Knuckles
...Raw,
a nubby grey knuckle-boned day,
when the wind blows through my skin
pulling at the cord
which holds my insides in,
oh infernal internal wall
keeping without without
and within within,
of...
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Categories:
nubby, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Gnarled
..."People will forget what you said, forget what you did,
but will never forget how you made them feel."
~ Maya Angelo...
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Categories:
nubby, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
A Parenting Tale
...***A Parenting Tale***
He must’ve been
Just barely fourteen, but still off as
A ninja filling a pillowcase
with chocolate on Halloween.
Although through all other days
his ken was an a...
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Categories:
nubby, angst, boy, family, life,
Form: Narrative
Bloated Orange Colostomy Bagfaced Racist
...Mr. Racist, Mr. Racist,
fills with hate the empty spaces.
Mr. Racist, Mr. Racist,
of decency he'll leave no traces.
Mr. Fugly, Tubby Racist,
don't know how to tie his laces.
Buggy Nubby...
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Categories:
nubby, discrimination, evil, hate, parody,
Form: Burlesque
Pep In My Step
...no shoes to wear in today’s race
nubby knees show I’m such a disgrace
but I’ll show them I‘ll keep the pace
its all about regaining if that’s the case
It’s not how I look or who I am
I am me a...
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Categories:
nubby, faith, inspiration, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Pep In My Step
...no shoes to wear in today’s race
nubby knees show I’m such a disgrace
but I’ll show them I‘ll keep the pace
its all about regaining if that’s the case
It’s not how I look or who I am
I am me a...
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Categories:
nubby, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Cloth
...A simple piece of cloth
Square, rectangular, oblong
Soft blue, pink, green
Woven, nubby or smooth
It matters not
Cloth
Swaddling my infant babe
Cloth
In tatters
Bearing injuries honorably
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Categories:
nubby, age, destiny, growing up,
Form: Free verse
I Know I Messed Up
...Im sorry girl but I know I ****ed up,
I know I can at times get so drunked up,
But truth is girl we got to go our own way and suck it up,
I love you still in my heart but we must part because its ...
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Categories:
nubby, lost love, love, passion,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
12:12 Am
...I kneel in my bedroom
A nubby knit blanket softens the wood under my knees ankles toes
I take the thin black cap of dark red polish—
The color my mom said no to when I was young
The dark of a girl...
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Categories:
nubby, life, dark, dark, red,
Form: Free verse