When I Was a Boy
...Boyhood was a one-night stand,
So brief and unforgettable,
Full of dreams,
Sweet —like a rooftop party,
Wild and loud,
When the world several feet below,
Full of envy, shouted at us,
“Come dow...
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Categories:
crammed, childhood, memory,
Form: Free verse
Incoherence
...I knew that the water I saw was a mirage.
Unfathomable depths seemed shallow when measured.
This is a world where facts and fancies camouflage
Within wombs of empty tombs, riches are treasured.
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Categories:
crammed, conflict, confusion,
Form: Sonnet
Depression and Me
...Depression.
Can be flung away.
Can stick to any surface.
And me.
Depression.
Could be crammed in.
Stammering and tightening.
Tearing feelings.
Depression.
Can sit on the porch f...
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Categories:
crammed, depression,
Form: Free verse
Meat
...You crave my honey-glazed legs,
relish my breasts with practiced flair.
You chip my wings mid-conversation,
While dissecting my dressing,
Too raunchy, too clingy
never quite suited to your taste...
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Categories:
crammed, allegory,
Form: Free verse
A magnet for tsuris
...A magnet for tsuris
Summation notation of achievements
wrought absolute zero
pridefulness to self -
a veritable highstrong yoyo
(lame at walking the dog)
a solitudinarian devoid of xoxo
meth...
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Categories:
crammed, adventure, age, angst, baby,
Form: Free verse
TALKING WITH MY CHILD
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On my walk this morning…I noticed the child I used to be
who, it seems, has been sleeping all these years…decided to take a walk with me.
I said, “Hello!” to my young self…from a time when I wa...
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Categories:
crammed, child,
Form: Rhyme
Welcome Home
...The roads are jammed; the traffic crawls
And rain clouds fill the sky.
The cars are crammed and, on the walls,
Graffiti passes by.
The cabbie shrugs, “That’s how it goes”
As we head slowly hom...
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Categories:
crammed, home, travel,
Form: Rhyme
- Haiku X 352 - easter spirit -
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life has been renewed
eggs and the fluffy chickens ~
crammed with happiness...
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Categories:
crammed, birth, easter, life,
Form: Haiku
Annotating
...The deep, heartfelt ache,
heaviness piled onto shoulders;
the feeling of unattainable past experiences,
the moments of mere temporary bliss,
the unavoidable changes.
No permanency tacked down,...
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Categories:
crammed, literature,
Form: Free verse
what solution have you found
...I am a collector of worthless things
How they pile up I have no inkling
I clean out my junk drawer at two o’clock
It is crammed full of extra things by two fifteen.
Do others have this problem?...
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Categories:
crammed, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
LASTING MEMORIES
...All these memories,
All the joy,
All we love,
The real McCoy,
A fast paced life,
No time to stop,
Plenty fizz in homemade pop,
We did so much,
We crammed it in,
Somewhere safe,
It's sto...
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Categories:
crammed, absence, bereavement, cancer, grief,
Form: Rhyme
somewhere in here are purses
...My garage houses sixteen hundred paintings you see.
Large cartoons on canvases, painted by me.
There are floor to wall shelves, crammed full.
My garage is alive, a living, breathing happy soul.
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Categories:
crammed, woman, women,
Form: Rhyme
Time to Heal
...When we injure our bodies, we expect it to take time to heal, but why do we not extend that healing process to ourselves for emotional healing as well?
Someone walking around in a cast easily rece...
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Categories:
crammed, care, self,
Form: Free verse
Armageddon
...Turned on the TV to see what they'd say
There's crowds in the streets all around the UK
Shelves being ransacked at Tesco all day
It's happening too in the U S of A
My TV depicting an end, clear...
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Categories:
crammed, christmas, war,
Form: Rhyme
Counterintuitive
...It's late, lo. I knew that the water I saw was mirage.
This is a world where, often, facts and fancies camouflage
Depths that seem unfathomable are shallow when measured.
Within wombs of tombs tha...
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Categories:
crammed, confusion, life,
Form: Rhyme
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