Drowner
...In the tide's peril, through dusky snare
I fall low, i submerged slow, and when they call me, i drift below
I am lost, I am alone
I am but a shadowed self of my own
Striding, fleeing and now I'...
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Categories:
drowner, 12th grade, blessing,
Form: Free verse
On the Rocks Chanco
..."On the rocks?", the bartender called,
As I asked for a double Scotch,
To revive my spirits keel-hauled.
By my sleepy shift on night-watch.
On the rocks the liquid gold poured
Making the cold ...
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Categories:
drowner, depression, drink,
Form: Rhyme
Valentine
...Valentine
My dear brothers and sisters
What special in Feb 14th?
Why did you prefer a bl/\dy clothes?
Why did you celebrate the death of a lover?
Why do you dress nakedness on this day?
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Categories:
drowner, anger, anniversary,
Form: Pastoral
Plane Ride
...PLANE RIDE
I would go back to the amber waving grain
I long to fly to America again
Oh yes it’s corny I know
To say I love America but it is so
When I look around at the restriction
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Categories:
drowner, america, freedom, world,
Form: Couplet
Eight-Fold Might
...Breaking apart by the minute minutes
Feeling myself, departing from misfits
Bold and brazen I wish to be so madly
Enviless and free I want to be badly
I'll drink to that and be a fat cat
I...
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Categories:
drowner, deep,
Form: Free verse
Phantom Ashes
...Cosmic Ashes
Being gone, as the light of the stars
A ghost illumination in the witching hours
I, abhorring the interstellar sex, wait
To expire from this ‘home’,
Through wind and rust.
In l...
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Categories:
drowner, birth, death,
Form: Free verse
America - the Melting Pot For Freedom
...AMERICA - THE MELTING POT FOR FREEDOM
I know, as you do, that there is no man who
Wouldn’t trade his rice bowl empty and dry
Or his barrio hut and the tse tse fly
And say thank God for ...
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Categories:
drowner, inspirationalgod, girl, god,
Form: Kyrielle
My Week Off Work
...MY WEEK OFF WORK
I would go back to the amber waving grain
I long to fly to America again
Oh yes it’s corny I know
To say I love America but it is so
When I look around at the restr...
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Categories:
drowner, america, freedom,
Form: Couplet
My Confession
...MY CONFESSION
Oh yes it’s corny I know
To say I love America but it is so
When I look around at the restriction
And these old methods and ways of affliction
In my un-American surrounding...
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Categories:
drowner, america, freedom,
Form: Couplet