Those Were the Days
...I close my eyes and recall yesterdays beautiful summers
barbecues from charcoal bricks and slow basted meats
aromas that lingered long after the first sizzle of rare
Mother arriving with a plat...
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Categories:
fumigated, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
They May Yet Live On
...We fear they may yet be alive.
All the sick-minded dead
all those prone to evil,
their essences not gone
but still in our heads.
We must take the good with the bad.
If we are all the very ima...
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Categories:
fumigated, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Nation of Narcissists
...fumigated like stockade lice
you Wall St. cologne jockeys
would be 3rd World land fill
recall that consciousness is tunable
adjust your volume to a comfortable level
because Turette's plus Alzhe...
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Categories:
fumigated, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Her Ups and Her Downs
...Every jump, hop, or twirl led her forward
into the world of her grown up self
She caught glimpses of the woman she wanted to be
As she played her heart out with her friends.
But when she was alon...
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Categories:
fumigated, emotions, feelings, girl,
Form: Free verse
She Stayed True To Her Course
...Every jump, hop, or twirl led her forward
into the world of her grown up self
She caught glimpses of the woman she wanted to be
As she played her heart out with her friends.
But when she was alon...
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Categories:
fumigated, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Second Wave
...Touch has been circulated in these times of touch me not and news only travelling for the battle of
breathing.
Our love could never be expressed in hugs or kissing but a wave with restrictions ...
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Categories:
fumigated, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Surprise Birthday Trip Destination
...Sarah, for your birthday, I do not want to ruin the surprise,
So put on your mask, and here is a blinder to cover your eyes.
I will give you hints as we get on our private fumigated plane.
Of cour...
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Categories:
fumigated, birthday, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Sham Cum Shame
...They say the virus does not exist. Why?
our leaders politicize its mortality
profiteers make it a minted and crispy business
rumour mongers carry myths of it across the Nile
and the poor are to i...
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Categories:
fumigated, africa, corruption, depression, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Defenseless
...Unlike the days of old when cities were built with walls. Unlike the streets of my rearing, the place where my story began. And unlike a lone sparrow that I once rescued from a busy park...
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Categories:
fumigated, america, cheer up, courage,
Form: Tristich
Not Always Rosey In the Valley
...Remember the days of
yesteryear
when family ties were
held most dear,
and gas lamps flickered in
the back street
while most of us danced...
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Categories:
fumigated, life,
Form: Free verse
The Old Lady Down the Street
...A curled-up bundle of skin and hair
Adorns the window-seat
The sorry remains of Kitty
The old lady down the street
To those who saw her struggle daily
With her heavy shopping trolley
All of h...
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Categories:
fumigated, age, family, sad, society,
Form: Rhyme
Home Anywhere For the Holidays
...The bright Christmas lights on my city house are so colorful and traditional,
hopefully when I get my high utility bill I won't become too irrational,
and watching everyone open up their gifts make...
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Categories:
fumigated, christmas, holiday, home, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Scars Left Behind
...Remembering the days of yesteryear
when family ties were held most dear,
gas lamps flickered in the back street
while most of us danced a different beat.
Tragic alleyways of smog and smut
“Live ...
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Categories:
fumigated, life, nostalgia, school,
Form: Rhyme
A Cooks Battle
...A Cook’s Battle
The ship -cook was tired it had been a long day, the ship was old
full of cockroaches, one had found its way in his bread dough and
when the captain cut a slice of bread it wa...
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Categories:
fumigated, funny, old, old,
Form: Blank verse
I Thee Take Thy Smoke In Hand
...I thee take thy smoke in hand...
Taste buds blossom blumes fumigated by blandness for all this madness.
Hence forth with my aching pains...
Gives me none no new world gains.
Happenchance gasp...
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Categories:
fumigated, death, health,
Form: I do not know?
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