Boxes of Memories
...It's hard to believe it has been nine years
since my brother delivered each box.
They all seemed to hold a special key,
mysteries and memories to unlock.
My Dad had lived a mostly happy life,
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Categories:
electroshock, dad, grandfather, grandmother, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Did I catch a electroshock after sliding down the slide?
...Could it be,
that you smiled at me?
Or did,
my brain formulate a kit?...
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Categories:
electroshock, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Spore your appreciation, edification, information
...Spore your appreciation, edification, information...,
orchestration, and utilization,
a moss fungi (fun guy) attests his marriage
synonymous with symbiotic relationship.
Nostalgic acquiescence ...
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Categories:
electroshock, adventure, age, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Doctor Rippy Tampa General Hospital Aged Twelve
...When i was a young boy - ink stained test once with the girl
and the ink was sweet he 'said';
it made us unclean this test, from the man for he was the tester;
And that picture my bat of her 'poet...
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Categories:
electroshock, 12th grade, abuse, anger,
Form: Bio
Writers Block
...writers block
have writer’s block
words can’t find
now in shock
lost my mind
to unlock
have assigned
a coldcock
electroshock.
Now who do I hear calling me
my trusted friend my muse
yo...
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Categories:
electroshock, writing,
Form: Haiku
In the Eyes of the Law
...In the eyes of the law, he was black
As black as the ace of spades, not one of them
The dreams he carried to this land
Were stowed upon the sail ship here
Nigeria to Leeds with hope, new life
F...
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Categories:
electroshock, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
The Mind Or the Soul
...The Wall Street Journal recently reviewed Allan Horwitz's book, "DSM: A History of Psychiatry's Bible", which claims that 'DSM', the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, is a 'socia...
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Categories:
electroshock, depression, god, jesus, spiritual,
Form: Prose
Abandoned
...These walls, crumbling through time.
seeing old metal beds, stained mattresses,
broken sinks and toilets, rusted old medical supplies and a vacant morgue.
I'm walking through a dark place where...
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Categories:
electroshock, dark, history, loneliness, memory,
Form: Free verse
I Cant Wait For Death
...I Can't Wait For Death
And finally take one last breath
where hands of Seth
Thomas no longer clock
freed at last from cataclysmic aftershock
reverberating thru every baited cell
after quaking...
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Categories:
electroshock, allusion, dark, family, farewell,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Inside the Mysterious Enigmatic Fragmentary
...Inside The Mysterious Enigmatic Fragmentary...
Mortal Mind Of Matthew Scott Harris
ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Seedy gobbledygook ergot
visibly argot bubbled, burbled, bustled...forth
yea...give ...
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Categories:
electroshock, addiction, age, appreciation, art,
Form: Narrative
Frankie Boy
...
Frankie boy,
you’re so ghoulishly handsome
with your graveyard tan
My baby boy is
one Munster hunk of a man
With your strong and cold
cadaver Addams Family hands
You’re gonn...
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Categories:
electroshock, fun, humorous, parody, word
Form: Light Verse
Believe It Or What
...He doesn’t have to prove anything to me. The Holy Spirit, that is. I’ve always known He’s there, from childhood on, even if I ignored Him for many years. But like others growing older, I thank Him no...
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Categories:
electroshock, god, , atheist,
Form: Prose
Deepest Low
...I tried to kill myself two days ago,
Two days after my 24th birthday.
It didn’t work,
I can’t even do that right.
Instead of compassion and understanding from my family,
Or even love;
I got an...
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Categories:
electroshock, absence, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
At My Dad's, Thinking About Her
...Salty glass eyes,
Thimbles brimming
with summer-leaf green poison
stare back at me.
A stare chilled subzero.
I, of course, imagine this stare
is a defense mechanism to hide her troubles.
I i...
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Categories:
electroshock, care, care, love,
Form: Free verse
A Night
...there is something in the air
that speaks to the piercing rain -
some giant, flailing whisp of interminable beauty.
the dazzling electroshock of occassional
sprinting spears,
wonderful in appear...
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Categories:
electroshock, allegory, animals, introspection, nature,
Form: Free verse
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