Unshod Dreams
...Rattling through the bogs, my love in limbo
Battling against the odds, arms akimbo
Too late to tear down the walls that they've built
Ate a cat-o-nine tails and swallowed their guilt
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Categories:
groped, life,
Form: Rhyme
Harassment at home
...At 7 she is at her father’s mercy
She will be shown no mercy
A life with absolutely no love
She will be like a lonely dove
Sitting in the nest
Doing her best
She will never taste true love
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Categories:
groped, anger, betrayal, child abuse,
Form: Didactic
where do I go from here
...where do I go from here Jehovah. I have tried and I have not succeed. I did what you have adviced and failed. I have followed your example and instead I am being ostracized. You have seen my afflict...
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Categories:
groped, absence, abuse, anger, bullying,
Form: Free verse
Dysmorphed
...I, looking in the mirror yesterday,
witnessed distorted eyes replacing mine;
and, too, the lips and nose, as if a sign,
seemed bent crooked, misaligned in some way.
And, as I, squinting, gazed ...
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Categories:
groped, body, depression, gender, identity,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Golden Glow
...When I was coal you mined my soul
and treasure there you found:
a heart, stone cold, but solid gold,
was buried underground.
So long I hoped and blindly groped
for rescue by the brave;
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Categories:
groped, appreciation, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Shadow's silent dance
...I watched as silence danced with shadows,
Playing the melody sung by my mind.
Its blanket covered the darkness—
broken only by a ray of light through a crack in the cave wall.
I groped through ...
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Categories:
groped, anxiety, dance, dark, fear,
Form: Free verse
Venom of ignorance
...There was a man I knew—
bitten by ignorance’s venom.
All his life, he groped through shadows,
searching for cures in the dark—
but he found none,
until he bit the dust.
One day, whil...
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Categories:
groped, crazy, fun, hilarious, poverty,
Form: Narrative
Faith - It Is a Journey
...Faith - it is a journey
And I bear the scattering wind
That steers abroad my dinghy
To the edge of some horizon -
'Though it be peculiar to me.
Faith - it is also an epiphany -
One t...
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Categories:
groped, faith, inspiration, journey,
Form: Rhyme
To My Children The Bible is a lamp to show us where to walk
...I have groped are around blindly seeking others to please.
Afraid to disappoint and fearing they would tease.
I was so misguided and at times it caused pain.
Now that I look back at it, the whol...
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Categories:
groped, 6th grade, change, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Conquered, Part I
...She’d not heard the horses approach her village in the plains,
had known nothing or war of death until their arrows rained,
fiery streak against the night, set flame to thatch and straw,
scramblin...
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Categories:
groped, change, confusion, depression, desire,
Form: Epic
The Needle Barely Moves
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Man weds cockroach in church ceremony
Guests munch on freshly grilled abalone
Pastor upholds his sworn duty
Lectures bride and groom on infidelity
Barel...
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Categories:
groped, abortion, abuse, baby, insect,
Form: Couplet
Spanish Ancestral Building
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Midnight of October thirty first
I jumped out of bed to quench my thirst
As I groped my way down the huge kitchen
An eerie coldness crept on my skin and then...
When I fumbled the l...
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Categories:
groped, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Devil's pet
...When you placed your hands on the littles ones thigh,
When they saw your shadow in stead of theirs,
When they glanced up at you, adoration and want radiating from their eyes,
There goes your rot...
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Categories:
groped, abuse, child abuse, evil,
Form: Free verse
Chapter 153-- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: HONEYMOON!!!
...Date: April 2051
The celebration ended. The room
Empty all relatives was preparing
For their final time in Hawaii. Dolly
And Damian lay in bed conversing.
Her hand was on his chest, "I lov...
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Categories:
groped, africa, allusion, anger, beach,
Form: Free verse
Alice from Dallas
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There was a shyster from Dallas
whose lies were full of malice.
He groped the wrong girl
whose anger unfurled.
So now, they call him Alice....
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Categories:
groped, anger, evil, fun, giggle,
Form: Limerick
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