Claustrophobia
...Someone broke my best friend’s heart.
They’d been together throughout the entire lock-down.
And even though it looks like we’re entering a freer time,
he said it felt like she’d become pa...
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Categories:
fishhooks, 12th grade, break up,
Form: Free verse
Being Heard Is Like Heaven
...These days I seek no more than this, discernment, verse gets heard,
a comment’s icing on the cake, but ratings are absurd.
A ‘one’ could be my best review, a ‘five’ the praise of fool,
a complimen...
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Categories:
fishhooks, faith, love, poetry, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Goodby To Prometheus
...I am cutting ties
that I knotted to a faraway soil.
Exiled no longer at the tiller
of a long beached fishing boat
that bobs only on the legends
of ancient waves.
Those fluent in soul-breathing,...
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Categories:
fishhooks, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Rehearsal of Fatale La Femme
...The tempest kiss of seaweed miss.
Her temper heard ~ his heart stirred.
His ship astern and fast.
The siren’s scorn lambaste;
Blind youth’s reality is blurred.
The satin hair of Whitn...
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Categories:
fishhooks, dark, fear, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Fashionable
...When I was young
I could cut three holes
to wear a black garbage bag
as a mini-skirt over
torn fishnet pantyhose,
with fishhooks in my ears,
and I was totally-totally fashionable.
I do...
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Categories:
fishhooks, age, fashion, girl, humor,
Form: Free verse
Emotional Manipulator
...Waterfall splashes
falling through eyelashes,
Crocodile, maybe real
not sure how to feel,
Neurotic or an actress
I'm mildly in distress,
Witnessing this sight
I could almost take the bite
fro...
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Categories:
fishhooks, cry, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Mary Todd's Bar
...under the bay bridge in astoria there is a
brick building with a gnarled up old wooden door.
something along the line of mary todds is written
on it.
In the doors Center is a strange look...
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Categories:
fishhooks, old,
Form: I do not know?