What The Hell Are You Doing Here?
...He looked at me, eyes dull and cold,
“What the hell are you doing here?”
And just like that-my heart caved in,
Shattered by the words I feared.
I had come with love in trembling hands,
A daug...
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Categories:
hep, anger, cancer, dad, daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Tuesdays' nights
...was the whiskey and the jazz playing
On too many black nights with too
Many lonely women and not a poem
Between them
How many times can you run
From the shadow of the voices that
Surround you...
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Categories:
hep, 12th grade, addiction,
Form: Free verse
FLIGHT WITH MY CHILD
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Vroom-vroom with my special child
Zooming high in his plane-car
Hep-hurray! He’s the pilot…
Bless our flight*, Lord. Vroom!*Deuteronomy 32:30 How should one chase ...
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Categories:
hep, appreciation, boy, child, christian,
Form: Dodoitsu
The Beat Banned Band
..."the beat banned band"
no piccolo
or sopranino
nor no no not
sopranissimo
the hep and hip
cats where it's at
play subterranean
subcontrabass
Doctor
Sax
seen at and as
p...
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Categories:
hep, color,
Form: Free verse
Waste of Breath
...11/16/21
It's all good, even though my life ain't the best
Another day ready to face what's next
Against major threats
Got to put in work and break a sweat
Take a drink, light it up and eras...
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Categories:
hep, addiction, dark, deep, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Vaccination
...Vaccination Chart
1.BCG at birth dose 0.05ml.
2.Hep B at birth dose 0.5ml.
3.OPV at birth dose 2 drops.
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4.06 weeks baby Hep B dose 0.5ml.
5.06 weeks baby DTP dose 0...
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Categories:
hep, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: List
The Haunted House
...There once was a house down the lane
With tattered shutters and broken window panes
They said it was haunted
But I was undaunted
I went in normal and came out insane
And old man came to answer...
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Categories:
hep, allegory, death, fun, horror,
Form: Limerick
Grandma Rides Her Broom
...Granny hit you with it you fly across the room
she was a 5th generation hep cat
a finger popping bebopster with double elbows
you can have your two bit Buddha garden
and your silly Jesus candles...
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Categories:
hep, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Nineteen Sixty
...I shall never see the world as it used to be
In my dream it was 1960 I could fondly see
I could see mom blowing smoke at our faces
Dad spouting bad remarks about certain races
I was there at the ...
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Categories:
hep, change, discrimination,
Form: Couplet
Peter Possum -- Mp
...Peter Possum had a nasty rep
He was so white, he couldn't be hep
He got him some brown paint
Said, "I am what I ain't!"
If he'd only unlearn that goose step
Note: MP in the title s...
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Categories:
hep, animal, color, satire,
Form: Limerick
U May Not Say : Hip Hip Hooray Again
...The origin of "Hip, Hip Hooray may shock you, and U may not wish anyone that with a clear conscience. If U have Jewish friends, ask them if they have any objections ... but our culture is so replete ...
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Categories:
hep, history, humanity, jesus, jewish,
Form: Didactic
Stank Breath and Funky Shoes Blues
...Stank Breath and Funky Shoes Blues
I was at the soda shop the other day.
Met a cute girl there by the way,
Only thing about that I can see
She had terrible stank breath...whooooeee !
On top...
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Categories:
hep, funny,
Form: Rengay
Adieu Dental Floss and Toothbrush
...(21st century pearly white prosthetics,
restored jaw bar wah key)
Aye noel hunger bristle,
and when false teeth soak at night
in tandem with stubby facial gristle
har reckon noah kisses...
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Categories:
hep, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Time Markers
...When I receive old magazines the first thing I seek as I flip through the pages, I find
Are the advertisements that bring to my mind the brands, fads, and trends that found favor in bygone times.
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Categories:
hep, appreciation, culture, eulogy, history,
Form: Rhyme
Annem
...Suyun akisi gibi geldide geçti iste
Ince bir tüy gibi sallanirken annem
Içime düsen kor gibi atesti bende
Nasil bir hicran yarasiydi annem.
Aciyi emanet birakip gittigin zaman
Yüzün eksilmis...
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Categories:
hep, mom,
Form: Alexandrine
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