Mistaking Poems - Poems about Mistaking

...On the stage of life, I paint my lips crimson, a smile stitched with invisible thread, While the scar beneath my ribs sings a melody only I can hear. The halogen spotlights burn intensely, bleachin......

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...Her soul was starved of acceptance An aching hunger wanting to be fed Her body weak Not from the lack of food But for the lack of love for her skin Being black meant a life where no matter wha......

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...I scrubbed the shame from under my fingernails, as if guilt could be washed like dirt. Cold showers never baptized the ache; just gave it discipline, a neat little collar for the beast inside. ......

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...The fingers crawled over my lips, each step a crunch on my parched soul - lullaby for my desires But where’s the wind ? Where was it, before the drizzle? The crawl slithered into sleek curli......

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...I swallowed words like razors in the dark, A thousand cuts across my broken skin, They told me "silence"—so I hid the spark, While screaming softly, bleeding deep within. The mirror lied: it wh......

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...Humans is what we are because we have a skill given to us Under a word called metacognition Maybe that feeling of metacognition gives us the opportunity to trust Availing our own thoughts, feeling......

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...In the shadow of Newark’s bricks and bones, Where the pavement hums with moans, Where mothers pray with open eyes, And sons are born beneath gray skies— The blood remembers. The land remembers. ......

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... 1 Kings 19:11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces t......

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... Magical Glasses looking within these lenses That glares through these hidden shadows. Scenarios of traps, mistaking fantasy, illusion Selfishness eluded by compulsion yet gracefulness an......

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... A unique Christmas time for Santa Claus, fiftieth year of journey without pause. All gifts he stacks in the cart, gets ready to soon depart, he feels for a mishap there is no caus......

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... drinking the water… … from his bath… destroying whatever’s… … in his path… mistaking the floor … for the loo… whatever’s a parent … to do?!... Wit......

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... When I feel like crying, Because my prayers aren’t heard, I remember, I’d be lying, If I didn’t thank God for His word. When I feel like complaining, Because my life is so dark......

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...Thank you for the guilt you planted in me for making me worry for what I never did for mistaking my intentions and make me plead for stealing my confidence and my peace......

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...Singing is an art So hard to understand But let me sing you a song Of a girl who was greeted by adulthood Far too soon. Her young hands tremble Under the weight of what they carry A burden ......

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... My son Scottie and me Are like two peas in a pod The word “clone” comes to mind His humour is the same His carefree look at life matches mine There is no mistaking Scottie boy is my so......

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