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Benumbed Jane
Benumbed Jane!

"he'd never give a plain Jane like you a second's thought"
(but hellishly reign his godly wife)

O Jane!
Be little prettier 
Be more wiser
Crucify your benumbed senses 
Resurrect your eloquent vehement 
Why she choose to be the godly wife?
Why he choose to be the beastful husband?
Let's...

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Categories: hellishly, 12th grade, divorce, husband,
Form: Epigram
Obscure Obstinacy
Ogling over an oval clock that is eight o’clock…I can help myself actually…
Being who I really wanted to be in life – I took an obsessive oath of anonymous substantial substance…
Slang words used to shatter me like thin and thick glass…shaking shrewishly and shimmering shamelessly…
Crazy...

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Categories: hellishly, emotions, father, freedom, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Took a Trip Through Hell
I took a trip through hell.
Not to visit but to settle a debt.
Actually, I just visited a different part of hell,
One I wasn’t familiar with,
Having spent a great deal of my life
In a hell opened on my behalf by others.
The trip across town didn’t phase...

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Categories: hellishly, hyperbole,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Sultry Summer Sojourn
Curling crests cassessing coastlines
backwash bumping beach breakers.
screeching Seagulls squark and scream
mocking maritime merrymakers.

Burning boogers brave blisterd backs
scorched surfers seek shoreline shade, 
urbane under umpteen umberellas,
peacocks posed in a parasol parade.

Drifting dunes delight deserted
lovers, languorously lounging, lazily
craving comfort, coveting cool currents.
Hellishly humid, heat hovers hazily.

Spirited siblings,...

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Categories: hellishly, imagery, sea, summer,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Grandma Low's Doughnuts
In total darkness flesh rests
and at first light rises.
Sky blue eyes search 
bibles and cookbooks for direction.
Bless cheeks with pink powder blush.
Punch dough down.
Dress fingers in white flour dust.
Invoke a flame.
She commands all the elements,
motions us to stand and watch
at her tall stove-pot.
We peer over...

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Categories: hellishly, childhood, family, life
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vulcan's Mercy
Hard-chromed and brutally alloyed
he fed the scrapyard hurricane.
Melting the metal, his brawn enjoyed
the splash of sweat cooling the pain.

The weight of the world discarded
at the foot of his furnace lit,
he struggled to make soon parted
its history, hard and fast writ …

 … in twisted iron...

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Categories: hellishly, extended metaphor, loss, power,
Form: Quatrain



You Are Entitled To Entitle This One Yourself
YOU ARE ENTITLED TO ENTITLE THIS ONE YOURSELF

Whenever I stop to think of it
I don’t stop to think of it
I eliminate the crap, the slop and the rest of the s**t (phew, almost forgot the infantile *’s)

Did you ever think it ironic that if you...

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Categories: hellishly, angstday, hate,
Form: Kyrielle
Premium Member Healing Systemic Trauma
Can you make any sense of
systemic racism?

No more common sensory sense than
too much patriarchalism--
all leftbrain-rightwing dominance
oppressing sacred Earth's
polyamorous win/win systems
promoting resiliently wealthy
resonant polyculturing health

Care given
as kind received
in fruitful wombs,
like apple cores in transition
from refuse
toward rebirth

Maybe an EarthTribal positive prejudice
not associating Yang courageous energy
with evil supremacist...

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Categories: hellishly, addiction, beauty, bullying, culture,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Tolerating Intolerance
I cannot tolerate
those who are intolerant,

I cannot stand
those who take a stand
against unknown others
unlike themselves,
much less than we are truly 
health and safety seekers
multiculturally alike.

I can tolerate anything
except intolerance,
most certainly including impatience with myself,
not excluding my esteeming
estimating
assessing
empathizing
sympathizing
realizing
without finalizing
self and others
as myself
in others
as myself
co-empathic within other
cooperatively...

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Categories: hellishly, bullying, caregiving, change, growth,
Form: Political Verse
My Changed Body Morphology
Incrementally corporeal essence, here
to fore i.e. figurative spear
tire of mine, doth elicit despair
daily appall, thus I air
part tickle laurel lei objection
     able bane, cuz this tear
rubble flabbiness a glare
ring anatomical feature, I swear

shape shifted into a dare
ridge hubble unsightly
  ...

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Categories: hellishly, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Marooned On An Island of Nihilism
After a lifetime
(pronounced like millennium),
where tenacity futilely braced
psyche deeply purpled,
hellishly, and lethally
traced resulting scars -
jackknifed, emasculated
cruelly chaste

sexuality expired, lapsed,
and petered out testosterone
begone to waste,
and how this abased
bereft of eroded optimism,
nee faith no more - erased,
solitary carbon based animal
coalesced into countless

foreborn generations
(glommed *****sapiens
salient survival skills)
mortified,...

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Categories: hellishly, absence, abuse, allusion, angst,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Hell Is Freezing Overtime
paralyzed in 
hellishly cold
confining space
pummeled by cruel 
icy shards 

feeling lost & unfound
waiting to get lost as
the past cries
the present sighs &
the future screams

the days collapse into
another expiring year
in the Wild Wild western 
& northern hemispheres
bleeding through bullet holes

Apocalypse Not Yet
brace for frigid impact
paradise is...

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Categories: hellishly, dark, society, surreal, weather,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On Bullying
When night sky is the darkest
Stars twinkle the most
When bullies are harshest
You feel like you’re toast!

When tears come quickly
Tenderness is your lot --
Some may think you sickly
Real strength they know not,

They are showing jealousy
You have what they want
So, they treat you hellishly
Bullies so love to...

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Categories: hellishly, anti bullying, bullying, jealousy,
Form: Quatrain
Yukon Call Me Panic
Vane glorious and absolutistic,
     though I defiantly,
     cavalierly, and blithely attest
Yukon bet your (laugh-in) sweet bippy
     mine acidic breast

houses anarchic, anti-poetic ballistic,
     barbaric, and bubonic
    ...

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Categories: hellishly, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Like Hell
by Michaelw1two

Inspired by the word works of Alias Robins

 heaven, escaping hell,
 over the Earth;
 from which we came,
 our moment of birth;
 to imagine, reality,
 beautiful to see;
 love, growing now,
 becoming a part of me;
 understanding reason,
 changing the rest;
 loving every season,
...

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Categories: hellishly, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry