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Harriet Harris, Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost
Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost...

~ May fourth, 2005
wedded bliss nearly fifty years
half a century almost
me not most favorite grown offspring,
she (when alive) did boast,
about youngest sister and her family,
unlike me – severely...

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Categories: overstayed, absence, abuse, anger, appreciation, bereavement, cry, dance,
Form: Free verse



I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather
I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather

I haint no spring chicken,
("Buk buk buk buk ba-gawk!")
but in Summer re: 
long in tooth sexagenarian 
nostalgic for the following imagery 
evoked yesterday with very little effort
(aside...

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Categories: overstayed, age, allegory, appreciation, celebration, confusion, halloween, natural
Form: Free verse
Harriet Harris nee Kuritsky
Harriet Harris née Kuritsky...

Despite being a nineteen year old bride
she wed Boyce Brandon Harris
half a decade her senior,
(where I ranked less than a twinkle in their eyes)
during the month of June 1955, 
not quite half...

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Categories: overstayed, america, anniversary, celebration, death, emotions, funeral, in
Form: Rhyme
Inxs of Poison From Iron Maiden Scorpion Mamma and Ac Dc Charged Aries Papa
Inxs of poison from iron maiden scorpion mamma and ac/dc charged aries papa

Although gainfully unemployed 
(fate now finds me receiving 
social security disability – 
for approximately 
the last baker's dozen years -
the yeast divine intercession...

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Categories: overstayed, 12th grade, abuse, anger, anxiety, atheist, bullying,
Form: Free verse
Trumpeting future mercurial villain of history
Trumpeting future mercurial villain of history

Predicated on his paying obese sense
to Ronald McDonald patron saint
buzzfeeding his pie hole
courtesy "two Big Macs, Fillet-O-Fish
and a chocolate malted,"
he hungrily nabbed the ?Tuesday,
November 5, 2024? election
ofttimes series of unfortunate...

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Categories: overstayed, abuse, age, america, angst, bible, conflict, humanity,
Form: Free verse



Harriet Harris Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost May 4th, 2004
Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 4th, 2004

Often these days
(closing in on the eighth
anniversary of eighth orbit
around mister sun),
the following genuine sentiment
Matthew Scott Harris
doth wish to share 
how one and only...

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Categories: overstayed, absence, anger, atheist, courage, death, fate, may,
Form: Free verse
November 13th 2021 Happy Eighty Sixth Birthday
November 13th, 2021 - Happy eighty sixth birthday
to my long deceased mom...
Harriet Harris née Kuritsky

My mother succumbed to a terminal illness
two score minus three orbitz passed away
no matter she fought tooth and nail
to keep ovarian/uterine...

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Categories: overstayed, absence, age, anniversary, bereavement, cancer, creation, death,
Form: Rhyme
Pariah heap - savagely subjecting myself to humiliation
Pariah heap - savagely subjecting myself to humiliation

Outward slovenly appearance bespeaks volumes
wordsworth their weight in gold
(exhumed from the pith
of these lovely bones -
beclothed with mottled skin)
presages afterlife of hellish horror
(think Dante's inferno),
nevertheless a respite from...

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Categories: overstayed, 12th grade, absence, age, anger, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Mother Dearest Harriet Harris, Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost May 4th 2004
Mother dearest Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 4th, 2004

Often these days
(early May 2021)
the following genuine sentiment
Matthew Scott Harris
doth wish to share one son,
cuz seventeen years after mother succumbed
courtesy of terminal...

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Categories: overstayed, absence, anniversary, bereavement, cancer, death, eulogy, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Harriet Harris Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost May 4th 2004
Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 4th, 2004

Often these days
the following genuine sentiment
Matthew Scott Harris
doth wish to share one son,
cuz fifteen years after mother succumbed
courtesy of terminal illness

I still reckon how...

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Categories: overstayed, 12th grade, absence, loss, may, mother, son,
Form: Elegy
Stimulus Checkup Visited Mine Local Gastrointestinal Economy
Stimulus check(up), visited mine local gastro-intestinal economy

Around high noon
today March 19th, 2021
fecal impaction I did plaintively croon
until effect courtesy amitiza, which
prescription medication
(in short a laxative)
served as amazing grace saving boon.

Once activated - impossible mission
to suppress...

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Categories: overstayed, abuse, betrayal, conflict, dark, depression, discrimination, father,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Forgotten Entity
I'm breathing like the sun in black horizons,
but internal embers burn in invisible ignorance.

Tired from being constantly raped by life,
I've become ashamed of veiled emotions,
confused between him and her -
am I an oxymoron of feminine masculinity?

