Wasteland of Failure
...The outside is where I belong
The inside so filmiar
A constant stride to belong
To fit the mold of what a man should be
Weak I am cancered by self denial
When will it end for me
Alone I be
Wh...
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Categories:
cancered, conflict, confusion, dark, depression,
Form: Free verse
The Bane of the Cancered Soul
...There is no god in England
(I learned of that this day)
For when a man is stricken
He has no more to say.
He lies in expectation,
The end to shortly be,
Torment is blindly gazing out
Through e...
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Categories:
cancered, angst, bereavement, cancer,
Form: Rhyme
Spring In Mariupol
...The birdscarers have been at work in Mariupol.
Not with firecrackers in barrels
But shells and rockets.
There is no birdsong in the trees in Mariupol.
The birds have left.
There are no trees.
T...
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Categories:
cancered, spring, war,
Form: Free verse
Where the Stars Were
...splintered fractures
screaming light telling tales of once being
Hallowed sand that skirmish
our skins release
as cancered waves
blow their dying breath
entwined in our writhing's
kisses sof...
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Categories:
cancered, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Choosing Happiness
...Tonight I heard a terminally cancered
yet not cancelled
singer songwriter say
"I can't wait for life to not be hard
before choosing to be happy."
She spoke well from her own experience
and I...
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Categories:
cancered, fear, happiness, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Spring Dog and Falling Eagle
...Spring Dog,
like any terrorist
I've ever not quite met,
not seen eye to eye,
nor found knowable,
nor fathomable,
Out to see the world
and form colonies
to feed his cancered Ego,
Teaches ...
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Categories:
cancered, dog, earth, health, native
Form: Political Verse
Sonnet: Elegy In Blank Verse
...SONNET :
ELEGY IN BLANK VERSE
I wish I could find death before I grow
so I could miss life's pain and agony.
A child can only feel and hear and see
the universe with love and happiness.
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Categories:
cancered, death, happiness, philosophy, universe,
Form: Sonnet
A Reasonable Crime
...Dark to black and beaten skin to living bone.
Chosen by name and marked by birth.
You hang me, cajole me and yellow badge me.
You segregate, strip and stick me. Jackboot,
shoot and gas me, ...
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Categories:
cancered, dark, hate, jewish, racism,
Form: Free verse
Naaaaa, Couldnt Be Global Warming
...naaaaa, couldn’t be global warming
as state after state begins to boil &
the people of this country begin to sweat,
swelter & roast
under these oppressive heat waves, the
National Weather Service
is...
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Categories:
cancered, life, people, fire, fire,
Form: Free verse
Everywhere I Am.
...Disassembled parts lay scattered,
Desolation after destruction,
Determined to destroy the battered.
Dabbled in days of discussion.
The words screamed could never replace words unsaid,
Even i...
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Categories:
cancered, faith, philosophy, sad, sympathy,
Form: I do not know?