Melatonin Man Woman-My SpokenWord
I am of the brown persuasion
I am golden
Tan I am
a man a woman
I am King
I am queen
I am the color of the sun
I am energy fortunate am
I whom
I am needed
I am not of the land
I am from the sky
I Trans Am my
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Categories:
melatonin, allusion, america, analogy, black
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Purple Melatonin
My friend had said
Oh! Father
What color
My eyes my skin's shades
Of many MELATONIN (what)
I have a white mother
And yet my father's
black
From what am I
What race am I
They say they hate you for the color of your skin and that you're not like them
Nationality I be if my
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Categories:
melatonin, abuse, analogy, character, creation,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Melatonin
Any minute now,
It’ll be kicking in.
Counting endless sheep,
It’ll soon end.
My resistant brain,
mellowed.
It’s slow release,
puts it at ease.
At peace,
finally,
I can sleep.
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Categories:
melatonin, drug, sleep,
Form: Free verse
Sleep, Please
It’s both red and crimson
Same you say? But different.
It looks smaller than anything else you’ve prescribed
but in the end
it’s all just another cocktail -
a cocktail of substances trying to keep me alive
or sane
or both.
Sane
Lack of sleep is woeful
as a life of
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Categories:
melatonin, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Melatonin
Melatonin
Haiku
By: Tom Wright
Melatonin sleep
is conducive to bad dreams
more often than not
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Categories:
melatonin, sleep,
Form: Haiku
Melatonin
Floating through the air
Into your loving arms
Caressing your body with a fervor
A sickness, an endeavor
Rubbing cheek to cheek
Trying hard not to wake
From this melatonin dream
Holding my breath
Til the moon descends into the ocean
Painting a portrait
Of the two of us standing
At a fork in the road
Waiting for the train
To take us to our
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Categories:
melatonin, allegory, love,
Form: Free verse
Melatonin
an absence of trust found
simultaneous with a brand spankin’ new hatred in the air
wrapped up in a sinister sense of pain
brought on by old heartache
led to the last drop of life
by a marching legion of bad memories
LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT
(with all the mean motion in the world &
all the time
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Categories:
melatonin, life, world, time,
Form: Free verse