Isolated in Crowded Places
...If life is a party--
I stay halfway in the doorway
half-hoping nobody notices me
half-wishing somebody does
The question, is it really having fun
when one has to force it so much?
If I woul...
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Categories:
loudness, celebration, identity, journey, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
I am a loud and angry black woman, So what?
...They make the stereotype of the loud and angry black woman seem bad
But why has nobody questioned who made us like that
The language they use to belittle us
Our mouths hand stitched with silence
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Categories:
loudness, corruption, discrimination, political, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Dirge of the Last Lap
...I
The loud, cruel laughter of dirge
besieges us so greatly in the face of
wanton humiliation.
It comes mightily, crashing our aged
city walls, unearthing the foundations of
churches,
tolling...
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Categories:
loudness, dark, death, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Disco Music-USPS Stamp
...Disco Music
Strobe light looks like moon-sun.
Halo lights of red, blue, yellow, green.
He wears classic Saturday Night Fever white.
She has a white flower in her hair,
head and...
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Categories:
loudness, america, music,
Form: Ekphrasis
loud jet
...if any jet ever broke the sound barrier
it must have been this jet
her loudness assaulted our silence
awakening sleeping elves and gnomes...
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Categories:
loudness, 12th grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Free verse
if you wondered
...If you wondered if my feelings are real
You need to hear my heart pounding beat
Racing like a speeding fleet
Straight to the amplifier of my heart
The loudness and throbbing ring
Completes my wa...
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Categories:
loudness, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
annoyed while waiting part two
...I did not think their music could become one iota more annoying
I was wrong
Maybe it’s the loudness; my ears are cringing
My sensitivity is crying
Why oh why do people use pounding music in a pub...
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Categories:
loudness, music,
Form: Free verse
Wait
...I love him
In way hard to describe
I love him without knowing him
His eyes are unknown to me
So is his smile
But the love is still there
I see him in others
His kindness
His shyness
His l...
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Categories:
loudness, 10th grade, beautiful, care,
Form: Free verse
OPEN AND CLOSED HEART-BEATS--
...As my soul heart has a door that is closed;
Noise speaks loudness of per encapsulates;
My vessel contrite I am breathing bruise;
Broke heart open door that I may embrace;
Tears drops down my chin...
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Categories:
loudness, allusion, analogy, anxiety, confusion,
Form: Dizain
Your silence caught me out of guard
...,,whose book is it?
Hmm, what's with asking?"
Another day were reality slaps right into my face.
And leaves a deep, regeretting remark.
Your smile doesn't face me,
it faces the book.
It's no...
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Categories:
loudness, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
L G
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Loyal lonesome lady listens lovely liturgical lyrics leaving loudness for God’s glorified greatness....
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Categories:
loudness, nature,
Form: Alliteration
Why is she so Annoying
...Don’t sing so loudly! Jimmy told his little sister.
Don’t tell me what to do! She said, sassing him a bit.
She always wanted attention, it was what she did.
Her voice was loud and proud, higher th...
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Categories:
loudness, brother, sister,
Form: Prose Poetry
Sigh Bereft of Tune
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Written: January 20, 2024
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Weary of heartfelt kindness,
on rugged slopes,
Charming and brilliant,
will fall back into darkness.
Yet...
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Categories:
loudness, angst, death, earth, fear,
Form: Free verse
Outro
...Outro
It’s only noise when
evolving’s not desired.
Static sounds akin
to burning uninspired.
As resentment steams
no one dreams
of movements that might have been.
Look again, the audio’s...
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Categories:
loudness, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Fading
...Blind folded or not I preferer my eyes
closed so that I could keep the glimpse of
happiness I once had
I'd sleep early to catch up with the time in
my dreams living, it is way better than
realit...
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Categories:
loudness, break up,
Form: Free verse
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