A black mothers sacrifice
...Broken cries diluted the still waters
A mothers pain as she prepares a better life for her daughter
Her bones ached with exhaustion
Her fractured breathing heavy with guilt
Buy she knew this wa...
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Categories:
ached, baby, child, cry, death,
Form: Free verse
The Beat of My Heart
...Without a word I slip out of bed
and a thousand conversations
run through my mind
as I walk barefoot across worn carpeting.
Two nights ago, I barely made it home
while driving through a deluge...
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Categories:
ached, appreciation, good morning, how
Form: Narrative
The art of letting go
...She wouldn't let the guilt warp her mind into believing its perception of her
She knew who she was
And she was is a girl who's been deeply hurt
She knew deep down no one was coming to save her
T...
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Categories:
ached, depression, discrimination, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Palimpsest
...It was past midnight
in my college bed
above the shuttered café—
the whole town in a hush
so complete I could hear
my own breath and quiet it,
when a crystalline voice
floated in through the...
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Categories:
ached, christian, heaven, longing, music,
Form: Free verse
To Beth: Rochester Falls
...You tried to lead me
(surely)
by the hand
across the shallows
but we were both too drunk
and the stones too slick
so we slid stumbling and laughing,
falling toward each other
all the way acr...
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Categories:
ached, beautiful, celebration, giggle, memory,
Form: Free verse
Fears Bondage
...I put my heart on the line so many times,
I shared so much, I never felt the need to hide,
I viewed it as freedom to speak up and out,
I chose faith over fear more than anything else,
I watched f...
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Categories:
ached, blessing, change, character, courage,
Form: Light Verse
We Loved with Wild Abandon: full version
...Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused. — Paulo C...
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Categories:
ached, love,
Form: Free verse
Love with Wild Abandon
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"Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused. — Paulo Co...
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Categories:
ached, love, passion,
Form: Free verse
Life of a soldier
...It was the eleventh hour of the midnight, He stood single on the border line,
Drones and missiles moved like light, ...
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Categories:
ached, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Absence
...Though the carpet teemed with costumes, toys and figures, laid orderlessly, it was barren.
Distant echoes of the battery powered monkey clapped naively through the still air, and its dim LED eyes s...
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Categories:
ached, divorce, family, father son,
Form: Narrative
Temptation
...Last night I met a gypsy girl,
Temptation was her name.
A breathless brazen beauty,
a drop-dead gorgeous dame.
I went to get my fortune told,
ten dollars was a steal.
This magic mystic m...
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Categories:
ached, beautiful, desire, dream, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
if but stone
...
* In memory of the great Charles Laughton, who brought charm and tenderness to a monster with his rare form of melancholy genius *
~
on the ledge …
of majestic Notre Dame
he wat...
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Categories:
ached, analogy, heartbreak, history, true
Form: Free verse
AI my poem and me
...2025.5.1
It has been quite a while,
I wished I could really write
Some lyrics to go with music
Just like song writers or composers.
I have not a fantest ideas,
At the heat of the moment,
I m...
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Categories:
ached, for him, may, memory,
Form: Free verse
A letter never sent
...They call you my ex—
like you were just another chapter,
just another name to forget.
But how do I forget
the girl who made forever feel real?
You weren’t my past.
You were my present,
my al...
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Categories:
ached, lost love,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Must be Beef and Taters
...Beef and taters are a meal thought Dad
Didn’t want Italian, which he never had
Refused to try chicken, pork or fish
Beef and taters were his only dish
Would not eat pasta, it did not look good
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Categories:
ached, humor,
Form: Rhyme
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