Angel Abuse Poems

I’m a unknown ghost that comes through and disappears,

A unknown ghost that is limited when I’m near
A unknown ghost that have scars that don’t heal,

A...

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My life is like a lotus blossom, blooms in adversity
       Lived in hell for many generations...walked as a sojourner...

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How to attach a shower curtain...

I revisit rather than write from scratch
a poem crafted May twenty third 
two thousand and twenty
since the following words apropos
and...

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Sudden illness and a nurse


it is Saturday, the air has a whiff of spring
and I was too tired to go to the bakery 
to get...

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Loxodonta reduced 


There are no big elephants anymore near where I live
you might have one or two on the savannah, but the new
modern elephants are...

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Some kids sleep
To sounds beating
Beating scared hearts
Beating man starts
Beating woman scarred 
Beating black tar
Racing for life
Faking out time
Speeding the night
Open eyes fright
Closing blue eyes
Praying through...

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She has been sobbing all night for enduring the vicious fight, she has been sobbing all night for paying a daunting sacrifice, she has been...

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Not quite a slave 

After war number 2 when the time was hard and
oil was undiscovered, hidden under deep waters 
when our town stank of...

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I am terrified and this is love
Resignation; this is love
Yours is fiercer than mine, less green
Pale, flowing as a riverbed and more of it
Yours is...

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...He fell to the snow, choking his last breath,
Dalton watched despite his own fading strength,
Barnes dismounted and walked over to him,
said, “I see that you...

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The man shook and said, “They wanted some fun,
but the boy was small, he started to bleed.
Patrick threw him out back, said, ‘This one’s shot,
but...

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One foot out the door,
The other stayed behind.
All prepared to flee,
Our situation, lead lined.

The last time we shared,
Before the door was slammed.
Yelling to be fixed...

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Echoes Of The Heart
Did I hear you say you had another busy year and didn’t have time to visit me ….were you too tired….too busy...

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Lotus lips of lilac shade
planting pink fragrant kisses on my face
Kisses from auntie Jasmine in action today
Her love lives beyond the grave

Kisses from Jasmine in...

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I wish you could understand my pain. The crack you put in my foundation. The wing you clipped from this earth angel. The crying is...

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