Anxiety Went Into Overdrive Regarding
...Anxiety went into overdrive regarding...
"check engine light" being on
I desperately clutched
(the Peanuts stuffed animal) Woodstock
to help me absorb shock.
What invisible agent
provocateu...
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Categories:
advertises, anxiety, august, computer, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Hey You Over There
...The title captures the reader’s attention,
It's like bait on a hook that draws the reader in.
Let it be clever and creative; your own invention.
It supports the message expressed within.
A titl...
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Categories:
advertises, words,
Form: Rhyme
Ready To Go Home
...The nurse said, “ This will soothe your pain. “
My left hand was connected with Iv.
And, I was observing how
The blood flows through the narrow pipes
A playtime for my very own blood!
The nu...
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Categories:
advertises, surreal,
Form: Free verse
The Food Bank
...He's in the line for a quick pick up,
it's early in the morning and not much of a line
and he needs some milk and toilet papers, says
“I've had better days, this shall pass.”
He's said that l...
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Categories:
advertises, angst,
Form: Blank verse
As the Debt Collector Stood
...upon my door
i looked across the road
Where days before
a kind woman
died of corona
and in the background
iPhone advertises
in my sighies
all monies dies...
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Categories:
advertises, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Pale Horse and the Yellow Submarines
...This year's Halloween edition....
"Pale Horse and the Yellow Submarines"
There approaches
One
Light bringer
rides a dead pony
a...
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Categories:
advertises, halloween, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Is Beauty Vanity
...When youthfulness is booming,
And beauty is live streaming;
While she tops her elegant eighteen
Assured she’s no more a teen
As she advertises like a slay queen:
World class comments on Face...
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Categories:
advertises, age, anxiety, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
First Hints of Fall
...I feel it in the morning dim,
when I head out to drive to work,
a bite of chill that saps the vim,
tough now it seems just a flirt.
Again, when I drive home later,
auburn fringe of a maple tre...
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Categories:
advertises, appreciation, autumn, change, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Everything Has a Price
...While looking down from my balcony view
a depressing sadness washed over me.
And I wondered what our world would look like
when we no longer have the honeybee.
The fake facade of civili...
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Categories:
advertises, 10th grade, anxiety, emotions,
Form: Quatrain
'knowing' Is Funny
...I believe that I "know" what I "know, "
And I think that I "know" stuff I don't,
But the feelings I feel don't melt snow,
And the futures I would mostly won't.
Like most folk, I don't "know" ...
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Categories:
advertises, humor,
Form: Quatrain
Her Sin
...Squatting next to a garbage bin,
she dons a fake smile that doesn't fit.
And though track marks tattoo her skin,
her addiction won't let her quit.
Abused by pimps and those she serves,
...
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Categories:
advertises, abuse, angst, emotions, feelings,
Form: Quatrain
The World Loves a Clown
...You came upon me
Late last night
Whimpering,
Whistling,
Whispering.
Threatening those I love
I know it was you
I still
have your foot
steps on my back.
...
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Categories:
advertises, abuse, bullying, conflict,
Form: Epic
Lady Bird
...Lady bird, lady bird, why thou sings so beautifully
When other had got their voice cracked in the noon?
Do you sing of peace or lost love?
You have bottled my heart with your adverbial voice
Tend...
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Categories:
advertises, art,
Form: Narrative
Betrayal My Love
...Betrayal My Love
Honor your own cold blackened heart
You filthy dirty whore
Demonic pagan worthless piece of godless wonderment
You stealing thieving thing ...
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Categories:
advertises, abuse, addiction, betrayal, candy,
Form: Free verse
More
...For females over 40,
There’s a magazine called More.
At least that is the age group
It was first intended for.
So many periodicals
Are aimed at people younger.
This magazine was perfect
For ...
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Categories:
advertises, age,
Form: Rhyme
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