I Never Even Heard of a Serger
my sister sews
Has a Cadillac of a sewing machine
it cost as much as her first house
it has gadgets, dials, electronic commands
intimidates me
She plunks me in front of a serger
I never even heard of a serger before now
I am going to have to look up how to spell it
On a regular sewing machine, you do not
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Categories:
never, sister,
Form: Free verse
Never to Leave Us
He promised never to leave our side,
Though fog may veil the trail with deep despair,
And make it seem as though He does not bide -
Yet reach in faith, lift up your hands in prayer.
You’ll find His faithful Hand is always near,
Though life is full of shifting, stormy seas.
In Him alone, our lasting hope is
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Categories:
never, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
i hope you never stop singing
a songbird beloved who moves with intention
will find themselves in times of trouble
mother mary on their bustier—
a sight for those with the privilege to see.
stands on a paddleboard oaring towards me.
embodies a world full of pain in their bones
and their muscles
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Categories:
never, body, endurance, friendship love,
Form: Free verse
FORWARD EVER, BACKWARDS NEVER
“Forward Ever...Backwards…Never!?!”
With all
The progress
We made, how
Is it that we’re
Back to where
We once were
With oppression?
Did we become
So comfortable
That we failed
To see what
Was coming
To push us
Back and make America great again?!
How could we have simply missed
The vivid message of Stockholm,
Which, for us, here today, is now
A USA, Oppressor Syndrome?!
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Categories:
never, analogy, black african american,
Form: Free verse
NEVER LIKE THE ONE I COME FROM
An Angel,
How could you breathe life into someone so twisted, rotten to the core?
A Beauty,
How can something that came from you be so ugly, inside and out?
A Queen,
A calamity your face sits on a peasant, so unworthy of your image.
A Warrior,
How can an offspring of yours be this weak and pathetic?
A Champion,
A shame
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Categories:
never, angel, angst, child, emotions,
Form: Free verse
THINGS YOU NEVER TOUCHED
I stitched my silence with threads of things I couldn’t say.
I yearned with the last pieces I had stored away.
The moon watched me unravel, but never turned away.
The sea heard my cries, but never bothered to ask me "why?".
I carved poems on the inside of my ribs just to feel alive.
And the lines suffocated me
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Categories:
never, 11th grade, beautiful, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Tried And Cried
You tried, tried
And you cried
You never gave up
You found hope
As a last resort
Because you fought
Until the last drop of blood
Until the last shade of mud.
You are my angel, my hero
You refused to fall and to go
You cried, cried
And tried, tried
To succeed against all odds
You were strong and you wore pads
You tried, tried
And you cried.
Heroes cry
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Categories:
never, angel, courage, cry, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Squirrel that never gave up
Ten times they tried and failed
to ban him from the seed
with nets, with traps, with hose;
a hundred times they tried.
Later when,
amen, the
angry men,
then gave up;
Soon came zen.
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Categories:
never, confidence,
Form: Other
The Letter Never Sent
The pages in your box
were never opened,
never flipped to let the light in.
The silence inside that box
spoke louder than words
it whispered of pain
hiding in every verse you never wrote.
I wonder if what you call love
was ever true love at all.
You left me
dancing in silence,
caught between a love that never lived
and a hate that never spoke
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Categories:
never, confusion, lonely, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Never Amount or Equal To
She didn't understand ways in which the world worked or her place within it
On the outside a beautiful girl but beyond her eyes, deeper inside she burned with rage but you'd never know for the image she displayed on her face was timid
Came from where many failed but planned to prevail for she would never
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Categories:
never, appreciation, confidence, encouraging, for
Form: Rhyme
Try As She May She Could Never
A young girl entered the first grade hoping to learn how to spell using ABC's
But try as she may she could never spell those long tricky words until Miss
Cartolano lent her flash cards for home. Suddenly it became easy as pie.
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Categories:
never, analogy,
Form: Acrostic
Astronomy: A Love I Could Never Have
everyone is going to their place of dream
their pen and papers screams pride and dignity
and in the fate's script it only talks about my failure
my efforts led me to nowhere but my defeat
i'm envious of everyone who got to follow their dreams
i learnt about the stars, galaxies and cosmos
so one day i could steal a
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Categories:
never, dream,
Form: Free verse
the home never departed
There seems a
departing from
innocence and
meaninglessness
to fill a role and
discover meanings
in what seems
happening~
yet meaningless is
the home never
departed~~
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Categories:
never, words,
Form: Free verse
I WILL NEVER BE A POET
I stopped dreaming after defying the reaper.
My existence has no shine,
I cling to life like a suicidal soul
flirting with its own boundaries.
Reckless, never fanatic,
I spit out their dogmas and their pantomimes.
I cursed their god after reading the Black Code,
and the infamous bull of a pedophile pope.
My shroud has been black since the placenta.
I will beg
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Categories:
never, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Autumn Times - Part 2
//See part 1//
...I could never forget you.//
Not even if I tried. For, see, when the springtime comes again each year, and the leaves begin to grow once more, your face is all I see. Your lips as they smile, your eyes as they glisten, your sweet laughter bouncing off the tin rooftop, all of
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Categories:
never, anniversary, break up, divorce,
Form: Free verse
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