Ha ha ha gotcha!
...Ha...ha...ha... gotcha!
The imagined intimated response
linkedin to a swindler's
imagined thought bubble
silently spouting you ain't nothing
but a pluperfect sucker...
rendered penniless suff...
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Categories:
condemning, absence, abuse, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
Those That Condemn
...those that condemn will never be gone, they’ll wither in indifference...
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Categories:
condemning, people,
Form: Monoku
Long Winter Coming
...I see a long winter coming
(yes, I know)
the dull gray spreads ahead of me,
there ain’t no use in running
(if I could)
from yourself you can never flee.
There’s a long winter coming
(how’d I...
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Categories:
condemning, death, loss, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
The Villian in Someone's Eyes
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The Villian in Someone's Eyes
Walking through these chapters of familiar fires.
Are you responsible for someone's clinging to
Old versions of you?
Villian in Someone's eyes.
Ongoing co...
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Categories:
condemning, 5th grade, allegory, character,
Form: Free verse
Not Responsible
...The power depends on the people’s will
They were taught to believe this at high school
But as practice has shown, powers like to kill
And the people are forced to obey under rule
So the contract ...
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Categories:
condemning, political, satire,
Form: Rhyme
The scars they don't see
...The scars they don't see
Are the ones filled with the most painful memories
The ones you don't have to touch for them to hurt
Our bodies are permanent scars
A reminder of what was once ours
...
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Categories:
condemning, bereavement, discrimination, freedom, funeral,
Form: Free verse
A Confession
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To soften his adolescent growing pains
he was encouraged (can’t recall by whom)
to take up painting – to make a name
for himself, they said. When that failed,
and miserably, he took up drin...
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Categories:
condemning, dark, humor,
Form: Didactic
How Innocent Are The Words
...How innocent are the words
from the mouths of cute teens,
it's raw poetry dedicated to lovers
in any season that inflames ardent desire!
Can that burning flame endure the longest time
and become...
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Categories:
condemning, anxiety, desire, emotions, first
Form: Lyric
Holy Satan
...Holy Gabriel evil Michael
Pot calling kettle black
Thieves of righteousness
With demonized hands.
Holy Uriel evil Raphael
Birds of the same feather
Father condemning son
Innocent criminal cr...
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Categories:
condemning, betrayal, bullying, depression, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Your Problems Begin with You
...I heard my God say as I mowed yesterday,
It hurt me but still it was true.
"The moment you tell me someone needs to change,
I begin to start working on you!"
If you think they aren't giving or ev...
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Categories:
condemning, 8th grade, anger, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Cumulus Rejoice
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Most cherished of thoughts, ideas abloom,
spreading, expanding
Overcoming harsh crushing repression,
breaking loose into a fluffy
sacred cloud bound emancipation
Liberation! My spirit tak...
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Categories:
condemning, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Stones and Names
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It is said that the black stone in Mecca
is not just a stone.
It is a shard of a vanished world,
an echo of a cry before words,
a sacred turmoil of being,
older than prayer,
older than the ...
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Categories:
condemning, faith,
Form: Free verse
BROKENNESS
...Life without money
Very boring and funny
But educative
No company to commune with
Solitude your best friend
Constantly reminiscing and relearning.
A broke man, a lonely man
Bitter many day...
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Categories:
condemning, africa, children, christian, community,
Form: Narrative
Wretched emasculated celibate anchorite
...Wretched emasculated celibate anchorite
(any relationship between the following poem and living persons -
namely the writer of these words ranks as purely coincidental and fictitious).
neverth...
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Categories:
condemning, adventure, allegory, animal, atheist,
Form: Free verse
BEYOND THE FACADE
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In the realm of human desire, not all wishes are granted.
A soul worn weary need not succumb to desperation's weight,
But rather, find solace in stillness, and await the divine hand.
When turm...
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Categories:
condemning, together, true love, truth,
Form: Lyric
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