The Battle Within
...My mind is so prismatic,
constantly thinking all erratic,
the perfect cage,
to hold the rage,
but wait...
I am all that it can hate,
whilst inside it is trapped,
I must find a way to adapt,
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Categories:
jail cell, dark, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Plagued By Memories
...Memories of whip-lashing words
steeped me deep into a roil of rancid oil
my soul a weeping blistered sore
my heart a gangrene amputee
pus-green-memories rupture to plague me
infection still...
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Categories:
jail cell, abuse, dark, memory, pain,
Form: Free verse
mosaic
...i am nothing mere of a mosaic
a broken frame
of what should remain
a whole personality
but it split
and caused me great chaos
i am a mosaic that nobody can piece together
i am a mosaic with ra...
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Categories:
jail cell, anger, angst,
Form: I do not know?
SEPARATED FROM SOCIETY
...Once a free happy man enjoying the outdoors
Surrounded now by jail bars that don’t bend
Inmate correction to society
A life that totally went apart, and have no name but a number
A place an inmat...
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Categories:
jail cell, anger, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Off fish hill Daylight saving time 2025
...Off fish hill Daylight saving time 2025
min(no) newt effect on me.
As part and parcel of terpsichorean repertoire,
one whirling dervish
flaps his wings at the speed of sound.
With twenty ...
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Categories:
jail cell, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
More of the same
...Artificial intelligence is the future with more of the same
Just a more scary aggressive approach and a new look.
Racist bots, systematic manipulation and race based preferences as usual.
...
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Categories:
jail cell, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Ariana Lynn Portillo
...Wedding dress rides bicycle.
She cracked ribs staring in my window.
Crocodile teardrops jail cell.
Peat shale lignite.
Venus squaw bean.
Police car m...
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Categories:
jail cell, adventure, allegory, america,
Form: Concrete
Terry And Bobby
...
He was right at home with 'being himself',
And had 'never a longing' to be any...
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Categories:
jail cell, childhood, friendship,
Form: Couplet
Pieced Together Again
... One of those castoff items that we shove
Promptly deemed ‘junk’ upon a second glance.
I hid you on the highest shelves above
With a slim ‘someday’ of a second chance.
In solitude y...
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Categories:
jail cell, solitude,
Form: Rhyme
They've Betrayed Us - III, Part I
...III.
Do you know of naïve Martin
who saw a report on the news
of how a young, black man was killed,
that the police had shot the dude!
Now protestors were raising hell,
he saw a large mob on TV...
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Categories:
jail cell, betrayal, celebrity, confusion, evil,
Form: Rhyme
frankly speaking
...fool me once shame on
me ~ fool me twice shame on you ~
but more I ignore ...
facts of life ~ well taught
lives well ~ so-so not so well ~
not at all ... jail cell
Spring to life ... summe...
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Categories:
jail cell, character, fate, integrity, judgement,
Form: Senryu
Evileye
...spiritual
conversations
screaming
the jail cell
where the wickedness festers
like worms on a plate
of sacred...
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Categories:
jail cell, sin,
Form: Free verse
A Silent Scream
...Worst cry ever heard, a scream from the depths of a soul
It’s a silent scream that can only be felt
By another heart that cares and refuses to scold
Never condemns but offers God’s grace. love, an...
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Categories:
jail cell, christian, deep, forgiveness, grave,
Form: Rhyme
Daylight savings time more'n minute effect on me
...Daylight savings time more'n minute effect on me
In 2024, daylight savings time will begin at two o'clock ante meridiem on Sunday, March tenth. That will mean losing an hour of precious sleep and ...
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Categories:
jail cell, adventure, age, appreciation, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Pills Jailed You
...You used to be a gentle lover
Memories of that now just hover
Over a cold dark jail cell
You created from the hell
Pills you took broke your spirit
It so hard to try and clear it
Once you start...
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Categories:
jail cell, abuse, life, strength, trust,
Form: Rhyme
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