I Let **** In: The Secret That Almost Destroyed Me - Part 01
...The day I let *********** in...
I didn’t even know what I was letting in.
I was just a curious boy 11, maybe 12
scrolling one evening.
One video.
One image.
One pop-up.
One “harmless” click.
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Categories:
blindfolds, abuse, addiction, america, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
The execution
...The women fell upon the bodies of the dead,
clearing blindfolds for one last look upon their face.
Shot, against a carmine wall, no matter how they pled.
So now they mourn them through a veil of b...
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Categories:
blindfolds, death,
Form: Rhyme
Lady Sings the Blues
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Lady Sings the Blues She oftentimes reminisces
And laments humming songs about her past.
Lady Sings the Blues
Her verbal abuse on occasion hits harder than
the waves in the ocean. Lady Sin...
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Categories:
blindfolds, anger, betrayal, character, emotions,
Form: Bio
Blue Jade
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Wherever the winter falls,
upon snowflakes of a frozen saudade ~
rising from the flares
of maple-gold and copper,
I waltz in lilac lanes of petrified pigments,
imperfectly splattered by ...
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Categories:
blindfolds, emotions, first love, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
A Shadow Of Hardball
...Ebon bafflement descended
from the Sun-bleached sky;
A penumbra of illuminated lies,
this world needs to be reprimanded;
A joyous ballet of obliteration;
Fooled by the doe eyed sweetheart,
t...
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Categories:
blindfolds, emotions, feelings, moon,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Playing the Game
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The donkey brays;
the elephant trumpets,
and the herds remain unprotected
from the wolves and the jackals.
What game shall we play;
pin the tail on the Donkey
or Elephants can't rememb...
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Categories:
blindfolds, political,
Form: Political Verse
Reinvigorating
...In the lapse of time
Here i am again
Smelting in solitude
Scorching in darkness
Searching in blindfolds
When all other seasons collapse
and glaciers starts melting
Spring reborns with surpri...
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Categories:
blindfolds, allegory, allusion, america, animal,
Form: Free verse
Dark Sees Depths No Light Can
...Too bad, for long has man shun a dark night.
But darkness ‘tis that lets deeper insight,
What opens up a rich treasure
That light blindfolds beyond measure,
It’s dark that unravels man’s inner bl...
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Categories:
blindfolds, light, night, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Legislators Are the New Mill Owners
...JUSTICE
They stare out at us unsmiling
from tintypes of the first photographs,
from the tea-colored pictures
of thin, ragged immigrants, huddled
in cold bare rooms in tenements,
children cl...
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Categories:
blindfolds, anger, angst, feelings, humanity,
Form: Free verse
The Begin Again Beings
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"The Begin Again Beings"
A family of swords
the world under their feet
to all that is fallen in the
darkened passages beneath,
slipped on crushed pearls of tears
rivule...
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Categories:
blindfolds, journey, muse, strength,
Form: Narrative
Oculus
...Blinded blindfolds
never sighted nevertheless
sightless eyes open...
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Categories:
blindfolds, character, courage, devotion,
Form: Haiku
Meet You In Time Square
...A frozen pulse a synergy and soon she was iced like cold hard glass.
Poor Clea in her purple orchid dress ensconced in a crevice of time,
from the icy tendrils of Ikthalon. Icy winds blow from t...
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Categories:
blindfolds, hero, strength,
Form: Narrative
Doomsday
...This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES...
VERSE 1:
All claim they revering Almighty GOD,
Same time hailing graven images as their lord.
Plainly they see it no wrong;
The inappropriate way of procuring m...
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Categories:
blindfolds, judgement,
Form: Lyric
Jehovah Reigns
...JEHOVAH REIGNS:
All in the hands of Beelzebub!
The tempter of mankind,
The ancient adversary of GOD,
Who can never over throw Jehovah.
Why does he causes men to fall;
By explicitly seducing m...
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Categories:
blindfolds, destiny, god, gospel, inspiration,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Wine Language
...Allow the wine to speak to me,
for it reeks of no blindfolds of deceit.
Let it spill your hidden truths,
for it knows not to plead the fifth.
20 June 2022...
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Categories:
blindfolds, love hurts,
Form: Quatrain
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