Help
...At the slightest cry, we rush to give,
But what of those whose pain won’t live
In vocal words or audible plea?
Will you help the one who hides silently?
Signs appear—subtle, yet clear—
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Categories:
begrudging, abuse, encouraging, humanity, sympathy,
Form: Rhyme
How Are You?
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though tis spoken when we meet,
begrudging, we mete
out cold, absent any meat
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A Ukiah, 7/5/7 with rhyme...
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Categories:
begrudging, hello,
Form: Other
The Closing Year
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I saw its crooked shadow
dragging its mind along like a leashed dog.
It went out and came back in
fretting over its own begrudging existence.
This morning it peers out of a window,
looking t...
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Categories:
begrudging, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Endometriosis Awareness, collaboration with The Silent One
...Cramps creeping and crawling,
an unwelcome reminder.
Why does my body betray
me like an unfaithful secret lover,
chaining me to my bed.
When did my uterus become my enemy,
even the pill...
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Categories:
begrudging, emotions, health,
Form: Free verse
Melted Greeting Card
...Minuscule marshmallows in weak cocoa
there is no taste in the heat of the South;
It should always burn the top of the mouth
and be soothed inhaling a ball of snow;
Those worn out carolers wil...
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Categories:
begrudging, emotions, holiday, humor,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Far Beyond Hereafter Part Three
...The other members of the group would tease Lambent Shroud.
They’d speak in groans n puns too.
You’d sense lambent was a little uncomfortable with it all.
The other members of this amazing group we...
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Categories:
begrudging, art, betrayal, city, color,
Form: Prose
Eternity
...All this introspection
gets too much,
crushing you under
its own gravity, drawing you
inwards. Even the senses are
captive to its cause, the head
a dark, claustrophobic hole.
Then the worl...
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Categories:
begrudging, self, time,
Form: Free verse
Dirty Laundry
...It’s Sunday morning, about 8am. My BF Peter and I we’re doing our laundry. Most of the time, we spent in my dorm common room, sitting side by side on a red corduroy couch, while our clothes washed, a...
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Categories:
begrudging, boyfriend, humor, school, student,
Form: Free verse
Labor
...My long ago mother
used to string together cheap jewelry,
baubles and glitter threaded onto silvery strings
for a begrudging merchant
who kept a cramped second floor office
near what I later kne...
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Categories:
begrudging, poetry,
Form: Free verse
As Winter Flees Giving Spring a Begrudging Nod
...As Winter Flees Giving Spring A Begrudging Nod
As winter flees giving Spring a begrudging nod
So the farmer waits to turn over life giving sod
Mother Nature, bows to Heavenly hand of God
Summer...
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Categories:
begrudging, appreciation, art, god, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
A Mountain Man's Tale, Part Iii
...III.
“Eagle Vision says since his own son died
he’s felt a hollow no raiding can fill,
that men should be fathers, pass their wisdom
to adopt you as his own is his will.
“From this day forth y...
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Categories:
begrudging, adventure, family, history, loss,
Form: Epic
Meaning of Life
...I have been thinking about the meaning of life
There was life here long before I came to be
And there will be life continuing long after me.
It seems I have a rather small window of im...
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Categories:
begrudging, death, life, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Cribbar
...Cribbar
I stand on the precipice,
I drink her eagerly from atop the raw stone.
Her jaws split open in bursts of pure, vicious foam around the feet of civilisation;
I stand caught betw...
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Categories:
begrudging, conflict, earth, growth, nature,
Form: Free verse
I Want To Taste Pumpkin
...I take another bite of sweet pumpkin pie
Wondering why I deprive myself of her company
Most of the year, only allowing her to grace my mouth
on Thanksgiving week.
You can take the rest of it ho...
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Categories:
begrudging, food,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Ultra Violence Part2
...A humanity Slain by a black ghost flame
Because their God was an unspeakable name
A Mournful, Insane, multitude with emnity and self induced labor pains
An Eon that has never awoken - A Copt...
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Categories:
begrudging, angel, dark, death, death
Form: Rhyme
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