cheekbones
...her sharpened cheekbone
cutting the blustering wind
majestically...
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Categories:
cheekbone, wind,
Form: Haiku
A Flower Vase on Top of a Piano
...My neighbor's piano swirls around her finger
likened to a keyed car where scrapes linger.
She teases out a tune as we both try to hum
along with swirling keys her fingers drum.
The naturals a...
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Categories:
cheekbone, insect, music,
Form: Rhyme
NO WORDS
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I was beaten into silence as a young child
from my father's brutalizing rage and
psychological torture as he punched me.
When I was 5, a man exposed himself, to me
I ran fast terrified, no w...
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Categories:
cheekbone, abuse, anti bullying, bullying,
Form: Free verse
The Flying Dutchman
...Hoisted high Black flags sail,
Camouflaged by a misty veil,
A bow braced with forward guns,
Upon a ship no-one outruns,
This sight was seen through a scope,
A view of horror crushing all hope,
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Categories:
cheekbone, dark, death, myth, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Getting Ready
...Silence swarming with noise
Sounds blasting, like a war
Penetrating proof of the clamorous
Blare, blaze, flaming craze
Hues of doubt pouring out on the calm
Darkness sinking into the heart
Hush...
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Categories:
cheekbone, anxiety, christian, death, eulogy,
Form: Free verse
I Never Had Enough Hate For Myself
...to waste it on anyone else
all the reflections
are just accidents
dust on mirrors
a finger swipe away
watching the numb eat its way through the pain
one jagged mouthful at a time
rowed rows of...
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Categories:
cheekbone, poetry,
Form: Free verse
I Lost
...I LOST
When my dad called me ugly,
stupid and worthless, as that
little girl, I lost!
When my mother didn't protect
me from the cruelty and abuse
at home, I lost!
When a bad man came in...
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Categories:
cheekbone, abuse, angst, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
Dream
...Dream
My mirrored reflection silently speaks
You honor me with your vulnerability
Your scars of life
Your unhealed wounds of betrayal
Dream journals tattoo your body
Your open arms of des...
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Categories:
cheekbone, appreciation, blessing, child, dream,
Form: Free verse
Good Shade Under Hot Sun
...She woke up to the song of the rising sun
Dealt with the domestic chores in one quick run
When it's time to set to the duty outdoors,
she locked those grotty wooden doors.
She joined her friend...
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Categories:
cheekbone, caregiving, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Snow Dance With Sarah
...I have not known
my city as my city when
the city snows.
There is no snow here.
It never snows in Houston.
I have seen my city
with her cheekbone bruised
and with a busted nose
and wi...
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Categories:
cheekbone, i miss you,
Form: Free verse
Parochial Propensities Promote Personal Pet Peeve
...Particularly pronounce abscess,
when rites of spring accursedness
prevails, asper testament, sans swell
scored psychological achiness
recording minecrafted history,
viz secreting acridness
p...
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Categories:
cheekbone, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse
I Lost
...When Dad called me ugly, stupid
and worthless, as that little girl, I lost!
When my mother couldn’t protect
me from the cruelty and abuse
at home, I lost!
When a bad man came into
my room a...
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Categories:
cheekbone, abuse, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
No Words
...I was beaten into silence as a young
child from my father's brutalizing rage
and psychological torture.
When I was 5, a man exposed himself, to me
I ran fast terrified, no words spoken.
When...
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Categories:
cheekbone, abuse, angst, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
Standing On Fame's Edge
...I stand here in front of a fractured mirror
Tracing veined lines and blemished pores,
That in my waif-like outline I dream
About spring’s young complexion…ripe virginal
The glint of nubile a...
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Categories:
cheekbone, beauty, image, mirror,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Frosty's Squeeze
...Frosty's squeeze was Freckles Snow
and frosty saw her well.
Her button eyes would warm his heart
and leave him weak to tell.
Her smile was like a clever seal
with lips in brilliant red.
The t...
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Categories:
cheekbone, absence, appreciation, beauty, character,
Form: Quatrain
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