The Torpedo
...Fuse lit now, the spark ignited:
Let it burn, this love misguided.
Our future once had seemed vivid
Now obfuscated… no: omitted.
Structural damage, shock waves follow
Breach the hull and the v...
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Categories:
compartmentalizing, lost love, recovery from,
Form: Narrative
Grief Compartments
...You know that monitor that confirms the diagnosis of cardiac asystole, which is
lack of electrical activity in the heart
That's what your absence at first caused me to be
I didn't know there was ...
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Categories:
compartmentalizing, anger, grief, sister,
Form: Rhyme
I became the Bard, because I was outside of myself
...I have stared death in the face
with its huge gaping jaws
most of my life
i have evaded those paws
My families crazy made up scheme
of overdramatizing my diagnosis
made my life a paralysing ...
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Categories:
compartmentalizing, abuse, angst, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Incarceration
...and then the accused fell foul
of yet another condemnation
without trial
the sentence spoken in anger
shards of bloody mosaic
stick to his bare feet
from where she threw
the glass on the til...
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Categories:
compartmentalizing, abuse, addiction,
Form: Free verse
Better Health Crisis Planning
...How much simpler
and yet vastly more complex,
diversely resonant,
past decisions to hire the credentialed professional elite
also choices not to hire a charismatic
brown-skinned
ecofeminist,
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Categories:
compartmentalizing, appreciation, caregiving, community, earth,
Form: Political Verse
The Thief
...Slow is smooth and smooth is fast
The beeping monitor verifying life
Somebody's mother, somebody's daughter
Somebody's wife
Slow is smooth and smooth is fast
Patient's family losing patience wit...
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Categories:
compartmentalizing, black african american, death,
Form: Blank verse
Circumstance
...Thus of the darkness
Reaps an attitude suspended in itself
Therefore audiblelizing a vocal pattern low in pitch.
So it vents character upon character
Cloud upon cloud thus speaks
A savage trut...
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Categories:
compartmentalizing, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Building Human Nature
...The diversity of beliefs have collectively demoralized
the sanctity of attaining wisdom and respectfully sharing
the exchange of knowledgeability by compartmentalizing creativity.
This makes us....
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Categories:
compartmentalizing, america, humanity, peace, people,
Form: Free verse