Marks of a survivor
Each scar has a name, etched into my skin—
White lines barely visible on my pale arms.
There’s one for every heartbreak I ever got,
One for each battle I silently fought,
One for all the wrongdoings I had,
For every time my thoughts turned bad.
Each scar holds a memory, a ghost from the past,
Every cut done silently, hidden away
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Categories:
marks, dark, deep, feelings, hurt,
Form: Free verse
K The Marks of the Roman Catholic Church
The one true Church established by Father Christ is the Roman Catholic Church
It is the Church which our Divine Lord started when He picked the 12 Apostles
And made St. Peter as their head
We know that the Roman Catholic Church is the one true Church established by Father Christ
Because it alone has the mark
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Categories:
marks, christian, community, devotion, god,
Form: Free verse
Road Marks
He’s in the mountains, and the seas
He’s in the silence and in a gentle breeze
He’s in the music and in a heart who believes
He’s in the story of love amid rustling leaves
He’s in the wonder of autumn’s crisp smile
He offers His precious love to the Jew and Gentile
He’s the One I cling to when I
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Categories:
marks, appreciation, christian, devotion, easter,
Form: Rhyme
Still Life: Seventh-Grade Art Teacher Gets High Marks
I'm a woman now. I have means to be
mean and get away with it.
He died—too fast for my liking.
I’d already hired a detective,
ready to face it—
or at least harass the details of the since-me
life he must have lived.
I've never spoken about it,
the last
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Categories:
marks, absence, anger, child,
Form: Free verse
X marks the spot
Monstrously Machievellian
Demonic pedagogic
Ominously Orwellian
Demagogic logic
Fools’ Musk-ovite mules
Zuckerberg zeitgeist heist
Dickensian dystopia rules
Google last post bugle
Fossil fuels myopia drools
Bellicose Bezos blows
Bro-ligarchy mates’ malarkey
Unions demonstrate
Amazon defenestrate
Hades Gates hierarchy
In the dock
Murdoch foxy skulduggery
Poxy TikTok runs amok
Crass puns..shock thuggery
This lot don't give a jot
.
Bitter sh**ter Twitter
Greedier needier seedier
The death of mass media
X marks the spot!
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Categories:
marks, corruption, discrimination, earth, political,
Form: Rhyme
X-Marks-the-Spot
X-Marks-the-Spot is a tickling game
Which is traced upon someone’s bare back.
In childhood, we played it and often it caused
A goose-bump filled giggling attack.
My kids got the treatment when bathtime arrived
And my grandson when he was a tot,
But it’s been a while since I’ve gotten the chance
To engage in some X-Marks-the-Spot.
Yet I came upon Henry, eleven
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Categories:
marks, childhood, grandson,
Form: Rhyme
The painful memory of love
The Painful Memory of Love
The painful memory of love,
The treasures that I have kept in my heart.
Love is one of those.
Love is a beautiful yet painful feeling in the world.
It abandons those who trusted,
And devastates those who loved unconditionally.
It leaves scars that never heal,
And ashes that once were those who loved.
The two aspects of love
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Categories:
marks, 11th grade, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
marks, animal,
Form: Cinquain
My cat marks her territory
Some cats mark their territory with claw marks
Shredding your couch, putting gashes in your vinyl seats.
Other cats leave strong urine in their zone,
a warning to others to “keep out!”
My own cat uses her spray paints and paints murals
Some call it graffiti, I call it "aggressively territorial”.
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Categories:
marks, cat,
Form: Prose Poetry
Footsteps
"Show me your marks, my dear.", he asked his son,
Having not even passed his subjects one.
"Dad, I got zero in math
Following your trodden path",
The son replied hiding his feelings none.
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Categories:
marks, 3rd grade, father son,
Form: Limerick
Categories:
marks, love,
Form: Monoku
Hesitation Marks
You could've just drank whiskey like a smart man
Drown your sorrows in enough beer to drown a fish
Smoked enough cigarettes to burn your house down
Taken a walk
Pull up your mask and walk in for the day
Listen to the lost and damned wail once more
Bite your lip and try not to cry
Hide those hesitation marks from
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Categories:
marks, anger, depression, night, suicide,
Form: Free verse
MARKS
Marks, Marks, Marks
Haunting me around like a group of sharks
A 2 or 3-digit number
that my parents think will decide whether I'll become a doctor or a plumber
For me my marks are decent
But for my parents, they are horrifying and unpleasant
My marks will decide whether my house will be a flower bed
or a coffin made for
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Categories:
marks, 10th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Marks
Even a pencil eraser can't erase the marks you've left on my heart
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Categories:
marks, love hurts,
Form: Monoku
The Marks
The marks.
So deep, but not lethal.
So fresh, but barely bloody.
So painful, but feels oh so good.
The sting, so bad but so calming,
it actually makes me happy.
Just three small lines.
Not much, but enough.
Not messy, but so apparent.
The little, but horrible sting.
It's numbing.
It makes the voices quiet.
As long as there's pain,
the shouting is silent.
As long as there's
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Categories:
marks, depression, hurt, mental health,
Form: Free verse
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