Stillbirth - Memories of 1987
...Within my own axis,
It did not slant
It did not drizzle.
The void shunned the grey clouds.
Lightning was rare.
Thunder turned mute.
Leaf-tops shook with the sleepiness of
Shameless drunks, cas...
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Categories:
end product, community, growing up, sunshine,
Form: Free verse
FORBIDDEN APPARENT
...Rejection chain reaction
New Born Male Child
A babe suffering during while
A Mother who wanted her son to die
Heaven’s intervention rise
The new born experienced Asthma, Yellow Jaundice and Maln...
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Categories:
end product, abuse, anger, betrayal, birth,
Form: Free verse
You are my sea glass
...Tossed deep in the ocean was your broken heart
Picking up the pieces, refining each part
Of yourself. Thrown, wacked, hurled and caught by the waves
Floating, passing by, not needing to be saved
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Categories:
end product, beautiful, love,
Form: Rhyme
A Psalm To Solemnize Pure Tin Forefathers Mothers
...A psalm to solemnize pure tin forefathers/mothers...
Who didst unknowingly, unquestionably,
and unwittingly script vitality
and the prologue to Thanksgiving,
(which theme poem initially writte...
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Categories:
end product, adventure, africa, age, america,
Form: Rhyme
The Missus Unflagging Crocheting Efforts As Betsy Ross Incarnate
...The missus unflagging crocheting efforts as Betsy Ross incarnate
With needle in hand incorporating love
in every single crochet stitch
that's my wife
tad more'n a quarter century ago
then newl...
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Categories:
end product, adventure, age, america, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
There Was a Time
...There was a time when despite regular bun fights,
Sexist attitudes,
Unrealistic demands by key players,
Money problems,
Drunkenness,
And petty squabbles,
The end product,
That flashed across ...
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Categories:
end product, anxiety, baptism, character, conflict,
Form: Burlesque
Suffering
...Agonizing pain
Discomfort, turmoil inside
Life can be excruciating
This is where the weak typically run and hide
But it is in those extreme moments
In the heat of the fire
That’s where steel...
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Categories:
end product, angst, anxiety, conflict, courage,
Form: Rhyme
My Oreo
...Articulated words
From your lips...
Soothes more than
Smooth creamed cookie.
Melanin skin tone,
You are...
Makes this cookie green.
Your sapience, very distinct
Making a library curse
Your e...
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Categories:
end product, mother,
Form: Ode
Between Scylla and Charybdis
...Greek mythological
drama flourishes,
nee thrives within
noggin of yours truly
gods and goddesses
sporting Hellenic origins
purportedly cavort
higgledy-piggledy
rampantly running ragged
rum...
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Categories:
end product, allegory, analogy, destiny, fire,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Place To Be
...I share everything I have yet they still feel the need to take from me
People always want to take more than they give back
Not knowing if your friends are actually enemies is a scary place to live...
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Categories:
end product, deep, depression, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
You Are Who You Are
...You Are Who You Are
(Dedicated to all students in Brunei)
You are who you are- a unique creature.
All men are your brothers but you’re different and rare.
None that came before, none that lives...
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Categories:
end product, character, destiny,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Deadly Voyage
...DEADLY VOYAGE:
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES
Intro:
The road is slippery,
And we got to tread cauteously,
So we don't miss our step, basical
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES
This is ANDERSON ...
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Categories:
end product, analogy,
Form: Classicism
Smelly Stuff Absorbed
...Smelly Stuff Absorbed
There are many words for those excrements that appear on the fabric in
incremental solid and deliquescent motions because ingestion fulfils that
autonomous need to shed ab...
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Categories:
end product, pain,
Form: Free verse
Death
...Death is the end-product of life.
It hangs over the head like a knife
Whoever has stepped into this world
Tastes death after a threshold
Everything is programmed prior to birth
Before our ar...
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Categories:
end product, age, betrayal, birth, death,
Form: Rhyme
Once Upon a Christmas 1954 - Part One - a Short Story From My Memoir
...Each year as Christmas rolls around, as I buckle under the pressure and stress of shopping for gifts for people that already have everything, I find myself remembering that Christmas of 1954.
Dad...
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Categories:
end product, christmas, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative
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