How To Disappear Without Dying
Step one
Smile like stitches not for joy
Just tight enough to hold you in
The kind of smile that never aches
But keeps your mouth from spilling
Step two
Speak after everyone has left
Let words fall where no one looks
Your voice belongs to empty rooms
Where no one asks or stays too long
Step three
Move quiet through morning fog
Become the blur behind
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Categories:
how to, body, death, farewell, imagination,
Form: Free verse
How To Trust Love
love
is
that
moment of trust
when
love
is
how
we
heal first
that
same
love
teaches
us
how
to trust love first
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Categories:
how to, imagery, imagination, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Free verse
How To Love You
I want to love you calmly,
Show you my world as our
Hands slowly intertwine
And truly understand each other.
I didn’t think this kind of love
Could really exist.
I thought it was all one-night stands
That ended with someone hurting.
I mistook the flame of lust
For the warmth of compassion.
Love should take its time,
Not ignite quickly, then fade.
I kept chasing highs
And
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Categories:
how to, analogy, for her, love,
Form: Free verse
How to not get raped: A Girl's daily checklist
Don’t wear shorts — they’ll say you asked for it.
But also don’t wear jeans — you’re being too Western.
Saree? Salwar? Dupatta? — Oh please, that blouse was too tight.
Basically, just wear shame. That’s safest, right?
Don’t go out late — it’s dangerous at night.
But if something happens in broad daylight?
“Well, what was she doing alone in
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Categories:
how to, evil, girl, poems, violence,
Form: Free verse
How To Make Him Hit
I know which cup to leave chipped in the sink,
Mouth open begging for rot.
I know which word to spill—
Vinegar, nettle, sour-spit—
To make him blink slow and tight,
The way thunder coils before breaking.
It's a little game I play.
I wear the red dress he hates,
The one that clings like wet birth skin,
And I let my laugh scratch
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Categories:
how to, abuse, anger, angst, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
how to make me love you
Outguess me, outfox me, outstandingly simple to do
Wrap me in a cloud cloak with a dash of rainbow too
Like me and uplift me, so I can love you.
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Categories:
how to, 12th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
How to Love 101
I'll need a beginners guide to love
you can't shatter a mirror and expect it to reflect
so, how can you break my heart
and it expect it to feel
the same way about you
over and over?
you've run out of luck, this is a dead end,
and the graveyard is nowhere near here
aren't we so lucky to know eachother?
here we
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Categories:
how to, age, art, betrayal, feelings,
Form: Lyric
How to make a spell
To make a spell to cast on your enemy
Without strings and things
For doing something nasty to you
Take their photo
Write what they did on photo
Curse their photo
Take it to the graveyard
Dig hole and bury near entrance in soil
Curse something nasty happen to them
Repeat what they did
At home
Take a small cauldron
Fill with water
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Categories:
how to, gothic, magic,
Form: Free verse
How To Stay Broken
Wake up. If you can.
Or just lie there, blank-eyed,
Listening to the ceiling rot.
Time is fake. Clocks are arrogant.
Let them tick for someone who matters.
Forget food. Hunger is just the body begging
To feel something. Anything.
You know better now.
Scroll until your bones rust.
Doom is infinite.
Your spine will curve to match the screen—
A digital prayer
To no god in
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Categories:
how to, angst, conflict, dark, depression,
Form: Free verse
HOW TO THINK
May we be blessed as Margaret Mead observed…
especially today with our education system teetering on the brink…
to understand children must be taught how…not what to think…
And as history is being rewritten and books are being banned…
where woke, diversity, equity and inclusion are wrongfully taboo…
when it comes to teaching our children how or what to think…
may
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Categories:
how to, children,
Form: Rhyme
REMEMBER HOW TO SHINE
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[Verse 1]
I was a quiet ache, hidden behind a smile,
Practiced and poised, but I felt out of style.
A soul in exile, lost in a game,
Searching for meaning, wondering why I felt shame.
Then your song came, not like a storm,
But gently like morning, transforming the norm.
It didn’t shout, wasn't loud or obscene,
Just stood there open, letting
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Categories:
how to, angst, depression, god, hope,
Form: Lyric
How to save an ice cream cone
Band aids just won't do!
Hold the cone upside down,
Let the drops fall around.
Catch each one with your tongue!
Until the cone lets go.
Then right before the end,
Bite it off!
Too get
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Categories:
how to, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
To Teach A Pebble How To Sing
To teach a pebble how to sing,
you need a simple shepherd’s sling.
The stone’s inclined to be a grouch
when first you set it in the pouch.
It will go silent, being trapped
so tightly in the leather wrapped.
But as you swing the pouch around,
it comes alive; you hear a sound.
At last that pebble sings with glee
as you release
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Categories:
how to, joy,
Form: Couplet
Forgetting How to Love
Forget my name,
Forget thy child,
Became a fear,
Of so many more,
You expect me to cheer,
But you leave my soul sore,
Growing this pain,
And feeling numb,
While being trapped to far under your thumb,
Forced my hand of cards,
Shown the small heart,
Watched you rip it apart,
And take the crown,
Killed love to replace with lust,
While lust turned to rust,
And rust to
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Categories:
how to, 9th grade, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
How to Make Love to a Didgeridoo 100
She inhales the aurora,
breath laced with frozen with light speed
Pulsar fingers stretch through cirrus gauze,
her bodice bending like solar flares.
Astronaut
A quasar shudders behind her lips,
erupting across the event horizon.
Space folds—
she unspools like a nebula unraveling,
luminous in the underworld
aphrodisiac of your vanilla fragrance
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Categories:
how to, allusion, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Imagism
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