Gift of Recovery
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She'd been been beaten, pushed around and abandoned like trash
without a collar around her neck she was a dog with no name
Dogtrotting slowly behind the back street she licked at her rash
u...
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Categories:
gabbing, animal, appreciation,
Form: Haibun
Chasing the Untimate
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Truth is not a bean count.
it's not static, not fixed.
It is ever expanding.
We have no hope
of ever gabbing hold of it.
The sky is all around us,
it has a hundred faces,
that flow away ...
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Categories:
gabbing, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Rikhi the lollipop Lady
...It's was snowing like crazy
my woman and I were alone
somebody rung our number
calling me on the phone
my woman answered the call
started that Hello trip
gabbing bout the
weather
said it was ...
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Categories:
gabbing, clothes, engagement, guitar, hip
Form: Bio
Beware the Ides of March 2023
...Beware The Ides of March 2023
Ides simply referred to first new moon,
which usually fell between
the thirteenth and fifteenth day
of a given month.
The following events all occurred
fift...
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Categories:
gabbing, abuse, age, anniversary, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Divine Intervention
...Was he in the wrong place at the right time?
Slipping, sliding, dying
to live;
just a kid.
Mom and Grandma busy,
gabbing, too far
away.
Was he in the right place,
a parental replac...
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Categories:
gabbing, angel,
Form: Free verse
Beware the Ides of March 2022 Part Ii
...Ten: A New Global Health Scare, 2003
After accumulating reports
of a mysterious respiratory disease
afflicting patients and healthcare workers
in China, Vietnam, Hong Kong,
Singapore and Can...
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Categories:
gabbing, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Beware the Free Range Brain
...What is that blaring in our ears,
is it the brain cutting loose
and spinning around our heads?
Brain figures and un-figures
looking through holes in its circuits,
what computes is painted on b...
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Categories:
gabbing, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Funeral
...I lie on crumpled velvet
pressed against the four corners of the earth.
My ears pick up chatter around me.
Chatter of my greatness.
Chatter full of lies.
Dirty, filthy lies.
They say I was ...
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Categories:
gabbing, dark, death, funeral, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
She Was a Prattler
...Incessant chitchat, prattler, non-stop chatter.
Mouth kept going. Kids asked what was the matter.
Her own children knew
They laugh at my two.
Gossiping and gabbing makes her face fatter....
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Categories:
gabbing, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Limerick
Halloween Fun
...darling dimpled dervishes
dancing delightfully
ghouls goblins gargoyles
gabbing, grabbing, ghosting,
witches wearing weaves,
wistfully watching watchers
dust of night brings Halloween
Outstan...
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Categories:
gabbing, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Alliteration
Sounds of Spring
...The duet of a garden's music in June,
afloat with all the season's notes can bring...
The milder one is where chant of orioles
join honeyed air's refrain
as dragonflies flip a spin ...
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Categories:
gabbing, celebration, song, spring,
Form: Light Verse
Friday Thoughts
...There's the
Guy
In the corner
Strumming on his guitar
Singing of the
Good ol 2000's songs
Shaking his head
At the recent rap reps
The golden eyelet
Etched on
There's the emo girl
In all bl...
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Categories:
gabbing, deep, feelings, innocence, life,
Form: Free verse
A Thanksgiving Memory - Thanks
...Back in Iowa, where my mother and several of my siblings still live,
my big family gets together for a reunion at Mom’s apartment,
using the reception area of the little place where she now resides...
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Categories:
gabbing, thanksgiving day, together,
Form: Prose
In a Split Second Ii
...A train door closes packed with passengers.
Destinations being most different than others.
Typical light touches, embarrassing rubbing,
Lastly, the ever so bothersome nudging.
Unfinished co...
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Categories:
gabbing, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Out Cackling the Others Now
...I take a sip of pinkish liquid – White Zin.
Will I be able to drive home now?
The goblet seems much more fun than it should be.
I am horrified by her fullness. It shocks me. Too much liquor!
My...
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Categories:
gabbing, addiction, , western,
Form: Prose Poetry
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