Journey On The Edge II
...When I was 16 my face suddenly froze,
As I passed out in my friend's arms,
I was laying there, face turned rose.
I awakened, memoryless, then recall harms.
When I was 23 I was very far,
But I ...
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Categories:
combusted, death, drug, health, journey,
Form: Quatrain
Election Musings
...Between my thicker and thicker lobes
Lies a much less thick wick
Which reflects a dimmer and dimmer glimmer of what was once brimming with more than a shimmer of hope and optimism
Two parties bick...
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Categories:
combusted, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Jack 77
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I remember when I held my children for the first time
I remember when I spoke at my dad’s funeral ad libbing in a mix of joy and grief
I remember when Saturday was THE most important day of t...
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Categories:
combusted, memory, mental health, mental
Form: Free verse
Everyone Knocks Neville
...Neville Knox was a trusting soul,
He believed all that people told him.
Even those who came around,
To harass and even scold him.
No matter what the suggestion,
He would do whatever they said....
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Categories:
combusted, death, fire,
Form: Rhyme
Conflagrant
...I don’t know how I got here
The first thing I notice is the smell of embers,
As my heavy eyes begin to let light into them
Darkness is all around me,
With fire being the only light source
Why fi...
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Categories:
combusted, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Zombie In a Recliner
...Around 9 A.M. it opened
a toast and brie-encrusted laptop
to watch surfboarding ninja squirrels
on YouTube. When it laughed
the birds in its head fell silent
as if some cave-ogre had spontaneous...
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Categories:
combusted, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Memoir of a Real Nigga Time Travelor From a Proud and Silent Future
...Memoir of a Real Nigga Time Travelor From a Proud and Silent Future.
A Monster seeding pre-grammatical,
Oscillating pivotals,
Octaves hit the matter I’ve created known perennial,
Posture sp...
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Categories:
combusted, black african american, black
Form: Rhyme
Curse of Miscalculation Dk
...he was not dumb
but he struck his thumb
now he was dumb-struck
and screamed jolly good
his hand in plaster
and bad luck his master
he could not drive his truck
to bide his tim...
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Categories:
combusted, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Blood Red
...The stench of blood so thick you could taste it
Raivel swallowed hard amongst the slashed
corpses of terrified souls littering the field
A harvest of death gleams and sparkles
as the crimson drip...
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Categories:
combusted, death, horror, myth,
Form: Free verse
Orange- -
...I looked all over town
And all I could find
Was yellow and brown
The mixture of brown and yellow
Eversole was mellow
Must have been a misdemeanor
For together they were Mindbender
It is I kept...
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Categories:
combusted, adventure, analogy, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Undressing the Blues
...‘They’ say there is no dress rehearsal in what is called life . . .
Who are they what garments what is heard before and again?
Existence or essence or merely the process of life-long learning...
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Categories:
combusted, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Jubilant Joy
...Fireworks gloried the sky with dazzling colors
Of red, white, and blue, ushering in the new year
And I raised a glass...
In jubilant joy, jubilant joy, I te...
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Categories:
combusted, celebration, emotions, happiness, joy,
Form: Free verse
'i Was the Last One'
...I was the last one to ever see you-
Say goodbye, or even I love you to.
You were the last one I ever trusted,
eight years later my soul still rusted.
My eyes still red, your life combuste...
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Categories:
combusted, betrayal, death,
Form: Rhyme
Flood of Blood
...As the clouds parted
Is when reality started
Crackling booms across the sky
Only GOD knows why
Some disappeared, Others combusted
Liars, thieves and even ones you trusted
Never to be seen...
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Categories:
combusted, angel, conflict, dark, evil,
Form: Couplet
Life Abandoned Me
...I’ve been deserted and forsaken,
relinquished and reawakened.
Renounced and completely vacated,
living a life intensely complicated.
In the throes of woes, I’m saturated.
No more time o...
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Categories:
combusted, dark, deep,
Form: Rhyme
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