We're Probably Getting Back Together Soon
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My phone died this week.
I’ve ordered a new one—
I’d like to say I’ve enjoyed the silence,
just lo-fi music playing, slipping into a flow state.
But I’d be lying.
Only a handful of friends t...
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Categories:
disorienting, culture, extended metaphor, hyperbole,
Form: Free verse
the sorting hat
...Like Harry Potter, the sorting hat (my mom)
has placed me in a bloody, crimson colored school.
It’s disorienting, as I go about, the logos are wack.
Poor little rich girl
no beachside lovers
t...
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Categories:
disorienting, daughter, education, humor, morning,
Form: Free verse
springing
...My dorm room was bright this morning. It was disorienting.
The sky outside was a cloudless, striking neon blue.
The air was so crisp and clean, I could hardly feel it going in and out.
It all spar...
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Categories:
disorienting, fun, humor, school, spring,
Form: Free verse
The Cruelty Of Wealth
...Wealth, a siren's charm, alluring and bright
A pillow's softness, a thimble's gentle might
It provides for earthly needs, a feast to behold
Yet, in its depths, a darkness unfolds
Oh, wealth! Wh...
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Categories:
disorienting, allusion, hyperbole, imagery, irony,
Form: Blank verse
Descent And Ascent
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The turning wheel of time stirs up the dust of disarray
that settles in the crumbling cauldron of disordered life.
In the maiming moments of disdained dejection
truth tumbles in the debris of...
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Categories:
disorienting, analogy, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
the descent
...My eyes deceive me,
Wondering, worrying
if I am free.
The current pulls me out
it's disorienting.
yet, you don’t see me pout.
Forty won’t come
But you promised.
so fragmented, so gruesome...
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Categories:
disorienting, conflict, confusion, deep, depression,
Form: Rhyme
She is Lost
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I know she is lost
but those lost
can be brought home
I want to print
one hundred
missing flyers
but how she’d hate
to be found
believes she knows
this twisting trail
Like h...
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Categories:
disorienting, emotions, friend, sad,
Form: Free verse
Invested
...A peeping eye, like pendulum, swinging through the keyhole.
Just to pass the time.
It's a curious thing.
Flicks transfixed betwixed the clicks of the ticks of the clock as it shifts.
What is it s...
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Categories:
disorienting, dark,
Form: Free verse
Consciousness Correction
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The turning wheel of time stirs up the dust of disarray,
that settles in the crumbling cauldron of disordered life.
In the maiming moments of disdained dejection,
truth tumbles in the ...
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Categories:
disorienting, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Schizophrenia
...I don't want to hurt others with this thought
But my work can hurt others besides myself
I'm spinning, I don't know what to do
Like the ocean of other people's passion
I have a wooden boat wrec...
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Categories:
disorienting, angst, child abuse, death,
Form: Free verse
Start the Day
...Lisa and I were watching one of our favorite series last night, a Japanese manga called “The Way of the Househusband” and I could barely keep my eyes open. I went to bed at a decent hour (11:30) but ...
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Categories:
disorienting, angst, friendship, humor, school,
Form: Free verse
'We Need To Talk'
...I'm suddenly choking
On the disorienting fumes
Of unbearable suspense.
Four words was all it took.
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Categories:
disorienting, confusion, horror, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Path of Life
...A winding pathway
Through the woods and over hills
Lost in natures peace
A path of petals
Soft underfoot. Gently sways
Flowers lead the way
A path in the dark
Disorienting and cold
Guid...
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Categories:
disorienting, life,
Form: Haiku
Dreams In Shadow of Memory
...Immersed in the madness flood of crowd,
a verdant valley I find carved out
in the lonesome landscape within me,
displaced from the psychosis stratum
of disorienting dissonance,
attached to t...
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Categories:
disorienting, analogy, inspirational, life, memory,
Form: Free verse
Fox News Is Fraud News
...FOX NEWS article rhymed
When Donald Trump lost the presidency, Fox News lost too
“We’re bleeding eyeballs,” a Fox producer remarked “And we’re scared of blue”
But unlike Trump, Fox was never in...
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Categories:
disorienting, america, anger,
Form: Rhyme
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