But
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Me? Corny?
No.
But...
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I dream that I could go to war
simply so a picture of her is nestled
in my top shirt pocket
at...
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Categories:
blood transfusion, feelings, first love, for
Form: Free verse
blood transfusion
...virtue is nothing claimed
nothing but acceptance
weary roads of unstable
to reach out to my mother
inherited sadness, taken-on imbalance
derangement of two, nobody understood.
the so-called w...
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Categories:
blood transfusion, daughter, family, me, mother,
Form: Free verse
Puppy - Part 2
...When you died, you died too soon.
You died one year ago this afternoon.
A vet tried to save you with a blood transfusion but you died anyway.
You died and my heart was broken one year ago today.
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Categories:
blood transfusion, anniversary, death, dog,
Form: Rhyme
A STORY OF LOVE
...
Love is not blind but because of it’s unpredictability and it’s elusiveness
It can, at times, be a little difficult to see.
Other times, however, it is as palpable as can be
We can feel it in ou...
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Categories:
blood transfusion, love,
Form: Rhyme
Midnight a and E
...The sun descends this cloudless night
A moon for howling, full and bright
A moon by which the bats take flight
And wolf-men and the undead bite
Stretchered in, a bite mark cruel
He won’t heal ...
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Categories:
blood transfusion, halloween, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Vampire Integration
...she’s the anorexic vampire
just can’t stand the sight of gore
and she’d rather starve to oblivion
than bite necks any more
she’s resigned to a long hunger
she won’t be holding her breath
for wh...
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Categories:
blood transfusion, anxiety, celebrity, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Transfusion
...I visited the Met* today
And came to this conclusion –
My spirits were revived as if
I’d had a blood transfusion.
For two long years I’ve stayed away
And all of my seclusion
Has weighed me do...
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Categories:
blood transfusion, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
A Changed Heart
...There was a man named Carlton, who came
from a rural town.
He was well-liked by all within his community,
he was the town judge.
Everyone gave him much respect. However,
he had another group ...
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Categories:
blood transfusion, change, heart,
Form: Free verse
Just Like That- Gone
...Running wild
Through beds of rocks and stones
His voice echoes... 'Neath the mountain tops
Years gone by
Slimmed thin; his narrow bones
His arms, still trickling slowly downstream
Of ...
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Categories:
blood transfusion, nature, river,
Form: Verse
My Sister Elizabeth
...Born a year after her crowning, named after the Queen
My sister had no luck, her life short and mean
Academically and behaviorally in trouble at school
A royal rebel was 'Liz;' she broke all...
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Categories:
blood transfusion, sad, sister, tribute,
Form: Ode
Collusion Confusion
...The last few years we've heard a profusion of
Media voices strident -- 'Russia-Trump collusion!'
Mueller's investigation's sowed considerable confusion
We patient citizens -- citizen patient...
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Categories:
blood transfusion, health, humorous, political,
Form: Rhyme
For All You Dear Soupers
...The poem I'm writing right now's number eight
For me that is special; I must save the date
I've been cranking them out, one on top of another
For all you dear Soupers, all my sisters and b...
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Categories:
blood transfusion, appreciation, friendship, future,
Form: Sonnet
Storm Warning
...Closer now
closer than we’ve ever been
as tyrannies anthem
drive us all insane
Closer now
closer to the grand genocidal of our history
this screaming civilian
barters a blood transfusion for...
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Categories:
blood transfusion, society,
Form: Free verse
Find It Odd
...Last fall she was dancing up a storm
at her grandsons wedding attire adorned,
having more energy than the energizer bunny
twirling around having a demeanor very sunny,
Then late April of this y...
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Categories:
blood transfusion, health, irony, mom,
Form: Light Verse
My Last Letter
...My last letter
Came to me breathless and tired,
His yellow eyes I could well notice,
His dad too had such eyes I enquired,
And God ! another brother having similar,
My reference letters he...
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Categories:
blood transfusion, emotions, sick, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
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