My long lost friend
...I have a friend named Donald who just came home. For four long years it's been a reincarnation of Rome.
My friend has ideas for a country in need. Donald is the man for the job, indeed.
I live amon...
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Categories:
keep your chin up, political,
Form: Free verse
Cotton-Mouth
...My tongue holds cotton to my teeth
Holds the dry in my throat
I cannot breathe here
My voice is escaped from me
I do not speak with sound
My hands are my larynx
I hold my regards to my noise
I...
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Categories:
keep your chin up, bird, loneliness, nature, wind,
Form: Free verse
Keep your chin up
...We are all special
in many ways so don't let
someone put you down...
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Categories:
keep your chin up, inspiration,
Form: Senryu
It's Official
...It's official
It's official
Officially, it is
It's time for me to give
Give myself
Everything that's attached
It's time to patch up the patch
Heal wounds
Life is of the essence
It'...
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Categories:
keep your chin up, age,
Form: Free verse
Her Adamant Face
...Adamant Face
My mother used to say with an adamant face, "There is a place for everything and for everything a place!”
My goodness, this house is a total disgrace"
So every Tuesday at quarter pa...
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Categories:
keep your chin up, childhood, family, fun, my
Form: Rhyme
An Interview with the Color Blue
...
So Blue, what have you been doing since my last interview with you?
Well, I still hang out (or should I say “up”) with Sky. And I’m down with oceans, rivers, lakes and seas.
However, Sky so...
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Categories:
keep your chin up, blue,
Form: Narrative
Momma Said
...Land sakes alive what you been into child.
The sun is hot but the wind is mild.
My nose itches,
Someone’s coming with a hole in their britches.
Haven’t seen you in a coon’s age.
A hooting and...
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Categories:
keep your chin up, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
It's Only Christmas
...You send out a thousand Christmas cards and only got two
One you got because you accidentally address it to you
You wrap a hundred Christmas presents you personally bought
for family, friends an...
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Categories:
keep your chin up, christmas, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Suckling On Lemon Empathy Juice
...When they we're sent to live with the Foster's
Realized for once in their life
Finally had someone who love them
Read them a bedtime story before bed
And bring a cup of tea and breakfast
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Categories:
keep your chin up, slam,
Form: Free verse
Encouragement
...there are days that will test us
there are times that will be challenging
there will be situations that
we will feel overwhelmed
keep your chin up
smile like there's no tomorrow
keep the shin...
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Categories:
keep your chin up, encouraging, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Letter To Your Future Self
...20XX
Dearest Kim,
You’ll be surprised. It’s me! Hope you are still
laughing. Be positive. Be light. Let God guide you
in the darkest night. Be strong as Samson,
have King David’s heart, be w...
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Categories:
keep your chin up, meaningful,
Form: Verse
The Trap
...This is the home of the heartless
Corporate concrete
Where you become captive
To the same things you thought set you free
Where solutions to society's problems
Don't correct anything
Class ...
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Categories:
keep your chin up, addiction, conflict, corruption, deep,
Form: Free verse
Full Out Good Night
...These modern stresses, these modern strains. Lockdown in Winter, it just has tighter chains.
You try to keep your chin up, try to look forward with dry eyes. So many people taken, so many lost liv...
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Categories:
keep your chin up, absence, abuse, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
The Storm
...Blistered and beaten, we’ll weather this storm.
Life forever changed, now far from the norm.
Hope is a blessing we must not forget.
Keep your chin up, we’re not done with this yet.
The upcoming...
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Categories:
keep your chin up, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Unconscious Love
...Romeo
'When truth can't help someone,we have to lie'
Until the moment our chance is denied
Mistress put Romeo's life on hold,
The volume key to his life low,
Romeo seems to be like a sheep, ...
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Categories:
keep your chin up, boy,
Form: Lyric
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