Retribution
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Twilight was the time of day
as well they do concur
about the hour of crepuscular dusk
or evening if you prefer
there in the gloaming
altho' the light was slightly dimmer
I took a loo...
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Categories:
eye tooth, death, food, how i
Form: Rhyme
Exile
...where gossip once flowed in the coffee shops
and sums were not measured in gigaflops
at dawn peaceful stillness often ruled there
now but memory mixed with thoughts and prayers
always comfortab...
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Categories:
eye tooth, change, conflict, home, lost,
Form: Sonnet
An Uncertain Future
...Collaboration with Marcello Eans
Every day I walk to work, I tremble with fear,
Not knowing if this morning will be my last.
I’m not certain if I will ever escape from here
And ...
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Categories:
eye tooth, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Samson
...Joyful music filled the village
when mother’s barren womb gave birth.
Born to end Philistine pillage,
and fill sad, anxious hearts with mirth.
No wine or product of the vine,
should pass you...
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Categories:
eye tooth, betrayal, conflict, dark, passion,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Game of Shame
...Politics, pulling-of-lame-legs game,
To shame the knee-jerk rivals its aim,
An odd set of raiders
All— no team-defenders,
Game lost, and begins a game of blame.
A man in sixties’ a buddin...
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Categories:
eye tooth, humor, political,
Form: Limerick
The Show From Death Row
...Eye for eye; tooth for tooth,
Age old key to old hitch,
Justice’s way; known from youth,
Consciences’ vexing itch.
Few know death’s row bower,
Lowly know its bare scene,
Some escape through ...
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Categories:
eye tooth, corruption, discrimination, poverty, power,
Form: Rhyme
With Child
...at age thirty two
i had a baby
tooth re
moved
now at fifty
nine i have
another
next to
the missing
eye tooth
trying
to
push the baby
out but it's
just an
ex
ception not an
em...
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Categories:
eye tooth, muse,
Form: I do not know?
War
...What is a missing eye,
If it is not mine?
Be strong,
It is not cause to cry
Nor an excuse to whine.
What is a missing tooth,
If it is not mine?
Be strong,
For a gapped smile, in truth,
Is ...
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Categories:
eye tooth, lonely, loss, war, wife,
Form: Rhyme
The Lord's Prayer Story
...The arms stretched wide,
“The father who is in heaven”;
Listeners hooked by the tongue,
A congregation, not a coven.
His hair fanned by the slight breeze,
“Hallowed be the master's name”;
Man...
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Categories:
eye tooth, religion,
Form: Quatrain
A Letter To the Malpractioners
...You do not know the meaning of motherhood.
That's why you did your disgrace like hood.
You are lower than I thought and I understandstood.
I hope you do not have any youngling for I am about to ha...
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Categories:
eye tooth, anger, anti bullying, how
Form: Free verse
Irony
...Tongue in Bloody Cheek
Cheek on tongue he slithers on abundant wilful slime
Checks in with teeth of timeless throaty choking curse
A serpent snail an earth worm fiery dragon...
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Categories:
eye tooth, irony,
Form: Free verse
Right Back Up
...8/26/17
When I was a youth
Rarely lied, to tell the truth
Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth
Fell down, got right back up
Instead of staying stuck
And not giving a f***
From dawn to dusk
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Categories:
eye tooth, dark, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Why If Its Not
...Why, do we call it
Something it’s not
If we’re going to name things
Let’s give it, some thought
If it’s called a chilli
Then why is it so hot
And I can say this
A guinea pig, is not
A pra...
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Categories:
eye tooth, humorous, nature,
Form: Narrative
Bonds and Ties
...Finally reaching the ending
No longer spend time pretending
Relinquishing bonds and ties
Visual prowess possess my eyes
I see the bitter truth
Taking eye for eye tooth for tooth
Anxieties won...
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Categories:
eye tooth, baseball, dark, deep, god,
Form: Rhyme
Roses Are Red
...Remember the way we jumped up and dOwn
oh our Smiles, hEarts beating like flapping wingS
shouting gloriously for all our efforts to be repaid
everyone to their f...
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Categories:
eye tooth, celebrity, roses are red,
Form: Acrostic
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