Old Shaftesbury Woman
...Concrete dust drifts like sand across a coastal path.
An old woman battered with facial features that hung on her face,
Disconnected and hanging.
She leans forward in her blumonge, waterproof, u...
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Categories:
hazardously, character, class, culture, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Hazardously Fabulous
...Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
Damn, my reflection enthralls them all.
No Medusa's gaze, no serpent's hiss,
My presence alone, sheer, potent bliss.
No need for coils or stony stare,
My imp...
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Categories:
hazardously, addiction, appreciation, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Gamboge Romance
...My silent serene soul softly craves your candles of crystalline calm.
Your gallant greens of golden glow gently beam with bumbles, bashing blissful thoughts in a thundering whisper.
Our chemistr...
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Categories:
hazardously, angel, beautiful, beauty, deep,
Form: Alliteration
Expresso Shot
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“Expresso Shot”
He drank tibetan milk tea
from his saucer
like a cloistered munk
his conversation
was hushed and tinctured
with fountains of try-too-hard satire
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Categories:
hazardously, muse,
Form: Narrative
Abandoned
...The town, betrayed by time passed, lies forsaken.
Lost, lain memories, like tumble weeds, awaken
To the prod of windy wisps, and roll willy nilly,
Hazardously rendering any hope of revival as sill...
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Categories:
hazardously, lost,
Form: Sonnet
Manic Lid Prowling Hunting Tree Climbing Kat-
...be
huge be
chuck guy
al...
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Categories:
hazardously, analogy, animal, anxiety, cat,
Form: Acrostic
We Went Haywire
...WE WENT HAYWIRE
The fruit of horrendous hurry
Hung appeasingly aloof
On a green tree with white lumpy leave
Situated amidst a green garden
We harvested it imperiously
The day we went hay w...
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Categories:
hazardously, 7th grade,
Form: Alliteration
Hailing-Pleiades
...How I'll miss city life,
hail taxis day or night,
hazardously they drive,
hope I arrive alive,
hear all the traffic noise,
horns tooting full of scorn,
harsh looks are all around,
hang on your...
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Categories:
hazardously, anxiety, city, life,
Form: Pleiades
Democracy Under Trump
...In this tumultuous political climate
I find both parties irrelevant and obsolete
They do not speak to me and my families’ needs
Neither do these elites know the suffering we go through
Day af...
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Categories:
hazardously, integrity, patriotic, political,
Form: Free verse
Mazes
...lately i tend to get lost within myself.
my mind has become a maze,
and i was never good at mazes.
i would start from the end
drawing through lines to get to the start
because it was frustrating...
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Categories:
hazardously, anxiety, confusion, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Put On a Happy Face
...Put on a happy face
when I release taut fingers
from your pallid cheeks.
Promises and empty lies
are sported clichés
that spoil a silenced vocabulary.
A quieted understanding we've
vocally committe...
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Categories:
hazardously, on writing and words,
Form: Free verse