18-11-2024
...1.)
“The same waste stays un-cleaned”,
Something like that was said.
And I’ve spent time missing,
Must’ve thought I was dead.
The boy says the man’s unseen,
Technically a teen but still “m...
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Categories:
infests, absence, abuse, age, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Unsettled Vitality
...The betrayal offences rendered on us daily unsettles swiftly progress.
They simmer and stir and spread.
Resentment, unforgiveness lead us to revenge.
Bitterness spreads so contagiously like ...
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Categories:
infests, bible, christian, emotions, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Broken
...Agonizing darkness descends upon my hopelessness.
Crouching in a fetal position as terrifying pain infests.
Oh the slashing, bashing of the wielding belt.
Crying and scampering, knowing his rage, ...
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Categories:
infests, abuse, betrayal, child abuse,
Form: Rhyme
Dying To Leave
...People are fickle
A bothersome tickle
You open the door
To wind up in a pickle
A dreaded half smile
They stay for a while
You’re too polite
And in denial
Instinctively nice
Prone to sac...
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Categories:
infests, anxiety, depression, emotions, people,
Form: Rhyme
Progeny of Adam -2-
...We sow discord,
Yet we're thirsty of peace.
We chant war,
Yet our ears call for euphonia.
Racism infests our world;
Tribalism invades like malaria.
Although we have diverse languages,
With l...
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Categories:
infests, conflict, corruption, earth, fear,
Form: Political Verse
Foggy Ignorance
...FOGGY IGNORANCE
infests mountain gardens
when one uses the lenses to view others
and not ones self...
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Categories:
infests, art, education, growth, inspirational,
Form: Triolet
Black Noise In Her Mind
...I know her so well she came long ago to visit my being we share beauty and
bedlam boudoir and kindest of spirits as she walks like a cat woman hears like
a bat feeds birds quietly and soothes t...
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Categories:
infests, beauty, courage, depression,
Form: Free verse
Not Like the Rest
...Ponder the pest
It's not like the rest:
Can't stick out its chest
Doesn't have a nest
Your crops it infests
Devours and ingests
Acts rather stressed
Promotes such unrest...
It...
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Categories:
infests, insect, word play,
Form: Monorhyme
The Agony of Christmas Eve
...On Christmas Eve, children lay in bed,
In titillating agony as they await what lays ahead,
They are in blissful torture pondering on chocolate cookies and hot chocolate,
Their eyes are wide open w...
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Categories:
infests, analogy, angst, christmas, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Water Hyacinth
...Dictatorship is water hyacinth
once it infests water
it shocks aquatic life
limits fishermen
terrorizes fish at home
difficult to eradicate
and benefits a few...
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Categories:
infests, leadership, metaphor, power,
Form: Free verse
Noise In Her Mind
...Noise in her Mind
I know her so well she came long ago to visit my being
we share beauty and bedlam boudoir and kindest of spirits
She walks like a cat woman hears like...
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Categories:
infests, love,
Form: Free verse
Poet Trapped Inside the Beast
...I have the heart of a poet
Trapped deep within
The soul of the beast
Everyday I get up
And put on my dark
Bureaucratically correct uniform
I turn off my soul
Put on my phony smile
And my ...
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Categories:
infests, america, crazy, culture, god,
Form: Free verse
Withered Are Memories Made On False Ground
...Withered Are Memories Made On False Ground
Majesty of her charms , pale in light now
Love's glow has died, ashes only remain
She was sad , my heart took a fleeing bow
Her cries left only darken...
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Categories:
infests, art, life, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
White Pain
...White is not an opaque color
It seemed to shimmer incandescent figures under the eve of light
A foreshadowing
Pain is the white that compliments your wedding dress
Tying the knot
Knowing you’l...
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Categories:
infests, abuse, angst, color, home,
Form: I do not know?
The Seeds of Our Ancestors
...Where are the seeds of our ancestors?
Are they dug deep in blood-soaked and bruised battlefields?
Or huddled close to God's Crest?
Or are they lost languishing in desert sand's drift?
History's...
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Categories:
infests, evil, god, history, hope,
Form: Free verse
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