Frills
...Grenadilla
It's a story about
a family of musicians
they lived a life where
they wished the world
to think of them as believers
and no-nonsense individuals.
It was said...
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Categories:
bashed, analogy, character,
Form: Bio
Who the heck are you?
...Who the heck you think you are?
You bashed my car, yet strut with flair—
Like a proud star,
Too smug to care.
Your brain's back door was left ajar;
Your wisdom vanished in thin air.
Puffed wi...
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Categories:
bashed, abuse, anger, bullying, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
What Was I Thinking, O'Yes
...My arrival landed where I began my flight and journey
Sunny San Diego y e s, I was back and how I missed it
Oh-h-h-h, let me count the ways—rather days spent
in a border town, oh what...
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Categories:
bashed, character, love, sweet, sweet
Form: Free verse
She Trusted the Stars
...
She placed her dreams in starshine's bright design
where she believed the galaxy would guard them
from incidents and accidents that might shard them.
She trusted stars to lifelong harmoniz...
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Categories:
bashed, betrayal, cry, depression, girlfriend,
Form: Free verse
Blowing a helluva Hooley
...
Rarely not windy
In the far flung
Squarely unfairly unsung
Seriously deliriously magical
Mystical..mythical Catlins
Rather adept at being
Scarily palaver kept..
Wild & warily windswept
...
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Categories:
bashed, nature, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Anthem for a Traumatized Youth
...What thou shalt be wasted?
With the ship of sorrow harboured.
Like it gives thee an unexpected explosion,
And the heart of trauma and darkness is implanted.
It clouds into a season of bloodshed ...
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Categories:
bashed, emotions, mental health, psychological,
Form: Qasida
Double Tipped Astroids
...Virtue inherited not born with
The birth of prophecy created a new poem
Knowledge a capers coin
Hightower resurected a powerful force
Bloodlines are like landmines watch your step
Lopez connect...
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Categories:
bashed, angel, anti bullying,
Form: Canzone
Shuffling Through
...
Inspired by the Onomatopoeia Contest (2024), sponsored by Emile Pinet.
Mid-day invaded my spirits with blah.
I sauntered the path to the coffee shop
and heard my friends blab...
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Categories:
bashed, drink, onomatopoeia, words,
Form: Quatrain
A Variety of Hats
...Throughout the years, my kids had
A variety of hats,
Along with all the books and dolls
And games and baseball bats.
A few were parts of costumes
Or vacation souvenirs,
While others served as...
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Categories:
bashed, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Ladies Nite At Clyde's Bar
...News flash
Huge bash
Big fight
Last night
Clyde's Bar
Bizarre
War zone
Chairs thrown
Snouts poked
Gals choked
Eyes blacked
Ribs cracked
Hair snatched
Backs scratched
Throa...
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Categories:
bashed, conflict, humorous,
Form: Footle
Demons in my spirit
...#Demons_in_my_spirit
The banging, the kicking and the shouting , defeans my peace, I'm lingering on the edge of my endurance, haile me healers and seers of the universe, for my entirety is in distre...
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Categories:
bashed, analogy, change, character, culture,
Form: Free verse
Mary Ma Gargano Boys
...Mary Gargano the key player in covering the drug monies and drugs that ran from Milwaukee pitstop in Chicago Antioch Danville Marietta Georgia straight to palm beach blvd. Ciro Gargano his business p...
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Categories:
bashed, allah,
Form: Manqabat
They Bashed the Man
...
It's sad when a man's claim to fame
Is having more than just one dame
Like birds of a feather
They all got together
Saying he left after he came
Leigh Anne bashed the man most of all
Sh...
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Categories:
bashed, humor,
Form: Limerick
Do Poets Always Walk in the Rain
...Do poets always walk in the rain?
This poet once did
When she was but a kid.
The bathwater of summer drops
Cascading from suburban chimney tops,
Puddles on pavement
Begging for splashing,
A ro...
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Categories:
bashed, childhood, growing up, innocence,
Form: Rhyme
Alter Ego of a domestic violence survivor
...You left me all alone again in the therapist office we went over all the scenarios what we would say but there you were stunned knowing your head was bashed in your lip still bleeding from his brown ...
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Categories:
bashed, environment,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
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