Running, hiding
...Running, hiding.
Still denying why are you trying.
Another day that you say, you will get by anyway.
The weight is heavy, I was clinging.
Pain is low but I strive to fly high.
High above th...
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Categories:
misrepresented, allusion, destiny, feelings,
Form: Free verse
The Seasons of Me
...
Misunderstood misrepresented misery
Spent my youth being told all the ways I am wrong
One day expected to get it all
Disconnected disassociated disgusted
A head attached to a body with ...
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Categories:
misrepresented, emotions, feelings, growth, truth,
Form: Free verse
Bright Bulb Spark Ipso Facto
...Not do bright after all
Glowing like a bulb
Covered way down deep in manure
Misrepresented and posing
as fertile soil
Backed up by so called expert
quasi intellectual bright sparks
t...
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Categories:
misrepresented, slam,
Form: Free verse
Black Summer
...
I
Listen up and I’ll tell
you a truth shall I
about crazy hysteria
and a convenient lie.
About how the hellish
Australian fires
...
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Categories:
misrepresented, fire, mythology, passion, sad
Form: Couplet
Iuribus
...A HOUSE DIVIDED
What right do you have to tell someone
Else how to use their bodies like they should
You don’t run their life and they not yours
How they meet their mistakes
Is their own...
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Categories:
misrepresented, abuse, america, analogy, anger,
Form: Free verse
Stolen Blessings-
...Broken promises, God kind erase them
People’s lying, cheating, promises stolen
Not being honest about their motives
Promises misspoken
Letters unopened
Sentences misrepresented
St...
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Categories:
misrepresented, analogy, anxiety, betrayal, blessing,
Form: Lyric
Night of Terrible Nightmare
...They visited my soul,
my sleepless nights.
Demarcated events
that I didn't participate,
events forced me
to feel what I didn't feel...
They offered me love
that misrepresented me,
promised ...
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Categories:
misrepresented, allegory, dream, fantasy, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Tell Me Who Do You Say That I Am
...oh my Good Lord for Christ’s sake who have you become
a well-known carpenter who suffered on his own cross
put nails in his own coffin a shepherd who lost to his flock
beggar man in rags onc...
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Categories:
misrepresented, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
It Is What It Is
...Rodin’s thinker felt deeply misrepresented in his pose
he had been simply doing his business in privacy but
paparazzis had caught him seemingly sitting on a rock
nothing on his mind but having a p...
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Categories:
misrepresented, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Inspiration
...I am always looking for it-but never find it- never? well no not never
but I hardly find it
hardly!
I find it in the oddest places,
What places?
the internet is a tangle of misrepresented th...
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Categories:
misrepresented, appreciation, art, autumn,
Form: Free verse
My Life Stages
...I began life as a gorilla – cumbersome and chunky.
I clunked my way into situations, abrasive and loud.
I also misrepresented and misspoke.
Rapidly became misunderstood and ostracized.
Life was...
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Categories:
misrepresented, animal,
Form: Free verse
No Enmity
...Turning down every invitation…
the invitations stopped
Ensuring the freedom I always craved,
alone inside my thoughts
Misunderstood and misrepresented,
my feelings misconstrued
And needin...
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Categories:
misrepresented, solitude,
Form: Rhyme
Inflictions of Whiteness
...A white Santa showed a child the skin tone of the top brass
A white doll to an innocent black girl contrasts ugliness
A white wedding was beauty redefined as a cloak on a lass
A white Jesus, bef...
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Categories:
misrepresented, race, racism, religion, religious,
Form: Rhyme
Hidden Inside Me
...The world is noisy
Opinions and judgments
My truth is drowned inside me
The world is bossy
Conditions and commandments
My will is overlooked inside me
The world is cosy
Stages and ambience...
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Categories:
misrepresented, emotions, faith, fear, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
School Dance
...The gym was decorated:
crepe draped and glittery.
Disquietude was partner
as I stood against the wall,
misrepresented hunger gnawing at my soul
and a misunderstood thirst.
The electric strummin...
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Categories:
misrepresented, boyfriend, dance, first love,
Form: Free verse
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