Save Me From Myself
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{"It’s 4:05 pm, darkness is mending over the horizon, the city, I’m fighting and thrashing against the flames that shroud. With secrets yet to resign, they dwindle at nightly dusk as it topples ove...
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Categories:
gauging, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse
the dark skies
...the dark skies
Ambushing in the woods to my joys and pleasures
Becoming my life's mess and unwanted passions
Calling my name and his to torment me in the roads for him
Daring to cross my hous...
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Categories:
gauging, 10th grade, anger, angst,
Form: Abecedarian
YOUNGER THAN WE LOOK
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Deborah and I received a wonderful complement from Ava., our granddaughter, the other day
It coincided with a time we’d come to terms with becoming old and grey.
We met for lunch at a restauran...
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Categories:
gauging, age, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Honesty Take Three
...San Gabriel Refrain
Take honesty because that's what matters;
evasion is the truth - suppressed.
Lies thrive on corrupt laws, noisome splatters
that cannot get past the smell test.
What happ...
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Categories:
gauging, 11th grade, political, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Word By Mom, Me a Bit
...In the beginning ...," roosts;
Christians and Jewish boosts.
Hubs stretched out their ellipsed
rung, un-Earth cures eclipsed
space...
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Categories:
gauging, courage, faith, future, happiness,
Form: Alexandrine
Pets
...How would it be
if all the versions of your imperfect self,
you did not abandon,
but kept out of compassion and love
of all tapped-out mutts.
They are faithful in their own sketchy way
and yo...
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Categories:
gauging, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Open Book
...OPEN BOOK
I want to read her..
From front to back...
From up to down...
From cover to cover...
I want to read her.....
I want to read her eyes.
While I discover every thought in her i...
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Categories:
gauging, 12th grade, for her,
Form: Free verse
My God, Thank You For Acquainting Me With Your Ways
...July 9 Scripture Meditations Based on Ecclesiastes 1-2
Key Verse – Ecclesiastes 2:3 I sought in mine heart…, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom…
MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR ACQUAINTI...
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Categories:
gauging, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
No Bones About It
...My bones are old, so I’ve been told;
It’s osteoporosis.
Accepting that if I go splat
I’m done – that’s the prognosis.
So when it’s cold, I’m not so bold
To walk if streets are icy.
One little...
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Categories:
gauging, age,
Form: Rhyme
Gauging My Own
...When amidst broken equals, we approved,
Ere a freed grain of nomadic sand slipped,
Melancholic surrendered, whole reproved,
Monitor the saved life single and stripped.
Two separate ...
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Categories:
gauging, depression, loneliness, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
The Geo-Whiz
...*Image of Globe Earth Map Of The World by Pixabay.
The Geo-Whiz
It is my second day in high school and I had signed up for Geography.
Nearing the end, our teacher gave a simple pop...
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Categories:
gauging, earth, world,
Form: Verse
The Art of Patient Waiting
...THE ART OF PATIENT WAITING
The art of waiting only comes eventually
After days to decades of practical practice
Staying in limbo, whether still or pacing:
As looking down the line of tracks f...
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Categories:
gauging, christian, humanity, native american,
Form: Free verse
Bridge Engaging Over Sea Raging
...Bridge Engaging Across Sea Raging
long bridge engaging
across sea which is raging
distance am gauging
Jim Horn...
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Categories:
gauging, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Part Two the Great Toilet Paper Hoarding of 2020
...My Clinician 111 of Compass Health, Greg Richardson, of Everett Washington. Recently told me an amusing personal experience while shopping for clothing at Value Village. He was going to try on some c...
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Categories:
gauging, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
Sunset-
...Fluttery eyes
Shallow deep breathe
Darkness bedding
Midnight nighttime
Passions end marveled lonely quench
Thought of sunset
Flung temporary
Evening never skying
Sun is falling out...
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Categories:
gauging, analogy, appreciation, how i
Form: Rhyme
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