Flaws
...I know making you less perfect
won’t make me any better
yet I can’t help it
I fabricate your flaws in my head
as if it would make my own disappear
almost as if ruining you
made me any better...
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Categories:
obsessing, girl, high school, identity,
Form: Free verse
Desolate Symphony
...When you're lonely and exposed.
Blood, shred and tears.
And after all this time that you still owe.
And after all the blood that you still owe.
After lie, after lie.
Nothing, nowhere.
You're st...
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Categories:
obsessing, angel,
Form: Free verse
Thanks for the Past Couple of Years
...
Here’s an extra-large thank you to Israel and Ukraine
who have fought the West’s wars for them
holding Iran and its proxies, and Putin’s Russia at bay
Imagine if Putin was n...
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Categories:
obsessing, appreciation, imagination, international, thank
Form: Rhyme
A Cavalcade Rondine
...A cavalcade of savage singing lights
whip worshippers of ultraviolet;
Indulging the most hedonistic threat
they raise hooks to meritorious heights;
DJ’s entourage being read last rites
at the...
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Categories:
obsessing, dance, emotions, feelings, music,
Form: Other
I look deep into the tapestry of my mind, where shadows dance incessantly
...I look deep into the tapestry of my mind, where shadows dance incessantly,
There where fear and insecurity weave imaginary stories, fluttering beneath my ribs.
None of them are real, not one, just ...
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Categories:
obsessing, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Love Jones
...
Love jones, love jones. I’ve got a love jones for that guy.
Obsessing over him both day and night am I,
Visualizing him with me, we’re flying in the sky.
Effervescent I’d be feeling (were it tru...
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Categories:
obsessing, love,
Form: Acrostic
We Will Have the Blessing--NOW
...
Mama’s Thanksgiving plans went awry.
Football lovers might understand why.
Mama called for the blessing.
Everyone was obsessing
over touchdowns. Mom uttered a sigh.
“Keep the food...
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Categories:
obsessing, 10th grade, football, thanksgiving
Form: Limerick
The Spirit of Christmas
...Take away the tinsel and the sugared treats.
Take away the decorations and all those pretty lights
twinkling across our cities and across the globe.
Take away Black Friday and frantic shopping,
t...
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Categories:
obsessing, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Trying To Be Less Type A
...Balance to me means to try and be less Type A
To stop obsessing over things I cannot change
Balance to me means not to play all weekend.
I am so Type A during the week that I feel I deserve it.
B...
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Categories:
obsessing, me,
Form: Free verse
Falling Through Eros
...Love is...
a hot lead brick in my babbling brain
a brainless storm in my gloomy gut
a greedy clump of lava in my headless heart
a haggard heart chained to a torrid tornado
a t...
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Categories:
obsessing, dark, love, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
No Need
...Stop analysing
No need to dissect
Stop labelling
No names just accept
Stop obsessing
No need to overreact
Stop complicating
Keep simple and intact...
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Categories:
obsessing, change, life, simple,
Form: Free verse
Blueberry
...4/3/22
Can't stay gloomy
Or think looney
Because the outcome will be puny
It's nothing new to be
All this tomfoolery
Won't ever be cool to me
The same can be said for obsessing over jewelr...
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Categories:
obsessing, dark, deep, life, nice,
Form: Rhyme
What Is Wrong With the World Today
...What is wrong with the world today
So many people have lost their way
Led in all the wrong directions
While losing the one on one connection
With emotions from real human beings
Only respondin...
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Categories:
obsessing, america, political, world,
Form: Couplet
Obsession
...I obsess over nothing,
I obsess over all,
I obsess over the smallest things,
I obsess over the big things too,
I obsess over the things out of place,
I obsess over what I could have done,
I obs...
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Categories:
obsessing, angst, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Drowning In Debt
...He goes through each day
obsessing over how to
increase his earnings.
Times are hard.
He's drowning in debt;
his bills gradually piling up.
Creditors bug him so much,
he feels like screa...
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Categories:
obsessing, life, money, perspective, poverty,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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