almost showed off
...(There’s a song for this: ‘Confessions’ by Sudan Archives)
I remember it like it was yesterday (it was yesterday).
I arrived on a cool (42°f), blindingly sunny New Haven afternoon. It was as if...
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Categories:
downplays, home, humor, student, travel,
Form: Free verse
The Battle Zone
...There are unending fired shots
which keeps one on their toes
to always push to be great.
Bullets emanates from varied firearms;
where some targets are locked in,
some aimed at and others
to...
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Categories:
downplays, books, confidence, courage,
Form: Free verse
Bypassing Intimacy
...a buffer between the you and the me
the constant mediator chaperoning
criticizing with its glare and pursed lips
negating the realm of possibilities
as it downplays the fragranced essence of ...
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Categories:
downplays, conflict, confusion, loneliness, loss,
Form: Free verse
Without Knowing Your Gender
...Without knowing your gender...,
(nevertheless ex post facto still flattered
genuine heartfelt kinship mattered,
hence the reasonable rhyme
across the webbed wide world
I subsequently scatter...
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Categories:
downplays, adventure, age, boy, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Success
...Success
Short notice, but nevertheless focused.
Discouraged from all parts that reinvented me
Threw it away due to the detrimental pain and torture of the brain.
Here I was faced with a challe...
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Categories:
downplays, growth, journey, success,
Form: Free verse
Peaceful Protestors
...A large building burns,
black-clad thugs dance around it,
reporter stands in front of flames
claims they are ‘peaceful’ protestors.
A courthouse surrounded,
lasers used to blind officers,
fir...
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Categories:
downplays, anger, evil, how i
Form: Free verse
Framing Godless Humble Ideology
...Atheistic beneficent credo,
dogmatically evokes fundamental
gnostic humanistic invocations,
joyously kickstarting literary
métier, native oeuvre
pulsating quintessentially,
rudimentary schema...
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Categories:
downplays, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
The Bigamist
...The Bigamist
I don't know what to call you
I can't conceive this pain
I'm alone in this nightmare that use to be my dream
Why would you do this
Why would you triangulate me in this sick game...
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Categories:
downplays, betrayal, heartbreak, heartbroken, husband,
Form: Free verse
Thank You For the Butchery
...I stand still here, as I stood there
when your lexis ripped me bare.
Thank you for the butchery.
I am now used to your tirade barrage
that disparage me like stale garbage.
Thank you for the but...
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Categories:
downplays, pain,
Form: Rhyme