There is...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overstayed, angst, dark, death,
Form: Free verse
Beneficence Courtesy Nonagenarian Widower Papa
Vitriolic scathing psychological malevolent jujitsu
cruelly, fiendishly, incriminating
lambasting opprobrium rue
teenly dished out to yours truly

mechanically engineered hatred to stew
when passive aggression fostered corked,
where self destruction grew
tens of decades ago, when this then
much younger match chew

Scott doubted,...

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Categories: overstayed, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Nafld
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) -

Our beloved youngest daughter Shana Aubrey
(endearingly called “Shayne Punim”)
still feels under the weather,
with symptoms centered around gastrointestinal tract,
though she lives in Bend, Oregon
(experienced her pseudo autonomy
before she completed eighteen Earth...

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Categories: overstayed, anxiety, daughter, father, health, my child, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Living On Someday
If raindrops rise in leu of fall
would you seek the meaning overall?
Would spectacles endow with a clarity of fog
would you follow tangled lines of a rearward call?

Inevitable advance to stepping backwards
and dreams which mock to...

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Categories: overstayed, confusion, desire, dream, hope, love, prayer, rain,
Form: Rhyme
Birthday Gifts
I don’t think I shall quite forget the name Camilla Martin.
She’s the teacher of me grandson at the local kindergarten.
No question she’s a lovely lady; dedicated through and through,
but the lesson that she learnt this...

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Categories: overstayed, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Biography
PROLOGUE
Biographies are for men who have a need to cry
To spell out what we remember is to subtract all
We forget, for knowing then nothing knew, a lie
Conjured by history, there's no a priori here at...

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Categories: overstayed, history, introspection, philosophy, me, me, time,
Form: Free verse
I Awkwardly, Ineptly, and Submissively Fumbled Thru Life
I awkwardly, ineptly, and submissively fumbled thru life...,
whereat purposefulness rarely gained traction

Fatherhood (half my life time ago)
bolstered reasonable rhyme
manifesting itself before
these myopic bespectacled eyes.

Infancy, babyhood, and Childhood
evidenced, noticed, and witnessed
adequate basic provisions,
and no shortage of...

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Categories: overstayed, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th grade, 7th
Form: Free verse
Stolen Heart
I am falling
I have fallen for you
Hear me calling

Every night and day
I try to forget about you
But unknowingly
I day dream
There you are
In front of me 
Confessing your love for me
You call my name
And I remain...

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Categories: overstayed, best friend, black love, boyfriend,
Form: Blank verse
A Daughter's Tribute
Upon the day when I was new
You held me at your breast,
And from that day love did accrue
For both I do attest.

You brought me to a place unknown
With slates of painted wood,
Where cheerful circus themes...

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Categories: overstayed, daughter, devotion, love, mother, me, graduation, day,
Form: Rhyme
Children of Xenophobia
Children of Xenophobia

Children eating bullets and firecrackers 
Beggars of smile and laughter 
Silent corpses sleeping away fertile dreams 
Povo* chanting new nude wretched slogans 
Overstayed exiles eating beetroot and African potato 
Abortions and condoms batteries...

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Categories: overstayed, abuse, addiction, africa, allegory, anger, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
After the War
After the War
There was nothing remotely familiar, 
I could see no one and everyone all at once. 
These people were lost, they were all dead. 

Salem grew dark-blushing from a freshly spent temptation.

A seduction created...

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Categories: overstayed, allusion, conflict, destiny, discrimination, surreal, violence, war,
Form: Prose Poetry
Wimpole Street, Part 6 of 7
(In 1964, Paul McCartney was staying at 
57, Wimpole Street, the home of Jane Asher.  
McCartney was allowed to use the basement 
for writing (Margaret Asher, mother of Jane,
was a professor of music, and...

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Categories: overstayed, london,
Form: Rhyme
Metamorphoses Into Poignant Womanhood
Immeasurable maturation profoundly
transformed thy Shana Punim
within whose corporeal femininity
gravitas resonates and doth hum
whose unbelievable transition, now
follows the beat of her own drum

approximately four years ago,
thee second and youngest born
daughter didst squawk and crow
aforementioned fledging eagerly,
instinctively,...

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Categories: overstayed, angel, appreciation, daughter, devotion, goodbye, love, princess,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Unrequited
Unrequited

The things i think about,
never settle below
they float instead
and fester inside
as I pluck your name in the air
a sacred memory folds over
foaming layers, floating vapors
Creating a chill and then a stupor
the last draw of my...

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© Rowe Weiss  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overstayed, angst, change, conflict, desire, heartbreak, relationship, sad
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things