Best Latchkey Poems

Sometimes I think I’m all alone
No one that really cares

Not Mom or Dad they work all day
They’ve little time to spare
They’ve got to work for...

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Sometimes I think I’m all alone
No one that really cares

Not Mom or Dad they work all day
They’ve little time to spare
They’ve got to work for...

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Confinement -

I carry my prison with me

no bounds or bars or barriers

can equal the breadth of my bondage

its burning poison possesses marrow and mind

squeezing the...

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I sit and watch. 

Changes come so slowly. 
So, vigilance is required,
an attentiveness to minutia.
There are layers of wardings 
erected     ...

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All The World’s A  Stage

In the lives of each other 
We play many parts
With a very long scene until the end
Composed of Acts as...

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HAND OF GOD

The deluge came like splattered tears,
palm’s held out to see if it was real.
Hemlines lifted as feet kicked against the water.
The scourge of...

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A woman left for work. Her child went to school.
A latchkey kid, her daughter that day got
straight home from school, aware of every rule
to not...

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A faint glow dribbles 'neath his door, 
and clamours of construction mutter, 
bellow and insinuate, his broken voice 
belies an old man struggling with a...

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There's cobalt clouds across the sun
A nice cool breeze moves the oak tree
Somewhere on earth, someone buys a gun
All the while, the sun shines with...

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She stands at the barbed-wire fence
 Her chest heaves up and down
  Her picture is taken ~ dogs bark
   They are ferocious

The...

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Best you had,
Now that’s sad.
Well I’m glad.
I’m no fad,
I’m ironclad.
You alright,
Not so bright.
Can’t you fight,
With this spite.
Where’s the might.
Times ago,
Now shadow.
Left me low,
In the snow,
You...

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Mandated this faux gremlin explorer
(alias Cliff Ford) donning reinforced
rubber baby buggy bumpers to dodge
any errant wild jaguar, ram, thunder bird,
bee in blue bonnet hood lamb,...

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A faint glow dribbles 'neath his door, 
and clamours of construction mutter, 
bellow and insinuate, his broken voice 
belies an old man struggling with a...

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A faint glow dribbles 'neath his door, 
and clamours of construction mutter, 
bellow and insinuate, his broken voice 
belies an old man struggling with a...

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A green glow dribbles 'neath his door,
and clamours of construction mutter,
bellow and insinuate, his broken voice
belies a whole man struggling with a stutter.
He comes and...

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