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Holding On

...I have a wife, a son and two granddaughters,
I have nightmares.
A 'having' cannot be held onto,
a Keep, a Fast, a Hold, all are synonyms
for a fortress....
my aspirations crumble like ancient wa...
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Categories: doled, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Galore of buzzfeeding, needling and scamming female hustlers

...Galore of buzzfeeding, needling and scamming female hustlers...

with a scheming, loving, and enticing guise
alive and well seeking gullible guys
(once upon a time just like me),
who experiences...
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Categories: doled, adventure, age, anger, anti
Form: Rhyme



Bad ass beauty brought bedlam, and begat bastard child

...Bad ass beauty brought bedlam, and begat bastard child...
courtesy booty call minus preemptive measures
while plugg naughty bits of tarnished knight 
while he took tea and crumpets within mistress...
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Categories: doled, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Tipping Balance

...“Doing the little things can make a big difference.”-Yogi Berra
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                                           A Tipping Balance

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Categories: doled, depression, faith, hope, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet

An Altruist Unsung

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She lived beside the old temple that has stood
For years on the rocky  bank of the  silent river
Flowing all through the lining greenery  cover ,     
The woods and the arable land  rich and goo...
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Categories: doled, life,
Form: Narrative



They got the whole world in their hands

...They got the whole world in their hands

Worth north of a trillion dollars,
(plus or minus a billion dollars here and there),
the unnamed obscenely rich,
(which top 15 billionaires
projected to...
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Categories: doled, america, anger, angst, bullying,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNever Be Me

...precipice

and the granite unmasked 

not my heart in immobility


Injustice

Disguise of righteousness

Not my soul in perpetual quake


Punishment

That which he doled smiling 

M...
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Categories: doled, cry, innocence, psychological, scary,
Form: I do not know?

A Lesson From the Auction of Damnation

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In the auction of damnation
They sell souls of the damned,
Those who plummet from the summit
On the auction block will land.
If hell is where you’re heading
Prepare for being bought,
But if...
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Categories: doled, allusion, angel, animal, bible,
Form: Rhyme

SOMBRE SOLILOQUY

...The journey lasted for not more than forty glorious and blessed years
Before your smiles gradually faded as you journeyed to a land far away, 
The hearse swallowed you into its belly, while hearken...
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Categories: doled, death of a friend,
Form: Elegy

Premium MemberThe Trials of Tommy Tucker

...Tommy Tucker was a youth of slight build, seeming younger than twenty,
Which was Tommy's true age; like a lone, silver star, apart from the plenty.

Tommy was well known for his great sing...
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Categories: doled, change, fantasy, happiness, heartbreak,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberToo Close to the Edge

...Memories of a bleak childhood haunted him ever and anon.
Whenever he thinks of that dark day, a thousand blades cut through him.
Shocked by the ferocity of that memory, his mind still goes insane.
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Categories: doled, angst, death, depression,
Form: Haibun

Lovely enchantress of cyberspace

...Lovely enchantress of cyberspace

Betwixt and between us
lies an immense untraversable realm
of never knowable forbidding possibilities
quixotic, rhapsodic, sympathetic, telepathic...,
where ta...
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Categories: doled, absence, adventure, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAgainst the backdrop of a leaden sky, where dreams lie shattered

...Against the backdrop of a leaden sky, where dreams lie shattered,
Beneath the heavy burden of pain, with echoes in sacred silences,
I lay down verses at dusk, where words are lost to the wind,
A s...
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Categories: doled, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Strong suspicion a 2024 presidential win

...Strong suspicion a 2024 presidential win...

for the trumpeting don
spells loss for democracy
after inauguration day
witnesses his swearing-in
nepotism will run rampant
lawlessness the name of...
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Categories: doled, america, angst, anxiety, business,
Form: Rhyme

Bittersweet pyrrhic victory

...Bittersweet pyrrhic victory...

if a 2024 November presidential Biden win
pandemonium likely to occur, 
subsequently figurative tectonic upheaval  
might set United States in a tailspin.

Thou...
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Categories: doled, 12th grade, abuse, america,
Form: Free verse

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