Bacon Balls - risque
...When I was only ten years old, I yelled at my TV
For I could not believe the filth they played to kids like me
Right there upon my TV screen, a frog with skin of green
Was lusted after by a pig wh...
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Categories:
given name, song,
Form: Lyric
Back Where the Lines Still Moan
...I vanished soft a stolen breath,
a hush between the lips of death.
But ink remembers how I taste,
how slow I draw, how sweet, how chaste
then twist the lace and let it slide,
a metaphor with hip...
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Categories:
given name, appreciation, change, home,
Form: Rhyme
Alice Through the Logical Wormhole
...Good evening, sir, my name is Alice.
A man of peculiar predilections,
Lewis Carroll, made me, not from malice.
Rather, more so, from his affections.
A pen name for a man, pedagogic,
Charles...
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Categories:
given name, adventure, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
How Far We Fall
...The sun has gone to rest my babes
I give you this last tale
If only you will sleep my dears
For you will I regale
There was a man of great esteem
In wild woods afar
No one knew his given...
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Categories:
given name, anger, christian, corruption, depression,
Form: Rhyme
God Given Name
...I remember that special service like it was yesterday,
The table at the alter set up with candles like it was my wedding day,
I had my vows in my pocket ready to give,
Not even knowing what was in...
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Categories:
given name, baptism, beautiful, birth, blessing,
Form: Light Verse
Lobotomy’s Don’t Work On Me
...on a hill lied a girl
separated from the world
as she wrote, her words would choke,
stuck somewhere inside her throat,
through gritted teeth her lyrics beat,
ate away at her sleep
so up she loo...
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Categories:
given name, absence, angst, conflict, cry,
Form: Rhyme
Kandle’s Pen
...Some of you are concerned so very sweet
You notice when I DON’T write poetry
Let me assure you all is fuschia fine
Waiting on inspiration to temp my mind
Also I am still learning to play pia...
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Categories:
given name, friendship, poetry,
Form: Couplet
I'm an Onion
...Hi!
Who am I?
I'm an onion, allegorically,
Speaking strictly metaphorically.
You may see I have a human form -
To the "human" definition I conform,
But, for our purposes today,
I'm an onion....
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Categories:
given name, i am, identity, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Unmasking the Script
...In borrowed plumes
a masquerade we stage.
Thoughts echo doctrines
passions are preordained.
From broken families
where fractured spirits weep
Mothers of soulful sorrow
With eyes tha...
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Categories:
given name, journey, life, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Insanity
...Insanity
Fear, pain and thoughts of going insane by the despair that surrounds you as you grasp for a glimmer of light. It calls out your name again and again in hopes that your soul can be drawn ...
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Categories:
given name, abuse, addiction, anger, anxiety,
Form: Dramatic Verse
You Enter These Words
...Named by someone else's mouth,
you enter words,
they become your horses,
you ride them,
then a time comes when they ride you,
you become their hoof-beats.
Your name was always
that which c...
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Categories:
given name, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Letter
...Every so often I let my young self-take me back to the past. A time when I had just met my husband. We would go camping and fishing on the Callahan Mountain in Oregon. Of course, he did love his hunt...
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Categories:
given name, happy, husband, love,
Form: Haibun
I For An I
...Im stuck screaming in a place that no one hears a thing
I'm on my knees praying for any angel to sing
I'm lost without a clue of where I should be
I'm stuck in chains just wanting to be free
I wa...
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Categories:
given name, change,
Form: Rhyme
Delusional Variety
...If idiocy and democracy could carry the blame..
If intent and purpose were one and the same
If love and life wasn't such an uneven game
Before even a given name, it goes from whence it came.
I...
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Categories:
given name, change, inspiration, integrity, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Sea
...Guys, Do you visit the sea for entertainment only If you say yes, you will not much know about it surely. You have to see the other side of the sea closely
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Categories:
given name, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
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