If White Men Can't Jump, Then Why Is My Head Always In the Clouds?
...I always said expectations will be the death of both of us
I made this bed and now I'm lying in it
But I was lying when I said the nails were gone, cause they aren't
Now the bloods running and ...
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Categories:
indecencies, earth, emotions, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Perfect Love
...Father I just want to love just like you
Father I just want to love just like you
Father I must love just like you
Teach me show me the way
Oh, I just want to love
I want to love ...
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Categories:
indecencies, appreciation, caregiving, desire, how
Form: Dramatic Monologue
When All Is Set and Done, Make Sure You Leave Living
...WHEN ALL IS SET AND DONE, MAKE SURE YOU LEAVE LIVING:
Chorus:
We're all dreamers chasing dreams,
But does the dreams we chasing rightfully gleam?
Trends and hypes many yearn to keep,
We're all d...
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Categories:
indecencies, destiny, life,
Form: Lyric
Sacramento River Wordscape
...Redding Poem 2
"Sacramento River WordScape"
These descendent waters swim like mad lagoon fish,
Heading decidedly south with a fiery mindless turn,
Their cool liquid urgencies reaching to all ...
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Categories:
indecencies, freedom, nature,
Form: Free verse
Poetically Pathetic Crow
...Just enough to make it just
I want this to be enough to make this
The last song ever, the last note ever
The last romantically, poetically sad excuse for an apology, epilogue
But I've already mes...
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Categories:
indecencies, lonely, longing, loss, lost,
Form: Free verse
Trauma
...Have I blocked out every trauma
Is it real or subconscious drama
I ask myself if this is amnesia
have I suffered an infarct or seizure
So many things I have suppressed
things that need to be a...
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Categories:
indecencies, abuse,
Form: Rhyme
Implications of Shallow Existence
...Fascinated only by pathological manifestations
Of the subconscious mind
A peculiar mark of unfounded substance
A glaring light upon the hinterland
Perceived as negation
In which perception tak...
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Categories:
indecencies, allusion, inspirational, life,
Form: Alliteration
Among the Insipid Faces
...Opposed within the same genus
A recognition of man's existence
I try to inverse the Truth
Thus the latter becomes defined as oblivion
And shallow existence
Those things that cannot be reversed
A pecu...
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Categories:
indecencies, change,
Form: Concrete
Staff Meeting
...Staff Meeting
At my desk each morning,
over my first cup off coffee,
I call the staff meeting to order,
a gathering together
of my various bits and parts
that scattered in the nig...
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Categories:
indecencies, day,
Form: Free verse
Decent Indecencies
...Indecency, exposing self.
Ideologies clash.
Immorality takes the center stage.
Morality humbles herself.
Its a matter of the consciousness.
The lovemaking of heart and soul.
Decisions are offsprin...
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Categories:
indecencies, encouraging, girl,
Form: Free verse
Do Not Waste Your Time
...Such a short time we are here before we say goodbye.
Time is never wasted it just flies.
As the years go by and time fades away,
Just like my pain and sorrow from yesterday.
Tomorrow comes and t...
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Categories:
indecencies, inspirational, life, society, time,
Form: Rhyme
Odepath
...Clouds of misery; they rain down upon me,
I’m at a loss, where else am I gonna be?
From sleepless nights to the endless days…
I stand still somewhere between the land and the sea.
Sky is sinking as ...
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Categories:
indecencies, spiritual,
Form: Ballad
Nights More Than Days
...My age is soon to fall away
Youth as promise shall fade forever
Nights appearing more than days
I’m no more than I am... perhaps lesser
The life I took to be dedicated to
Change me immeasurably beyo...
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Categories:
indecencies, life, life, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Other Side...
...A crazy woman lurks the halls,
She shuffles to and fro.
Distant eyes, wiry hair.
Her plight, sadly I know.
She ghosts from room to room,
Her touch is cold as ice.
Distracted and detached,
I’...
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Categories:
indecencies, angst, health, woman,
Form: I do not know?