my inner thoughts
...My inner thoughts are usually hidden
Belonging to no one else; they’re mine alone
Few pry, recognizing my need to remain silent
My wisdom is covert; in my mind’s safety deposit box
I do slather m...
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Categories:
deposit box, me,
Form: Free verse
In the Caves Where the Water Flows
...in the caves where the water flows
i hum a tune that crept into my mind from way back
i wish that she could have come, but she is still healing
i wish that she could feel this, but she is still de...
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Categories:
deposit box, beautiful, uplifting, vacation,
Form: Free verse
Silence and Secrets
...Oh all the silence and
secrets that I carry
My palms are so tired
I've lost the key to my safe deposit box......
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Categories:
deposit box, anxiety, confusion, deep, depression,
Form: Prose
Sewing Machine
...Sewing machine, long idle, gathered dust
Old, as mama told, worn, left here to rust
I slowly examined the antique piece
Candle flame flickered, anxiety increased
Nothing odd on top o...
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Categories:
deposit box, grandchild, history, house, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Grip the Grifter
...
There’s a high-class hobo drifter
bumming rides throughout the land
Grip the Grifter ...
watch it society women, don’t shake his hand!
If Grip get a hold of your purse money,
he ain’...
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Categories:
deposit box, corruption, humorous, parody, truth,
Form: Light Verse
Pass It Off As One's Own Plagiarize
...not to boastfully brag
or to overly self-praise
but I gave, and I gave
my creative lyrics
the best and the worst
of my unhappy days
thinking to myself they will
never see the light of da...
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Categories:
deposit box, betrayal, bullying, celebrity, international,
Form: Bio
American Bank Robbery In Zoin of Roy, Ut
...lyRical safe
i don't think sO
why the bus there is
as danGers as the sitting in my own homE
i am a Coward
i do shake with fear
for i am sure of my death
i am a citizens of the United St...
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Categories:
deposit box, bullying, celebrity, corruption, death,
Form: Bio
I'Ve Had Enough
...I think I'll signal guru Bob that I've had enough
of his implicit stress therapy as he calls it
I've contacted the hunchback sperm banks
for a safe deposit box until the embrace is ended
with the...
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Categories:
deposit box, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Tormens Humanum
...I established a rapport
with the Sacred Cow
and it stepped all over my toes
the oil of anointment in my crankcase
I was limping worthy of an asterisk
an army of monks couldn't keep me pure
lau...
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Categories:
deposit box, how i feel, universe,
Form: Free verse
Finally Freeing Myself
...tonight i stand so still
overlooking to view of land and hill
i then get my beach chair from the trunk and move closer
i am joyfully overwhelmed and will never come down
this is what i waited fif...
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Categories:
deposit box, how i feel, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Death
...Michael and Carolyn came home again
Their busy lives disrupted by death's end
Not knowing they'd encounter love unrestrained
By coming home for mom's funeral to attend
Life has some changes f...
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Categories:
deposit box, death, life, love,
Form: Sonnet
What a Simple Sheet of Paper Can Hold
...I write not sonnets or
fancy cues
I'm not really sure I even
know what's haiku but
when I write I write about
what to me is true...
On a simple sheet paper
my feeling sometimes
show.
Apprehens...
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Categories:
deposit box, appreciation, introspection, me, write,
Form: Free verse
Brian
...ode to Brian Griffin,
for though he may be
a cartoon dog,
whose presence graces
the halls of Family Guy,
he is an Atheist dog,
the first of its kind
who keeps a gun & a
bottle of scotch in his
safety...
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Categories:
deposit box, life, family, character, family,
Form: Free verse