puppy eating my bushes
...My puppy is eating my bushes
One twig at a time
Bushes I have babied for ten years
They suddenly have a new purpose
When he is bothering them
He is not chewing on me...
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Categories:
babied, dog,
Form: Free verse
Eighteen
...Eighteen
A number that holds so much meaning
Any individual who meets terms with this number never feels content
A singular tie to childhood is all that’s left
A bearing weight of adulth...
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Categories:
babied, 12th grade, change, childhood,
Form: Free verse
The fruits of childhood
...Parents trust too much
they say young can do no wrong
children are babied...
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Categories:
babied, childhood,
Form: Senryu
Mamas Disruptive Baking
...Mama becomes a baker disrupting our day
Now we have to get dressed ourselves without pay
It is good experience she says with a teensy bit of wit.
I am not excited about it, I liked being babied a ...
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Categories:
babied, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
She Heard John's Voice
...They had survived forty-two years together
The death of two children, loss of all of their parents
This was their time to relax and enjoy the fruit of labor
John passed in his sleep two weeks prio...
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Categories:
babied, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
Renegade Grandma Tree
...Renegade trees are suffocating the yard.
One became seven rather quickly.
When I discovered the mother tree,
I congratulated myself on a successful transplant years ago.
I had babied my little fo...
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Categories:
babied, tree,
Form: Free verse
Before 21
...I put on makeup so I can feel beautiful
Put up curtains so I can feel at home
Got a baby that's half a family
20 years old looking 15
In the middle of the ghetto and gentrificA-town
By...
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Categories:
babied, abuse, childhood, dark, deep,
Form: Narrative
We All Babied Her
...She was a delicate being.
Things bothered her more than most.
She walked off more jobs than we care to count.
There were eight of us when she was born.
She was our baby, our princess, our doll....
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Categories:
babied, relationship, work,
Form: Ghazal
Mother's China
...My mother's dishes are as delicate as she,
Tiny pink rose bouquets and silver rims.
Once I used them with her lace tablecloth,
For Thanksgiving and Christmas back then.
Then came the day of cas...
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Categories:
babied, change, mother, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative
Unsheathed Sword
...Oh ...I will not! ...see you ...left... crepuscular ones!
though I turn my eyes away from your visceral hungry-ed movements, your quests
to be fed in shadows, the babied darkness on ink tip of nig...
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Categories:
babied, courage, creation,
Form: Free verse
Birthday
...The summer labored against an agonized yawn,
and through its sweated lips
withdrew a round fruit.
It is too big to ask how it had ever fit.
She collapses and withers, her waters
vaporing skyward...
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Categories:
babied, birthday, creation, love, relationship,
Form: I do not know?
Morning Smile
...Morning smile replies to sunrise
To leave a dark, quiet and cool cave.
I made a far trip to visit a beloved
That has babied me
Spoiled me with pleasant voice
Medicated me when I was sick
Showe...
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Categories:
babied, dream, family, life, morning,
Form: Free verse
Decieved
...I was deceived by the devil
He came dressed as a sheep in wolves clothing
Very bipolar, hot and cold, cold and hot
Just no good, though I would try to see the good
I was deceived by the devil
I tried...
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Categories:
babied, sad love, , cute,
Form: Bio
Born Into Lies, Die Fighting For Truth, Live Forever
...See you lady's are really dudes, male energy oozes from the paths you choose.
You see straight lines to your end, and you believe it ends there with ONE life to attend.
Just understand that world i...
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Categories:
babied, angst, art, business, caregiving,
Form: Light Verse
Mmmmm Mmmm Mmmm Yummy!/Ode To a Tomato
...Just chewing a FRESH tomato
from off my potted plant
babied it all winter long
mmmmmm tastey
in a trance
sucking my teeth
smacking my lips
getting every DE LI CI OUS morsel
the mayonnaise h...
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Categories:
babied, funny, happiness, health, nature
Form: Rhyme
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