Man on the Precipice of Eternity
...In seventy-eight, my steel-stallion, KZ1000,
pride, wind in my hair.
Its Sissy Bar, firm tether, bag secured,
my wanderlust's prayer.
Where sun, snow, wind sculpt my journey's theme
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Categories:
herniated, death, destiny, emotions, faith,
Form: Narrative
Satan and My Leg
...Satan wants my leg
The right one
He's been trying
for years
First when as a child
in Gonja Hospital
Butt injection smack
in sciatic nerve
The pain - oh my god
flexed ...
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Categories:
herniated, africa, pain,
Form: Free verse
Two Old Buzzards
...Two old buzzards stand
High in a dead slick pine tree
Vision limited
Two old people speed in pick-up
One turns head sees polka-dots
No chance of seeing
Flamingoes anywhere near
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Categories:
herniated, life,
Form: Tanka
The Note
...Your eyes are too dodgey
Your hearing is shot
Your body just ain't got
The means to stay hot
Your back's herniated
You can't bend when you dress
To tie your shoe-laces
Will cause you distress
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Categories:
herniated, conflict, emotions, work,
Form: Rhyme
Trp V1:15
...Tension Relief Program or TRP is a new treatment for a condition from which many of us suffer.
Step 1: Say "Footboatgoose" 3 times.
Step 2: Laugh.
If you cannot laugh,...
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Categories:
herniated, care, change, class, confusion,
Form: I do not know?
Like a Bad Dream
...That keeps repeating over and over again
For twenty two years your face is all I have seen
did medication and therapy for all the emotional swings but nothing helped me
Because all the anger and...
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Categories:
herniated, angst, forgivenessme, me,
Form: Narrative
Statistic
...I was born, PLUS ONE.
I am a girl, PLUS ONE.
I am Asian Indian, PLUS ONE.
I was an Orphan, PLUS ONE.
I have Polio, PLUS ONE.
I wear a Leg Brace, PLUS ONE.
I was Adopted, PLUS ONE.
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Categories:
herniated, childhood, death, education, inspirational,
Form: I do not know?
Oh, To Be Young
...Oh, to be young again
To do the things I did then
To run and play, dance and sing
With not a worry about anything
Oh to be young once more
Before middle age crept in the door
Before the pull ...
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Categories:
herniated, childhood, funny, nostalgia,
Form: Couplet