He Grew Old
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When he was young. I thought he was old. It never occurred to me that I might be wrong. That old wouldn’t show up for years and years, decades even. He wasn’t tall like my grandfather. But he was...
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Categories:
hassled, appreciation, father, father daughter,
Form: Haibun
Keep me alive
...In this winter, near the fire,
Weather killing me slowly,
And I maintain to live warm.
Show me no mercy, my love,
Just keep coming in mind,
So I am hassled by memories.
If it is my last of ...
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Categories:
hassled, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Life
...He look bit hassled
What is life worth living for
When all things puzzled....
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Categories:
hassled, culture, life, mystery, society,
Form: Haiku
Q-Tips
...In charge of the museum store,
She was an ex-New Yorker.
Her hair was white, her glasses black
(Like me!) and yes, a talker.
She spoke of moving to the Cape
And though she missed the city,
Sh...
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Categories:
hassled, age, women,
Form: Rhyme
Spring Break
...Young like April, winds
Settling in the limbs of oaks,
Just past the crisp whisper
Cerulean drifting, tides
Graceful seas reminding me to
Listen as secrets poured
Past the graceful, splashing...
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Categories:
hassled, beach, beautiful, blessing, sea,
Form: Free verse
Country Music Is On
...Chorus:
I'm a country man in a lonely home,
Me, myself and I who know road?
Well, it's a deep tought nobody knows,
So I keep it alone,
For the night surley got to show....
Ooh...
Chorus:
I'...
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Categories:
hassled, music, native american,
Form: Lyric
At the Pivot of Invention Or Piggyback
...by the interpretation comes perception—the faraway dream, the symbols—or the way I attack myself—in harassing my screams. upon a wishbone, to feel some semblance, listening to darker parts; the curse...
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Categories:
hassled, black african american,
Form: Blank verse
Black Lives Matter
...The moment the clip rolled—-
cold rain of adrenaline hassled
down my spine and narrow nerves.
In Gorge Floyd I froze—compressed,
suppressed into miniature casket—-
“I can’t breathe”—the resonanc...
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Categories:
hassled, abuse, africa, bullying, racism,
Form: Free verse
Enchant Me
...ENCHANT ME!
(A Contemporary Animist’s Prayer)
To the shared breath of life:
Enchant me!
Whisper to me in the cadence and rhymes,
the deeper susurrations of this tellurian realm
with its n...
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Categories:
hassled, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Run To the Sea
...There are recalls of blasting winds across my cheek.
It was during an 8 year tenure in the city by the bay.
Performance of my tasks required early morning risings,
and so many of those early morni...
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Categories:
hassled, christian, destiny, endurance,
Form: Verse
Gone To East Jesus
...A big-headed dreamer, pockets full of hope
Say, that and five bucks gets you a cup of joe
Worn out Army boots and my Goodwill coat
Sky's overcast and it feels like snow
Rolling on good time, gu...
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Categories:
hassled, adventure,
Form: Lyric
Torn Apart Came Together
...Cut from the same cloth, certainly didn't apply
I'd lived twenty places, was born to improvise
You had one home, parents, sister, two nephews
Persistance forced my flighty spirit to accept you
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Categories:
hassled, anti bullying, boyfriend, break
Form: Couplet
Don'T Run
...On an afternoon walk-about in my neighborhood, I was STARTLED by a german shepherd when he came racing around the CO...
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Categories:
hassled, dog, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Hitchcock
...on my ride home
from work i
witnessed
a crime
for sure
ly so
many
crows
were
flocking to
the city to
protest
what
was
to
be
a
banging
of bells and a
whistling of whistles
t...
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Categories:
hassled, muse,
Form: I do not know?
The Midnight Bell Tolls
...Then comes the call of the witch named Kabbath,
That signals the start of All Hollow's Black Sabbath.
And, from the dark crypts and the blackest of holes;
Come the night creatures, as the Midnight...
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Categories:
hassled, halloween, october, scary, surreal,
Form: Rhyme
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