Best Closeted Poems

Warning: Barely Closeted Monsters Lurk Here!

Religious freedom’s what’s at stake! True monsters wage this war!
God’s told THEM (1) just when life begins (so faith that differs SIN)!
My Bible does not say, does yours? Raise hands if you’ve heard Voice.
But God, Herself, proves Thumpers (2) liars...

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Confessions made in darkness 
Secluded from the outside 
Limited space words are spoken 
Mentioned, in a closeted prayer

Knowing only God will hear me 
Giving reverence to my thought 
Friends and family lack understanding
If walls could talk I would be rebuked

Thankful now my house in empty
In...

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Night wrinkles on dim hangers.
Bell-bottom pants,
two-toned platform shoes,
a `kipper' tie,
unhinge from time and mind.

The closet door clicks shut.
Empty hangers swing-on in the dark,
rocked now
by the surviving members
of every rock band
that ever broke up....

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The meaning of home
Isn't a house
Locked in a dome
Quiet as a mouse

For they say,
"Love isn't love unless it's right"
Every day
Every night

Home for me
Is following my heart
But I can't see
Where to start

Even if
It's running through my veins
I feel stiff
Feel that pain

It must be running through my...

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