Words that wound
...Sticks and stones may break bones,
but words can wound much deeper
words from someone you love
can cut deeper than any others
words like toxic and disfunctional
can cut as painfully as razor wir...
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Categories:
disfunctional, family, feelings, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Pouring My Heart Out
...You leave me bruised
Sputtering around with no life
I gave you everything and
You took everything from me
Leaving me distorted
Twisted in this disfunctional world
I watch you live your glori...
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Categories:
disfunctional, life,
Form: Free verse
The Crowd
...The curfew of the liver - long gone.
The crowd - drunk, delusional, blank.
We were driving, standing still or worse -
both at the same time.
Howl time, bone time, penetration time
ticking slowly...
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Categories:
disfunctional, lost, social, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Devil-Oris
...It’s easy for you to tell me about me
You can take a magnifying glass and see problems I don’t see
Within a breath you can summarize my life
You can tell me when I went left and I should have went...
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Categories:
disfunctional, anger, evil, grandmother, hurt,
Form: Free verse
The Queens Bed
...The Queens Bed
There's a certain symmetry in mis-shapes
A Correlation of zig zags
A pyramid of Mish mashery
Of Golden haberdashery
A prism geometry forgot
Disfunctional patterns
Of a ...
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Categories:
disfunctional, fun, hilarious, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Brothers and Sisters of Eden
...A world changes course
expelling the good grim reaper
twisted joke
entering this forbidden zone
called democracy
Careless acts of violence black and white
mothers burying their children ...
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Categories:
disfunctional, angel, blessing, dark, deep,
Form: Narrative
Blame Game
...Even when people intentionally do,
I will look at it as God working through,
You take me, Lord, where you want me to be,
Having faith through circumstances for my eyes to see,
We can blame societ...
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Categories:
disfunctional, love,
Form: Rhyme
Radio
..."Radio"
Snippets of classic jingles ring diabolically in our brain
Converging good tunes for bad products
Their repetitive nature send shoots rattling and ringing
Over and over again, gee, have a lit...
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Categories:
disfunctional, slam,
Form: Free verse
Family Meeting
...The dreaded day of the family meeting arrived
Elder planning, liquidating assets and dispersing 84 years of belongings
Excuses, postponing, manipulations, whining and reasonings--
Valid each and...
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Categories:
disfunctional, angst, familyfamily, family, freedom,
Form: Prose Poetry
Malcolm In the Middle
...(Based on the TV show.)
This was a show about Malcolm who's a genius teen.
He had four brothers, a dad and a mom who's mean.
The parents were constantly angry at Reese.
He was a thug who didn't...
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Categories:
disfunctional, father, funny, mother, mom,
Form: I do not know?
Suzie and Mikey
...They are sister and brother,
Yet not quite the norm,
Suzie wants her doll,
And she'll keep ranting
long and loud,
Sometimes flying off the track,
Violence can erupt,
No way tp figure out,...
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Categories:
disfunctional, adventure, angst, brother, caregiving,
Form: Ballad
Quiz Comments and Extra Clues
...On No. 9; "Lunatics get their kicks"
On No. 7; "Some would like to tie all the loose ends together"
On No.5; "Posieden" might be another moniker for a component clue. Bonus
clue; "Older pers...
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Categories:
disfunctional, angst, caregiving, childhood, confusion,
Form: I do not know?
Disfunctional Happy Home
...I feel like a freak of nature,
An odd-ball of the rarest sort,
Because I had a happy childhood,
And it seems somehow I am caught...
I've grown up naive, trusting, and other
bizarre things,
I ha...
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Categories:
disfunctional, allegory, angst, family, health,
Form: Free verse
Words I'D Rather Not Hear Anymore!!
...I guess Im an old geezer, to me amazed by the first pocket calculator, but there
are a few words or phrases that I cannot stomach. They make me crazy (Like I
ain't crazy enough already) Anyway ...
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Categories:
disfunctional, education, funny, on writing
Form: List
Pepsi As a Drug
...They start you out with sips
and then they move to quarter cups
starting when you're little
but then it's never enough
pepsi as a drug.
All through your childhood
inching to the top of ...
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Categories:
disfunctional, funny, drug,
Form: Free verse
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