Falling in Love with Me
...Ghosting me for six weeks is powerful as it shows that you do not care
You wanted to give me space as you knew of my life
My mind can only handle so much as the heart is starting to feel bare
If y...
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Categories:
manship, anxiety,
Form: Blank verse
The Conceived Illusions
...Most confining and to the decencies,
Feebled feelings and enslaved alternates,
Oddly detached, from them degradations,
Of whimpered whines and conceived illusions.
The reliance on the diminish...
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Categories:
manship, anger, anxiety, betrayal, confidence,
Form: Rhyme
Extinguisher
...When I was 19 years old
I collapsed on my twin size collegiate bed
With my head in my hands
And I sobbed
Because for the first time in my shallow existence
My carefully curated victim complex w...
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Categories:
manship, anger, dark, identity, slam,
Form: Free verse
Dirty Laundry
...flapping on the line
tidbits hung out to air-dry
wash day tomorrow
for "friends" and fam'ly
this one-up-put-down-manship
a game that we play
social networking
broad-edged music of the wi...
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Categories:
manship, 11th grade, games, grandmother,
Form: Senryu
Growing Health Her Dipolar Self
...Sherri Mitchell invites us all
to gather more cooperatively in our search to avoid
once again in this Fifth Extinction MultiGeneration,
the entitled
privileged
win/lose colonizing
leftbrain dom...
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Categories:
manship, creation, health, heart, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Fajitas For Rosy
...Fajitas For Rosy
Stare stall and groan,
groom
and rake morning sand
pocket book door key
Samarkind club Tokay[OK]
fingernail rail
onto slime beach
in AM. after hip-dip[ and drin...
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Categories:
manship, allegory
Form: Haiku