Infinite World
...Infinite world, my only escape.
Infinite world, the life I hate.
My hand is cramping as I write.
But I don’t care. I still fight.
The lead is scraping paper thin,
Slicing air with every spin.
I...
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Categories:
cramping, grief, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme
Invisible
...Infinite world, my only escape.
Infinite world, the life I hate.
My hand is cramping as I write.
But I don’t care. I still fight.
The lead is scraping paper thin,
Slicing air with every spin.
I...
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Categories:
cramping, crazy, creation, cry, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Hospital bed
...You had us doing hard labor
no shade, not enough water
Desert heat, 98 degrees
I thought you were smarter.
I did you a favor, got bruises and grief
Cramp in my muscles
You saw me as cheap.
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Categories:
cramping, betrayal, friendship, sorry, work,
Form: Verse
Invisible
...The pain increases every day
bit by bit, I have no say
I do what I can to ease it all
but it’s been a real long-haul
from cramping feet to head in a vice
swollen fingers, no paradise
aching h...
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Categories:
cramping, endurance, health, life, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Prisoner of Poetry
...Metaphors and similes flow freely from my pen
when I am scripting and scribing in poetic verse.
Across the width of pale parchment pages
the nib of my feathered pen continues to traverse.
Ink c...
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Categories:
cramping, muse,
Form: Rhyme
Like Me
...Like me.
Taller than the tallest grass.
Happy that way.
Sometimes unhappy, unpleasant.
A giant, evil fish in a stagnant pond.
Is usually a hallucination.
That ripple means nothing.
Like ...
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Categories:
cramping, angst, me,
Form: Free verse
Unfinished, Unloved
...I never got to finish the poem I was writing for you–a pitiful ending in itself.
It lives on the shelf in the shadowy far right corner of my bedroom,
With an overflowing pile of other dusty junk th...
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Categories:
cramping, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Excise Exercise 3: Phantom feelings
...Phantom feelings...
stinging prickly reminders
that missing attachments
were parts of real healing.
Painful loss replays
trauma bond tricks and treats.
Days of death danced a two-step
with ...
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Categories:
cramping, confidence, courage, emotions, growth,
Form: Free verse
Marathon Man
...Running, running, running faster
Trying to stave off disaster
To keep from losing in this race
It's time that I picked up the pace
Breathing, breathing, breathing harder
Hope I don't end up a ...
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Categories:
cramping, race,
Form: Rhyme
Fibro Friend
...Oh for the Love of Fibro
there for me every day
constantly reminding me
she is here to stay
With twitches and cramping
aching and pain
heaviness, weakness
& a foggy brain
Stiffness & trem...
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Categories:
cramping, care, friendship, funny, health,
Form: Rhyme
Human Toxicity
...After injection,inhalation,or ingestion,the first symptoms to appear are muscle spasms.They appear very quickly after inhalation or injection within as few as five minutes and take somewhat longer to...
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Categories:
cramping, addiction, body, drink, drug,
Form: Tazkira
Sentimentality
...Sentimentality
Most curious
duality ... this
Sentimentality
Excessive tenderness,
sadness, nostalgia
corrupting modality,
distorting reality's
social edifice
Brain-cramping
co...
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Categories:
cramping, angst, anxiety, dark, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Playing With Words
...Playing with Words is Just a Funny Phase
Philosophical Phil’s phonetic phrase
Magnetized magazines moving in a maze
Generating goodwill in a gazelle’s goofy gaze
Cramping crafty crayfish in a cra...
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Categories:
cramping, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
On Writing Contest Poetry
...I really believe poetry contests are beneficial
But I find myself writing lines so artificial
Trying to win a fleeting notice or score a trophy
That I lose sight of writing good, quality poetry...
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Categories:
cramping, how i feel, poems,
Form: Light Verse
Menopause
...Menopause uggg
Adam was given work for his sin
Eve was given the privilege to produce kin
Never once was menopause mentioned
Who created this invention?
They say get an ablation, it’s the...
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Categories:
cramping, hilarious,
Form: Rhyme
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