A Broken Mirror
...A battered pier glass, the length of a running lightning,
The width of a Caesarean window,
And next to an agelong, framed
Daguerreotype, lies face down across
A musty room.
Shafts and rods of ro...
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Categories:
gunk, emotions, life,
Form: Free verse
Billionaires hunker down in their Queenstown bunker lairs
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Let’s pester Uncle Fester
After dafter Luxon
Pushed the button
Welcomed every glutton
To the isles of mutton
Theme of the meme
Team New Zealand
It does seem
No longer a
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Categories:
gunk, money,
Form: Rhyme
Grooming Myself
...My fingernails are filthy
Looks like they are digging ditches while I sleep
I begin to groom myself like a cat
I do not use my tongue, I use other nails
Nails scraping gunk out of other nails
Ho...
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Categories:
gunk, me,
Form: Free verse
Glug glug glum
...I swim in sorrow, deep and wide,
Against a tide that won’t let me hide.
Each thought is bleak, each stroke is weak,
My breath is weak, I cannot speak.
If I stop to think, I start to sink.
My eye...
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Categories:
gunk, depression,
Form: Rhyme
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:
gunk, food,
Form: Free verse
Dance Into Light
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Why are you sitting here playing with your shadows?
Your bitter sadness is building too much gunk inside your mind.
Let the past go.
Wash away your tears and let the pain flow.
Scrub each thorn...
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Categories:
gunk, introspection, pain, poetry,
Form: Free verse
I am disgust
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I can churn stomachs, with a stench of truth
An abscess filled with maggots, pus profuse
As I feed off gunk, new nerve ends take root
Raw language in my words, not gross abuse
Yes! I am dis...
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Categories:
gunk, allusion, i am, perspective,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
Distortions
...These distortions are illusions
They are the temptations filled with confusion.
They are the fears that keep moving.
The appearance of these distortions is floating and smokey.
These distortions ...
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Categories:
gunk, butterfly, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Expectations
...Expectations and like the many changing faces.
We are constantly trying to fit the best one to put on.
I constantly try to adjust one side and keep one's truth hidden deep inside.
Embedded in s...
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Categories:
gunk, butterfly, grief, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Ain't Retirement Grand
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I wake up at 5:30 most mornings
Before the sun has a chance to rise
Head for the bathroom as fast as I can
To get rid of yesterday's Mai Tai
I let out a great big sigh of relief
As...
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Categories:
gunk, old,
Form: Rhyme
Grody to the Max
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Oh, how I dread the horrid sight
of that nasty slop, what a wretched plight.
Its stench invades my twitching nose
I turn away, but my nausea grows.
Forced to face it on my plate
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Categories:
gunk, feelings, food, how i
Form: Rhyme
Avuncular viscosity ::Graphic content::
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(Probably more a short story than free verse
In any case it’s true,
seen through my eyes as a child)
He was a heavy smoker sat by the fire
Coughing and wheezing hacking up phlegm
spitting...
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Categories:
gunk, child, perspective, truth,
Form: Free verse
Amoxicillin Bubblegum
...You chew me up and spit me out.
You walk all over me.
Your sneakers, sticky from the pink gunk that still clings to them.
You get new shoes and a new flavor of gum.
Bubblegum and Nike doesn’t sui...
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Categories:
gunk, 10th grade, anger, body,
Form: Free verse
Eye Gunk
...God intended to put eye gunk on people's eyes when they wake up so they could see and clean their faces first before looking at other people's faces...
August 24, 2023...
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Categories:
gunk, 10th grade,
Form: Prose
Incomplete Metamorphosis of Distilled Adolescent
...Incomplete metamorphosis of distilled adolescent...
therefore he characterizes himself as an anomaly...any idea why?
Mortified, petrified, stultified, et cetera sheltered,
and mortally wounde...
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Categories:
gunk, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
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