Bloodlines
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Bloodlines
Family lineages relatives we call Elders, Uncles, Aunts,
Cousins, Brothers, Sisters. Bloodlines
Inherited unspoken patterns of generational dysfunction.
Did you Inherite...
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Categories:
comparable, age, analogy, birth, character,
Form: Free verse
Too Much is Enough
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' Too Much is Enough !'
Statement makes me laugh.
'Too Much' means ' more than ' Enough' as proverb.
'. Your ' Too Much ' may not ta...
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Categories:
comparable, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
The Perils of Adolescence
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Soon after I reached adolescence,
my father gave me a brief advisory
on the pitfalls of feminine “geography”
based on his personal experience.
Dear boy, he began, if at all possible,
ke...
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Categories:
comparable, analogy,
Form: Light Verse
Traditionally Incompatible
...In referance to SATB
I didn't know that music lovers often
tell the story from the arrangements
and pairings to what the composer is sharing
he combination of instruments
don't get along
like ...
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Categories:
comparable, character, film, music, myth,
Form: Ballad
A Steelhead Forced to Live in a Puddle
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His spawning would be free and dedicated to those that were beholding of his challenges, those that began ahead of this time, those that look out beyond this point in time.
He would be placed ca...
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Categories:
comparable, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Ancestral Roots The Tree Song
...We forget we are like trees, our roots run deep, and far they reach
Unseen they mostly are, hidden out of side, so deep
Some forget them, and their histories and from where they came
Their moth...
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Categories:
comparable, analogy, nature,
Form: Other
Ancestral Roots The Tree Song
...We forget we are like trees, our roots run deep, and far they reach
Unseen they mostly are, hidden out of side, so deep
Some forget them, and their histories and from where they came
Their moth...
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Categories:
comparable, analogy, animal, life, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Clever Cat and Mini Mouse
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Twist on Grimms’ Fairy Tale ‘Cat and Mouse in Partenership’
Clever cat in guise of a friend
seduced a timid mouse ,
inviting her to live in his house
pretending to be her spouse...
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Categories:
comparable, animal, cat,
Form: Rhyme
Grossbeck
...Continents collide against one another
The tatonic plates are now emerged
Pesisides manipulate earth
but still we breath the air
vlcanoes erupt and sobdue us
the langlaeers are the Mcabees only...
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Categories:
comparable, confusion, corruption,
Form: Free verse
The Note
...I fold this note neatly and lay it upon your pillow.
"Oh, sacred words of my heart and soul I pour out to Thee."
“Baby, last night was a wanton, passionate dream come true,
was as close to He...
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Categories:
comparable, beautiful, devotion, joy, love,
Form: Rhyme
My Mind is a Cell
...(sung in a heavy grunge metal)
(spoken in growls>>>) The in’ voices never stop, the in voice make me wanna drop.
(growled deep--->>>) THE IN VOICES WON'T STOP, THE IN VOICES MAKE ME WANNA POP!!...
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Categories:
comparable, anxiety, conflict, how i
Form: Lyric
solar
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solely solar:
truly toddler sun crawling
on canvas of cosmos
five billion years ago
as protostar
formed from stellar plasma
of cosmic charisma.
spinning sun with solar system
revolv...
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Categories:
comparable, sun,
Form: Verse
The Girl Who Cried Wolf Revised
...She cried out for attention—was it really a game?
Or was it the only way they’d remember her name?
Her voice, an echo, lost in the night,
Drowned by indifference, swallowed by spite.
Her grandf...
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Categories:
comparable, analogy, anger, childhood, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Life Isn't Comparable
...Life isn't comparable at all
If you compare beauty, we will get old
If you fear riches, everything will be lost
If you compare fate, we will leave in this world
Everyone has its own story to tell...
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Categories:
comparable, life, perspective, truth,
Form: Free verse
Select A Character
...I’m dressed for battle. Sword in my hand, shield covering my weak chest, my lungs heave. I stand, inexplicably tall and brass. Vision barely focusing on the girl in front of me, her pigtails are lops...
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Categories:
comparable, abuse, angst, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
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