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...Inventing Cusher Ball
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Botrytis she spoke of the need of these things
a tantilizing pleasure she spoke
the admiration of the tears a marvelous flute and
a beautifu...
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Categories:
greased, character, music, sports,
Form: Ballad
Bamboo
...Grant me rest under your lissome stems
Let me hide from the raindrops — shiny globules
That drip with tropical hauteur,
Rain that harms the ribs with cold rebukes.
Welcome me within your greenish...
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Categories:
greased, africa, environment, life,
Form: Ode
Insomnia
...Insomnia
By Evelyn Aimarie
Sleep eludes me
A winding serpent
Iridescent and alluring
In murky water.
I grasp for her but her crow feather sheen black
Scales glide through my fingers
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Categories:
greased, anxiety, depression, mental health,
Form: Free verse
My eternal lubricant
...My soul had long been troubled...
by hatred,
dejectIon
and contempt.
They were the poisons
that flowed red in my veins,
burning like wildfire from my head to my toes,
as if this world were ...
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Categories:
greased, appreciation, cute love, emotions,
Form: Free verse
summer blue
...What’s wrong with me? I’ve been asking myself this all week.
Anyone who knows me will tell you that I weigh questions coldly and logically. Then it hit to me.. it’s summer, silly and I'm in classes!...
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Categories:
greased, boyfriend, humor, missing, stress,
Form: Free verse
Gonifs and gossips revisited
...Gonifs and gossips revisited
since originally being crafted
approximately half dozen
dirty deeds done dirt cheap years ago...
Abound and lurk
within every nook and cranny
analogous to some ...
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Categories:
greased, abuse, adventure, anger, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Extras
...Only when my costume’s
Been hissed at with steel
Do my garments ripple in small, stormless waves.
Only when my mask
Has been greased in pale mud
Do my blemishes blend with the sea of my face.
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Categories:
greased, character, engagement, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
The Poetry of the Broken
...My God is the God of broken ladders,
many rungs are missing
and I don’t have the skill to mend them.
My usual recourse for the unfixed
is to pen a poem about the
imperfect beauty of the
unfin...
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Categories:
greased, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Creation Story, From the Tongue Outward
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In the beginning, there was salt.
It hung in the air like unfinished scripture,
gathered in the throat of the sea,
waited for a mouth dumb enough
to mistake thirst for an invitation.
Then...
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Categories:
greased, allegory, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Heaven's Harpsichord
...Harpsichord in heaven?
Cubic or spherical?
Bread, O baker? Leaven.
Just flicker as you fall...
Dancing lights apace in space?
Watch them in her face.
Ghost, vanish without a trace!
Gold, cas...
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Categories:
greased, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
A starry eyed burst of creativity
...A (starry eyed) burst of creativity...
at approximately
a painfully early o'clock in the morning
give or take an o'clock
found yours truly (me) amassing
line after line of a poem
crazily coal...
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Categories:
greased, abuse, america, analogy, anger,
Form: Free verse
Fries And Burgers
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Feeling kinda cruddy, yup, that's the word
Too many fries, too many burgs
When will I learn I can't handle that stuff
Stomach rebels, starts causing a fuss
Once could eat nails and ...
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Categories:
greased, food,
Form: Free verse
The Beast
...I found the monster in the mirror, fleshed stitched with the fear of guilt, a puppet bound by veins. With whispers of rot beneath each breath.
I fed it well, fed it lies, fed it fear, greased its...
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Categories:
greased, dark, gothic, horror,
Form: Prose Poetry
Sophistication of sinister online skulduggery
...Sophistication of sinister online skulduggery...
lurks within the outer limits of cyberspace,
where dark shadows eclipse edge of night
indistinguishable from the twilight zone.
Within the Int...
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Categories:
greased, analogy, angst, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Tin Man's Dilemma
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The Wicked Witch was Tin Man’s fantasy
He'd never seen such a beauty as she
It rained and his joints seized
Left poor Tin Man quite peeved
Every step that he took was misery...
They st...
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Categories:
greased, funny, humor,
Form: Limerick
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