The Gems Deep Within Me
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Oh, Look not for the jewels in my crown.
Nor draped on throat, or on silken gown.
For my treasure-trove of gems,
lies buried deep, deep within me,
for you to see, for you to find,
for you to ...
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Categories:
hunches, emotions, encouraging, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Anxious Ears in a Frozen World
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Written: March 15, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Sara Jama
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Lost in the frozen haze of a bygone era.
are recoupable if you can.
climb out of the haz...
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Categories:
hunches, analogy, memory,
Form: Free verse
I Don’t Deserve You, and You Don’t Deserve Me
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{"To the ones who want to love me first, I don’t deserve you, and you don’t deserve me. It is vivid, enduring to every human, alluring at any foul play you want to scream what is right and wrong, i...
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Categories:
hunches, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse
Jesse
...dear tall child,
your bones probably don't fit your frame yet;
they shift awkwardly,
and your spine hunches and slopes.
your hands are likely to be dry and grimy,
legs speckled with an...
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Categories:
hunches, child abuse, childhood, gender,
Form: Free verse
My Daily Hunch
...Oh sweet perfumed branches of winter will
Upon this rock I lay my hankering and my spirit is still
I have borne the pain of winter shame
And walked with dignitaries in vain
chasing after the unkn...
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Categories:
hunches, america, anger, anxiety, books,
Form: Prose Poetry
Before She Was a Mother
...She misses the time before she was a mother,
the life she once had now hidden, under cover.
Before pasta and paint, and plastic packed lunches
replaced lie ins and coffees, and trusting her own hu...
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Categories:
hunches, age,
Form: Rhyme
Consciousness
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Within the dark mystery of evening,
he listens to two interchangeable discourses
One the gentle persuader, the other, life's ultimate blamer.
Troubled by these seething exchanges,
both consc...
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Categories:
hunches, integrity, introspection,
Form: Verse
To The Other Side
...Out of the blue on this summer day
Richie asks me if I want to swim with him across the lake
Sure what the hell and that is that
I will match the older boy’s vim and whim
Two strong boys armored ...
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Categories:
hunches, best friend, endurance, father
Form: Free verse
Crave
...Deep voice cradled with tender
Rough hands smoothing it better
The fears hunches my back,
He arches it again with sweet words of wonder
When I doubt all I am
He hugs my angels and my monsters
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Categories:
hunches, care, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Yet I Cling Long Version
...Blue
twinges
of lament
cast gaunt shadow
o’er my dreadful pang
as a grim mist segued
into dark claustrophobic
cantons where rabid zeal of hearts
once smouldered from magma’s deep red vein
Y...
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Categories:
hunches, age, august, deep, feelings,
Form: Nonet
Upbeat Day Ahead
...I hail each bronze, red, and blue coloured dawn,
as pulsing heart mould torch flame of bliss,
to gaze across some awestruck mint sprig lawn,
that golden birthright never goes amiss
Ey...
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Categories:
hunches, birth, blessing, celebration, cheer
Form: Quatrain
Maladjusted
...When the sh*t hits the fan and the plates hit the walls
And Mummy’s voice screeches, “You ain’t got the balls”
The sound of wood splintering leaves kids with hunches
That once again Daddy ain’t p...
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Categories:
hunches, childhood, divorce,
Form: Rhyme
Gone
...He puffs in the nightly brume
His noctambulous proclivity
He calls it, a force of habit
Something automatic
Tonight is especially morbid
Atrabilious even
As he hunches gaunt
Over her headstone...
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Categories:
hunches, bereavement, men, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Hunches
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My thoughts are mine, I cherish them
Unruly as they are
They freely keep me company
I keep my mind ajar
Too much are these sensations
These hunches, these ideas
Much wilder than the tempests
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Categories:
hunches, space, time,
Form: Ballad
Chapter 64 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Family Seventeen- Vacation Xiv
...Damian Stood with the front
Door opened and said, "Family!
We will be leaving in fifteen
Minutes. Do whatever you have
To before we hit the road. Use
The bathroom whatever!
Come on!! HAKIM...
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Categories:
hunches, bridal shower, business, chanukah,
Form: Alliteration
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