Best Stages Poems

You're in the last stages
of lost wages,
of empty pages,
of spent rages,

You're in the termination 
of inspiration
of imitation,
of expiration,

You're in the culmination
of emulation,
of exploitation,
of domination

of me....

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Stage 1

Trick-or- treating long after dark, we knocked on an old lady’s door.
Her annoyed look clearly did not match our Halloween glee.
But that did not dissuade us from dashing to the next lighted porch.


Stage 2

I took my two small kids out in cute costumes Halloween...

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First you learn to crawl around
Then give a step a chance
Bit by bit you learn to talk
And not to wet your pants

When it’s time to go to school
Get on the bus and go
It’s scary to be on your own
With kids that you don’t know

Then you...

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1. INCIPIENT
the smell of burning body helps me sleep at night
i'd rather ignite this spark in my stomach than shove bread down my throat
singe this hollow home
choke these lungs with bone dry soil so nothing can grow
and maybe they brainwashed me
or i did it to...

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I  

A spark is shot
Deftly, from between two fingers.
It sits, wavering on its bed
Like a lone star
Against the black,
Cold coals.
Chuckling, a candle flame shows
Its little golden head.
Sleepily, it reaches for its mother
And she, flickering, crackles her tongue
As the scorching hand upon her breast grows
And...

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Your life through stages 
By Michelle Morris 
13/08/2020 

In the morning of your life,
You'll feel like you have
All the time in the world;
You'll be enthusiastic and 
Fearless, and without any
Limits unfurled...

Simultaneously, you'll be 
Surrounded by people who 
Want to mould you, 
Shape you into boxes
That...

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It cowers in the corner,
newly born.
I turn my spite-soaked back,
riddled with resentment
and pull the thin veil
to sink beneath its cover.
I will not watch it crawl,
but it breathes,
a shadow
at the edge of my own
threatening to merge.
It waits, as I do
for nothing
while I ignore its cries
and mine.
And...

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The mumbles and giggles of a baby,
wobbly, shaky I soon stand maybe.

I frolic and prance with energy strong,
for I am youth and can do no wrong. 

Life you are full of such sweet gladness,
yet, my adulthood is often madness.

Now, I stand alone on this life's...

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I began life as a gorilla – cumbersome and chunky.
I clunked my way into situations, abrasive and loud. 
I also misrepresented and misspoke. 
Rapidly became misunderstood and ostracized.
Life was not working...

So I transmogrified myself into a butterfly.
Flitting from place to place, not staying long enough...

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Life is a playground, the fun never ends.
Not a care in the world, just run around with your friends.
Doodling on the walls
Playing house with your dolls.
Chasing boys around with cooties
But only those you think are cuties.
A scraped knee covered with a Hello Kitty band aid.
“There’s...

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The pupa ready
To go for transformation
Indeed life is stage...

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as my pen positions itself
between my fingers  and pillows itself on my hand…
…I know not why I write and still I’ve got to take this poem for a ride….

Thoughts spew inside my head – too
fast to articulate. Too deep to defend. Ticking like a...

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Sitting by my open window,
watching moth at the porch light,
circling, circling, circling, never
slowing down his useless flight.

I am thinking of the many times
we sat on the old porch swing,
watching perhaps the self-same moth
just doing his aimless thing.

I was content to sit with wonder,
and as aimless...

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Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance

This burden is so very heavy
But I can’t possibly put it down
I must carry it with me always
As a reminder of my love for you

Just below the surface it boils
But I can’t possibly let it out
All my prayers went unheeded
But that was obviously my fault

If...

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You've reached the top, so
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