Places Hyperbole Poems

The mobile is ringing.  It gets closer and closer, and louder and louder.  It has finally arrived at her ear canal.

She meticulously rolls...

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Great sorrow lies in the depths of the heart
A shadow of loneliness 
A cry for recognition 

The drifting thoughts 
The unfulfilling wants 
The hopeless mind
An...

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I wake into a tornado: 
Lights suddenly blaze through my eyelids. 
The air buzzes and hums;
The distant din of clamor 
Still imperceptible through the haze
That...

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I am looking for something
I look everywhere
Sometimes I give in
Go to a cafe and sit and stare

I'm looking for something
It may not even exist
A halcyon...

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He always got a Fantastic Four story to tell,
like how yesterday
        he Stretch saved 
all those people from...

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It is my wish, let it be given
a badly needed wish it is
that I become a crocodile
to all animals, no crossing
the river and lakeshores
the homely...

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Unquotable quotes: Fat People – XXIX

(I know this piece sounds mean and cruel but as every single parent must have experienced, this is also the...

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Spy vs. Poet - pen trickery

(A collaborative poem by Serena Storm and Joel Thornton)


Dissimulating cloak – an apocryphal script 
Ah, I see "I" the spy...

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