Me and the Wall
...Me and the wall
Like an imaginary friend when we were a child.
My thoughts bounce off the wall and then get filed.
Mrs. Beasley, Shilo, and Winnie the Pooh.
No matter what you said, they believ...
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Categories:
extroverts, allusion,
Form: Rhyme
voyeur
...
cold rain
to slow-streak the
glass I watch you through -
you and your
christ ...
the ginger bread man,
sugar daddy savior, all that
I was not, (and less) ...
choices of
compromise, to prov...
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Categories:
extroverts, analogy, break up, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Primordial Soup an Elemental Enigma
...Everyone is a blended mixture of
Elementals made up of
Oxygen, carbon,
Hydrogen, nitrogen,
Calcium, phosphorus, and…
Trace elements
A divine recipe, perhaps?
Some are yet to be born
Some a...
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Categories:
extroverts, earth, humanity, identity, life,
Form: Free verse
INT-EXT SHE?
...In the world of introverts and extroverts, she is unknown
She adapts herself with the person she attaches to
Is this a real place for her to be grown
Or just a mere illusion, still to be known.
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Categories:
extroverts, confusion, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Perish
...The world's perishable
Perishing goods, perishing people, perishing minds,
Perishable people are beings too,
Is it unknown to the perishing World.
Are they rotten, do they smell bad?
Why are the...
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Categories:
extroverts, dark, depression,
Form: Free verse
Extroverts With Attitude
...While not for prudes this girly stuff,
It's skinny dipping in the buff.
11 / 17 / 2021.
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Categories:
extroverts, cool, dark, women,
Form: Couplet
Less Drought By Words
...The hoi polloi were inquisitive of pelting
Forage famine and began to shrivelling
Drought blanket and upon the entire bush
The thatches restored ramshackle to meagre
And starvation startling the ...
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Categories:
extroverts, absence, allah,
Form: Free verse
Introverts
...While the extroverts clamor for fame on the run,
It is often we silent ones getting things done.
Although public attention we tend to evade,
We are regular people--just diff'rently made.
We ...
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Categories:
extroverts, feelings, identity, life, society,
Form: Quatrain
Skinny Dipping
...Hot nubile maidens in the nude,
All extroverts with attitude.
Curvaceous figures well endowed,
Slink down the staircase heads unbowed.
Provocative, with open arms,
Displaying...
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Categories:
extroverts, beauty, body, women,
Form: Couplet
The Crow In the Night
...I was at the bar tonight – I’m sorry, father
I am the crow of the night, so don’t bother,
Releasing me, for I have wings of flight already
I bore these scars for far too long…the stars are m...
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Categories:
extroverts, angst, deep, emotions, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Alone-To-Lonely
...You ruined it
You ruined it all
I was an introvert - AM an introvert
I treasured my alone time
It was how I re-energized, healed, cleared my mind
Oh, I've always loved people and doin...
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Categories:
extroverts, analogy, change, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Shrinking Violets
...I feel for gentle hearts in this loud world,
Ever suspect, dismissed and derided,
For long has been the shy a songless bird,
That Darwin dismissed as ‘odd state of head’,
Jane Austin gave shyn...
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Categories:
extroverts, how i feel, introspection,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Knock Me Out
...KNOCK ME OUT
AGAIN
AND
AGAIN
~~~~~~~~~~
Annual rose resurgence is immin...
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Categories:
extroverts, beauty, rose,
Form: Free verse
Difference Methods of Impact
...Not everyone is like the rain
Ever-pounding into the concrete with a
Roar sounding through the clouds above
Drenching everything in its path as
A reminder of their abilities
Extroverts
There are t...
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Categories:
extroverts, character, inspirational, people, rain,
Form: Free verse
For Donald Mcclean
...I thought of you but did not know how to write
All the things collecting dust inside a heart
Since the walls of boyhood crumbled, and we apart
No longer come slushing through the mud tonight.
I have ...
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Categories:
extroverts, friendship, old, old, seasons,
Form: Verse
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