Fourth Poems - Poems about Fourth

Chemo, Puberty & the Fourth Watch by Patrick Cornwall Wake up—rush for the toilet, say my prayers. Stomach races, chasing bowels, anxious like horses shot from a gate. Chemo, the man said. Takes time to get used to. And I’ll ring you. I take a shower. Just trying to rinse the sick away. Ready for the day. The sun leads me out— then gas...

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Holidays are meant to be significant for enjoyment! The problem is that the proposal for engagement is met with pure blissful ignorance! Denying my words for a union of an engagement! Was wrong as you lied to a person that wanted to build a bridge based on acceptance! Stay within the confounds of your status as you will not...

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I wonder How far we’ll go So desperate for heroes who are first Criminal enterprises Romanticized as rebels Lies wrapped in a maybe-he-could-make-it-all-better? From what? To what? We do not consider Perhaps for lungs A bowl of water A slice of sun shone through a winter window If I had fingers I’d perch atop an Oak Squawk to the mountainous clouds Construct a nest from its torn cotton If I had...

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Fourth Shard I need to clean Who’s gonna clean? What do I do? I can not move I’m tired I need to rest Five minutes Please I’m tired I need to rest Please be quiet I’m trying to rest Shhhhh Just five minutes I’ll clean in five minutes I need rest Rest Mindwipe My childhood was tainted in a single moment In an instant It happened so fast And unable to...

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Happy two thousand twenty fourth birthday Autumn - September twenty second But first etymological climatological meteorological esoterica: The word autumn (/'??t?m/) is derived from Latin autumnus, archaic auctumnus, possibly from the ancient Etruscan root autu-and has within it connotations of the passing of the year. Alternative etymologies include Proto-Indo-European *h3ew?- ("cold") or *h2sows- ("dry"). If you reside...

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As the sun bleeds through a haze a bird off somewhere sings. For how long, I ask. How long before it’s gone? A leaf falls from an oak as a branch sways. I’m waking to a quiet conversation and the chair I’m sitting on creaks. Neighbors moved out of the house two doors down before I had the chance to know them. Neighbors have always come...

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Dear, get me a cocktail, ... those fruity ones, Me with no glasses, ... No miss, errs or runs, saluting sounds of conscience smoking fumes are obnoxious he strayed, two sunbathed girls, "Dears, it's the guns."...

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Sham(e) full travesty regarding fourth of July celebration American independence day linkedin severance from English crown Continental Congress representatives parlayed courtesy thirteen original colonies yielding Declaration of Independence immediately rendered null and void established vassalage courtesy British rule. Fast forward two hundred and forty six years Indigenous nations, people of color, and so called illegal immigrants still yoked to the whims of White Anglo Saxon Protestant, (albeit...

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they just cut a hole in my back took their pound of flesh and stitched it up so well there's barely a scar it was my fourth and my son said how many cancers you going to have? I just laughed ...

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FOURTH WALL Tell me, what is this fourth wall thing, anyway Perhaps it’s a gateway to reality It’s not only me that has something to say Here on this stage, I am someone you can see But what about it, in the cold light of day How truly connected can we ever be As we all arrive here at this precipice Shining a...

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You have been good, day night or noon, I feel glad to give you a boon— God asked the Eden Garden man. Thanks, but I’ve Earth and Sun and Moon, Given have ye best of boons too— Heart and head and helpful hands two, It’s more than enough already, What would I with thy fourth boon do? ___________________________________ Epigram |07.04.2024| Poet’s note: Long...

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Davos visiting prostitute spends her unbeknownst last hours wide eyed in a strange new World. As she smiles to her John, a BlackRock Assassin, who watches his boss approach the stage. The presence of demonically charged energy and Megadeath proposals hanging in the balance. The speaker is still traumatized by "not one of...

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Grandma, you left us, and I miss you a lot. I saw life leaving you, but it wasn't scary, just a peaceful sleep you got. Did I take good care, give enough hugs too? But let's not dwell, life does what it has to do. Life is like a journey, you live, then you die, But I'm happy you lived...

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No estate should be able to turn away health inspectors, No estate should be able to turn away ambulances, while bleeding internally, No estate should need to employ so many muckrakers, or bush lawyers. No estate should hold so many water rights, if they pour cold water over journalists, who want to investigate, No...

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A blunt fumbling of zippers and hooks, traffic outside the apartment stops being a distant sound, becomes a pulse shared between two. Discarded garments tumble over themselves forever rejected, a kind of liberation, yet we want only to be bound, to be held hostage to this delirium. A bed surfaces, breaking our fall. Jostle, lever, flex, blind movements in a broken clock. Now the need, now...

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