It Rained on Me
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It rained on me in the dry season.
Season jacketing me with dust,
Dust absorbed my real hope.
Hope fractured in time,
Time unendingly discolored my soul.
Soul pleaded for light.
Light...
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Categories:
discolored, bereavement, endurance, hurt, life,
Form: Free verse
Dusty Box of Memories
..."Photographs escort us to hidden recesses of memory and bring before us rare moments lost in time"... By Poet
Flitting through the pages of an old album,
Picked up from an abandoned dusty box,
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Categories:
discolored, home, i miss you,
Form: Free verse
F-CK YOU - On Cybercoercion
...It’s been 10 years since you last saw me.
I’m softer. Matured. Unrecognizable. And yet
the feeling of your roaming eyes still darkens my skin,
the phantom sensations making me retch.
Your vile i...
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Categories:
discolored, abuse, anger, angst, child
Form: Free verse
Because He Beats Me
...Because He Beats Me
Back I go into the den of tears
Splashing them across my face
The ones I hav...
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Categories:
discolored, abuse, addiction, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Human Folly
...When standing alone on a dark stage
of the unknown
where eyes read the scribbled script
of life's lonely pages
internal tears endlessly fall
creating pools of painful regrets
that disc...
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Categories:
discolored, forgiveness, pain,
Form: Free verse
hospital beds
...I drown in my sorrows
At all times
They seem to
Consume me
I wish there was a way
To defeat them
To turn them off
But they continue to
Flow out of me
Rushing like a
Waterfall
Never ending
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Categories:
discolored, childhood, confusion, grief, longing,
Form: Free verse
rotten carcass
...I have calluses on the inside of my body.
I am smooth and polished on the outside.
But once you peel away my cocoon, you will find cuts and bruises.
My intestines are knotted, tied in one bi...
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Categories:
discolored, age, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
Butterfly Venom
...Was it worth
Butchering the butterflies
We gave each other?
Were they not
Pretty enough?
Or were they just too fragile
For your unstable world?
Your world of
Mismatched jigsaw puzzl...
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Categories:
discolored, butterfly, color, feelings,
Form: Free verse
The Flaws
...The flaws,
The way that my shoulders are broader than they need to be,
So that the small, tight tops never fit right,
So that I look muscular,
“Like a man,” my mother says,
The way my nose i...
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Categories:
discolored, anger, anti bullying, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
White Pants Rimas Dissolutas
...I will wear white pants all year long
with shoes scuffed from a sandy night;
Discolored waves that won't come out
those seaside moments haunt my eyes;
Capture the season keep it strong
hold th...
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Categories:
discolored, beach, emotions, fashion, ocean,
Form: Other
Being Open
...Speaking no evil with nothing to say
Feel no pain life is numb
Prayers to smite thine enemies
Wanting to believe something just to belong
Being open to any idea but always the skeptic inside
Dou...
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Categories:
discolored, death, life, lost,
Form: Free verse
No Anchor For Rancour
...Icicles hung from the roof
like translucent fingers
Clawing towards the ground
While behind the eaves,
She brushed her plain brown hair
Tired gray eyes in the mirror,
Discolored around th...
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Categories:
discolored, winter,
Form: Free verse
No Anchor For Rancour
...Icicles hung from the roof
like translucent fingers
Clawing towards the ground
While behind the eaves,
She brushed her plain brown hair
Tired gray eyes in the mirror,
Discolored around th...
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Categories:
discolored, winter,
Form: Free verse
Bed Used Without Permission
...So, you thought you have the right
To in my bed pass a night,
Not alone, with your lover,
Vulgar love-making brave,
Sensual pleasures coarsely crave…
You have my mattress defiled,
All night r...
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Categories:
discolored, anger, hate, heart, love,
Form: Rhyme
Old House Tour
..." Can you feel the soul of an abandoned house; can you hear the whispering?" - Constance La France.
dilapidated and weather-beaten,
looking at this old house
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Categories:
discolored, house, imagery, old,
Form: Imagism
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