Planche de Chair Cuite
...She was not invited
She was arranged
They never wanted Jasmine
not the woman who brought basil-clean hands
and pomegranate soap
who harmonized soliloquies into pastries
while th...
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Categories:
coughed, betrayal, death, gothic, grief,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Spider Shower
...A spider sitting in the shower.
Just wanted to wash up for an hour.
But this spider is making me nervous.
I tried to shampoo but was feeling hard pressed.
Suddenly that spider jumped about.
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Categories:
coughed, humor,
Form: Rhyme
A Night Cap B4 a Cat Nap
...It's been such a purrrrfect day.
it's fun to play.
I love sugarplum wishes.
to try to catch fishes.
violet visions.
hard to make decisions,
play with the dog's tail,
or eat that slow old snai...
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Categories:
coughed, cat,
Form: Rhyme
a soul less killer dies
...
he didn’t blink
when the light caught his face—
just stared like a dog too long in the rain.
no prayers,
no cries,
no family on the concrete bench.
he killed for sport,
like swatting fli...
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Categories:
coughed, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Clumsy Ghost's Moonlit Mishaps
...A ghost set out one moonlit night,
His tattered sheet made quite the sight.
He’d planned to haunt with eerie flair,
But his faint glow was thin and rare.
He floated high, then snagged a tree,
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Categories:
coughed, fantasy, funny, humor,
Form: Free verse
Parasocial Relationship: What Remains Is the Latch
...
I’ve kept the bone-ash circle open—
chalked in wax traced from your last reply,
the one you coughed out sideways
between a mirror and an echo,
Just to reiterate, it read.
(Though you...
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Categories:
coughed, absence, anxiety, friend, life,
Form: Free verse
Djinn Martini
..."Careful with the ethanol,"
Said a fume of whisper hush.
As a thundered bolt and fire ball,
Engorged the moment with a rush.
The itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny, yellow polka-dot martini,
Lit my boke...
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Categories:
coughed, best friend, fantasy, fun,
Form: Rhyme
You entered my silence like a violin bow dragged with blood
...You entered my silence like a violin bow dragged with blood through shattered stained glass
I sewed your laughter under my eyelids and lungs, and the light transformed into myriads of fragrant wound...
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Categories:
coughed, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
I Remember You -- the city speaks
...(The Hollow City Cycle include:
The Hollow City
I Remember You -- the city speaks
Last One Left)
You left me when the lights flickered
and the water turned bitter.
When the sky coughed...
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Categories:
coughed, city, sick, war,
Form: Free verse
Psalm 91 Miraculous Angels
...1.. About five years ago i went to collect my two of my grandchildren from my ex wife`s house, Tulula then 6 Bonnie 6 months. We walked down to my daughters house. Tulula opened the back door, the s...
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Categories:
coughed, appreciation, beautiful, bible,
Form: Free verse
The Echo Returns Not
...Locked in a room with no windows
I became a shadow
Invisible and unheeded
Having as duty, the slow and steady merging
Of myself with the dirty walls
As time went by,
I stopped feeling myself...
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Categories:
coughed, allegory, life,
Form: Free verse
Circular Saw
...In the late fall
After apple picking and around thanksgiving
When the leaves started
To fade from green to red
We’d hook up the PTO from the old Deere
To a massive circular saw
Like something o...
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Categories:
coughed, autumn,
Form: Free verse
River Wild
...joy and sadness tangled fate
one came home extremely late
my gleeful sons rods in hand deceitful river, fish they planned
shifting forest running free
twisting turns among the trees grinning...
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Categories:
coughed, blessing, children, fate, fear,
Form: Rhyme
rolly poly foley kitty cat
...Rolly poly foley kitty cat
Ate a sandwich with a fried-up rat
Coughed up a bit on my welcome mat
Because he did not want to get totally fat...
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Categories:
coughed, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Monorhyme
The Irritable Chest Cold
...The sun had risen but could not be seen.
Still daylight was welcome in her studio.
She stood hunched with pain over her easel.
The landscape was not quite what she wanted.
She had decided to por...
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Categories:
coughed, sick,
Form: Free verse
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