Fulcrum
...I used to live my life
by planning every step
factoring in every contingency
like a sales pitch for a Life Insurance policy.
I flipped the coin and it landed on its edge.
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Categories:
insurance policy, analogy,
Form: Other
Imposter me not Syndrome
...I just write. Sure, I have pieces in several books just scattered all around. Probably have written over 999 Poems by now. Still, My accolades are hard for me to gather and jot down. Let alone celebr...
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Categories:
insurance policy, confidence, conflict, courage, love,
Form: Rhyme
Pestilisban
...people's eyes should hurt less when winter rages on,
or when the afternoon shadow show dies with the boldness of the moon.
I no longer have that wisdom of ignorance,
nor does the renewed insuran...
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Categories:
insurance policy, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
By the Hair
...You thought you had me by the hair,
While you tossed my heart
To and fro
Across a tennis court
Just because
I was your insurance policy
That you kept in your back pocket
Or so you thought
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Categories:
insurance policy, allegory, beach, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Good News Came My Way Today February 21 2021 Courtesy Late Father
...Good news came my way today February 21, 2021 courtesy late father
Papa - purportedly named
after paternal grandmother
Sadie, her mom's Yiddish name
Basia Brana (or Brandla),
she took two B le...
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Categories:
insurance policy, absence, appreciation, celebration, dad,
Form: Rhyme
Filthy Is the Color Of
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Some got a pathological need,
a dirty obsession for that coffin wallpaper
They wrapped themselves in the black widow veil
of murderous deceit
For what?
To taste the yellow snow
of a...
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Categories:
insurance policy, allusion, dark, truth, wisdom,
Form: Alliteration
Why Worry
...Why worry...?
Within the same breath
yukon catastrophize and
make mountain range
out of molehill mental material
impossible to scale
even with best Sherpa as guide.
Take advice from expert...
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Categories:
insurance policy, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Mirror's Tear Part 3
...Virtues are more than they appear to be.
Ripples of connectivity.
Something switched on with the light?
A companion, manual, override.
Especially when storm clouds rear- appear to ruin the blue s...
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Categories:
insurance policy, abortion, absence, abuse, anxiety,
Form: Epic
If Something Should Happen To Me
...If something happens to me and I’m found stiff and cold,
Don’t think it’s my time,
‘cause I’m not nearly that old!
If it’s true what they say,
that fifty’s the new thirty,
Then i’m in my pri...
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Categories:
insurance policy, angst, betrayal, break up,
Form: Narrative
Fire, Fire
...FIRE, FIRE
The house is burning round me,
There’s no time to hang about.
Just enough for me to get
A few essentials out.
First, up to the bathroom
To collect my medications.
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Categories:
insurance policy, fire,
Form: Rhyme
If Ever I Had a Country : Lxiv and Lxv
...IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LXIV - LXV
NOTE (facts to bear in mind while reading) : Under the French Penal Code, harm done to the infirm, minors and seniors (i.e. over 65) is punishable up to f...
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Categories:
insurance policy, allegory, anti bullying, corruption,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
A Hearty Experience
...A HEARTY EXPERIENCE
Bad cholesterol found easy sites in my heart for deposition
Time came when they needed to be cleaned by operation.
Two stents were planted by what ...
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Categories:
insurance policy, endurance, health, heart,
Form: Couplet
Story of the Hungry Poor Child
...Mommy, if I make up my bed
Which consist of old Sunday newspapers
Could I have, can I have a slice of bread
And if I sweep the floors with my bare feet
I'm so hungry mommy can I have some water w...
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Categories:
insurance policy, blessing, blue, caregiving, cheer
Form: Free verse
Bound To Be President
...Bound To Be President
Looked around for book in a library
Had compunction for one called Pecuniary
Liability contained in insurance policy
That and person could see was a fallacy.
On one fac...
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Categories:
insurance policy, allegory, analogy, humorous,
Form: Couplet
The Definition of Insanity
...This poem was too long to submit without premium membership, so I have submitted it in two parts, but it is meant to be read together.
Part one....
They say he is clearly psychotic, if knowing...
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Categories:
insurance policy, abuse, allusion, betrayal, freedom,
Form: Prose Poetry
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