When I Bleed Out In Front Of You
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{"Hadn’t you known, or care to acknowledge that I am wholly fond of my life as of right now?
I’m in love with the lighting that shoots and grazes my neighbor's balcony as I sit in front of my own...
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Categories:
exfoliated, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse
Expiring Experienced Excited Emus
...expiring experienced excited and enticed enthusiastic emus
extracted exact experimental explosives from exfoliated flues
exasperating exam-free extraterrestrial expedition views
extraordinary x-ra...
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Categories:
exfoliated, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Alliteration
God Is In Control
...John 1:9 KJV (We confess our sins & He faithfully forgives, cleansing us from all unrighteousness)
I fell to my knees as the preacher prayed over me with a hand on my shoulder
and with ...
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Categories:
exfoliated, appreciation, god,
Form: Free verse
Sides Coincide
...Slotted abruptly into a concept
Bold intimation begs he correspond
Gypsy psyche brown moth becomes windswept
Attempt to bracket him or wander on
Waiting with pattern disrupted, fear tinged
On ...
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Categories:
exfoliated, anxiety, baptism, blessing, environment,
Form: Sonnet
The Great Charade
...It happens to be that we all perceive
in a grand allegiance never brought into question
as though the clocks have been frozen
giving us all tock subtracted from tick
and Change the poster child h...
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Categories:
exfoliated, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Burning Trees
...The suns eye is falling, ash from the ground drowns the trees
In a sea of dark grey and exfoliated black leaves Falling…
singing a song that echoes through the woods of this cradle of life
only a ...
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Categories:
exfoliated, art, nature,
Form: Prose
Sahara Moon
...The Sahara's flaring moon
weaves sand castles in hombre dusk,
jacquard ridges unraveling down burlap slopes.
Under taupe sky a balmy loom
spins dust into tawny gold for a sultan sun,
eroding ...
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Categories:
exfoliated, color, imagery,
Form: Ekphrasis
Apocalypse Ii
...Night was drowsy and opiated,
Hollow moon suspended,exfoliated
Over the spiraled staircases,
Blood drips chaotic from anemic faces.
I can hear the dismal cacophony..
Girls, gaunt cheeks, bones ...
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Categories:
exfoliated, allegory, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Road To Damascus
...ROAD TO DAMASCUS
Granite faith exfoliated by superguns and sanctions whirls,
on this earth succumbing into dry spell of peace,
War-crats and confidantes skinning freedom from its people
Kofi dr...
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Categories:
exfoliated, africa, age, allegory, betrayal,
Form: Epitaph
Exfoliation I Am
...EXFOLIATION, I AM
In my advanced age am I but
The castoff--remnants
Of a vitality that once was and has been pushed aside?
Am I only its exfoliation?
I don’t want to t...
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Categories:
exfoliated, allusion, bereavement, family, happiness,
Form: Light Verse
Cast and Crew
...Exfoliated Eddie is an eagle eyed spy
He likes hot Hoxton coffee with his cold Shepherd’s Pie
Crazy for a Sheffield lass, a Steel City shrew
Her conversation’s retro but her attitude is new.
Fl...
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Categories:
exfoliated, nonsense,
Form: Ballad
Beware the Man In the Mask
...The mask, with eyes brighter than the most brilliant star,
Reflecting the sunshine & blue Ocean beyond, his eyes twinkle
He smiles, I am dazzled, hypnotised...almost
Powerless I am drawn to him...
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Categories:
exfoliated, abuse, boyfriend, break up,
Form: Free verse
Cityscapes 2
...Deserted financial centre
Ghost town after dark;
Weekend constellations
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Blank myth created
To express a fond wish;
Merlion antiquity
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Old neighbour nods
Smiles i...
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Categories:
exfoliated, change,
Form: Haiku
Wooded Destinies
...The sun-bleached exoskeletons
of old dead trees stand like sentries
along the towpath riverfront
exfoliated and gangling.
In a former age they stood tall,
grandiose to all passerby’s
b...
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Categories:
exfoliated, nature,
Form: Verse
In the Never of Her Mind
...IN THE NEVER OF HER MIND
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her face hangs on two hallways of her mind
one overlooking the essentials and joy of life
and those half-blind fi...
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Categories:
exfoliated, hope, introspectionbaby, baby,
Form: Free verse
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