My Honour, So I Object
...Today I have no counsel.
No mouthpiece carved from conscience,
no briefcase of softened truths,
no evidence to prove innocence.
Just me— the accused,
standing in the ribcage of a collapsing co...
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Categories:
bloodstreams, allegory, discrimination, environment,
Form: Free verse
Schools are Changing
...Gates once locked with poverty's rust
now swing on golden hinges
Every child a key-holder:
the girl whose fingers paint light from darkness,
the boy who dreams in mother tongues and thinks in mat...
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Categories:
bloodstreams, appreciation, books, care, change,
Form: Free verse
Serpent’s Lair
...How wicked the tricks of your serpent’s lair
a lingual place of wild mango magic behind caliente lips
where a supple sensualist lies in seductive ambush—
rum on the rocks spices the red bed of you...
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Categories:
bloodstreams, dark, kiss, longing, night,
Form: Free verse
A Kiss In The Dark
...December
knows the speech
to transcribe double-edged thoughts,
dried between cognitive spaces
of comets tattooed
with razor-sharp ink~
infused with cinnamon and clover,
emanating toxic per...
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Categories:
bloodstreams, dark, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Four years
...I know you are sensitive,
not sentimental,
but it has been four years,
that's one thousand
four hundred and sixty one days,
since enlightened tides kissed
those island shores.
My soul was ...
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Categories:
bloodstreams, absence, change, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Destiny, the final milestone
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My sizzling heart failing around the clock
No light colliding with the dark to spark
But essence dying passively through the dim
Dream's wall burning by the fire of terror
In a second, a sharp ...
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Categories:
bloodstreams, destiny, feelings, imagination, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Paranoid Nights
...Waves of nausea crash against my splintering ribcage,
stomach churning, bile burning through esophageal walls.
Choking on paranoia-fueled delirium,
self-inflicted wounds etched upon a fragile psyc...
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Categories:
bloodstreams, emotions, heartbreak, imagery, mental
Form: Free verse
How many ways can I say I love you
...I suprise myself
How many ways can I find to say I love you
It's you who lives behind my eyes
Your name is etched into my chest and every beat of my heart is a syllable screaming out to you
Your...
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Categories:
bloodstreams, love,
Form: Free verse
Believe This Or That Or Not
...So God created to say let there be and it was so or were so now again spoken again words he took one of man ribs from the body man while he slept So God created man in his own image, in the image of...
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Categories:
bloodstreams, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Narrative
Strawberry Soaked Wishes Rondine
...Strawberry soaked wishes, whipped cream;
Lovestruck faces share a sweet bite,
those sticky fingers taste just right;
Under the soft moonlight they beam,
caught inside love's fanciful scheme;
Puc...
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Categories:
bloodstreams, emotions, fantasy, feelings, love,
Form: Other
The Stench of Truth
...This "plague" isn't going away anytime soon
we're openly told this is our new normal
to bend over and over without any lube-
There's much to be gained by prolonging the pain
from the made in c...
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Categories:
bloodstreams, confusion, truth,
Form: Free verse
Hugs
...Hypodermic needles
Get you medicine real fast,
Allowing drugs to enter
Into bloodstreams like a blast.
To transfer one’s affection
Like a needle-piercing drug
Can be managed very simply
Thro...
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Categories:
bloodstreams, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Good Night Frozen Landscape
...Another overwhelming day passed in the pastures of plenty
The scene was tired and did not warrant a space on the news
Just one more place with no conscience for mind numbed souls
It was bitt...
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Categories:
bloodstreams, war,
Form: Free verse
An Imagination of Being In Heaven
...Every person dreams of being in heaven
As for where is much closer to the sun
Being there you will feel warm and bright
And bloodstreams run happily Day and Night
Nothing will aguish your soft ...
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Categories:
bloodstreams, appreciation, dream, heaven, life,
Form: Verse
Inebriant Melodies
...Daylight is greeted with the horrific stench of food chunks
swimming in stomach acid, dribbling onto bed sheets.
Accompanied with the embarrassment of
brown syrup puddle stains.
Head is poundi...
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Categories:
bloodstreams, addiction, angst, dark,
Form: Free verse
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