Best Personas Poems

“Ronald Gene Simmons” death’s synonymous,
   This methodic demon murdered the lot!
      The executioner, autonomous,
        Not a family member aware of plot!     
Grandchildren’s redemption, a rain barrel!
 ...

Continue reading...

By day she is a wife, daughter, mother, neighbor.
Only her husband knows that she transmogrifies at night.
Tight neon costumes, wild hair, intense makeup.
She becomes a rock star that is unrecognizable to most
Who know her as daughter, mother, neighbor.
Her closest friend has no idea when she...

Continue reading...

Personas have limits, boundaries veiled by the thin masquerade of pretense
They whisper promises of identity, yet crack under pressure of reality's weight—poet

She puts on her face while vaping smoke surrounds, 
Carefully paints fishtail eyes , studs, and crimson lips,  
satin scarfs around hug her...

Continue reading...

I worry for the child every night,
And every night brings forth another fright.
I worry for the child in every way everyday,
“Do not stumble, don't get hurt”, always I would pray.

It's harsh, the way I existed, that is,
In a blink of an eye, I was just...

Continue reading...