Donning rubber gloves, the wife does washing of clothes and dishes
...Donning rubber gloves, the wife does washing of clothes and dishes...
(plus cutlery, pots pans, et cetera) in the kitchenette sink.
She started what would immediately become
a first and last ge...
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Categories:
discoloration, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Donning rubber gloves, the wife does washing of clothes and dishes
...Donning rubber gloves, the wife does washing of clothes and dishes...
(plus cutlery, pots pans, et cetera) in the kitchenette sink.
She started what would immediately become
a first and last ge...
...
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Categories:
discoloration, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, devotion,
Form: Free verse
The Window Pane
...Just getting ready to open the door,
an old door with six panes of glass
filling the upper half of the door,
like six frames of distinct pictures
into the world.
Wanting to step outside and ta...
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Categories:
discoloration, art, imagery, spring,
Form: Free verse
The Artist And The Winter Vine
...
She is eighteen and tattoos are the latest rage." I'd like a tattoo please" she asks. I see a young girl in a messy ponytail and wonder if she'll pick something gaudy, then I will have to oblige. ...
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Categories:
discoloration, anxiety, childhood, death, love
Form: Haibun
FADING PHOTOGRAPHS
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Memory-rejuvenating…
Though fading, they evoke exuberance
of childhood achievements, verily delighting
midst milestones of might, mercy and miracles
while emerging triumphant from fal...
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Categories:
discoloration, blessing, cheer up, christian,
Form: Prose Poetry
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:
discoloration, addiction, body, drink, drug,
Form: Tazkira
You
...I won’t forget your name
Your fingerprints are forever branded onto my skin
And when I look in the mirror I can still see every wound you left on my body
I see blood running down my kneecaps
I s...
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Categories:
discoloration, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Bruises
...your fingerprints are forever branded onto my skin
and when I look in the mirror I can still see every wound you left on my body
I see blood running down my kneecaps
I see my throat turned blue f...
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Categories:
discoloration, abuse, anxiety, betrayal, break
Form: Free verse
What Was the Color Purple
...What was the color purple?
was it the purple flowers
abundant in the field
or the royal robes of Celie’s child
when the miracle is revealed
what could the color purple be
as Alice Walker’s...
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Categories:
discoloration, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme
To Have My Cake and Eat It Too
...To have my cake and eat it too
The best of both with no adieu
Pint sized comforts, nestled in
Where personal space is growing thin
Amongst the city that never sleeps
Behind four walls, no on...
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Categories:
discoloration, city, life,
Form: Free verse
What We Need
...How many times should I need to lose you,
before I learn the rules of your equipoise - I wonder.
And how many times should you need to cast me out,
before you learn to bear my unmasked sight - Yo...
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Categories:
discoloration, birth, day, fate, fear,
Form: Free verse
Poppies
...I am small among fields of red flowers.
They look toward me and watch as time presses
its skeletal fingers into my limbs.
Yes, this is my body now: a startling
mosaic of death-colored discolora...
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Categories:
discoloration, anxiety, autumn, body, conflict,
Form: Blank verse
Final Voyage of Fall Leaves
...FINAL VOYAGE OF FALL LEAVES
Leaves like tumbleweeds,
cling to my porch,
cascade down the moss,
hover like the homeless
in every yard,
often warming their hands
around fire pits.
Leaves so...
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Categories:
discoloration, nature,
Form: Personification
Misfit
...Wrappings long have been trashed
A few nics encompass some character
Sunlight drenched a deteriorated discoloration
But still bravely I'm standing tall
Dark eyes forlorn for affection
As ti...
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Categories:
discoloration, fear, sorrow,
Form: Personification
Flatlining
...Shockwave of affectively laden numbness
Functioning trait through the plumes of dysfunction
Tempestuous fever in hibernation
Enclosed coffin emotions decomposing
Discoloration life's defi...
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Categories:
discoloration, depression, grief,
Form: I do not know?
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