Illegitimate Child
...I was born in absence—
not just of a father,
but of the myth of one.
Raised by silence,
I searched for manhood
in shadows and wounds.
My name is Oedipus rewritten—
not in fate,
but in affec...
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Categories:
emasculated, character, child, childhood, children,
Form: Free verse
Tell - You Need To Be Heard
...
How could he honestly tell anyone
Who would actually believe him
A strong confident young man
Smiling on the outside ….petrified within
Excuses made for the obvious ones
With casual jest and...
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Categories:
emasculated, abuse, men, pain, violence,
Form: Rhyme
AFRICA'S SACRED ARK
...Soon,
The sacred black ashes and dark disfigured, but resilient bones of our enslaved, enraged and estranged ancestors,
Will awake from their centuries of dazed, polluted and denigrated slumber, t...
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Categories:
emasculated, africa, corruption, humanity, independence
Form: Free verse
Wretched emasculated celibate anchorite
...Wretched emasculated celibate anchorite
(any relationship between the following poem and living persons -
namely the writer of these words ranks as purely coincidental and fictitious).
neverth...
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Categories:
emasculated, adventure, allegory, animal, atheist,
Form: Free verse
Rise of the Ripper
...Through the streets of Whitechapel
A monster roamed them all
He left behind a history
Many to enthral
But who knew the romance
The lover behind this affray
He may wield a knife but in fact...
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Categories:
emasculated, betrayal, history, romance,
Form: Couplet
The Farmers Market
...Being a man, and not only a man but a married man, I cannot deny that there are women who could appropriately be called nags. This should not be confused with the right of the wife to have her voice ...
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Categories:
emasculated, culture, pain, voice,
Form: Prose
Happy National Friendship Day - August 6th, 2023
...Happy National Friendship Day - August 6th, 2023
The idea of Friendship Day originated
in the United States in 1919,
proposed by Joyce Hall,
the founder of Hallmark cards.
It gained offi...
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Categories:
emasculated, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Reflections Upon Mine Gender Identity Redux
...Reflections upon mine gender identity redux
Although heterosexual
predilections punctuated
physiological pulsations
about five inches below
innie belly button of mine
showcasing undersize
...
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Categories:
emasculated, age, analogy, anxiety, atheist,
Form: Free verse
Grant This Civil Yankee To Doodle Till Lee Gets Blue In the Face
...Grant this civil yankee to doodle till Lee gets blue in the face
blowing 99 red balloons April 9th, 2023
will signal 158 years since Appomattox
plus what would have been ninety sixth birth
of...
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Categories:
emasculated, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Missus Served Me High Test Coffee
...The missus served me high test coffee...
Ah... tis nothing more heavenly
(to one borne again devout atheist)
then a spring like January 18th, 2023
here at Highland Manor apartments
picturesqu...
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Categories:
emasculated, angel, appreciation, atheist, blessing,
Form: Free verse
In the Manse Market For a Preowned Spa House
...In the manse market for a preowned spa house
Mine feeble efforts pale in comparison
to a kid scaling El Capitan
of Yosemite National Park,
nevertheless me, a dry witted husband
self emasculate...
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Categories:
emasculated, absence, allegory, angel, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Left Getting Right Off and On
..."The left hemisphere's assault on our embodied nature
is not just an assault on OUR bodies,
but on the embodied nature of the
[sacred EarthMother]
world around us."
Iain McGilchrist, The Master ...
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Categories:
emasculated, allah, earth, god, health,
Form: Political Verse
Categories:
emasculated, angel, anxiety, forgiveness, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Your Dead Horizon
...Cold cloak chills
my aged bones it
belies
those crimson eyes
those smoldering orbs
those smoking windows
of despair
and yet
I draw closer
I capitulate
I accede
...
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Categories:
emasculated, angst,
Form: Free verse
The Emasculation of Man
...
"The Emasculation of Man"
The world goes by loudly
emasculated man
sees nothing
for what it’s worth
ignorant and
pumelling chests
goril...
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Categories:
emasculated, humanity, i am, pride,
Form: Free verse
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