Oh, WiCkEd Queen, lyrics
...What's up miss popular? People know about your greed
Ya, got the text. The "Hey, dotard, don't talk to me freak,"
The average joe, and those silly electronics"
Please, Click Itch, labeling others ...
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Categories:
eyeshadow, anger, corruption, dark, pride,
Form: Lyric
Sleeping Beauty
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I remember the days when I'd fall
asleep before hitting the pillow.
Ah, the joy of a sound sleep.
I might not have been at my best
in the morning all things considered.
Day-old makeup very m...
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Categories:
eyeshadow, beauty, sleep,
Form: Free verse
Jealous
...When i was 5 i couldn't have sleepovers
I was so jealous of the older girls who could
When i was 6 I couldn't wear makeup
I was so jealous of the older girls who could
When i was 7 I couldn't h...
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Categories:
eyeshadow, 9th grade, age, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
The Blizzard
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I have got to wake up
And I have got to get dressed, with eyeshadow
With the intent of wings of a butterfly – my face, can it be beautiful
A little while longer – while this aging body has not ...
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Categories:
eyeshadow, anxiety, bird, cat, extended
Form: Free verse
Miss Cartolano
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"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind." Kahlil
Grade one, six years old, born to...
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Categories:
eyeshadow, appreciation, teacher,
Form: Narrative
Portals Of My Mind
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"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind." Kahlil
Grade one, six years old, born to imm...
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Categories:
eyeshadow, appreciation, teacher,
Form: Free verse
An End to an Era
...An End of An Era
Late-night drunken philosophy over waffle house coffee
A little existential dread to go with your scattered, smothered and covered
All the faces you may never see again
Cool wate...
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Categories:
eyeshadow, feelings, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Peeping Tom Scarlett Red Hot Roxanne
...Pretty adorned in scarlet Red
from head to toe undergarment
included
She goes by the name I believe
of those who know her affectionately
as
Roxanne
With matching lipstick and eyeshadow
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Categories:
eyeshadow, silly,
Form: Free verse
Face It
...Face
two eyes
one nose
two nostrils
cheekbones
lips
so much more
it
Life
you
the hidden agendas
the truth
the lies
the beauty
the ugly
I found myself in a car that was in a dit...
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Categories:
eyeshadow, anger, angst, depression, mental
Form: Free verse
Au Naturel
...My hair is grey today,
And that's the way it will stay,
Unless I lose it,
That's a worry I'll delay.
I have a buzz haircut,
It's very short, but
needs little attention
If the rest ever falls o...
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Categories:
eyeshadow, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Eyelashes
...Eyelashes
Eyelashes are such a little bitty word, and they in themselves are little bitty too. They said “girl did you know all the stuff I can do?” Put those things on and then bat your eyes, t...
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Categories:
eyeshadow, beauty, confidence, fashion, girl,
Form: Burlesque
The Boy Who Put Glitter Eyeshadow
...The house mourns now that she has gone
Desperately I dig through her cabinet to find anything to hold on.
My dewy gaze lands upon her glitter eyeshadow.
Mesmerized, I put it and my eyes lit up...
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Categories:
eyeshadow, books, community, fate, for
Form: Rhyme
Makeup
...Auburn hair, cotton candy colored eyelids.
Ooh, this look’s so good and got me goin’ crazy, baby.
Check out my bob cut and betty bangs,
So pretty that you forget the phone even rang.
Come, baby...
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Categories:
eyeshadow, beauty, sexy,
Form: Free verse
A Man of Steel Now a Rusty Nail Strong Not Frail-
...Eyeshadow I'm cold I'm pale
You die in hell I am hated
I am slaughter scorned and frail
What am I yet but substance
I am rugged rough and
I am just a rusted nail
I am tall bronze ru...
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Categories:
eyeshadow, analogy, caregiving, character, endurance,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Wardrobe Crisis
...Clothes don’t make me feel any less naked
I still feel exposed
No amount of sweaters or sweatshirts can mask the humiliation that I know
Even when I’m fully naked
My skin doesn’t cover what I ...
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Categories:
eyeshadow, beautiful, clothes, emotions, feelings,
Form: I do not know?
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