A Note to No One In Particular
...I always feel a twinge of anger,
a truck load of guilt,
and a dash of sorrow
whenever I think of her
But mostly nothing at all
My guess is all those year of
cuts to the bone
ingrown toena...
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Categories:
ingrown, childhood, depression, emotions, hope,
Form: Free verse
A QUIET WEE HOUR CANDLELIGHT BREAKFAST POEM
...SITTING IN A QUIET LAKEFRONT PARK
LOOKING AT PICTURES OF MY MOTHER IN THE DARK
THE ILLUMINATION OF VIVID MEMORIES CREATE A SPARK
A TRUE HISTORICAL MILESTONE EXCURSION LANDMARK
SHEDDING A RARE ...
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Categories:
ingrown, death, i miss you,
Form: Rhyme
THE TRUTH ABOUT UNDERSTANDING TRUE LOVE
...
My heart will always be expecting good times
many hearts expect good times
their future lies in expectation of positive futures
there is no substance to save the soul when expectation dies
The...
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Categories:
ingrown, age, love, lust,
Form: Free verse
Touch Therapy - 9
...
She spoke to me
about the semantics of shame,
the seduction and flame,
the name of the pain,
lunatic loop of lost meaning,
complaining of symptoms remaining
robust and teething
weighing upon...
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Categories:
ingrown, love, mental health,
Form: Epic
Are You Still a Dreamer
...You say you used to dream but now you’re old
and have no more dreams in you?
and you say you have no more gas in the trunk?
that life has not been good to you
That your arthritis is too painful...
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Categories:
ingrown, desire, encouraging, faith, heart,
Form: Free verse
Of What Use Are Fingers To Hands That Only Understand Mittens
...Of WHAT USE ARE FINGERS TO HANDS THAT ONLY UNDERSTAND MITTENS
I have a bunion and an ingrown toe nail;
I’m a blind man wearing glasses and I can’t find them;
My hair is so short that I a...
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Categories:
ingrown, analogy, anxiety, cute, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Unseeded
...A nation dies
when its ideas become slogans
nothing is deeply planted
or cultivated
just notions to be scattered around
as exposed hayseeds
that fly directionless.
When a state is oppressed
...
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Categories:
ingrown, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Secret To Buying Right Size of Shoe
...Before you go and buy that new pair of shoes,
There is something you should do,
That will save a return trip for you,
Or maybe even one less cost if you do this before you go.
If buying for you...
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Categories:
ingrown, appreciation, baptism, blessing, business,
Form: Light Verse
Keola-Quatrain-Mlk Jr
...Keola-Sonnet-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Imagine perched above, you ride THE lofty throne
Peering through pellucid skies to seek our MORAL truth
You yearn to spread what peo...
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Categories:
ingrown, character, discrimination, flying, hope,
Form: Quatrain
Butterfly Stickers
...Seems like cozy words won't make a fire when it's winter
Neither will my hopes and dreams, though people say I'm a winner
The only one who stood by me has dragged me down again
I'm lying naked on ...
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Categories:
ingrown, anxiety, depression,
Form: Lyric
Trouble In the Hood
...Tree to tree, the woods tries to hide him.
His growl and fur coat - neither slim.
His beacon ears hear all the gossip.
Before bares teeth, kindles kinship.
Apples, precious and spoiled, with ...
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Categories:
ingrown, animal, girl,
Form: Couplet
Dear Nationalist Republicans
...I'm worried
you have over valued
your favorite deceptively entertaining
disformed
dis-eased commodity,
DisInformation's strategic value
and disvalue
and misvalue
depreciatively revaluated
...
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Categories:
ingrown, bullying, conflict, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
-yellow
...YELLOW
a center of a highway line
yellow a
Banana and pears
yellow
the cowardice and ingrown fears
yellow
a golden parakeet
yellow
a bag of crunchy Cheetos
yellow
A pampered golde...
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Categories:
ingrown, analogy, appreciation, color, yellow,
Form: Free verse
Delightful Cousin Samantha
...Samantha is as delightful as an ingrown toenail.
As wonderful as a virus, hearty and hale.
She was a corn on the bottom of my foot.
Her caustic tongue as long as a tree root.
The rest of the fami...
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Categories:
ingrown, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Brown-
... Brown the color of the passive ground Autumn I'm falling leaves horizontal the waist by product the leaves leave me Brown blooms with the bloom of unemployed in clouds Grands made from sc...
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Categories:
ingrown, abortion, analogy, color, community,
Form: Free verse
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