UNRAVELLING CHOICES AND CHOICES
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In the spirit of hope, we contemplatively search
Beyond the horizon for the mystic exorcism
Of the pandemic deaths proliferating from
The disparity reigning from viral social
And political in...
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Categories:
exorcize, anxiety, destiny, extended metaphor,
Form: Prose
coming to town
...Peter (my bf) is coming to town - tonight. I’m breathy with excitement.
My energy is so sick. “Someone scrape her off the walls,” Leong remarked, as I bounded out of my room this morning.
Lisa winc...
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Categories:
exorcize, boyfriend, humor, school, student,
Form: Free verse
And So Do You
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You can pretend I never happened
Expunge me from you mind
Exorcize the ghost of me
Leave it all behind
You can play the role of happy
On your convoluted stage
Recite the same old monologue
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Categories:
exorcize, angst, desire, feelings, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Habitual
...Exorcize restraint
Disrespect in the bedroom
Habitual sin...
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Categories:
exorcize, confidence, encouraging,
Form: Senryu
The Unbidden Guest
...Oh, it is like any other night
Quite quietly still
Neither a stir nor a quiver
Neither a hush nor a shush
No stars, not even the moon
peeking through the dark quilt
of a shadowless night.
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Categories:
exorcize, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Prologue
...Whether you have come to possess this compendium of doggerel confessions by chance or by choice, should you decide to venture beyond this page, I politely suggest you consider the contents to be noth...
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Categories:
exorcize, allegory, literature,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Monsters
...Monsters should look like monsters....
But most don't.
I mean, some will actually
warn you that they're monsters,
But generally... most won't.
Instead... you see
People you like,
People yo...
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Categories:
exorcize, abuse, evil,
Form: Free verse
The Full Moon Lunatics
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A full moon and the lunatics are collecting in the park
Oldies have seen it before, and the kids think it a lark
The lunatics are eating the grass, the kids, smoking it
There is some kind of s...
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Categories:
exorcize, crazy, moon,
Form: Couplet
Peco Philadelphia Electric Company
...PECO (Philadelphia Electric Company)...
wont get a red cent from me
(explained by following words you see)
No...not until the
bitter cold temperature,
sans iron maiden
(Pol...
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Categories:
exorcize, adventure, death, fate, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
At War With My Country
...Suddenly I feel at war with my Country,
Country of origin, land of my birth,
Fortunate senior, not long for the Earth.
Patriot lust to kill natives still lingers,
Mass racial prejudice never wi...
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Categories:
exorcize, abuse, anxiety, introspection, prejudice,
Form: Quatrain
Twisted Wrist
...trun my scarred wrists towards the sun, see where the shackles of shame once hung. bare my flesh and count the flaws where guilt gnash with sharpened claws.
Remove the slippers from my hesitant fee...
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Categories:
exorcize, dark, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
It Was a Great News Day
...Dragon had an amazingly, very bad day.
As only a baby Dragon can, you may say…
He woke up so very early, at barely the crack of dawn…
So hungry, he ate all the food he could find, with a yawn.
W...
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Categories:
exorcize, adventure, fantasy, funny, happiness,
Form: Light Verse
Impossible Love
...As I look thru endless tunnels
Searching for something I cannot describe,
It becomes harder with cold attitudes and bigotries.
I feel I am on another planet
Or a leper with no lean.
When I go to...
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Categories:
exorcize, beautiful, crush, for her,
Form: I do not know?
My Guardian Angeles
...My Guardian Angels
4/2013
Tattooed Angels
Enshrine my body,
Protectors of what's right,
forever vigilant
All day and all through the night!
Ganesh, Hindu Elephant God,
Loyal son of Shiv...
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Categories:
exorcize, daughter, father daughter, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
The Demonologist
...think of the state of boredom
in which 45% of americans exist,
wherein they believe their lives are
exciting enough
to have “ghosts” visit them from
“beyond”…
understand that the demonologist
has r...
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Categories:
exorcize, life, power,
Form: Free verse
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