More I try, more I cry
...In just a day,
I lost my father, my mum,
and my only two siblings,
I became the only member of my family:
my own father,
my own mother,
my own siblings.
I was left to s~w~i~m the oc...
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Categories:
agonizingly, depression, extended metaphor, grief,
Form: Free verse
Save Me From The Bare Darkness
...{"I wish somebody, some entity would’ve told me, even warned me with the intuitiveness that lies within the motherly instincts, the nature of humanity without malevolent reluctance.
That lying in t...
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Categories:
agonizingly, absence, abuse, addiction, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024
...February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024
I believed fortune cookie maxim
cryptic message couched
Apple Macbook Pro update process
alternately titled “markedly
a L...
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Categories:
agonizingly, absence, abuse, adventure, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Ashen Aqualung
...Daddy's specter plectrums mercilessly
Fraying my nerves raw
with oxidized guitar strings.
my thoughts relentlessly hemorrhage
onto clay vinyl grooves
s p i n n i n g
endless nights
of
suffoca...
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Categories:
agonizingly, abuse, father son, mental
Form: Free verse
Matthew delivers his latest bullet tin
...Matthew delivers his latest bullet – tin...
from the Harris-Walz front
where liberal minded socially progressive
electorate doth agonizingly grunt
targeted in crosshairs scoped out
eager and ...
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Categories:
agonizingly, absence, america, angel, august,
Form: Free verse
Mountaintop- Sunil Ganguly
...
For many days, I am yearning with my pastime longing to bargain for a mountain
Even though I am not knowledgeable about that marchant, for a dealer of that, then.
I long , I wish I could meet
A ...
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Categories:
agonizingly, analogy,
Form: Free verse
The old fart alter cocker shuffle
...The old fart (alter cocker) shuffle
as one fairly long run on sentence
unwittingly made locally famous
courtesy residents here at
Highland Manor Apartments
as first one foot and then the oth...
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Categories:
agonizingly, age, courage, death, grave,
Form: Free verse
A NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL
...A tattooed cross hung agonizingly there
Dangling lazily from her apple tree
Pleading with me to save her soul
For she is lost in lust.
She urged me to carry on
To quickly get the act done.
He...
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Categories:
agonizingly, 12th grade, evil,
Form: Free verse
TURNING OFF THE GHOST
...TURNING OFF THE GHOST
what’s up with the ghost
who boringly stares
through two holes in a sheet
he watches
her every mistake
slow and agonizingly
she gobbles up a pie
her fork stabbing it...
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Categories:
agonizingly, light,
Form: Free verse
Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk
...Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk
Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke
within noggin of average baby boomer bloke
catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke
positive growth experiences through...
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Categories:
agonizingly, abuse, analogy, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Self Destructive Wickedness Arrested, Convicted, and Gaoled
...Self destructive wickedness arrested, convicted, and gaoled...
with kidnapping little boy
ordered to suffer
life sentence without parole.
The deadly scourge of
one obsessive/compulsive di...
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Categories:
agonizingly, 2nd grade, 6th grade,
Form: Free verse
Little Girl In a Box
...I’m still that little girl hiding in a box trying to rest
with my dirty stuffed doggy toy, tattered blanket
and ragged clothing dejected in these streets.
I’m still that little girl they judged ...
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Categories:
agonizingly, anti bullying, bullying, faith,
Form: Free verse
Body Map
...Sleepless, the body becomes
a mind map strung out on a bed,
color coded in degrees of pain.
Each movement sends an update,
a glowing patch of deepening red
or a lava line of heat solidifying
...
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Categories:
agonizingly, pain, time,
Form: Free verse
Words For a Morning
...The water wears a halo of mist
made gold by first light.
Two swans write their waking
on the soft glaze of a morning
as if tracing psalms
to anoint the coming day.
They bow their heads gracef...
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Categories:
agonizingly, beauty, morning, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Chapter 80 --Damian Delilah Mallory: Congregations
...Damian Stood in the Hugh room
Surveying the expansiveness of
The place. "Yeah, this will be a
Imperial family event in my house.
The judges will be here too.
There were two large tables
The c...
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Categories:
agonizingly, abuse, confidence,
Form: Alliteration
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