Open the Floodgates
...(Fictional, but based on the real experience of one of my close friends who lost her daughter in an accident)
As I sat on my desk,
Hurrying with my pent up work,
A scrap of paper, l...
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Categories:
irritably, angst, child, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse
A Nigerian Town With My Footprints
...Visibly wore she my footprints
While bore I a Restarted Scholarship,
In 1993 flaunting The Dullest Glints
With streets that rather mirrored hardship …
Okigwe was The Sometimes Chilly
And irrit...
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Categories:
irritably, absence, africa, anxiety, people,
Form: Rhyme
Blind Sides
...I’m in a psychology class and as part of it we filled out several, detailed, personality evaluations. They said these were helpful in forming a psychological profile of the freshmen classes each year...
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Categories:
irritably, psychological, teen,
Form: Free verse
Waiting For
...It’s like waiting for God,
oh so much. Yet why,
oh why so long?
Clocks move so slowly as I watch,
yes, watch my wrist, too, oh so long,
so long the clock, the watch,
the clock, the watch.
Ye...
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Categories:
irritably, absence, change, confusion, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Watching the Word Parade
...Words parade around the meadow and up a tree
I can barely believe that is where the adjectives went
I thought they would stay down here with the nouns
Verbs began leaping off of the flowers
Lan...
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Categories:
irritably, word play,
Form: Free verse
The Check
..."What is taking you so long?"
My dad asks as I slowly try to write
My best signature at night
On a check at my dad's ATM
Pay to the order of dad
Its my first pay check
"I'm only ten dad, what...
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Categories:
irritably, 5th grade, childhood, cry,
Form: Free verse
Common Cold
...Achooo!
It begins, almost always, with a sneeze,
Which, in some cultures,
Invites blessings,
But, in some others, a curse,
As it’s held to be ominous!
Blessing or curse, soon the frequency
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Categories:
irritably, funny, irony, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Musings of Desolation
...It’s the end of another tiring day.
Spiraling waves of frustration, anxiety
And profound remorse
Slowly swallowing all happiness
One man left awake
On the shore of a dreary ocean
A horse, an...
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Categories:
irritably, allegory, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Stimulation: Paradise of Passion
...Paradise of passion has dawned upon my mind of my once dusked mindset (desired future of peace that has transformed my mind that was of darkness for the better)
I'm envious of others' ecstasy for s...
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Categories:
irritably, angst, deep, depression, desire,
Form: Free verse
My Youngest Teacher
...In the morning I was impatient as you dawdled
and I told you to stop being so slow.
You just smiled sheepishly and said,
"Bye Mommy, I have to go!"
In the afternoon I spent most of my day on the...
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Categories:
irritably, blessing, children, inspirational, mother,
Form: Narrative
Crashing Down
...Dancing round the arena
Trying to escape the fact
That this show can't make me happy
And this dance is just an act
People sighing irritably
As I desperately try
To recreate the atmosphere
Th...
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Categories:
irritably, adventure, angst, death, life,
Form: Rhyme