Flat Out Poems

Premium MemberI am flat out of forgiveness

...I would like to be charitable
Give you the benefit of the doubt
But your bullying ways have made this impossible
I am flat out of forgiveness now...
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Categories: flat out, me,
Form: Free verse

Still a star

...Well, I filled my glass with bourbon
Watched the sun set over the rise
Thought of everything that's passed by
And I wiped the tears from my eyes

I oft' think of tomorrows now
And those days th...
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Categories: flat out, mystery,
Form: Rhyme


As a mortal man of threescore and five years

...As a mortal man of threescore and five years...

I bore witness and/or assimilated, gleaned,
and nursed implacable thirst for knowledge
courtesy reading factual narratives,
historical fiction, o...
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Categories: flat out, age, america, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse

Premium Membermy new darling Beau

...getting a puppy has given me a new purpose
I am a mommy again
Renewed, refreshed, excited about life
I knew this is all it would take

Beau, the puppy, is thrilled to be here.
He tries to eat e...
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Categories: flat out, dog,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberchildren perk up at the end of a school day

...Children who can barely keep their eyes open after lunch
Whose feet shuffle and drag, as they cluster into a bunch
Yawners who struggle to not lie down and flat out snore
When class is annoying, d...
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Categories: flat out, student,
Form: Rhyme


Premium Memberwhat happened

...A kindergarten student is not usually sent to my office.
I am the counselor, who gets my shares of stirrers.
Usually when a five-year-old is sent to me, they are crying.
This little blonde blue-ey...
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Categories: flat out, school,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberDEADLY GAME OF MRSA

...How the Nation of Islam saved my granddaughter 
from Catrina Bell queen pin gang leader it was a warm 
day i was suffering from traumatic brain injury raising 
five children including my granddaug...
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Categories: flat out, allah,
Form: Rondeau

Behind The Shadows

...He has been hiding behind the shadows staring at the world with his thick lenses; He has been hiding behind the shadows with the mirror staring back at him while his spirit composes a silent hymn.
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Categories: flat out, bereavement, business, celebration, change,
Form: Narrative

Neigh say being corralled and cult shod

...Neigh say being  corralled & cult shod 

"Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis"
translation = thus always I 
bring death to tyrants.”

Above the fray of twittering, 
squabbling, and madding crowd...
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Categories: flat out, 12th grade, age, allusion,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberChapter 121 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Family's Grand Gathering and Family Rumors

...Date:   June  2048
The grills were set everything was 
In place. CJ informed "More
 than 350 family members 
Are expected to be here within
The hour." Damian said, "with 300 plus
Relatives expe...
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Categories: flat out, birth, confidence, deep, devotion,
Form: Alliteration

Apocalypse Now

...The streets are deserted,
not a single soul is about
even the winos and street bums
are nowhere to be seen.

There are no cars on the road
or any planes in the air
it’s so eerily quiet
you ca...
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Categories: flat out, world,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberI Cannot Work With Him

...you have to collaborate
you are a team
a family
you must work together

I cannot work with him! a fourth-grader yelps.
Or her or him or them or you or anyone.
I will do this group project by m...
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Categories: flat out, work,
Form: Prose Poetry

Silence

...Silence 
By Rebecca Dominique morris 
We once would talk for hours about the littlest of things 
Freely able to converse with every word spoken a strum on my heart strings 
We used to say good mo...
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Categories: flat out, angst, emotions, freedom, hurt,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberUntrusting

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Untrusting
Miracle Man
8-27-2023

A beautiful face or well known name,
will endorse a product using their fame.
Many assume that means it’s better made,
but the raw truth is they’re ...
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Categories: flat out, trust, truth,
Form: Quatrain

Ballad of Ghost and Tex - Part I

...There’s many a tale that spreads across the night
when the sun o’er the plains yields to campfire light. 
Tales about cowboys, who once roamed the plains, 
scratching a living using their rope and...
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Categories: flat out, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

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