Long Safety pin Poems

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       Xenophobia

Heed the warning
This isn't for the faint of heart
Verbalizing my deepest yearnings 
They're bound to be a bit tart...

Because where I'm from is called the Bible Belt
Where folks...

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My world is slowly falling apart
I know that there’s only one person
Who’s caused this change to happen

You’ll start sarcastically joking 
With me on the phone
I’ll read your messages
And though they feel
Like a stabbing pain entering...

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Please let me out, I will not do it again, please, please, I am scared, I am scared, please, sorry, sorry, sorry, there are demons, rats, cockroaches, ghosts, I will not do it again, I...

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I have many fond memories growin' up on the farm as a boy.
Such simple pleasures in times more sublime brought me great joy!
I knowed it was summer when in June Dad bought me a straw...

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A snowman knocking on my window pane,
                       his breath puffing white in the...

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Oh ,my dear beloved five -room box,                            ...

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Kajal* in her lids, circling her plastic eyes,
Doll eyes that seem unreal.
Single rose perched atop her bun.
The red matching her blouse and her lips.
Her beady purse dangling by,
Shimmering in the neon light.
The whore from Faridabad...

Men...

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Vast hollow hall, ambient glow entering slow on tiptoe
calls out “Hello! is anyone here?” 
Door hinge swing--by sight unseen
peripheral movement from the rear--none appear

One soft nudge connects, then more come next
and next, and next
Voice excited,...

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Bare feet step onto the cold black and white mosaic tiles.
A few tiles are missing, revealing beige glue embedded with purple lint.
An inconveniently small black knob, striped with old toothpaste
is twisted 
to illuminate the reluctant...

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A Fishing I Will Go


Today I decided to go fishing,
So went to get my pole.
I dreamt of catching the big one,
But a perch, a more likely goal.

The rod I had was broken,
In not one place...

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Sometimes people ask me... What's in your purse...
So I tell them the best that I can...
Lipstick, chapstick, matchstick
What’s in your purse?
Billfold, change purse, money counter, and clip?
Aspirin, Tylenol, Tums, coupons and stamps…
Tissue, pressure bandage, Mom...

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I was a mere lad of ten living on a prairie farm in Hoosier land,
Roaming the fields in my old straw hat, barefoot, carefree and tanned.
My faithful dog, Spooks, was always with me chasing rabbits,
(And...

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Getting ready to go to the big school
Was such a worrying thing
I heard grim tales of bullies
The teachers and the cane
And when I saw the savages
Get of the bus and fight
The worry almost drove me...

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Mercy!   How playtime has evolved since I was a Hoosier lad!
In the olden days you made-do with what little you had.
Our cell phone was a string stretched 'twixt two old soup cans.
That way...

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Fair legs aspire with striking delight.
Spellbound and geared up to run to die.
Firm sturdy steps leap to climb the treadmill.
Eyes fixed and two hands pull the safety pin.

Five minutes in, the sweaty minds unwind;
Each second...

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Simple were the things that brought me so much joy,
During the fleeting summers when a Hoosier country boy!
As free as a soaring eagle in the vast wild blue yonder,
As o'er the meadows and through the...

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Punk !

Back then we knew what it was
T.V. screens were not our choice
But we sold ourselves
To a fashion
Said it was
Individualism
Just more colourful than the last one

First came the music
And then the love
But Punks were all...

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I’ll Be Fine (at least for tonight)



Cover my heart in rapid vines,
Safety pin it to my skin, and blot down the lines
The thorns don’t have edge like the needles and pins
I’ll be fine, at least...

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Cover my heart in rapid vines,
Safety pin it to my skin, and blot down the lines
The thorns don’t have edge like the needles and pins
I’ll be fine, at least for tonight


Shield out deceit, re-occurring lies
The...

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Safety in pins

Her mother bestows her with a pillow
Blooming roses in azure and red
embellished with silken threads
Edged with a 
A crystalline river
Making Anuket shiver
 
"Just stick a pin in it
whenever you worry!"
she says casually.
 
A...

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Safety in pins

Her mother bestows her with a pillow
Blooming roses in azure and red
embellished with silken threads
Edged with a 
A crystalline river
Making Anuket shiver
 
"Just stick a pin in it
whenever you worry!"
she says casually.
 
A...

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Attended an Arkansas small-town celebration 
a few years ago somewhere on the map,
where two-lane roads were in need of repair,
driving for hours and eating dust caused despair.

We met our friends at a specific destination,
so glad...

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She fastens the safety pin 
on her baggy sweater
cold aged hands
turn the wheelchair towards
the broken down tenement
which had been her home
for the past fifteen years

In her pocket is the pink
crumpled eviction notice
that some unfeeling
developer with...

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You closed my mouth with a safety pin,
And I spoke to you in the language of the dew drops,
A tale of treachery saw my act as a sin,
Yet, I nurtured an undefiled love for you...

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Four walls closed in fear
  and a window with a view,
is that me in here
  without you?

Outside a spring flower scene
  with daffodil bloom and birds that sing
and I inside alone quietly...

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