Mother Said
...“You’ll live,” my mother prompts;
above my screams, which pierced
the air with strident oomph;
she, bandaging my wounds.
It happened as I traipsed
the woods; I fell amongst
a pile of jagged r...
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Categories:
bandaging, humorous, mother,
Form: Quatrain
Domestic violence recovery
...Why do evil exist why do people expose domestic violence victims to their abusers to cause harm shame to relive terrible pains I will never understand how we seek shelter hide like spies an yet there...
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Categories:
bandaging, allah,
Form: Musaddas
Times past
...I walked this life alone
So much I have grown
Trying hard to be true
In all the things I do
Love passes by
No need to cry
Why bother to try
I spent some time in the past
Wishing I could make ...
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Categories:
bandaging, beautiful, blessing, christian, courage,
Form: Rhyme
An Expression of Depression
...Nothing soothes me,
Nothing grooves me,
Nothing behooves me.
I’m grasping at branches,
Bandaging the stanches,
But I still don’t understand it.
IT being what’s happened to me,
The source o...
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Categories:
bandaging, anxiety, depression, emotions, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
My Visit To Nirmal Hriday
...Perhaps from my childhood, it had been my burning desire,
To glance Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart) - a home I did admire;
At the thought of Kolkotta - Mother's house - my heart did churn,
To be with t...
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Categories:
bandaging, caregiving, dedication, happiness, joy,
Form: Rhyme
Untitled
...Living in a world that hurts and is hurting is taking its toll,
I want to leave this earth so I can finally discover peace,
To let go of its hold on me and the claws I keep digging in deeper,
I’m ...
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Categories:
bandaging, anxiety, depression, emotions, life,
Form: Free verse
Cherish
...The lake shaped rain puddle, hue of a wet cave wall
that drips limestone, distorts the captive sunlight.
The Sun becomes a gold-tiatian rose that floats.
The ripples are spiders crawling.
Da...
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Categories:
bandaging, allusion, analogy, anger, angst,
Form: Prose Poetry
True Love
...It started at 25 , has crossed 75 and will continue forever.
He came closer to me
Shivers ran down my spine,
I looked everywhere else
Instead of his eyes,
Cuz I know I couldn't han...
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Categories:
bandaging, 12th grade, appreciation, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Who Took the Village - Sos
...Have we ceded our stewardship
allowed a systemic sepsis to spread
acquiesced to the benign malaise
of Death’s directing finger?
Spending billions to cure diseases
caused by poverty’s pestilenc...
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Categories:
bandaging, culture, society,
Form: Free verse
Poets and Plastic Surgeons
...Poets and plastic surgeons-whittling away
adding here, subtracting there
bandaging a verse or stitching a face
trying to make plain into pretty
perfection just a small slice away.
A masterpiec...
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Categories:
bandaging, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Anthropocentrism Wreck Less Track Record
...while atop the surface of planet Earth humanity
all abustle skittering
to and fro, hither and yon
engaged in self important activity yielding profits,
sans blood, sweat and tears...
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Categories:
bandaging, 5th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Kalinga Kalinga
...Kalinga- linga
A daughter of revolution fed on rich political nutrition
With a smile bandaging scars of the streets and falsehood by political demons
Fingers burnt in pseudo democratic pans of...
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Categories:
bandaging, abortion, africa, allegory, allusion,
Form: Dramatic Verse
A Splendiferous Storm
...Purple pigments add a vermilion hue
to a scarlet sun that's about to die.
And pink cottony clouds bandaging blue;
sop scarlet from a hemorrhaging sky.
An icy chill saps the warmth from ...
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Categories:
bandaging, autumn, beautiful, imagery, imagination,
Form: Sonnet
Introspectors
...Bandaging wounds that we have not inflicted,
Embracing the weary, the poor, the afflicted,
In this, we find ourselves.
Needing to know the ways of all things,
Giving, and taking, we wear golden ...
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Categories:
bandaging, humanity,
Form: Acrostic
A Vicarious Life
...I live my life vicariously,
Through everyone else’s eyes.
I live my life through every low
And every one of the highs.
It began when I was a child,
I’d live like batman every day.
Pretendi...
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Categories:
bandaging, life, nostalgia,
Form: Quatrain
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