Long Closet(a) Poems

each of us is naked inside our clothes left as a tender rose as you suppose
an untimely gift so you get my drift in a center from the mind you got this
a tender swept deal...

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each of us is naked inside our clothes left as a tender rose as you suppose
an untimely gift so you get my drift in a center from the mind you got this
a tender swept deal...

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Treasure Chest of Memories
Cleaning out my closet a chore this is sure to be.  A day at best to dig through this stuff packed and stacked to the ceiling.  Now, where to start...

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CHILD WARRIOR 
, BORN IN A FIGHT
MAKING FRIENDS WITH THE NIGHT.
TWO PEOPLE WHO WON’T SEE WHAT THEIR DOING ISN’T RIGHT.
TURNING HER IN TO A FIGHTER
USING EVERTHING LEFT INSIDE OF HER.
A HOME A BATTLE GROUND
AND BY...

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There are many nights, when I'm all alone.
The bedroom, the pillow. a small simple room.
I lie on my side, so quiet, the night,
Should I get up again for a snowy screen light.
Should I turn once...

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Lisa was the very first love of my youth,
even her voice had the sound of a flute;
how funny she looked with those huge, black sunglasses
matching her blue bikini...honestly I had plenty of laughs!


I surely approached...

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My Daughter’s Prayer Closet (A poem by Jesus)

My daughter’s prayer closet is ever-changing
First it was her van
Then it was her basement floor
Then it became a summertime meadow at dusk
Then it became a field near a...

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She had been Mrs. Gallopi for twenty years
many times the name itself causing her tears
she knew Frank her husband was a mafia mercenary
landing many foes of his in the cemetery

She explained what had happened that...

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A taken photograph
Black and gray it's all faded out
Burned to a crisp in this house
The stairs creaked just a touch
All this sadness is just too much
A bedroom towards the left
Purple sheets on that bed
Floors are...

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Flutters…
         the butterflies, a parachute of rainbow light
             leaping from her pulse, her blond hair...

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What's hiding in my bedroom?
Dark evil spirits of the night.
Always lurking in the shadows, 
Forbidden to breach the light.

Constant whispering while I sleep,
Ever tormenting restless dreams.
Icy fingers clutching my throat,
Awakened me with fading screams.

Heart pounding...

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A C A R D B O A R D B O X
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The large iron safe
has an old-fashioned locking system,
levers need to be pulled,
dials twisted, knobs turned
back and forth.

It is a closet, a room
to enter and lock behind you.
It is taller than a bent head,
yet its sides
are...

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    A spot on my shirt-cuff 
      a stain on a bathmat
    In the back closet, a pile of stuff
    ...

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She was bored with the TV and with her book
With puzzles too the same she was never unstuck 
Needed something that would occupy her mind
When upstairs in the closet a jigsaw she did find

Over a...

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