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Pariah heap - savagely subjecting myself to humiliation

...Pariah heap - savagely subjecting myself to humiliation

Outward slovenly appearance bespeaks volumes
wordsworth their weight in gold
(exhumed from the pith
of these lovely bones -
beclothed wi...

Categories: browbeaten, 12th grade, absence, age,
Form: Free verse

Fig Leaf

...An alluring art of vivacious symbols and meanings,
Fig leaf has many religious political leanings;  
Though apple was the fruit Adam and Eve had once eaten,
It's fig leaf that had hidden them when...

Categories: browbeaten, allegory, analogy,
Form: Rhyme

Let Me, Be Me

...A being, whole and complete.

Not on this earth to be your treat.

Not for one second, to fulfill. your
perfect expectations.

Never browbeaten to meet societal
recriminations.

These cloud...

Categories: browbeaten, integrity, voice,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

She Never Had To Retract Her Words

...She never had to retract her words
or her ideas
or her behaviors
or her opinions
or her attitudes

because she had been goaded and browbeaten into retracting herself

trained into submission ...

Categories: browbeaten, abuse, woman, women,
Form: Free verse

Where Angels Fear To Tread

...I was a picked on, 
bullied, browbeaten, buffaloed boy
from Buffalo New York.
I grew up on Buffalo’s lower east side,
the ghetto by another name.
The Frederick Douglass towers.
Formerly the Tal...

Categories: browbeaten, confidence, courage, encouraging, life,
Form: Free verse

The Perfect Storm

...
He rode her with a passion his tiller held high
He commanded her, but; never once did own
Calms her ardent waters; passions as subside
Giving respect, allows her to share his throne

He comman...

Categories: browbeaten, allegory, beautiful, deep, desire,
Form: Pantoum

Facebook As Sounding Board

...With a middle name as "Flag this Scapegoat,"
I best not be surprised bullied from cutthroat
villains (supposedly kind hearted facilitators/
moderators, sans Facebook administrators, but
woe whiz ...

Categories: browbeaten, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Phil Ostein Conferred With

...Phil Ostein Conferred With...

Oracle of delphi
for meager tithe
as per usual end
of year shibboleth,
and thus this hoop 
fully ville explain,
the substance and pith
viz, where new

years ...

Categories: browbeaten, brother, culture, encouraging, god,
Form: Free verse

We Grow

...With descent and ascent in every walking steps
Treading through the coppice thorns and comforting steppes 
Being drowned and floated into many mighty oceans 
Bearing the torment of chides and humi...

Categories: browbeaten, 3rd grade, appreciation, autumn,
Form: Rhyme

Scantily-Clad In the Garden of S W Eden

...SCANTILY-CLAD in the GARDEN of S W EDEN

Here I stand, all alone, scantily-clad in the garden of S W EDEN.
Wondering if the Original Garden still remains untilled and uneven.
Wondering how that S...

Categories: browbeaten, adventure, beauty, betrayal, bible,
Form: Verse

Silhouettes Don'T Speak

...The way the light hits the ground 
leads to the sudden appearance 
of shadows upon your frame, 
and your wisps of white hair 
are made whiter by the sunlight. 

I stare at your silhouette, 
re...

Categories: browbeaten, family, granddaughter, grandmother, grandparents,
Form: Free verse

Chaos

...In a world of chaos there is no sense
In a world of pain no goodness
Downtrodden and browbeaten
In a world full there is loneliness
Shadow so long and dark
Scars run deep and bleeding
Hurting and sca...

Categories: browbeaten, angst, world,
Form: Dramatic Verse

The Way To Gleams

...A mother's love may visit pain
If one child's hope looses its dream
A chasm deep in her soul screams.
Oh God, please let his faith remain.

Youthful goals and priorities
Can cloud love's path e...

Categories: browbeaten, inspirational, god, faith, god,
Form: Quatrain