Long Concealer Poems

The school year’s ending.  ‘Spring Fling’ is tonight (Saturday) the biggest event (concert) of the year, and next week - final exams. It’s hard to believe that I’ll be a senior in about 2...

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Have you ever felt like you needed to talk to someone?
Someone whom you could open the closet to and unveil the skeletons that you have been hiding
Someone who you could connect to soul to soul
Someone...

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When the mirror of 
               life is a gossamer film,       
 veiling v i n...

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Making my way through the Dollar General hoping to get an economy pack of Thank You cards to send out to all the people who had just given me expensive gifts  

(Not really; I...

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Ur an extension of myself, a literal blister,
It’s mad sometimes how much I’ve missed ya 
You’ve walked in my footsteps for almost your whole life
Taught you how to be kinky as ever and still a...

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Look closely,  feel the harmless heat 
enveloping black-diamond 
         petals in the glistening
            garden of...

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This body
This body is a lie 
Taught that this body 
Is only pretty 
Because it is honey 
Because I didn't stay in 
The sun too long
Because I reflect my father 
And my grandfather 
Who was...

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Growing up with smiling faces
Tripping over untied laces
Laughing with a light in our 
eyes
When exactly did the innocence 
die
Staring at my reflection, I 
watch 
Judgment morphs my features, 
in shock
Mirror, mirror on the wall
Will you...

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                             Abandoned Love


Wild, natural, without care you...

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is that all I am to you …

a tear on your cheek??
a (not-very-attractive) streak in your
Clé de Peau concealer?
a haggard line from eye-to-chin
that now spells my doom …
that drips to stain the
only white Armani dress...

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The first time someone called you brave, 
It was because you crossed the street without looking. 
You didn’t do it out of bravery; 
You just didn’t think to look. 
But you liked the punch of...

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Angels of Mercy

To all those who have been deemed essential 
Dealing with a virus, with a death rate so potential 
Looking into the eyes of a gowned, masked healer
Seeing fatigue and fear, but bravely the...

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DEATH   OF   THE   SNOW   HEAPS


Like full-bodied youngsters they ruled the street
For a while - rude, unchallenged strength sweet;
Their short life  -    immaculate seeming....

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It’s happening again.
Red-hot Guerrillas breaching my porcelain surface,
Angry little bombs exploding, leaving
my land a red war zone,

And I can’t find Concealer,
who has gone A.W.O.L, deserted its place in line,
after Foundation, before Powder.
I send Hands to...

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Memories of old times haunt me. The dark, the fear, the hurt.
Even with friends to guide me, my qualities will revert.
Past taking hold of me once more, 
aching of wounds inflicted, a never-closing sore.
Intoxicated rage,...

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Somber Rebellion 

Upon somber's horrid-rebellious fleet,
Corvus and ravens are victims who plead,
Nightmare which leeches through logic and glee,
Conceals itself behind bleaks ominous screams.

Coercion of luminity for pallid deeds,
Fabricates these mirrored-fraudulent beasts,
Wandering over a picayune defeat,
Condemning...

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There was a time 
When thunder was my shelter
Lightening and rain
I adored them 
Because this was where i could sob
And noone would know 
Id scream
And it could be disguised like smile
It was like hard tide...

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In a back room in downtrodden and sleazy Manila

On the table cards money and a bottle of Tequila

Fortune lay in the hands of Jose the crooked dealer

Had piercing eyes and a nose like a broken...

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you were always there, behind my back

women

a receiver 
a concealer
a deceiver

you did what you did
while i bled among the dead
what follows must be read
this is what you said

Welcome to my world
you lost the toss
and now...

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I recall times that are now far from mind. 
Times when I was told to mind my label;
left feeling I was of some other kind.
Searching revealed that I had no table.

Self reliance learned in lonely...

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Don't see the point in make-up
I have faults it can't erase
Who cares if I'm attractive
If I always hide my face

I'll free my insecurities
And risk my reputation
To avoid suffocating
Under this foundation

The concealer is too heavy
My blemishes...

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