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Premium Member Six-Word Couplet Series
Having a field day:
        My joy immense
        At your expense

Immune to crocodile tears:
        The old judge
        Will...

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Categories: best thing since sliced bread, fun,
Form: Couplet
Fathers Day
Fathers Day

He began throwing me around I remember it quite well 
Against a hard wall but he told people I fell 
When all the abuse began I think I was barely five 
By the time I was 18 I hated to be alive

The first memory...

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Categories: best thing since sliced bread, childhood, child, dad, me,
Form: Rhyme
Fade To White
the brutality of the beasts on their trodden paths,

trudging angrily towards their guided goals.

and i would think, "to be like them"

because i greatly admired their self-control.


so i mulled 

and i moved 

and i acted 

out of a belief system based on denying thyself.


i played the...

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Categories: best thing since sliced bread, power,
Form: Romanticism

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Father
you've never been the best thing since sliced bread
your presence always felt like hell
you being around in the house felt like being tossed in satan's fire
i'd listen in on your conversations with mother
with you lying through your teeth
swearing to not beat her again
the next day...

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Categories: best thing since sliced bread, 11th grade, absence, abuse,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things