Misnamed Poems - Poems about Misnamed

...The jars were meant to confuse even me — labels scrawled backward, dates falsified, contents misnamed to keep them harmless. I stacked them like decoys — rows of false feelings, the real ones......

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... Women — we are the fault lines of the world. Every shudder, every quake, every heartbreak — we hold it. We turn pain into knowing. We carry weight like it’s woven into us. We feel everythin......

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...I speak English— not because it is mine, but because it was burned into the soft clay of my childhood. They called it brilliance when I spoke the master's tongue, and shame when I whispered ......

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... Growing Old “Ain’t” For Sissies Miracle Man 1/28/2025 Advanced age took from me my aspirations, often health matters top my list of concerns. I’ve spent time recovering from ablation......

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...Nights of flying dream world, who might chase a raucous laugh, or seek indeed mirthful excitement, the sort that has embroidered twists, as is generally perceived by intention, but epic hurdle......

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...Sugar was misnamed for she was perpetually unhappy. If I had a pony, I could cheer up. She got a pony and was more dour now. If I had a fire truck, I would smile from sunup to sundown. We went ......

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...Alone and hungry left leg aches like a broken peg in the mugginess of its left slipper. Not a good day for fixing anything but the sealed and over salted, the quickly warmed and spooned that ......

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...The medicine man looked into Little Eagle’s eyes. You were misnamed, he told him. You have the spirit of a cougar. You should have been Little Cougar. Little Eagle instantly understood. For co......

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...They began to quarrel, After he heard ‘Squirrel!’ Instead of Stan Scammel And he called him ‘Rommel’: “The Not-Strong Enamel” Who could Hitler blackmail While it was ‘Same Barrel!’ Then, th......

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...Alone within emotional wilderness (mine) biding leisure time January 19th, 2020 without reason nor rhyme, yet woke with sublime pained acute awareness, how once prime merrily rightful autoch......

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...S is for Sugar, once a sweet medicine (it still is, in places) U do know it was medicine in India in the tenth century - G God knows why it is so addictive these days (money?) (As is tobacco, anot......

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...I study eyes, eye's only mind sees. Inside those orbs a little protogenic me crawls away. The tiny creature is going back to God, he remains cohesive in a residual way. A solar system is watch......

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...Standing here in the mind of mine passing through and over time pulling out thoughts sublime: sorrow, hate, pain, joy, love, sanity-- all the mould character of my humanity; On the outside, my......

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...The heart expects promise Disappointment awaits the frail The mind forgets Born to learn love, quick to forget that others feel the same Internal battles, unseen desires wishing to be u......

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...Standing here in the mind of mine passing through and over the time pulling out thoughts sublime: sorrow, hate, pain, joy, love, sanity-- all the mold character of my humanity; On the outside,......

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