I, Object
...How many stories need retelling
for this object to achieve sentimental value?
Does importance have an expiration date
that’s reached when no one‘s left to gather in celebration?
How many ye...
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Categories:
affiliation, memory, nostalgia, time,
Form: Free verse
Dear Federal Senators, I am asking you to protect Medicaid because
...our home care workers would lose their essential care taking jobs and their
clients would also lose their necessary services.
If you are on Medicaid, you should send your own cards to your Senato...
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Categories:
affiliation, care, caregiving, work,
Form: Prose
Stranded
...Don’t add me to some country if you can
Affiliation of the small to something big
Is not my thing, I’m only what I am
Not greater than I was, and used to be
Don’t mix me with the current politi...
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Categories:
affiliation, devotion, home, love, religious,
Form: Rhyme
Gotcha! Once respectable haute cuisine thief Sue She
...Gotcha! Once respectable haute cuisine thief Sue She...,
a septuagenarian renown for his trademark prank
to steal himself into a neighboring house,
and prepare an elaborate meal
unsuspectedly nab...
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Categories:
affiliation, absence, adventure, america, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
I AM INNOCENT
...This family I was born in was assigned to destroyed my life
I presently can't rent an apartment, be sheltered or work
So many lies has been told to keep me from prospering
Identity theft, fraud, f...
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Categories:
affiliation, america, corruption, discrimination, innocence,
Form: Free verse
Mr Slim
...
He was a born teacher
From birth destined to be
You'd know by his phene.
In capitalist-run schools
He's taught for many years
Earning pennies for labour.
Three years a beneficiary
On sti...
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Categories:
affiliation, abuse, betrayal, career, future,
Form: Blank verse
Ah methinks I could sleep forever
...Ah... methinks I could sleep forever
Basking in a supine position
with eyes wide shut
while the space heater churns out
fast moving molecules of heat
solitudinarian drowsy thinker fêted
by mi...
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Categories:
affiliation, adventure, appreciation, atheist, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
a warning
...A warning
The picture of my mother that hangs on the wall
opposite where I try to work, fell down
I took this as a warning not to stray too far to
the right and end up in the Nazi camp.
My mo...
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Categories:
affiliation, absence, adventure, age, allusion,
Form: Free verse
I'm an Onion
...Hi!
Who am I?
I'm an onion, allegorically,
Speaking strictly metaphorically.
You may see I have a human form -
To the "human" definition I conform,
But, for our purposes today,
I'm an onion....
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Categories:
affiliation, i am, identity, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
The Great American Make-Believe
...Suburban resident pretense, a bleak uniformity.
I grew up among the repetitious homes,
isolated alienated, I wandered the conformity,
the endless square yards, the dull feckless syndrome.
Repug...
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Categories:
affiliation, america, anxiety, community, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
An Intimate Conversation
...May I serve
whatever the capacity --
and not be dissuade;
God knows His faithful,
not by glitter
nor by volume of voice,
but by salves of compassion
knowing no color
knowing no shades
...
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Categories:
affiliation, christian, forgiveness, friendship, love,
Form: Free verse
Scarlet
...Attraction
Affection
Axis of affiliation
Filled with
Fires of
Fuelling passion
Sizzling
Show-off
Syndrome
Hypnotizing
Hub of
Heart-heat
Comely
Consciousness
Commotion
Surmise of
Sunri...
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Categories:
affiliation, color,
Form: Free verse
Au Revoir Oh Perilous Freedom
...Au revoir oh perilous freedom...
Since pledging my troth
to the missus July 25th, 1996
after the comma error
punctuated mein kampf with disequilibrium.
Ever since the notions
of life, liber...
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Categories:
affiliation, age, america, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Eccentricity a Freed Verse
...ECCENTRICITY
tireless
assiduous
an ostentatious
display
modelled
&designed
unveiled
in a
motif
to bring
a smile
& appear
a unique idea
a an affiliation
a
a fracture
so
beguil...
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Categories:
affiliation, poetry,
Form: Free verse
His Pearl
...HIS PEARL
So much happening in my making,
the toss and turning, and painstaking,
The heights of troubles
so breathtaking;
for His glory my remaking
Walking the ocean floors of humilia...
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Categories:
affiliation, girl, hope, how i
Form: Rhyme
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