Autumn Abuse Poems

There's nothing left of Autumn but the leaves
They swirl and scatter, meet then disengage
The moon puts silver footlights in the sheaves and turns the marble...

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For crying out loud, the flowers are gorgeous,
Fresh, happy, young, alive, and vivacious.
Regrettably, we, humans, cut their lives short,
From time to time, from events to...

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my mind is screaming
merely mimicking my lost design 
my heart is bleeding 
memories of a dissolved time 
With the scorned child, I thought gone
the next...

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The only thing colder than the brisk of winter
Is my lonely heart which has remained abandoned
Very few of those who enter my tragic life
Earn their...

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“To live in hearts 
we leave behind 
is not to die.” 
Thomas Campbell 

If I could colour grey clouds of grief
I wrap them in sky's...

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I saw you there that night in October
Tired leaves had began their fall
The autumn ground burdened.

Your hand held there on the small of my back
Pulled...

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I think you all should know, bout a situation set to go.'
Its coming real soon.' Elephant in the room!
Wow its hairy and fast, Canada don't...

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She rode her bike into Autumnal n ightmares.
One moment she’s looking up at the leaves,
the next she’s on the ground d ead,
well she wishes she...

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Gingerbread red
Poem started may 24, 2022

Blood marks the spot
Just follow the red dot 
Let’s play a game
I don’t think it has a name 

X marks...

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I relished being hungry for Thanksgiving pop slop gloppy grub

whereby the missus didst potchke
created whirling dervish hubbub
after enjoying repast, 
(fit for a tarnished king),
yours truly...

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Worry knot chokes out the living daylights

I know from personal experience
the foolhardiness of
courting, flirting, honeymooning...
worse case scenario,
particularly when just a wee lad,
yours truly internalized
unfamiliar bodily...

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Showering down like teardrops in my eyes,
Tumbling peacefully, but my mind racing
Could this really be the end?

A cold spirit creeps up my spine
The horizon burns...

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We were the bond unbreakable that broke true
For I loved with a love unbreakable true.
But You, dearest Sophie girl, so cold and warm like spending...

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Misogynistic man
and violence are linked.
I really want to make
this species extinct....

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I
Cattle Egrets have lifted my Spirits
Here in Ft. Beaufort, dirty, not dirt
BY choice, folk in small spaces
Hide from Civilization, national mandates
On Environmental Courtesies and Policies
But...

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