In a Coat of Pain
...I’ve knocked on every door of medicine men—
doors painted with hope.
Swallowed pills of every size and colour.
Been told,
“This one never fails.”
Another promise—
fulfilled only in disappointme...
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Categories:
budgets, anger, anxiety, cancer, caregiving,
Form: Spoken Word
The Centre Point
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I arrived breath away, stepping out of a journey waiting not for fellow passengers with tedious conversations about Hemingway, Trump or AI
hot excitement dis...
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Categories:
budgets, allusion, change, character, creation,
Form: Free verse
im irish
...im irish
outta new york
your 2 turn in a table
gutter pork
fake brass rings detailing how
wedding ventures
meet her news cow
ill and straight
the dhali llama's
trying to show you
how nazi's...
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Categories:
budgets, boxing day ,
Form: Free verse
news tips
...in materials science and nanoscience we do not produce strange chemicals or chemistry.
the divestment from chemical engineers and turning in of the repetitive research violations beneath our electri...
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Categories:
budgets, absence, abuse, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
The Prince Stands Tall
...Ah, behold
Prince William in uniform,
chiseled chin held high under ceremonial sunlight,
a speech polished like his medals,
echoing across parade grounds
as cameras hum like obedient bees.
“D...
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Categories:
budgets, america, pain, parody, peace,
Form: Free verse
SENIOR COMMUNITY DRUG OPERATIONS RAN BY DOMESTIC TERRORISTS DEALERS INC
...SNOW BIRDS HAVE A WHOLE NEW MEANING MASSIVE CRIMINAL CONVOYS TARGETING SENIORS THE CONVOY OF HASTE CORRUPT DRUG DEALERS ARRIVE TO FLORIDA TARGETING SENIOR COMMUNITIES TARGETING DISABLED AMERICANS MOS...
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Categories:
budgets, allah,
Form: Naat
Jingle Bell Blues
...Title: "Jingle Bell Blues"
(To the tune of “Jingle Bells”)
Verse 1:
Dashing through the store,
On a frantic holiday,
Grabbing gifts galore,
In a checkout line ballet.
Lights are burning brig...
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Categories:
budgets, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
'D'isgraceful 'O'bnoxious 'G'rotesque 'E'litists
...DOGE boys Musk and Ramaswamy
Box their cold cuts with pastrami
They soon will behold
While napkins can fold
Budgets are not origami...
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Categories:
budgets, 2nd grade, boy, bullying,
Form: Limerick
Democracy's Pillars
...In marble halls where laws are etched in stone,
Where freedom's song should echo, full and grown,
A silence creeps, insidious and slow,
As arts and letters wither, they are forced to go.
For wh...
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Categories:
budgets, education, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Starving Spines
...Pages turn thin, thin as the plot thickens
Thinning knowledge as ignorance quickens
Spines crack from hunger, hunger for minds
Cracking under pressure of different kinds
Books starve for attent...
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Categories:
budgets, books, passion,
Form: Free verse
Poetic Podcast Episode 26 Bop
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The difference between you and I?
I know numbers are a universal language;
I’ll work 3 jobs to keep what’s mine;
Budgets, lists, hard work, and discipline;
Add them up, stop skipping steps.
R...
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Categories:
budgets, emotions, feelings, humanity,
Form: Other
Have You Seen a Dancing Banana
...Have you seen a dancing banana?
It had not been the best day at work.
I gave the speaker a grumpy face.
Shook my head “no”, hoped he would disappear.
He was a new worker, no name tag yet.
“Wha...
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Categories:
budgets, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Free verse
Dance of Graves
...Dance of Graves
The dance of graves occurs more than we are prompted to imagine. We prefer to keep matters of death fit into that realm of Afterlife, where the divine mysteries are kept far beyon...
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Categories:
budgets, angst, death, feelings, god,
Form: Haibun
Kwerekwere
...Kind people
With good respect
Educated from different universities and Schools
Responsible in their lives and knowing well to
Economize their small or big budgets.
Knowing to speak Kikwere...
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Categories:
budgets, 12th grade, africa, encouraging,
Form: Acrostic
For Mike Pence
...Mike Pence for President
always made sense
to me
A man of rare conviction
in this land no longer brave
and lately not free
He reserves kisses for his wife
tithe...
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Categories:
budgets, courage, irony, leadership, political,
Form: Rhyme
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