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LA SewersWhen I was a child in Los Angeles, you could size up groups approaching by watching their movements.
I remember this gang of older kids approaching me, watching them carefully while looking down to see if...
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Categories:
down the drain, abuse, child, child abuse, childhood, children, culture,
Form:
Narrative
Fading Away the Mark of MiseryI must admit
You left me broken…
I am shattered shards,
Spread out on your hands…
Your sweaty palms of uncertainty at hand
But, we will land in a land of I-understand…
Make a stand and things won’t get out of...
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Categories:
down the drain, angst, emotions, endurance, hope, strength, sympathy, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Double Cross My HeartSelena...Sarah the Sorceress
Russell...the Ghost of Never-land
This year has not been mine
Death laughs at me as he steals my grandfather from me
while I plead emptily for him to take me instead
yet I fail to realize I'm...
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Categories:
down the drain, blue, deep, depression, how i feel, lonely,
Form:
Bio
Santa We've Been Outta TouchSanta Claus, we’ve been out of touch
and I don’t ask for very much
but I have needs, and I’m in Dutch
I want to see the light of day
oh, and can you give me a...
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Categories:
down the drain, crazy, dark,
Form:
Rhyme
Mommy WhyMolested the first fifteen years of my life. My mother remained silent the whole time. As the molesting continued all those years. Forced to live a pretend life all my childhood. Beaten and punished every...
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Categories:
down the drain, mother daughter, mother, child, house, school, god,
Form:
Epic
Odder Than Odd ItselfWhere did you go?
I want you to know
That I love you so,
But I got to get up and roam
Due to being far from home
Oh, I hear them...and feel them...
I hear the echoes of...
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Categories:
down the drain, angst, anxiety, beauty, crazy, depression, desire, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Children ViPoems about Children VI
Playmates
by Michael R. Burch
WHEN you were my playmate and I was yours,
we spent endless hours with simple toys,
and the sorrows and cares of our indentured days
were uncomprehended . . . far, far...
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Categories:
down the drain, child, childhood, children, love, school, teen, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
ThingsThings
I’m scared of the dark
I’m scared of all the things I’ve said to you
I’m like a scared lark,
Running into you and things of that nature…am I full of rue?
I feel like I’ve said too much
I...
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Categories:
down the drain, emotions, feelings, words,
Form:
Lyric
I May Be MistakenI May Be Mistaken
By Franklin Price
9/19/2018
I may be mistaken but, in watching all the raves,
I believe our founding fathers are rolling over in their graves.
We're not acting patriotic when the parties have their say.
They're...
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Categories:
down the drain, america, political,
Form:
Couplet
Maintain Diligence***Part 2 -last part- of the series, Not Focused (written entirely by J.W. Earnings)***
Hear me out in the dark woods of my bewildered mind and save me from evil deeds
I am intrigued by Your spiritually...
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Categories:
down the drain, faith, feelings, grief, integrity, longing, sorrow, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
State of ChaosI pray for my friend right now and hope he can find his way and his WHY
STATE OF CHAOS
Your home has a consciousness, it has a mind of its own
You must clear up the clutter,...
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Categories:
down the drain, appreciation, beautiful, change, courage, devotion, dream, encouraging,
Form:
Free verse
Shame Just CameBig boys get brainwashed by television
It's my mission to fulfill you with vision
America is going under these days.
All the countries around us aren't getting their ways.
Who's to blame?
Shame just came...
Out of nowhere for...
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Categories:
down the drain, anger, angst, anxiety, deep, depression, desire, hope,
Form:
Free verse
BelovedMy name, David, means beloved in Hebrew - the daytime is shining amongst my windowpane as I write this poem, not in vain, but with pain that soon goes down the drain...my mind is on...
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Categories:
down the drain, angst, dedication, encouraging,
Form:
Free verse
Tom and Terry - At Milton Creek[My recent poem ‘The Dimly Lit House’ received a
Comment from Charles Messina that it could be a Tom and
Jerry episode… what can I say? Something went ‘Ping!’]
...
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Categories:
down the drain, cat, western,
Form:
Rhyme
All AboardWho suggests a trip back...rides to this bit of nostalgia in the middle years of the Great Depression aboard a Chicago elevated train, "the El." We hurdle head-long above asphalt blanketed streets that are determined...
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Categories:
down the drain, city, imagery, perspective,
Form:
Prose
Black Iraqi WomanBlack Iraqi Woman
Written by Faleeha Hassan
Translated from the Arabic by William Hutchins
Shortly before my father died, he whispered to me longingly: “Daughter, treasure this, because it authenticates your heritage to our kinsfolk!” When I accepted...
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Categories:
down the drain, me,
Form:
I do not know?
The Lone BoneFree-falling in the fire,
In the fire of desire
Of your coal soul
As darkness takes its toll
Walking into the shadows of the unknown
I am lost and found like an odd lone bone
I groan in shame,
I...
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Categories:
down the drain, angst, dark, emotions, endurance,
Form:
Free verse
The Ever Shifting Patern of LifeThe Ever Shifting Pattern of Life by
Terence David Cooper. June is wife's
name and they are Basildon, Essex,
England.
As children we learn lessons clear
Broadly defined lines we hold so dear
Constants to which we can easily...
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Categories:
down the drain, allegory, analogy, encouraging,
Form:
Couplet
GriefIf I could drink my life away,
I would...
If I could smoke my life away,
I should...
I shouldn’t think this way
No, not today...
There’s no point in living this lie, this lie
Or lying in front of your face...
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Categories:
down the drain, deep, emotions, encouraging, endurance,
Form:
Rhyme
Bite the Bullet -Edited Version-I dreamt of embracing the abyss
Wake me up to an open door
Illuminate me with positivity
I slept in grief for so long for doing wrong
Exterminate my negativity
Make me feel whole once more
Lead me to your eternal...
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Categories:
down the drain, angst, deep, emotions, encouraging, endurance, hope, muse,
Form:
Lyric
British Blues Explosion By Joe BonamassaBritish Blues Explosion Live, a five-show tribute to Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page, records 14 songs.
The 2016 recording took place at Greenwich Music Time at the Old Royal Naval College in London.
Joe Bonamassa,...
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Categories:
down the drain, analogy, appreciation, celebrity, music,
Form:
Bio
The Murder of WillowA gentle breeze fluttered the curtain I hid behind, as I strained to hear above the pounding of the heart that was trying to break out of my chest, and above the roaring behind the...
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Categories:
down the drain, death, life, nature,
Form:
Narrative
Mistakenly ImprisonedDestiny screams its name beyond the cage of injustice where justice knows no law.
Voiceless i become down the drain where i am stripped naked of all the possible peace.
The penetrating pain of misfortune left me...
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Categories:
down the drain, confusion, depression, fate, history, identity, prison, sympathy,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
What I Am - Homeless and BlindWhat have I done?
My anger leads to the divorce…
I kept relying on this force,
Tugging me constantly
Where will my dreams lead me?
And I was getting off course of course
I slept in, pondering about you and...
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Categories:
down the drain, absence, betrayal, deep, depression, dream, emotions, encouraging,
Form:
Verse
Dramedy of ErrorsWalking from the horrid old motel, and out into the smaze,
a suffocating day, worsened now, by a mocktail shade of smog
in mockumentary proportions, she flounders in a fog.
Too dazed by crazy sitcoms that seem...
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Categories:
down the drain, anger, heartbroken, lost love, people, relationship,
Form:
Prose