Respect
...I cannot become flat
My curves are not straight lines
My die is cast, forged by fire
Yet I try to bend it for you
I put the blow torch to my heart
Coining it over the anvil
Pressing it to new...
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Categories:
become flat, growth,
Form: Free verse
Turn Around
...Where can I go when there's no breath around
Even that
Can not compare to sound
Leaving all my pictures on the wall
In my hat...
The garbage on the ground
How about the time you heard my so...
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Categories:
become flat, dark, death,
Form: Rhyme
What Will My New Normal Be
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What Will My New Normal Be?
Written by Miracle Man
5/8/2020
Average or typical is what i think normal,
but it’s a futile search for my return to the same.
Greeting a friend has becom...
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Categories:
become flat, change, life,
Form: Lyric
Down
...All that is not me has me down
I am beaten by all that should keep me
My nose in crackling wrinkle
Like dead toothpaste tube
I can’t see my knees
Eyes are deep in the sockets
The twist of neck...
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Categories:
become flat, absence, africa, betrayal, city,
Form: Verse
Choices
...Choices
There are times when I wonder about the choices ?
Why they come to light in dark hours, to speak ?, their voices
making them as hollow and empty as barren bottle of champagne,
tickin...
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Categories:
become flat, friendship, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Flattened Coins 2
...Penny kneeled down on the track
To put some coins on their back
In order to see the coins become flat
Penny kneeled down on the track
Envying the coins direction at
Their journey forward onward
Penny...
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Categories:
become flat, life,
Form: Triolet
Flattened Coins
...She kneeled down on the track
To put some coins on their back
Waiting for the train to come
In order to see the coins become flat
She thinks this is such a sport
Watching the coins again retort
Wait,...
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Categories:
become flat, life,
Form: Rhyme
Valley of Dreams
...She walks through the valley of dreams, while clouds of darkness lurk above and all
around her.
As her pace begins to quicken to over come the darkness, beams of light begin to
shine upon her....
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Categories:
become flat, faith
Form: Verse
Bad Love Poem (Shall We Go?)
...Shall we go to the river? To see the pellucid
and hear the sound of water gurgling,
as at the hamlet where I was teasing
you for the first time, where the sky
and the birds are reluctant
to...
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Categories:
become flat, love, nature
Form: Free verse