Best Participles Poems

I was punctured by punctuations
The words you wielded with such disdain
A ravenous revolutionary
Pitilessly piercing deep into my vein

I pretended such positivity 
Holding happy forward as my shield
Your attack so precise and persistent 
cold and calculated you would not yield

You left little to the imagination
Expressive expletives...

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Every time something breaks
like the pipe in the wall
we heard gushing

this morning
my wife wants to call
a repairman because 

I can’t fix anything
except split infinitives
and dangling participles

and I usually agree 
but this time 
I mention the kayaks 

in the attic and say 
why don’t we hop...

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in the silence
of the night

ring loudest
words unsaid

the gaps
the hesitations

admissions left
half hanging



AP: 3rd place 2021

Posted on July 19, 2021...

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