her man knew her well
...deeply dark and disturbingly mysterious
diabolical and Gothic, with a hint of Victorian
as punk as any bouquet that came before
she smiled when she came upon them
They were perfect, her man knew ...
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Categories:
disturbingly, flower,
Form: Free verse
Sad and Painful Tears For Haiti At Xmas
...The nonstop negative news or publicities on Haiti
Hurt tremendously and disturbingly
The relentless or constant bashings of all Haitians
Twinge and twist my heart like cancer patients
On their de...
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Categories:
disturbingly, bible, birth, blessing, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
An Homage to the Lost Pearls of Wisdom on Ancient Computers
...Abort!
This collapsed coping mechanism has left me alamort
I was just a shameful conjugal visit
And a muse for playing with fire
You never questioned me and that's how I know you’re not innocen...
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Categories:
disturbingly, angst,
Form: Free verse
Grandma's Magical Quilt
...A silhouette
Backlit by glowing silver-gray
Lanky shadow
Lurking in my bedroom doorway
Arms stretch down, impossibly long
Deformed joints, disturbingly wrong
Pretending sleep
Muscles strain...
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Categories:
disturbingly, childhood, family, fear, night,
Form: Rhyme
Fall Break
...In New Haven, Lisa misses the sad, dark, city aesthetics of her hometown. Its crime podcast vibe, actinic crime-lighting and sirens in the distance, that lull her to sleep like lullabies. She has a d...
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Categories:
disturbingly, food, friendship, fun, humor,
Form: Free verse
Scrutiny Following Muting
...The whole thing had seemed some mutiny
While hundred eyes stuck to scrutiny!
A young Eve with an old company
She’d met at a roadside company,
Freshly by his side in bikini
And freshly quaffing...
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Categories:
disturbingly, character, corruption, lost, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Five Haunted Men
...Like The Cows in Joseph’s Dream
That garroted ones of gleam,
Five were disturbingly gaunt,
As I recalled in a jaunt:
Blissful walk to a park
For a promised beer by Mark:
Men marine spirits did...
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Categories:
disturbingly, destiny, evil, gothic, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Denizens: Penelope - 3
...Part 3 of ? in an unfolding Denizens series
Spring came; Penelope left with a company,
bodyguard, chambermaid, there at her side.
Ten days of travel now lay there before them:
the pass...
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Categories:
disturbingly, adventure, mystery,
Form: Quatrain
Sometimes People Share
...Sometimes pandemic people share
pieces of our unspeakable personal story
That no health care worker,
sex therapist player,
or green resonant systems organizer
wants to hear,
much less smell,
...
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Categories:
disturbingly, abuse, god, health, muse,
Form: Political Verse
Hard Drug a Dug Grave
...Mind-Cracking, Health-Crushing Hard Drug
Whose taker has his own grave dug:
For all the sad life’s holes it does plug,
Any helping dosing down on rug,
As though a shooter did one slug
Or a dir...
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Categories:
disturbingly, addiction, death, depression, drug,
Form: Rhyme
The Better Craftsman
...He could take what most found, in the time of that
Particular incumbent fashion, to be lacking in any
Pleasing or greatly passionate way,
And, after immersing it into low, blue flame,
Repeat...
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Categories:
disturbingly, age, inspiration, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Anthrosupremacist Questions
...S/he wonders why
when we breathe in
our left sides
feel right mind dominant
when our rights inside
feel LeftBrain capital deviated,
Dysfunctional
disappointing
disharmonious
sad and lonely...
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Categories:
disturbingly, environment, health, integrity, light,
Form: Political Verse
The Soul Knows
...Where did all the sunny days go?
I feel my Soul tell me it knows
Howbeit I’m constantly chasing shadows
Through bravado and deepening sorrows
Endlessly I hear life's soprano
Though it sounds e...
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Categories:
disturbingly, freedom, poems, poetry, rainbow,
Form: Rhyme
To Start Smiling At President Biden
...The feeling-cheated Igbo of Nigeria
Now judges her a worse malaria,
To keep celebrating Donald Trump
While bemoaning his angering dump …
But plans he to start smiling at Biden,
For one should ...
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Categories:
disturbingly, anxiety, conflict, corruption, money,
Form: Rhyme
Fear
...Easily kicking open The floodgate of panic,
The quickening of blood circulation, titanic:
A once normal breathing is disturbingly hoarse
And the modest in behavior dreadfully coarse.
Eyes now pop...
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Categories:
disturbingly, fear, hate,
Form: Rhyme
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