the promise
...The promise
A friend of mine died, and I had promised to
Take his ashes up to a hill and strew them there
Then make robust love to his wife
His wife sat by his bedside and agreed
We climbed ...
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Categories:
cramps, 8th grade, africa, america,
Form: ABC
Prolonged offal bout courtesy constipation redux revisited
...Prolonged offal bout courtesy constipation... redux revisited
Upteenth instance where yours truly
experienced assault upon hindquarters.
A worse hellish fate than perdition
and the closest in...
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Categories:
cramps, abuse, adventure, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
Limbs - Apr 28
...Crick, Crack,Pop!,—“Ow!”, ach… won’t my joints of ache
never relent? The tension—every move—
with each attempt to loose—a rigid groove—
my muscles,—all efforts to simply break
the pressure,—aya...
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Categories:
cramps, body, health, humorous, hurt,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Please NO AI
...
My heart cries no, no, please no AI -
my brain gets cramps, I can hear it sigh.
My fears shiver and my soul does cry.
All AI feels wicked and viscous,
bound to erase potential in us.
No more s...
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Categories:
cramps, blue, change, culture, fear,
Form: Rhyme
The Grim Reaper
...
My skin has become like sandpaper
Blotches showing up everywhere
A pimple resides at the end of my nose
Some areas have unwanted hair
What 's happening to this body of mine
Seems i...
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Categories:
cramps, crush,
Form: Rhyme
No more Apologies
...Darkness travels inside my blood clot
thinks he is above me can't get to me not so easy
body pains, kneecap cramps side neck cracks, pill by pill can't heal.
Too many now I've started with just on...
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Categories:
cramps, abuse, anger, anxiety, august,
Form: Free verse
No More
...The slabbed ceiling tiles are becoming the patio slabs of my childhood home.
I'm highly strung in more ways than one, trying to send my mind elsewhere,
but half-buried memories insert themselves, s...
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Categories:
cramps, abuse, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Suicidal Hardship
...My government
Has not approved
Helping the poor.
Going down town
Ancient food chain
Menu price up.
Market items
Rotting all eyes
Left empty hands.
My eyes eating
Paint hamburger
Cra...
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Categories:
cramps, life, political, prejudice, social,
Form: Than-Bauk
Endless Devotion
...Love is everything,
A game, a passion, a dream.
Basketball, my greatest love,
So tiring, but so much fun.
Though I cannot play today,
An injury keeps me away.
Jumper’s knee, it makes me wait,...
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Categories:
cramps, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Dialysis
...Dialysis
Dialysis
What is that
Let's do some research
Get a few facts
It's a procedure to remove waste products and excess fluid from the blood when the kidneys stop working properly
Th...
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Categories:
cramps, age, art,
Form: Free verse
Strayed Sheep
...
WHAT? Oh, for cryin' out loud dude, not again! Nod off for one lousy hour and off go them mangy sheep. Now I ain't paid near enough to hafta chase these meanderin' beasts all over God's green ear...
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Categories:
cramps, animal, humor,
Form: Narrative
Applause for Menopause
...I’m happy inside with applause
Merrily close to menopause
Even if I get warm like sun
I’m so happy thinking soon it’ll be done
No more killer cranberry cramps
No more pressing pads like st...
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Categories:
cramps, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Eve and the Apple
...Have you ever wanted something so bad?
because you know you can't have it
motherhood is something I'm expected to conform to
I never liked to conform, yet I always did
being a mum was always o...
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Categories:
cramps, 11th grade, appreciation, birth,
Form: Free verse
Defecation accidentally clogged
...Defecation accidentally clogged...
for the umpteenth time
during spate to sit scrawny buttucks
on porcelain throne id est
videre licet toilet bowl...
with toxic water brew threatening
to o...
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Categories:
cramps, adventure, analogy, angel, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Girls' Grit
..."I should not go to school today,"
Says every girl who feels this way.
"I've got the monthlies and the cramps,
A flood, a flush, and uterine camps.
My mood swings low, my temper is high.
Natur...
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Categories:
cramps, endurance, girl, high school,
Form: Free verse
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