my grandma's disremembered stories
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grandma, the family storyteller
in old age would forget
so her stories changed with the retelling
but an essence of truth remained
her voice echoes in my heart
was each story semantic to...
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Categories:
disremembered, family, grandmother, memory,
Form: Free verse
And There were Three
...Three faceless Misses
amble amidst vagarious March rains
under parasols / veiled in the anonymity of death/burial
Three / shifting between tangible lives
breathless bellies barely acclimat...
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Categories:
disremembered, art, black african american,
Form: Free verse
Disremembered Sins
...I stood before the pearly gates
Awaiting entrance in,
Unaware of impediments
To bar my entering,
Then they came back to haunt me,
My disremembered sins....
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Categories:
disremembered, heaven, memory, sin,
Form: Couplet
Love Never Hurts
...You say that love hurts
I’d say that’s completely false
Love is a gift from the almighty God
Sow a little seed of affection and it will turn to a branchy palm
Bearing forth fruit of varied c...
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Categories:
disremembered, love, , Lullaby,
Form: Free verse
Rock Knuckle
...What a man you were
Your knuckle, hard as rock
Knocking on my seven year old skull
Flash anger that came from nowhere
Did I remind you of someone you hated?
I remember, buckets of years ago
Now...
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Categories:
disremembered, abuse, anger, childhood, father,
Form: Free verse