Clearly Misunderstood
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Some years ago I met a young lady
Looked unhappy, a definite maybe
I also found her pretty ugly too
Never smiled or interacted with you.
One day came modification in her
She chatte...
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Categories:
disfiguring, character, friend,
Form: Rhyme
Does It Matter?
...Does it Matter?
Does it matter today
If a cross stood high
On a hill
Two thousand years ago?
Does it matter today
If there
A man hung dying
In company with criminals?
To most,
Long year...
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Categories:
disfiguring, bible, blessing, christian, god,
Form: Free verse
Bewitched Basements
...Let me be the first
to have the audacity to translate,
This piece of mystery molded
in a magical meadow of mistakes,
The reckless subject, there,
just standing still like a la...
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Categories:
disfiguring, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Our Love Is Like a Tumor
...Our love is like a tumor;
It grows and grows and grows,
And that can be so wonderful,
unless it’s on your nose.
Our love is like a tumor;
It makes me want to shout,
But after six months, baby...
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Categories:
disfiguring, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Sleeping On Duty
...Shut eyelids in duty-filled rooms
Instant graveyards make of busy offices:
A longing for robots to take over the brooms
Or complete the suspended notices!
Eyes are closed by wage-earners,
In t...
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Categories:
disfiguring, work,
Form: Rhyme
The Nose-Cutter
...Like the rapist
and the molester,
a nose-cutter with
chilling impulses
emerges from
mind’s murky nook.
He always drops
atrocities
in his wife-bin.
Male chauvinism
creates a
concen...
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Categories:
disfiguring, life,
Form: Free verse
Voice of Peace
...VOICE OF PEACE
Why oh why is our streets desolate?
Different sounds of stray guns
replacing the jubilant noise of children,
turning our borders into theaters of war.
We walk with the wrong ...
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Categories:
disfiguring, peace,
Form: Verse
Would You Still Love Me
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How strong is your love?
Should a rather cruel fate befall me;
a disfiguring accident robbing me of
what first at...
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Categories:
disfiguring, change, devotion, faith, love,
Form: Free verse
The Reepers Poem
...There is an ambiance about you.
A sadness but a rarity
Wish I could individualize you...
Impart..
Define you...
I anticipate obliging you.
Caressing your bruises
Running my finge...
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Categories:
disfiguring, dark, death, deep,
Form: Free verse
Tornado Season
...TORNADO SEASON
storms
of spring
happening
disfiguring
squalls
~
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Categories:
disfiguring, weather,
Form: Lanterne
The House That Jack Built 2
...The House That Jack Built (Pt. 2)
During Summer’s sweet vacation and sometimes on a school night,
When most were safe in Dreamland and the Village bathed in moonlight,
Nancy would toss gravel ...
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Categories:
disfiguring, growing up, home, memory,
Form: Lyric
Whose - Image and Likeness
...Whose “image and likeness”
I ache as my spirit recoils, denies
the truth of what we have become.
…in his image and likeness..
surely there could not be
a “god” so disfigured, so ugly
as t...
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Categories:
disfiguring, anger, hate, religion, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Maniacal Numbers
...I scratch at my rib cage
Nails clawing at my skin
As if I could scrape away
The extra weight I feel I've gained
It's like the devil's inside of me
He's disfiguring my bones
I fall to my achin...
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Categories:
disfiguring, abuse, angst, anxiety, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Their Blood Is Crying Out- the April 24 Reminder
...Almost a century ago
Innocent blood was spilt
Almost a century ago
But there remains the guilt
The world must acknowledge
The Armenian genocide
The blood won’t wash away
There is no place to hide
O...
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Categories:
disfiguring, judgement, murder, racism,
Form: Quatrain
The Bible According To Netto
...(please note dunners are debt collectors)
(Netto is a low cost Supermarket)
In these isles of cheap illusion
the kids run free,
screaming for the sugar of childhood.
While their mother walks on
down...
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Categories:
disfiguring, people, world,
Form: Free verse
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