Family Secrets
...Eavesdropping**
"A good man is hard to find," my Nana used to say. I remember the day she said it, tears in her eyes as she carefully put money into an envelope for church on a Sunday morning. Ear...
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Categories:
half sister, betrayal, cry, endurance,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Remembering my Grandparents
...A good man is hard to find, just as my Nana always said. That day, I witnessed tears in her eyes as she firmly stuffed the monthly tithe into the envelope and headed to church that Sunday morning. Ea...
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Categories:
half sister, angst, anniversary, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Narrative
Eavedropping
...Eavesdropping
A virtuous individual is difficult to find, remarked my grandmother. On that day, I witnessed tears in her eyes as she anxiously placed the monthly tithe in an envelope and departed f...
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Categories:
half sister, anger, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Blank verse
TUTANKHAMUN
...Tutankhamun, a small bird of prey
This pharaoh of Ancient Egypt
Akhenaten’ son and his sister “the Young Lady”.
Alas! Alas! Alas! Ay that was the name of his vizier
His minister or favourite
H...
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Categories:
half sister, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Lilith
..."Truth are not from the valley of the shadow of death ... Lilith, like all mythological entities, are humanity's creation, to explain--what they cannot," ... by The Poet
Hawaii Nei, bidst ...
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Categories:
half sister, abuse, america, betrayal, bible,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Some Call It Beer But To Me It's Called Grog
...~
A broken torpedo got wedged in my eye,
making me squint out some tea
Laughed at a submarine sauntering by,
hoagies afloat on the sea
Gathering minnows from dams ‘bout to break,
op...
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Categories:
half sister, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Dear Memories of Youth
...kickball and biking
swinging on swings at the park . . .
youth’s sweet vibrant spark
Memories of my childhood and teenage years are probably the strongest of all my memories. I don’t quite know ...
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Categories:
half sister, family,
Form: Haibun
Christmas Apology
...she ...
my joy -
always slept there ...
rescues, you see,
she and her half-sister came just
before Christmas,
and the tree -
its lights,
Its protection,
its warmth and refuge -
was their ...
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Categories:
half sister, cat, christmas, grief, loss,
Form: Free verse
Another Dawn
...ANOTHER DAWN
The morning winces as a new day begins
Mired in the half slumber of a restless night
And reluctant to engage whilst half awake
Like a trembling foot hovering over the brake
Good h...
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Categories:
half sister, day,
Form: Rhyme
Spitting Grapes
...I'm
spitting grape's
these day's
I don't wine and dine
but when the time come's
I'll be her guest
quite
next to your brother
half sister I smell
attract's you
and well so being
so leave i...
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Categories:
half sister, art,
Form: Free verse
She's Chicken and I Love Her
...I
She's now almost four months old
He is at least four months older
She is half-sister, sharing a mother
So far, she, Kaalnek, somewhat bolder
Than her half-brother, somewhat Christian
Remains ...
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Categories:
half sister, africa, allegory, bird, identity,
Form: Bio
Never Half To Me-F
...Growing up, they said that she was our 'half' sister. They also said that our father was not her 'real' f...
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Categories:
half sister, family,
Form: Verse
Baby Sister
...Three sisters have I who make me so glad,
and all of us have the same mom and dad.
But there is another sister I claim.
Our fathers happen to not be the same.
This sister – the youngest in ou...
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Categories:
half sister, sister,
Form: Couplet
The Cost of Revenge, Part Iii
...“And then I turned,
my mind truly burned
said,’What kind of a sick mother
would go coerce
a child of hers
to sleep with her own half-brother?!
“ ‘You are a fool,
and a mother cruel,
no matt...
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Categories:
half sister, anger, betrayal, dark, family,
Form: Epic
The Cost of Revenge, Part Ii
...“It was a race
going to my place,
our emotions out of control,
went for the bed
and my lust-filled head
focused only on it’s one goal.
“Our clothes were tossed,
they were soon half-off
when...
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Categories:
half sister, anger, betrayal, dark, family,
Form: Epic
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