My trauma wears Crocs
...My Trauma Wears Crocs
My trauma wears Crocs—
bright yellow, with stickers peeling off.
It doesn’t care how serious you want life to look.
It clomps into therapy,
kicks its feet,
asks if there...
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Categories:
clomps, africa, change, deep, depression,
Form: Free verse
Onomato-pea-a
...I’m Onomato-pea-a
The window is my home.
I love the sounds of cooking
At day, at dusk, and dawn.
Mom clomps into the room
And clicks on every light
The curtain whooshes open,
I wake up, “No ...
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Categories:
clomps, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Fashion and Fabrics Are Never New
...1950’s poodle skirts made a brief come back.
kids in the eighties thought it was funny, a fact.
my own daughter had some scotty dog clothes too
not knowing they were old, thinking they were new.
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Categories:
clomps, fashion,
Form: Rhyme
Once Upon a Scary Time
...Lugosi lays, Chaney scares, creeps the dusk,
Price fades, Karloff, clomps, all ashes and dust,
Past-timed preferred actors all,
Scary times, hair raised, jaws fall,
Greats, long unsee...
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Categories:
clomps, horror, imagery, life, nostalgia,
Form: Limerick
He Is Before All Things---
...HE IS BEFORE ALL THINGS---
He is
He is before all
He is before all things;
And in Him all things hold together;
Things become more awe sum and better…
When you allow them;
When you allow Him...
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Categories:
clomps, appreciation, caregiving, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Mountains of Bavaria
...MOUNTAINS OF BAVARIA
climbing,
higher and higher.
a breathtaking scene.
horse and carriage clomps past us.
an extraordinary castle
in the mountains of Bavaria.
lingering pati...
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Categories:
clomps, beauty, nature,
Form: Free verse
Strong Pumpkin
...On the mighty heights sits a strong pumpkin
It glows greatly so deep into the night
So evil it clomps down, absorbs your sins
Bats fly around it looking to bring fright
Skeletons walk scar...
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Categories:
clomps, holiday, life,
Form: Dizain