Growth of a Woman in Pieces
...Thick humidity of memories clog a small girls heart
That pitter-patter like soft, insignificant rain
Such a lonely life was just an urban myth
But I knew the truth of it all
Soaked to the bone,...
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Categories:
forcing out, courage, deep, depression, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Compassion Fatigue
...Compassion Fatigue
Resentment looks a lot like Narcan in a sharp
and feels like it’s forcing out my will.
I grab them both; Naloxone and the tarp,
the outcome undetermined by my skill.
Same gu...
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Categories:
forcing out, addiction, faith,
Form: Sonnet
Watching Love Affairs Like Spies
...Folks watching love affairs like spies,
All the scenes picked: sugared pies.
They capture the whole truth through lies,
Before the end of it truth flies!
But wait: why? Again, I ask 'why?'
The...
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Categories:
forcing out, allusion, evil, jealousy, love,
Form: Rhyme
To Great Britain Flown
...You'll shudder at the sight of the stone!
A massive boulder, still it was thrown,
Steven hitting forcing out a groan,
As though to pieces he had just been blown!
Steven to Great Britain has bee...
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Categories:
forcing out, bullying, conflict, evil, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Fraught With Ibs Irritable Bowel Syndrome
...Fraught With IBS Irritable Bowel Syndrome...
today – late morning of November 4th 2022
sudden onset experienced whereby
whooshing waste naturally flushed out
ala mine body electric performed co...
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Categories:
forcing out, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Money Matters
...Just like that, he started a venture
Intended to salute their culture,
In his speech creating that picture;
The high hopes he did nurture
About its supportive infrastructure
And advertising su...
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Categories:
forcing out, business, celebration, devotion, money,
Form: Rhyme
Rescuing Phone Rang
...The Leader of the gang
Fought his door with a bang,
From the all –metal forcing out a clang
That his impatience duly sang,
Now smiling and choosing to hang,
Every tooth of his a ready fang…
T...
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Categories:
forcing out, adventure, bullying, conflict, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
Ah Choo, It's Spring
...Here it comes,
April on the wing
squirrels chatter, birds sing,
flowers rise and grow
lilac scented pollen in the windy flow
oh no,
a tickle in my throat and nose,
this is spring, oh what...
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Categories:
forcing out, analogy, seasons, silly,
Form: Rhyme
The Stench of Desperation
...Sycophants and liars writ large across the news
Spitting bile and venom at any other views
Never mind the truth, never mind what's right,
Never mind the dying, just ignore the blight
Anyt...
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Categories:
forcing out, integrity, leadership, political,
Form: Rhyme
Until the End
...Though I hanker nothing for that feeling
Of impotence turned inward till,
frustration,
Brewed bowel deep and in bile rises,
choking,
Forcing out from throat a broken croaking.
And still I f...
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Categories:
forcing out, anger, bereavement, loss, sorrow,
Form: I do not know?
As Soon the Night Collects Your Debt
...As soon the night collects your debt
Behind this wretched door now thrust
awaits a homage set afire
As loosened shadows cough the dust
and creaking screams align the mire
Where ...
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Categories:
forcing out, good night, scary,
Form: Rhyme
As the Night Collects Your Debt
...As the night collects your debt
Find this the rotting door now thrust,
creaking screams align the mire
Loosened shadows coughing dust
in a world now set afire
Worry gathers in the ...
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Categories:
forcing out, dark, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Flowers Bloom
...In a world so far away in time
A field of leaves filled up the space
Casting their shadows, a paradigm
Crowding out all others in their place.
Then a single flower did peek thru
Pushing the le...
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Categories:
forcing out, metaphor, nature,
Form: Rhyme
On Rhyme
...There is this sudden drive me
that grips me firm and bold
hanging on and forcing out politely
secrets my mind holds.
At first it seemed a small explosion
of thoughts and feelings unexpla...
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Categories:
forcing out, poetry, satire,
Form: Quatrain
Two of Ones Sides
...As he tipped her off with swollen eyes and words to cry. He tells himself a little lie, for she isn’t as fair as I. He hides his face of extreme sly, holding his breathe menacing a bye. For is truly ...
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Categories:
forcing out, beauty, desire, devotion, fear,
Form: I do not know?
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