The Sailor's Wife
...She’s one lonely soul with occasional
Nosebleed, all from the sea-salt of distant
Waves, charmed to weariness by breezes powerful enough
To unfurl umbrellas rolled behind Grandfather’s clock.
She...
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Categories:
nosebleed, loneliness, love, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Another 5 steps
...I'm so tired.
The machinery of my body feels like it's failing,
I'm grasping at the air praying there's something to hang onto,
I'm gritting my teeth and squinting my eyes in the struggle to see...
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Categories:
nosebleed, abuse, dark, heartbreak, strength,
Form: Free verse
War
...It feels like I got drafted to a war.
A war I didn't even know started.
Maybe I was oblivious.
Maybe there's an excuse,
Then again maybe not.
But I know I feel tense.
I feel beyond tense.
Now...
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Categories:
nosebleed, anger, angst, anxiety, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Heaven and Hell
...Once upon a time, there was a world, a one-derful world. Before they
needed explanations that became their defining moment. Contrasts,
and differences that tore them apart. Heaven and Hell are cons...
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Categories:
nosebleed, absence, analogy, appreciation, imagery,
Form: Dramatic Verse
meeting a princess
...Meeting a princess
It was, according to the old, the coldest winter
any could remember, the wise said it was because
the war had disturbed the weather pattern
One day, it snowed, then it got m...
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Categories:
nosebleed, absence, abuse, anti bullying,
Form: Blank verse
Therapy Zoo
...Within the confines of my nearest Zoo,
There’s a place that’s off limits – it’s not for you.
It’s where the animals go for therapy,
As animals have issues just like you and me.
It’s here where ...
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Categories:
nosebleed, addiction, animal, anxiety, care,
Form: Rhyme
Celtic Warriors and Joycean Drunks
...Watching the futbol match between the national teams of Ireland and Slovakia. I managed to purchase a cheap seat and I am sitting up in the nosebleed section. We drank and cheered as the game wore ...
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Categories:
nosebleed, humor,
Form: Haibun
South Boulder Road
...The summer sea sky has traveled inland
and the rolling of the Spanish hills make me hungry for adventure
I am feet on the dashboard, a mouth full of salt water,
a nosebleed that is somehow roma...
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Categories:
nosebleed, love, romance, romantic, romantic
Form: Free verse
I'M So Over This Kurdish Thing - In Trump's Own Words
...In my infinite wisdom
I tell you this thing,
In this here my kingdom
Will the pendulum swing;
One minute the Kurds
So cute in their garb,
The other the Turks
With their venomous barb.
T...
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Categories:
nosebleed, allegory, death, humor, parody,
Form: Quatrain
Rudolf Is Sick
...What Rudolf intends is to delay
By feigning nosebleed so he can say--
“Overtime price... not quite great"
Tells Santa dear, kids must wait,
Till your big dollars come off today.
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Categories:
nosebleed, animal, funny,
Form: Limerick
Hello, You Won'T Remember Me
...waltz blazing sirens from shores of the frosted tomorrow
just look around and behold everything that makes our souls distant
l’existence est ailleurs! my negatively dear Clementine
in thi...
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Categories:
nosebleed, imagery, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Cheap Tickets
...Was just my luck to grab pretzel and beer,
rush to nosebleed seats to watch ball with fear.
An usher was glaring at me,
pointing at a sign I would see.
No alcohol, in this seating — oh dear!
5...
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Categories:
nosebleed, drink,
Form: Limerick
Nosebleed
...Comes to mind
the first time
my nose started
bleeding
all of a sudden
fearing it wouldn’t
stop
and I would die
locked in a box
underground
alive
panic voiced
on face and lips
its pallo...
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Categories:
nosebleed, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Guilt
...it's just the guilt of being me
that makes the light too dim to see,
that stands in the way of being free.
that little spot that disagrees
and brings me down on my knees
is the same spot that be...
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Categories:
nosebleed, anxiety, forgiveness, how i
Form: Free verse
The Nondle
...Whilst arching in a turtle-neck
A breeze blew softly by,
Too young to have a nosebleed,
Instead I made it cry.
‘What have you seen, where do you go?’
I wondered up aloud.
‘I’m off to see the ...
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Categories:
nosebleed, humor, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
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