I Sleep Inside Your Head
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[Verse I]
Thou knowest not the breadth of me,
Though I have dwelt where shadows creep.
Each night I rise without a sound,
To haunt the ground where thou dost sleep.
[Verse II]
Thine eyes, o...
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Categories:
metallica, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Heaven Is Too Hot And Hell is Too cold
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Burned my wings on a neon sun,
Too bright to love, too fierce to run.
Angels talk like kings of war,
Locked in gold behind white doors.
I wore the light but it felt like chains,
Swee...
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Categories:
metallica, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
A Place Not Meant To Be: Part II
...A Place Not Meant To Be
PART: II (699 of 1487 words)
#9: Days of Paper Roses
Do the numbers--dogs don't count--just survives!
Then everything, be as close enough, still,...
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Categories:
metallica, analogy,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
A Place Not Meant To Be: 13
...#13: Close One, & Cigars
To the accords of The Book of Life ... cheers,
loose ends of the created stoic string
crisscross a heedless sea of empty tears.
In the facade of guilt, all ...
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Categories:
metallica, change, forgiveness, friendship, hope,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Isis staind 27 plus years
...Isis staind 27+ years...
of scorpion stinging poison us marriage,
whereby the missus and I,
nevertheless experienced genesis as
mama and papa respectively.
(jest kibitizing)
thus explain...
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Categories:
metallica, adventure, angst, anniversary, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Natural Soporific Narcotic
...Natural soporific narcotic
Recurrent suicidal thoughts
vaingloriously wend along winding road
within windmills of my mind
(o'er a death cab for cutie weeknd)
yakking, yanking, and yawking zea...
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Categories:
metallica, addiction, adventure, age, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Inevitable Death Defines Life
...Inevitable death defines afterlife
I mull mortality
thru lens crafted occipital orbs
regarding a better future
experience sing a space oddity –
whar incessant yaks
exuding a big hurt
emana...
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Categories:
metallica, absence, allah, angel, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Isis Staind 26 Plus Years of Marriage
...Isis staind 26+ years of marriage
Yes, believe me you,
I (also considered the best karaoke singer
for the go-go's)
putting Shabrina Leonita to shame
back in two thousand and twenty one
once...
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Categories:
metallica, adventure, age, america, anniversary,
Form: Rhyme
The Missus Served Me High Test Coffee
...The missus served me high test coffee...
Ah... tis nothing more heavenly
(to one borne again devout atheist)
then a spring like January 18th, 2023
here at Highland Manor apartments
picturesqu...
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Categories:
metallica, angel, appreciation, atheist, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Devils Gauntlet
...Darkness was descending in a crawled dread,
entering evening’s creepy gloom by that fence
vile and sharp as evil silhouettes of greed’s luv..
In the n...
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Categories:
metallica, america,
Form: Acrostic
Iron
...Sunday did not pan out,
an iron faith faltered.
It was a wane wobble.
it was cellular rust,
it was not enough iron.
Iron pills rattle in me like BB pellets,
my stools are obsidian artifacts.
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Categories:
metallica, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Covid 19 the Day After Or There About
...I wrote two terrible poems last night.
Will this one be another?
I am looking at the clock.
It is time to leave and get the oil changed.
I read the sign as I pull in.
No Shirt, No Shoes, No Mask...
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Categories:
metallica, allegory, anxiety, encouraging, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Neurological Tinder Box Doth Hotly Kindle
...(okay, yukon axe me whatsapp pinning,
though beep pre spired, cuz mess sigh key
threads experience didst rub burr raw
as if spun as a micro spindle.)
Woolworth (Penneys on
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Categories:
metallica, crazy, dad, fear, howl,
Form: Bio
1984
...What a year – Tim was just a little boy of 25 – naïve and
Lost in ‘innocence’ a critical time bomb waiting to happen
Blue-eyed he listened to Nena’s 99 Red Balloons flying high
While Band Ai...
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Categories:
metallica, conflict,
Form: Free verse
A Burst of Blarney
...yes, this daft punk pink animal from farm ville will newt axe
any thank u mooch positive word does not rick choir whet backs
now i hold out virtual fig leaf tub buffer
end share fiber filled m...
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Categories:
metallica, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Light Verse
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