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I Walked Away From the Fast Bucks

...I took that walk thru the forest of redemption I followed a trail and saw normal people However, I wasn't one of them At that time, I was like that hamster on a wheel Running in circles with the......Read the rest...

Categories: behind the eight ball, dark, recovery from,
Form: Free verse

8 Ball

...Much of my life I’ve lived behind the eight ball. More than a few steps behind the rest. Isolation surrounds my heart like a cloud. I feel like a prompt for Benaim’s sweet potato, Every few ste......Read the rest...

Categories: behind the eight ball, fear, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme

Un-Me

...The anxiety boils up inside my bowels and Presses up under my heart. Right before it breaks into the back of My throat and tears my speech apart. Can't get the words to come out but what flo......Read the rest...

Categories: behind the eight ball, angst, anxiety, conflict, fear,
Form: Rhyme

Hustle and Flow of Reflection

...For every action there is a equal and opposite reaction like the striking of billiard balls but when worlds collide souls in twist and become bonded in ways people would never think. Being behind the......Read the rest...

Categories: behind the eight ball, age, deep, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse

After the Covid Plague

...When all the sick Are put to rest Train station And plague ships Are empty Retributions are fought And paid Nature Again Forced from towns Highways and byways Rumble and hum To the movem......Read the rest...

Categories: behind the eight ball, birth, death, farewell, fear,
Form: Free verse

Rapid Fire Rhyme

...There was a time I knew nothing about rhyme, in a place with drugs and crime and I was crawling through the grime. Like looking through a kaleidoscope cause my only friends were alcohol and dope, I w......Read the rest...

Categories: behind the eight ball, assonance, character, confidence, destiny,
Form: I do not know?

Pillows

...Pillows Outside My Sofa' radiation keeps me from drawing nearer... that inner pulse to regain the coast that innocent exposure; sever the impulse feel large take a hold of its plain' let me b......Read the rest...

Categories: behind the eight ball, anxiety, art,
Form: Free verse

Defined By Idioms

...Defined By Idioms Naked truth, bent nails dead men tell no tales bad Apple, broken mirrors burnt out light bulbs, crocodile tears spilt milk, goose chase two cents worth, rat race rotten egg......Read the rest...

Categories: behind the eight ball, identity,
Form: Rhyme

A Plate of Glass

...hit a tender nerve as if you haven't heard what a disturbing word time is on our side by in time we all want to run away & hide from the notion of love springs from help from above tend to pus......Read the rest...

Categories: behind the eight ball, art,
Form: Free verse

Her Wind Blew the Castle Down

...Her wind blew the castle down she asked me to give her work a call I did, she called in sick that's all ......Read the rest...

Categories: behind the eight ball, betrayal, break up, emotions,
Form: Monorhyme

Roar

...Always young at heart and old in soul never at ease in the linked up, stuck-up clichés of childhood or the bizarre unfriendly world of adulthood, I always roared…at five my boyfriend Dave was four......Read the rest...

Categories: behind the eight ball, love
Form: Free verse

Doom Is a Four Letter Word Just Like Love.

...We were doomed from the start. I have a bad reputation and a big mouth. I hid behind an eight ball and fake smile I masked it with pretty things and insight Ring around the rosie and we all fall ......Read the rest...

Categories: behind the eight ball, angst, dedication, depression, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse