Misrepresented Poems

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

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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

Premium MemberBlack 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


Premium MemberStolen 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

Premium MemberTell 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

Premium MemberIt 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

Premium MemberMy 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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