texting a nine year old cousin
...Leeann and I are third cousins
similar in personalities, happy to know each other
she is nine, I am seventy-two; both of us is divisible by nine.
Her grandma asked if Leeann could text me.
A ni...
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Categories:
horrifies, humor,
Form: Narrative
Always Speak The Truth
...Always Speak The Truth
Never tell a lie, speak the truth
Don't feel shy, speak the truth
Truth is grace, with shining face
Reflects one's glory, fills personality space
Truth is love, trut...
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Categories:
horrifies, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Truth
...What terrifies me the most?
What do we have time for?
Perhaps a prost…
To all the things beautiful
and decomposed
The truth
Yes, it is the truth, I suppose
What i...
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Categories:
horrifies, fear, suicide, truth, violence,
Form: Free verse
The End
...Everything comes to an end.
Life comes to an end,
Relationships come to an end,
Friendships come to an end,
Understandings come to and end.
Being abandoned and left on your own hurts,
Havin...
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Categories:
horrifies, allusion,
Form: Free verse
A Divine Resemblance With Jesus
...There's somebody who is like a father,
he has a divine resemblance with Jesus:
merciful eyes and encouraging words:
woe to him if he does not preach what he says;
many young men have been easy pr...
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Categories:
horrifies, betrayal, children, death, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Karma
...Wracked with guilt I lay
troubled in spirit body all thoughts invoke
recalls my elevation
gut wrenching waves of remorse robs sustenance
unaware of how one’s life’s machinations
can cripple one...
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Categories:
horrifies, spiritual,
Form: Suzette Prime
In the Midst of Hope
...As the shattered ruins of tomorrow’s world
horrifies shallow minds
As the peace which we all succumbed to
remains unglorified
As the place we call our own
litters with the ravages of the fort...
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Categories:
horrifies, angst, conflict, dark, death,
Form: Alexandrine
How Can You Say You No Me
...You say you no me,
So how can you not see
You say you no me
But you critic so harshly
You say you no me
Then how can you judge so easily
You say you no me
Then why whisper lies a...
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Categories:
horrifies, anger, betrayal, cry, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
I Need a Soul
...I've lived a pain that horrifies me in reflection and ran so deep that it changed my DNA. I need a soul who sees the courage that it took for me to live day by day with this pain because I knew that ...
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Categories:
horrifies, romance,
Form: Blank verse
Your Worst Nightmare
...any superstitious peasants
out there tonight
TV junkies gossipy groupies
smooth talking saxophonists
am I talking too fast
for couple's therapy
uh oh here comes
another scar on my head
the o...
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Categories:
horrifies, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Cubes
...That three-dimensional solid so symmetrical,
Suggests how life could be - understandable,
With only six faces, all square for equal sides,
And a formulae to describe what makes us stable.
T...
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Categories:
horrifies, crazy, history, image, math,
Form: Rhyme
Just Joan
...I look out from the stake
to where my judges are seated;
those proud men know nothing of me.
In Christ I am never defeated
though I will die here today,
condemned for my faith and my courage.
L...
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Categories:
horrifies, betrayal, faith, girl, god,
Form: Free verse
To My Newborn Daughter, Years From Now
...Standing high upon the knot
In my ladder years,
I claimed to be the king.
Now, the crown horrifies me.
Still some gentle cruise is within me.
Like Saturn turned upside-down.
Would we notice th...
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Categories:
horrifies, baby, daughter,
Form: Free verse
Carnivorous Wolfman
...You carnivorous beast
Do not approach me
I must love
But the other form
You eat so wrong
Both hands
Into the mouth it goes
Rare meat
Painful to watch
As whomever it was
Horrifies me
Please just go aw...
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Categories:
horrifies, life, love, love,
Form: Free verse
The Start of the End of Me
...On Tilbury docks we stand
Separated from my kin
Is the reason we're standing here
The colour of my skin
Standing in the column of no future
I hear the white-man say
We are heading to Virgini...
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Categories:
horrifies, black african american, death,
Form: Rhyme
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