Death Fashion Poems

Written in tribute for those who are fighting in pink, and every color against cancer, also in memory of my dear friend Reenie, (Irene Aleman),...

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Genre: Poesy
Title: Nude Attire
Author: John King Ayanfe ©

Behold, attires covering secrets of nudity
Attires laying betwixt cheap and expensive costs
Thus, nudity is first an attire for...

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Coal face 
disgrace 

Bad vibes 
from tribes

Dark art
at heart

Big deal
surreal

Uptight 
yeah right 

Sky high 
my eye

Who knew 
boohoo 

My god 
that’s odd

not half 
a laugh

High...

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Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
The fear of death follows from the...

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"...I don't know its name"

BUT! 

Someone once said we were slaves to Fashion   
I think they are right we feel sad depressed happy...

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spoke kin like 
a true non establishmentarian.

Wily wordsmith wields wisdom and wit
renders requiem welcoming thee to visit,
no matter foisting poetic riffraff (mine)
necessitates applying figurative tourniquet
to...

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Lemon sour thoughts in aquamarine
imagery of dry desire pure pale powdered sage 
quaint quear copulate of Cupids
with bows that draw Archaic archer 
arrows aimed at...

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My sister Annick fixed me, locked me in, with cold, blue eyes as she sat down slowly next to me at the table. “I’m a...

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There once lived Marilyn Monroe
Who was so classy like a bow

She was killed by one
As an envy stun

With a beauty from head to toe!...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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went out in a new outfit and car, to find I had a flat tire

 
Date Written: 8/24/2020

2 Place     When plans...

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I asked the white student to take off his hood
   The police might suspect he was up to no good
He glared at me,...

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The High Night of the Dark Wind

Dancing fairies on the lake of ice, 
leaving no marks as they pass. 
The tiny birds, chase them...
not to...

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A kangaroo in dungarees hops hopefully 
	To win first prize in the Favs contest hot
		On the heels of an enlightening glow worm

Surely life is no...

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My own laughter could get me killed if bad guys

robbed me dressed in pants belted around their thighs.




... CayCay
December 2, 2019...

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