, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Monkey Business
...marauding foxes
mutilating fruit
minutemen mischief-makers
marching upon us
pick our pockets
laugh at our loss
“No mangoes for sale”
maimed, mangled, mashed
sweetness sham...
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Categories:
abducting, animal, culture, environment, fruit,
Form: Free verse
INFORMANT 1992
...BEING AN INFORMANT UNDERCOVER DOPE FIEND HAD A FEW PERKS ESPECIALLY FOR MY ABUSIVE EX HUSBAND HE DID ODD JOBS FOR CIRO AND HIS PARTNER LARRY MOVING VIDEO MACHINES FENCING WEAPONS CIRO HAD STORED IN H...
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Categories:
abducting, allah,
Form: McWhirtle
Stepfathers who abducts his own children
...After my traumatic brain injury witnessing a murder I didn’t think the world could even get any worse my children and I survived 4 major hurricanes I decided to move north to his home town he began b...
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Categories:
abducting, allah,
Form: Lento
Abusive Stepfather
...The abusive stepfather bullies
his family gathers corruption
political leaders to honor his
behavior payoffs bribes paid for
with a traumatic brain injury
claim from his battered wife
s...
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Categories:
abducting, allah,
Form: Nazm
Palestine Free of Self-Cruelty
...Spit out the clot of revenge
that kills your voice, that dries up world sympathy.
You have the right to resist -- to a limit.
Transgress and you're judged harshly by history.
Obey the law of cons...
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Categories:
abducting, anger,
Form: Free verse
Love Is Love and Other Absurd Truisms
...("Untitled - The Eye of Jihad", 2019, original encaustic)
Love is Love - and other absurd truisms
“Love is love” is like “Follow your bliss”
a way to deflect the moral agency
and subs...
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Categories:
abducting, extended metaphor, society, today,
Form: Narrative
The War That List Score -Pt2
...With no end in sight and a year has passed.
Kremlin won’t admit their forces are gassed.
So they keep their foot on the wrong pedal.
Exhausting their labor and supply of metal.
Playing chic...
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Categories:
abducting, anti bullying, conflict, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
Why Do People Love To Dream, Anyway
...I don’t know about you
but my dreams are always all mixed up
like sometimes I’m half my current age
and I can run like a gazelle, and then I’m
right back in my current prison of a body
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Categories:
abducting, dream, fantasy, horror, nonsense,
Form: Narrative
Things That Wake Me Up
...Things That Wake Me Up
I sleep in my bed and get woken up by different things
But not all at once they get me one at a time
There’s the earthquake shaking the bed side to side
The need to take a ...
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Categories:
abducting, lust, metaphor, satire,
Form: Free verse
Put Your Shoes On
...Crows love an audience, not with people but with the gentle folk and others of their own kind .
and if their lucky it would be with jet her self.
My wife has taken to wearing heavy shoes upon my ...
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Categories:
abducting, best friend, cat, earth
Form: Bio
Beauty
...Blessed with morning beauty...
Chirping mynas pecking nuts;
Jumping squirrels abducting nuts;
Pretend to be fighting as naughty
Yet they are sharing it's beauty....
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Categories:
abducting, beautiful, bird, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Marat and Charlotte 3
...Act 3. A dark, empty stage.
Marat
(standing up)
My eyes went blank. That's how it goes when
you have been doubly knocked flat on your back
in half an hour. He went, he went,
he went, he wen...
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Categories:
abducting, death, love,
Form: Blank verse
Cocaine
...Gallant is a white night.
Deceiving one with delight.
Beckoning with such might.
Obscuring our mind's sight.
Abducting all human rights.
Deluding our true plight.
Creating an endless fight.
Gr...
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Categories:
abducting, addiction,
Form: Rhyme
Stolen Moments
...Time immortal, the master thief,
stealing tomorrow from the past
Abducting each moment, all life itself,
—today within its grasp
(Santa Fe New Mexico: February, 2019)...
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Categories:
abducting, time,
Form: Rhyme
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