Unbearable
...A giant panda eats leaves and shoots,
several handlers and keepers
fall to a spray of AK-47 bullets.
"Why?"
moans an elderly Chinese lady,
blood oozing from her torn body -
she had nursed hi...
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Categories:
insufferably, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Walls - For Mental Health Month
...The Walls…
The Walls…
The Walls…
How they look upon me.
Their eyes,
Once so bright and filled with light,
Are now dark with dead of night.
I can hear them
Creaking,
Speaking to me as they...
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Categories:
insufferably, courage, hope, inspirational, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Waiting, Waiting
...
Surrounded by myriad friends
at his leave-taking
surrendering his soul, to Whom
and waiting,
waiting for what...
They clasped hands, freely hugged
nodded k...
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Categories:
insufferably, anxiety, bereavement, death, friendship
Form: Free verse
Fury
...They say time heals all wounds
A truth I've known since never
I don't think that angry, screaming teenage girl inside ever let anything heal
Even on my best days, she's there
Lighting matches a...
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Categories:
insufferably, anger, angst, childhood, deep,
Form: Free verse
Death of a Relationship
...Oh, the times I have regretted leaving you
Thinking about what I would do differently,
Wracking my brain for a better solution
To the problems that caused your bitterness
Eventually l...
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Categories:
insufferably, lost love, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Eaten By Ants - Part 2
...luckily for our ambiguous plot structure
and the stern requirements of partisan doggerel
the ringing coin toss bounced then came up tails
and fortune directed that the box be opened
gingerly grip...
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Categories:
insufferably, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Feverish Touch
...like
tremor
of a leaf
in gale force wind,
that wicked fever
coursing through your fingers
electrocute my body.
your hands giv...
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Categories:
insufferably, longing, passion, simile,
Form: Etheree
Oversharing
...Not all thoughts
Are meant to be shared
Harness those loose lips
Use your judgment
Self-censoring is a must
Channel those self-righteous comments
Remarks that are distasteful
Inappropriate...
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Categories:
insufferably, angst, bullying, change, character,
Form: Free verse
Never Too Late To Say I Love You Until
...Never Too Late To Say "I Love You" Until...
Futile lamentations reverberate along
corridors of times long gone, this papa
tearfully apologetic revisiting his base,
fitfully lachrymose torturing...
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Categories:
insufferably, class, dedication, devotion, father
Form: Epic
Gone
...I want gone the silence of injustice
The tarnation we insufferably carry along
I want gone the vile of ignorance
The dire ism we obstreperously preach
I want gone the cold night of boredom ...
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Categories:
insufferably, heartbroken,
Form: Couplet
Once Upon a Reservation
...Back in the height
of our pre-millennial military-industrial
post-revolutionary days
of competing excess...
No, love,
Stick with
Once upon our Sacred Times...
Once upon a time
here in the...
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Categories:
insufferably, destiny, education, environment, green,
Form: Political Verse
A Hundred Poems - Xix
...IF I were
a broken soul
who could mend me?
The cobbler down the road?
With his crafty skills and many tools,
the awl or maybe stretching tool?
He surely would know
-- and should I go?
My sho...
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Categories:
insufferably, anxiety, grief, joy, poetry,
Form: Free verse
In a Smear
...In a smear the nicest ink
can insufferably stink.
Volodymyr Knyr
2017...
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Categories:
insufferably, conflict, corruption, hate, humorous,
Form: Couplet
A Hundred Poems Xix
...IF I were
a broken soul
who could mend me?
The cobbler down the road?
With his crafty skills and many tools,
the awl or maybe stretching tool?
He surely would know
-- and should I go?
My sho...
...
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Categories:
insufferably, life, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Creation of Needs
...Sacred Time Seminary's Professor of Economics
began presenting CoReGenesis Theory:
Business as Usual economists
would say that milking machines
and bulldozers,
all technology
and information ...
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Categories:
insufferably, environment, nature, peace, political,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
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