Doctored
...scalpel!
gently saw at the sides of the face
let it fall apart at the seams
now, put it up against yours
does it fit? is it a perfect match?
it feels cold, unwelcoming
the eye...
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Categories:
doctored, women, world, youth,
Form: Free verse
Jester
...I ascend to the stage,
I make sure not to stumble or trip.
They cheer and they boast and they cackle.
They like this new persona.
A beautifully doctored facade.
Would they like the girl behi...
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Categories:
doctored, how i feel, judgement,
Form: Free verse
To Friendly Face and Open Door
...In a moment, in a twinkling of an eye at the last trumpet:
for the trumpet shall blow, and the dead shall be raised up
incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
—1 Cor 15:52
To Friend...
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Categories:
doctored, pain, spring, time,
Form: Pantoum
Army of One
...Alone I drift, a vagabond psuche, haunted by daughter's lifeblood and husband's self-exploded mind, a diseased landscape. Frantic fingers dance on the page as I conjure reason's faint glow, a despera...
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Categories:
doctored, dark,
Form: Free verse
Mining Meteors
...
(With Wormwood Dreams)
The fire and ice, heaven and hell equinox calibration of scales, scorched Earth
beneath a sky of epic fail of primary colors in triple beam, sale, cine-scene-
totem of...
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Categories:
doctored, art,
Form: Free verse
ONE PRESCRIPTION FOR COVID
...
Since Covid emerged upon the scene…from the moment the virus Gods begot it….
Deborah and I were thankful, relieved and extremely proud…never to have caught it!
We vaccinated and prayed to every...
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Categories:
doctored, sick,
Form: Rhyme
Not Enough Stuff
...My heart is rapid
Escalating by the second,
Flutters?
Flustered?
No.
That's not it.
That feels different
This…this is less innocent
A need,
To fulfill his desire,
But it feels awkward;
...
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Categories:
doctored, depression, feelings, first love,
Form: Rhyme
Reaping Short Terms Benefits
...Reaping short terms benefits...
before marital savings bond matured
as a then quinquagenarian.
Courtesy gerontologists medical practitioners
allowing, enabling, and providing
the elderly pop...
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Categories:
doctored, absence, abuse, adventure, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Astatine
...Crowd noises are ringing as I peep by the window,
It's another night in the month of fall,
I'm just a nobody, barely got a fellow,
But i'm very special in the eyes of them all.
Everybody want...
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Categories:
doctored, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Slippery Pitch
...With a slippery substance, he doctored the baseball
~ showing no respect for the medical profession at all...
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Categories:
doctored, baseball, drug, humorous,
Form: Epigram
Talking of Freedom Versus Turn-Key Unreason
...Gb2 's a radio show, it airs in Sydney...But there's more to know.'
Ben Fordam has been speaking out, on the covid dictates
Roundabout on where the science meets the facts
Whether it's all altrui...
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Categories:
doctored, anti bullying, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
As Mother's Day Winds Down, Cheering Sad Ones
...I
I must have TEA
Must have been in a state
Mississippi
Must have sipped stale TEA
WENT TO HorsePetal
Flowery Hospital
Recovered Nicely
Re-covered
Doctored prescribed wisely
II
Missus H...
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Categories:
doctored, america, funny, humor, irony,
Form: Rhyme
Wayward Wanderer
...
Why does my soul not conform to the social standards that society and family set before me? As if I was written as a chapter of a different book and thrown amongst the scoffers. Or am I just a ...
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Categories:
doctored, conflict, corruption, courage, culture,
Form: Free verse
I Might Try Some Alternative News
...Bring me reality, spare the insanity; preening and vanity
Do.! Its purpose I’d rather gather not
Twaddle and flatter; For ..!!
Really I’m open of view.’ I don’t want TV Docs
I want info that rock...
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Categories:
doctored, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Double Dose of Reality
...
Crack-ed craniums, splintered personalities
Neural pathway of coping escape
led to a padded place for shattered identities
Disposable souls, which fell thru the cracks,
became ill wee...
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Categories:
doctored, allegory, drug, mental illness,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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