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Acid Rain
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Categories: acid, music, nostalgia
Form: Choka



Premium Member Dear Anxiety, Collaboration With the Silent One
Dear anxiety
Nemesis to my reality,
mental manipulator of tentative trust,
massacring my once sagacious soul -
you cut me into a slice of loneliness.

The fault is in our...

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Categories: acid, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silent Rhapsody
I remember
when I was a poor boy
and nobody loved me
mamma's tears felt like acid
burning holes in my heart -
I became breathless

triggers came without a guarantee
violence...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: acid, childhood, emotions, integrity,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Interlude
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." 
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In this performance we call life,
my spirit searches for an...

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Categories: acid, angst, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pink Skies
POPPIES  &  MUSHROOMS 

I desire a beautiful sky.
One to inhale with my big brown eyes.
Fly like a kite, 
under the midday light.
Join me...

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Categories: acid, funny, me,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member High Bred Reality
Soul progress
     back field in motion
The guff
     Chose, chose, live grow leave!  GO!

Leapt from heaven's gold
Jump...

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Categories: acid, childhood, faith, family, father,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A Friendly Goodbye
Poem 1: A Boy And His Painted Piano

he used lively greens
tender blues,
touches of plain mauve 
and rainbow trout splatters
to paint music
on the gas fumes 
that...

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Categories: acid, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Letter Sent
I am writing to you because I know you have a wish.
I have been thinking diligently about your wish. It is not
going to be easy...

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Categories: acid, love,
Form: Narrative
The Preacher Man
His narrow eyes, misguided lies
Misguide his narrow plan,
To cleanse the world from demons, he
Was called The Preacher Man.

“I see no proof, I hear no truth!
Your...

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Categories: acid, peoplechildren,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Inebriant Melodies
Daylight is greeted with the horrific stench of food chunks 
swimming in stomach acid, dribbling onto bed sheets.
Accompanied with the embarrassment of
brown syrup puddle stains.

Head...

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Categories: acid, addiction, angst, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member God Sees the Courageous At Work
Strangers are attacking me; 
ruthless men seek my life—
men without regard for God.  Selah

Psalm 54:3

GOD SEES THE COURAGEOUS AT WORK

Wild-eyed disregard for God —
The...

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Categories: acid, abortion, christian, dark, murder,
Form: Free verse
Soul Stones
We swallow boulders:
(lead words, molasses covered prejudice, glass shards of promises long broken)

Mouths open wide and heads tipped back
like Hawaiian fire eaters.

Chipped teeth are bits...

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Categories: acid, hope, introspection, life, peace,
Form: Free verse
Birds Eye Self Surveillance
Theres a man in the sky, can you see him hiding, crouching behind the grey mist rising. 
Thunder and lightning seems to guide him to...

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Categories: acid, 7th grade, blue, change,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Love Shouldn'T Hurt
At first you were understanding 
and patient,
so polite and gentle,
encouraging me to express my emotions.

But then you became obsessive and jealous.
Forcing me to shut up...

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Categories: acid, abuse, violence,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Contamination
So much contamination
needs a close examination.

take a breath of radiation
or a toxic medication
select a name with aspartame
clean your car of acid rain
eat the food with...

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Categories: acid, environment, pollution, society,
Form: Couplet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things