A Very Bad Day
...When I arose one day, I could barely walk.
Had to drink my coffee before I could talk.
Before I was done, the bathroom would call,
I held the grab bar, but still managed to fall.
The shower b...
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Categories:
caved, funny, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Me and a Mug
...The feeling of a ceramic mug being formed.
Mental blocks, not normal.
Just the clattering of pencils as if they are a cure.
Taking time out of nothing.
Taking tempered emotions.
Stemming ...
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Categories:
caved, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Mr Softy
...The Illinois emperor favors no bail for the violent
he's a softy in the middle and more so on crime
From his bullhorn pulpit he proclaims that we're safe
I'm afraid the land of Lincoln is made of ...
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Categories:
caved, places,
Form: Political Verse
Promises
...I've kept the promises I made
Stood steady in the storms
Never caved in to the waves
First one, then two, even three
Never failing, always strong
But the one I never got to make
Is the one ...
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Categories:
caved, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
The Whispers of Ella’s Magic
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Whispers through her eyes
Often gazes the skimmers in twilight
More overly,
more mesmerized as her heart was in delight
She cupped the melodies, through the true sights
All what she whis...
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Categories:
caved, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Insight, a Soliloquy
...Insight must be difficult for you when you’re wounded so easily. You can’t show it, of course, to show your scars and flaws would be considered weak to you, since they can be used against you. So you...
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Categories:
caved, abuse, dad, family,
Form: Free verse
Pixie within the pink
...Pixie within the pink
let me swirl your tyranny into the high-octaved melody of my earliest endurance
Right as the clock ticked to six, the creaking sound of my mother’s war cry made me bury myself...
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Categories:
caved, 10th grade, children, color,
Form: Lyric
What The Hell Are You Doing Here?
...He looked at me, eyes dull and cold,
“What the hell are you doing here?”
And just like that-my heart caved in,
Shattered by the words I feared.
I had come with love in trembling hands,
A daug...
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Categories:
caved, anger, cancer, dad, daughter,
Form: Rhyme
THE PRISMATIC SELF
...Contest : The Prismatic Self
Sponsor : Daniel Henry Rodgers
Date submitted : 19/5/25
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“Contests around track, contests for followers,
for best tasting wine, most exquisite
a...
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Categories:
caved, age, character, courage, destiny,
Form: Bio
Memorial Day
...You can hear a pin drop as the car circles the neighborhood and stands still, before the loud doors open and rose petals fall, as the highly decorated grim reaper wills himself to deliver bad new...
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Categories:
caved, america, memorial day,
Form: Pantoum
Abandoned, Not Broken
...a house abandoned
walls caved in
the windows no panes
and the floors creek
yet still a spark of beauty
flawed and few
nothing inbetween
i stay reflecting on the past…
it used to be thriving
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Categories:
caved, absence, abuse, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
A Mothers Pain
...A mother wears a grey vail as she weeps in realities of hell, the casket closes no one peeps as the pain seeps, she becomes numb.
Bottles open cups poured; tears fall as she recalls the day...
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Categories:
caved, abuse,
Form: I do not know?
Crying
...Tears fall like cold rain
Sliding down dry, tender cheeks
As though thin ice caved
As though floodwaters
Prisoner to a mighty dam
Is captive no more
As though chained feelings
Cool a flami...
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Categories:
caved, grief,
Form: Haiku
Lost libido as rez erected cockamamie Shtrungool haint no prickly fallacy
...Lost libido as rez erected cockamamie Shtrungool haint no prickly fallacy
The following pastiche
poetically pricked prick,
whereby fantasy courtesy Eros
(????) cow licked
country bumpin vide...
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Categories:
caved, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
caved, family, home,
Form: Shape
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