I almost tossed it out
...
The day was long, her eyelashes longer
batting them, only drove my lust stronger
I was light on my feet, she’d light fingers
I traversed hot coals, yet coldness lingers
How cruel this nigh...
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Categories:
laddered, betrayal, fun, lust,
Form: Rhyme
Raving, Raving; the Tides Receeding
...Here I am,
In the first fling of youth-
In what sterile field did I find this anti-fecund missive?
This stretching of a hand, drenched in rubbery black; accompanied by a smell; a sewing, c...
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Categories:
laddered, allusion, angst, anxiety, i
Form: Free verse
Are You Guilty
...Is there anyone who can explain to me
why someone in the Soup community
would gripe about those on the lists,
ranting on with their pen in clenched fist?
How important can the lists pos...
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Categories:
laddered, angst, happiness, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Eighth Grade English
...Back in Eighth Graded Class
of StraightWhiteMale English privilege
I learned all healthy narratives
must have at least one
of three tension intentions
Unlike sacred mythic prayer and fable
m...
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Categories:
laddered, culture, earth day, grandmother,
Form: Political Verse
If We Agree In Love
..."If we agree in love,
then there is no disagreement that can do us any injury,
but if we do not,
no agreement can do us any good."
Hosea Ballou
If we,
in good faith communion,
agree
that l...
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Categories:
laddered, culture, health, light, love,
Form: Political Verse
Reel
...Choose moment foiled
Over moment gone or none.
Penance paid all bard alas anon.
Bars of boxcars rolling down
Canals of clotted wax;
These are the facts
As I know them to be;
Sum total me.
...
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Categories:
laddered, america,
Form: Rhyme
Scented Leaves
...Scented Leaves
Flowery fragrance sorts divisive airflow and cooperates amidst plethoric aubergines that bathe breathlessly, brushing raised exemplars of strewn unfurled chartreu...
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Categories:
laddered, autumn, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Narrative
I Wanted To Be
...I wanted to be a ballerina with a dump truck.
A pink tutu with frothy petticoats and a red and white dump truck.
If I could not have that,
I wanted to be a newspaper reporter with a loud typewri...
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Categories:
laddered, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Music In the Rain
...I walked by the old cafe on Rue De Sienne and heard an angel playing harp
a cherub an ethereal mome bewitching me and playing softly with my heart
she wore a halo made of gold, a soul that ladder...
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Categories:
laddered, angel, mystery,
Form: Quatrain
Collaboration Contest
...Life On The Inside
As the trees whisper words of wisdom,
The wolf lies below and howls,
To the Raven high in branches above,
Their spirits entwined beyond the visible
raven caws fro...
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Categories:
laddered, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Collaboration Contest
...Life On The Inside
As the trees whisper words of wisdom,
The wolf lies below and howls,
To the Raven high in branches above,
Their spirits entwined beyond the visible
raven caws fro...
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Categories:
laddered, animal, nature, raven, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Its a Firefighters Wonderland
...A touching version of "Winter Wonderland" by Felix Bernard & Richard B. Smith.
Fire bells ring, We’re awake and listening
Rush to the trucks
All washed and glistening
We start out the bay
Tel...
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Categories:
laddered, christmas, holiday, humorous, music,
Form: Rhyme
A Paradox Conundrum
...The sands of the tumultuous rain drops,
Graced my eyes to the brim with tears,
Splotched memories behind my eye lids,
Like a finger print you stuck on my mind,
I found love in the poison even...
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Categories:
laddered, absence, dedication, heart, heartbreak,
Form: Ballad
Nature Kills For Its' Survival Only
...bullying, death, freedom, games, men, war nature,
Nature Kills for Survival Only! ©
Great animal and man species hunt to kill
They are mighty 'Kingpins' in want for more gamely bites
Mastered...
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Categories:
laddered, bullying, death, freedom, games,
Form: Verse
The News At Ten
...In London
A young woman
walks the streets
Laddered tights
Swollen feet.
Sells her body
So her kids can eat.
Is She the one to Blame?
In Gambia
A man so poor
Addicts his children
To Heroine
To keep...
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Categories:
laddered, life, child, allah, child,
Form: I do not know?
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