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About-Face

When evil is impossible to forgive
     Reverse the word ~ and live

Categories: about face, evil, life, motivation, moving
Form: Couplet

About Face

The mirror calling deepest
is the one that you avoid
Images run left then right
your back turned paranoid 

Unwillingness to turn around
in fear of what you’ll see
Illusion as your proffered choice
—reflection waits unseen

(Dreamsleep: April, 2023)

Categories: about face, image,
Form: Rhyme

About-Face

You took it too far—
When you put my tears in the junk.
The shift was when 
You shoved your tack through my dance—
Making my heart on my looks;
My guts on my heart…
Smashed, my convictions,
On the stairs—
I’m pleading, walk with me there.
Tell me how my bleeding can
Whirl out this insanity…
I'm complete, in sane.

Categories: about face, dark, deep, emotions, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

About-Face

Mirror, Mirror, answers I need.
What are the options I should heed?
My gray hairs are getting clearer?
Answers I need, Mirror, Mirror.

Face, I see your foes advancing
between your blacks, grays are dancing.
They’re here to stay, I guarantee;
your foes advancing, Face, I see.

Dear Face, don’t dye, give up, submit
gray hairs will never, ever quit.
As more and more blacks

Categories: about face, 11th grade, age, angst,
Form: Quatrain

About Face

About Face
David J Walker

It is about face 
About time and place
And direction 
And unoccupied space 
In East or West that 
We face

And the unknowing of 
which is  forward or 
backward or north 
or south

the illusion of which is
up and which is down

bound by the gravity of
anticipation in

each new moon and season
Named for the gods

Categories: about face, allegory,
Form: Rhyme

About Face

Can our spirits pray
without God at the center

Can worship pay homage
to self

Can divinity reign 
in each person ordained

Revering what’s hidden
—indwelt 

(Dreamsleep: October, 2020)

Categories: about face, god,
Form: Rhyme

Upside-Down Map About Face

driving son back to naval boot camp —
                                   miles and miles in wrong direction

8/24/2020
Silent One’s When plans don’t go to plan

Categories: about face, angst, military,
Form: Monoku

About Face

Puberty arrives
With it's accompanying drives
Plus the scourge of teenage acne.
Most remedies would fail 
Nothing ever worked well
While my face continued to attack me.

Father scoffed "Son I implore
If you scrub your face more
Then your acne will soon disappear."
Scrubbed as hard as I could
But it still did no good
Further proof that my case was severe.

Unsightly, painful and

Categories: about face, anxiety, memory, remember, sad,
Form: Rhyme

Baby Face - About Face

To you it may seem
That I'm grumpy or mean
Or that I cry a lot

The truth I fear 
Is so very near
And it all explains a lot

The face you see
Is not really me
I know you know me not

The truth, with wit
Is about what I did
In this itsy bitsy cot

My pants, too late
Is warm with weight
And really

Categories: about face, baby, funny,
Form: Ballad

**** About Face - Bawdy Limerick

Some use  hemorrhoid cream on their face
In my eyes,it is not the right place
But they ‘pile’ it all on
Till the tube is all gone
I won’t use our tube just in case

Just imagine if you’d used your finger
On your piles cos you had a humdinger
But your wrinkles need lube
and you reuse that tube
on that note

Categories: about face, age, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick

About Face

I lurk in the shadow of band with words worthy of the pianist's hands. My nature speaks, not rings in tones. Sadly my lady's words rain dour doubts building wall's of stone; let the music of voice reign! pleasure rain! Chip the stone pebble by pebble and remember your name, it has never changed though

Categories: about face, age, courage, devotion, growth,
Form: Prose Poetry

About Face

If you travel in the wrong direction, 
you will require a modest correction. 
All we have to do is turn you around. 
In the right direction you will be bound. 
Make an about face on the track if you please. 
You need a turn of one hundred and eighty degrees.

Inspired by another member's poem.

Categories: about face, life, travel,
Form: Light Verse

About Face

For months in a pointless wallow,
many moments I found it hard to swallow.

The only thing I could down was whiskey
my actions were nothing but risky.

Keeping myself insane to ease the pain of self destruction,
going through the motions I could not even function.

Spawning hate towards the one I at one time truly loved,
anger, sadness and despair

Categories: about face, depressiontime,
Form: Rhyme