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Bold Faced Poems - Poems about Bold Faced

Nameless

...The dust of eons has not named me,
why would dust name dust?

I who have entered the world
through so many women,
and exited its bold-faced deceits
as sexless as a worm or an apple,
how then c...
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Categories: bold faced, poetry,
Form: Free verse

if God was a woman on earth - An ode to my grandmother

...my grandmother’s name is Verna

some look at her and see section 8, welfare checks, abuse and neglect

they see insufficiency, ignorant independency, a trench-condemned wreck 

no collegiate ed...
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Categories: bold faced, 10th grade,
Form: Spoken Word



Patchwork Mary

...A lock of sweat-matted hair over one eye,
she shakes a red knuckled fist at a naked child,
wailing upon a cold floor.

Mary drying feet with her hair.
Mary at the temple calling.
A street corne...
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Categories: bold faced, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Remorseless Sweaty Palms

...Remorseless sweaty palms

despite being prescribed glycopyrrolate.

Though the angst riddled psyche of mine crafted youth, long since receded, ebbed in the past, infringement, impingement, and in...
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Categories: bold faced, 12th grade, anger, blue,
Form: Free verse

January 24th, 2023 Hair Washing Heralds Huge Happening

...January 24th, 2023 Hair washing heralds huge happening

Hark….the herald angels sing, and twitter 
for mass communication 
mediums stop the presses 
when I, a regular schlemiel 
take shampoo to...
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Categories: bold faced, adventure, anxiety, devotion, fun,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberNot George Washington

...Santos fooled the folks as he spoke
George thinks mashing facts is a joke
This N.Y. House dope
Needs his mouth rinsed with soap
His diaper-rash words make me choke


Author's note: Why did vot...
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Categories: bold faced, america, character, identity, political,
Form: Limerick

Finding Godo

...Fifteen years in the same apartment,
before that twenty-five years in a bungalow.
Earlier still; digs, dumps and bedsits.
Peripatetic ambulation's
traveling in circles.
Left that world, travelle...
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Categories: bold faced, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Jinxed Juvenile

...Jinxed juvenile slithers, withers unseen.
Feeling the angst of earlier guilt trips,
A Christian conscience and its censorships -
this golden-haired boy was not born to glean. 
Mind colored from p...
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Categories: bold faced, 11th grade, father son,
Form: Other

Eternal Pain

...Now and forevermore in eternal pain.
No more sunny skies, only thunder lightning and rain

Here I lay broken and my heart shattered
Crying out for help and peace yet going unheard so it doesn't e...
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Categories: bold faced, dark, emotions, heartbroken, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe New Axis of Evil Part One

...More than seventy years ago, during WW 11, the original Axis of evil nations first existed.

It was the nations of Germany and of Japan that spear headed that former Axis of evil nations. Concernin...
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Categories: bold faced, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberThose Dangerous Days Are Back Once Again

...OH! Those dangerous days are back again!
When Roman citizens had to choose
Caesar is lord instead of Jesus Christ
As the one true Lord God Almighty!
Even when they knew it was not true!
Some of ...
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Categories: bold faced, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Lay

You Live You Learn

...A new victim,
 cast your eyes on your prey,
   A lesson to learn,
 tomorrow is a new day.

    I'm taking back,
 the things you stole,
   My life, my mind,
 my heart of gold.

    My heart ...
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Categories: bold faced, heartbreak, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme

I Can'T Save You

...I can't save you. I was never meant to. Even though this path of mine is irrevocably twisted within yours, if so you drown, from the wayside I'll be forced to witness you fall the entire way down. Ho...
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Categories: bold faced, addiction, age, analogy, confusion,
Form: Free verse

Thief of Trust Dishonesty Seething

...The only thing I hate more than unintelligence
Is a bold-faced liar that thinks they blend amongst friends
Using weakenesses as weapons falsely condescending contention
Crashing house of cards pap...
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Categories: bold faced, betrayal, blessing, character, corruption,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRomantic Reflections

...Romantic Reflections

Gone now are those halcyon days,
Days we spent by sunny shore.
You are gone now and in my haze,
Reflections make me miss you more.

I hear a song you used to hum;
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Categories: bold faced, death, grief, lost love,
Form: Rhyme

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