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My Beautiful Traumatic Brain Injury
...The day my mind folded over the highway. in sunny Florida citrus surrounded me the breeze was just right as oranges danced. with lemons scents the sun dazed my sight as the ground rose up to ......
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Yolanda Nicholsen
Categories:
desperate,
beautiful, caregiving, memory, mental
Form:
Sonnet
Last Kiss
...Last Kiss I asked you twice, I’ll not ask thee thrice, the twice I asked was to see if question was heard, they’ll be not be thrice as I know by that silent answer. Actions speak louder than ......
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Patrick Dacosta
Categories:
desperate,
farewell, love, sad love,
Form:
Free verse
Self Medicating
...We'd awakened to soon reaching. for respite keeping PTSD at bay while anxiety attacks bicker with my Narcolespy my focus remains. steadfast on Traumatic Brain injury allowing my cognitive......
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Yolanda Nicholsen
Categories:
desperate,
anxiety, mental health, soldier,
Form:
Carpe Diem
The Man That You Will Grow To Be
... Some people will make a plan from preconceived ideas then they will observe to see if what they expect appears when they don’t see what they expect they’ll look for something near then they w......
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Nick Trim
Categories:
desperate,
for teens, growing up,
Form:
Rhyme
The Canvas
...The canvas I had painted bright and vivid once upon a time, Fade and wore out by the wind and the rain. And thus I started hating the canvas I could not protect. The canvas that had once stood out......
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Aura Poetry
Categories:
desperate,
depression, devotion, discrimination, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
My Painful Truth Part 2
...Profoundly dumb, and so naiive. I've known the worth I've had- I just let you breathe death in me. Built a stairway made of gemstones- my feet were guided by their shimmers. Which then rotted......
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Chelsea Stufleben
Categories:
desperate,
abuse, betrayal, hate, heartbroken,
Form:
Rhyme
Kind of war
...The way it starts Is like an addiction. If I were to decide which, This one takes the cake. The room is empty Save for two. No intention Until contact is made. Conversation carries And t......
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Micheala Ruth September
Categories:
desperate,
crush, emotions, feelings, for
Form:
Free verse
Hate Speech
...("Howling Rock", City of Rocks, 2016) Hate Speech My dogs bark into the night scared and excited about something in the dark coyotes or deer or maybe just their own shadows. It make......
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James Moore
Categories:
desperate,
dog, humanity, humor, night,
Form:
Narrative
SEEK SHELTER
...Look about at what inhumanity hath wrought In vain we seek solace in a storming deluge Have good intentions really been for naught? In desperate straits we seek our refuge Wraths ancient and ne......
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Robert Gorelick
Categories:
desperate,
how i feel, humanity,
Form:
Quatrain
The Fire, the Flood
...You’re the headless horseman running on half a heart You shouldn’t know where to go but you just do And you’d lose your head if it wasn’t attached to you Lost puzzle pieces, collecting dust, wa......
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Matthew Bailey
Categories:
desperate,
anger, betrayal, hate, how
Form:
Free verse
Does Your Significant Other Have Borderline Personality Disorder
... In shadows cast by fractured minds, a dance, Borderline whispers, a tumultuous trance. Emotions veer, a rollercoaster ride, For those who stand close, by love's sweet side. A storm within, te......
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James Mclain
Categories:
desperate,
12th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
To Be Where She Is
... Ghosts have all but abandoned this lonely place. It's just me here. The cold, drizzling rain is relentless, yet calming somehow. Marble stones lodged in leafy pastures keep taunting me. Autumn was ......
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Tom Woody
Categories:
desperate,
death, sad,
Form:
Haibun
Love Connection
... Connections, how are they made? Perceptions waved in radio, station identification made, declared, paved. Frequency paired by molecules in fertile atmosphere. Staging place o......
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Jude Herrick
Categories:
desperate,
art, beautiful, love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Sure Fire
... Somethings You never know Sometimes you have nothing to show Tears in those eyes Comfort city on the brink of misery Killing fields the dreams of you and me Desert sunshine warning you how thi......
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Greg Slode Smith
Categories:
desperate,
betrayal, fear, horse,
Form:
Free verse
Trigger Warning
...("Contagion III", 2020, original pen and ink and oil) Trigger Warning From the safe space of my hardened little heart I send out my love In waves of conditional bliss To all who are j......
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James Moore
Categories:
desperate,
psychological, society,
Form:
Free verse
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