Damaged
...They stick labels on broken things that say damaged
Damaged but still usable
because why would you throw something away when it’s just a little broken, battered or bruised, we pride ourselves in...
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Categories:
dissimilar, abuse, cry, dark, emotions,
Form: Free verse
song of the mattress
...song of the mattress
she slept, wrinkled and small
on satin sheets, a band-aide covering her mattress,
knees tucked tightly beneath her chin
and legs pressed against her breasts
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Categories:
dissimilar, allegory, emotions, hurt, pain,
Form: Free verse
Opposites
...They say that opposites are necessary
they, you know of whom I speak
so many that they have become faceless
to us, so similar in their beaten nature
having given up the fight, given away
all of ...
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Categories:
dissimilar, emotions, feelings, humanity, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
They Walk Warmly Together
...God looks at Death, and it nods,
It knows that it’s time for them to walk together,
They journey across the sunlit fields,
And through the meadows of night.
There’s an onus for God and a ca...
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Categories:
dissimilar, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Cycle
...Three trees stand guard,
a heavenly gate of luscious green
and mahogany brown,
a doorway to the rolling hills beyond.
Rays of light shimmer through the crevasses,
through the intricate web of ...
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Categories:
dissimilar, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Just Like You
...I met someone who looked just like you.
The same brown eyes, set back enough to make out the outlines of your orbital bones.
The same smile lines that house years of laughter, joy, and perfectly fr...
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Categories:
dissimilar, break up, feelings, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Feelings Into Form
...Storms and calm
churning center
rearranging the
surface
(wars and peace)
one thing devours
another, thinking
to survive
plants take from
the soil to grow
animals hunt other
anim...
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Categories:
dissimilar, creation, forgiveness, friendship, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Butterflies
...Butterflies are a magical magentic wonder of our world's skies
In many ways they are not dissimilar to us coming in all different colours categories configurations and size.
Butterflies can't see t...
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Categories:
dissimilar, butterfly, insect, nature, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Move on over ole Joe
...Move on over ole Joe...
and let the youngbloods take the reins
infusing our promised land with hope.
You done good for America,
serving as laudatory President
from 2020 to the present
Vice ...
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Categories:
dissimilar, america, anger, anxiety, care,
Form: Free verse
CASPER AND SPOOKY
...
Spooky the tuff Little Ghost liked to BOO,
Knew he was scarier than scary that’s true,
Enjoyed scaring people out of their wits,
Often did he do this, used to go on a blitz
Letting them think h...
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Categories:
dissimilar, girlfriend,
Form: Free verse
friends arrive from unexpected places
...friends arrive from unexpected places
Some have slipped out of the Congo
One of mine is from the River Nile
Oh, that is also the Congo? Who knew?
I have friends all over the USA
In possibly al...
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Categories:
dissimilar, friendship,
Form: Prose Poetry
Possibilities
...It will be amazing up there
Different, dissimilar place
Not like here, a daily rat race
In heaven, I will be an heir
An heir to God's amazing grace
Never feeling I've been displace...
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Categories:
dissimilar, writing,
Form: Other
GREEN DAY revisited
... GREEN DAY – revisited
Although the following poetic/prosaic material written January eighteenth two thousand and eighteen, I came across these encapsulated, enclosed, encoded, and encrusted wi...
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Categories:
dissimilar, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Yuletide pageant merry go round
...Yuletide pageant merry go round
Panoply of mystical elements of holly day style
breathe prez sense frostily exhaled aired
per millennia athwart
(this terrestrial spaceship planet Earth)
two ...
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Categories:
dissimilar, angel, appreciation, birth, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Tryptic
...Three women
with the same chin,
and same ears.
The last of the three
has less likeness to the others,
her eyes will not fit
within their glancing windows.
although she is almost,
she will e...
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Categories:
dissimilar, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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