Belladonna Field
...Good night, old friend.
Hush and sleep.
I’m here as long as we can pretend.
Even after you leave.
If pain is a gateway to the soul,
then my dreams deem your words the key to such a portal
I j...
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Categories:
crushingly, angst, dark, grief, pain,
Form: Free verse
Wham Bam
...Wham Bam not even a thank you ma’am, was I hit by a Mack truck or slapped in the face where I stand?
The severity of it, but to you a job well done, the patting yourself on the back knowing that I h...
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Categories:
crushingly, anger, for him, how
Form: Rhyme
Inferiority Complex As a Kid, Adolescent and Emerging Adult
...Inferiority complex as a kid, adolescent and emerging adult
Yours truly (an amazingly,
gracefully, and markedly modest
passively aging baby boomer -
formerly introverted long haired
pencil nec...
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Categories:
crushingly, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Inner Demons
...Walls closing in on the darkness that surrounds the very edges of my thoughts as I force a fake smile to appear along my face with eyes clouded insecurely holding my innermost pain… Buried down deepl...
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Categories:
crushingly, anger, anxiety, depression, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Moonshadow
...I’m crushingly sentimental, you might not know, I don’t let it show, but it’s true. I’m walking in the moonshine and moonshine is how I feel - I’m intoxicated - by you.
Some nights when I can’t se...
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Categories:
crushingly, morning, student, teen, youth,
Form: Free verse
Inferiority Complex As a Kid, Adolescent and Emerging Adult Part One
...Yours truly (an amazingly,
gracefully, and markedly modest
passively aging baby boomer -
formerly introverted long haired
pencil necked geek),
prattling wordsmith doth behold
nostalgic memories...
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Categories:
crushingly, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Free Verse Fever
...Attraction free verse
I see you there, across the aisle, in the second carriage on the train.
Perched on the edge of your seat, as if in eager anticipation, crushingly not for me.
Your eyes, li...
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Categories:
crushingly, beauty, emotions, fate, longing,
Form: Free verse
Down On Me
...Crusty old oaks
wave brittle arms angrily
overhead, threatening
to drop dead
crushingly
heavy limbs
Down
Taller trees
having achieved
the highest heights
pine away, lonely
jealously pour...
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Categories:
crushingly, imagination, jealousy, nature, perspective,
Form: Personification
Prognosticating Present Plight
...Prognosticating Present Plight...
Perhaps Preset During In Utero Protean Stage?
Reviewing, sans my life
and arduous hard time
lock, stock, and barrel on regular basis,
and of late composing
t...
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Categories:
crushingly, 7th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Bio
Seize the Day
...Before the day unfolds from crumpled sorrow prior to dawning
yawning fake cumbersome fawning’s creases nocturnal tossing
turning ragged motion rigor ante mortis refuses to leave the sheets
and ple...
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Categories:
crushingly, depression,
Form: Free verse
If You Can'T Comment On My Poetries, Can'T You At Least Deign To Comet On Them
...Scribal notions these, and oh so sorrowful,
But, despite their seeming poignance they are not additionally puissant, no.
I have seem them, wrapped in warmed and moist leaves:
No, not the leaves a...
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Categories:
crushingly, adventure, africa, allusion, analogy,
Form: I do not know?
Flow Billy Bah Walka Walk
...He is silly that Billy...a flow walker ...joy talker
He trots along so sweet some days
but then just turns and bolts away
He is an ever-ready arm embrace
but not so much for the long haul race
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Categories:
crushingly, anger, divorce, love,
Form: Rhyme
In Jesus Name
...In Jesus’ name
We already have victory
In Jesus’ name
The blessings are guaranteed
In Jesus’ name
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Categories:
crushingly, bible, christian, god, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
Serenity
...Serenity
Two more decades will have ground ageing bones to a sound mightily creaking
Joints spaces diminished, mobility hampered, once kind flexibility rapidly waned
Air flow restricted in lungs...
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Categories:
crushingly, age,
Form: Sonnet
Jealous Jaded Jackals
...Jealous Jaded Jackals
Decadent darkness placed upon the setaceous shrine
For the Angels wilfully weep and ignominiously entwine
The fermented...
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Categories:
crushingly, abuse, dark, lonely, sad,
Form: Rhyme
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