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The Last Indulgence, Or Maybe The First?

I butter the toast as if it were a pardon,
its crust breaking under my knife
like a sealed envelope.

The coffee is bitter ink,
a confession cooling in its cup.
I swallow it fast,
as if speed could trick the executioner.

When I buy myself flowers
I imagine them lining a witness box:
petals trembling,
each one swearing I once existed.

I take long baths,
the
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Categories: depression, extended metaphor, farewell,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberI DON'T FEAR YOU OR YOUR HYUNDAI

PARKED AT MY HOME SENDING ME THREAT SMOKING BLUNTS WITH THE LOCALS ITCHING SCRATCHING YOUR SCABIES OUT BREAK AGAIN BREAKING INTO LAUNDROMATS HOMES HIDINGNOUTNIN MY NEIGHBORS DOG BED I WILL NEVER EVER FEAR JAMAICAN SCUM LIKE YOU A COMMON MULE ARRRIVING WITH AN ASSASIN TO END MY LIFE OVER MY AMERICAN POETRY 23 YEARS LATER
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Categories: or, allah,
Form: Naat


Love It Or Lose It

The dirty laundry
of democracy
Near impossible
to clean

You bask in freedom
until it’s gone
Whose nightmare kills
the dream

Warts and pimples
in plain view
Perfection
for the sage

To govern
as the Lord decrees
Our liberty
uncaged

To make those choices
for yourself
And pay the price
be damned

Instead of letting
tyrants rule
To serve
— at their command

(Villanova University: September, 2025)
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Categories: or, freedom,
Form: Rhyme

the Moog Sub 37 or Minitaur,

The RedSkull and Prime Earth
sorted the frials of dispair
to combine there effords
 against the SuperFreinds
they seek Ugum Bigimous to find the
 earthious Prescious 
Tabernacle in the Jungles of the Amazon.
The Shere of Orbious shall be unearthed
to bring destruction to
those in opposition of me.
The Ganglioness of Evil shall
fool the men of the Allied Planetary defence
and there
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Categories: or, analogy, film, music,
Form: Bio

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: appreciation, confidence, encouraging, for
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberSink or Swim

time is a river flowing
it lets nothing stand in its way
~ obstinately speeds in one direction



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025
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Categories: or, river, time,
Form: Other

Premium MemberNo Sadness Or Tears

You said you wanted out 
Of this marriage we are in 
You were packing your things 
And I’d never see you again 

I grabbed a beer and watched
As I sat in my reclining chair 
It did bother me you were leaving 
The truth is I no longer care

With all your arms could carry 
You loaded
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Categories: break up, divorce, how
Form: Rhyme

Throne of Love or Thorn

You think, it's very sweet,
You think,it's very beautiful,
You think, it's cruel World's defeat,
You think, it's win from something fearful.

Don't know, it's sometimes a false,
Don't know, it's sometimes lose,
Don't know, it's sometimes death cause,
Don't know, it's sometimes black-rose.

When someone wear love's throne 
Not know about destiny, not about looting,
But when it becomes a betray seems like
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Categories: or, heartbroken, hurt, lost love,
Form: Sonnet

Republican or Democrat

Republican or Democrat 
Won't choose physics 
Government is physics
The end of life is not a choice
Nor a vote
Fixed commodity is the loan
From here on in for "the life's

Hague?

Outside of journal
No objective 
No only this
No following order 
Just, troubled ends meeting
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Categories: or, america,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberYing or Yang?

New eyes slowly open,

White light softly greets them.

New life will be copin',

Am I uhh...Her...or uhh...Him?

Mother's milk...suckled sweet.

Tasty! But a little crude!

An arching stream floods their feet,

Guess I came out...uhh...Dude!
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Categories: or, life,
Form: Rhyme

They're called Crisps not Chips



Across the Atlantic ocean

They have a pedantic notion

Quip us Brits have a frantic lisp

Did slip..meant to say chip not crisp


Semantic antics causing a commotion

Misunderstand our land’s devotion

To the sensory explosion that is a crisp


So why the linguistic demotion

Respond to across the pond & beyond

Have donned a wig of blonde

Seem fond of being conned 

They need
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Categories: or, food,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMoney? or Love?

Sir? Do you Love the Money,

Or, Do you Love the Power?

"The Power is the Honey,"

"But, the Money is the Power!"

Then, how to use the Money?

Will it Flourish? Will it Sour?

"Money never Sours...Honey,"

"It just Grows STRONGER by the HOUR!"
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Categories: or, money, power,
Form: Rhyme

I Know That None Of You Are Dictators, Or Are You

they shave the heads of their citizens
without ever lifting a blade,
it’s all numbers, files, and boots on the street.

they steal the laughter from kitchens,
turn love into ration cards,
make hope a felony,
make truth disappear down stairwells at midnight.

they don’t need to kill everybody,
just enough to keep the rest quiet.
fear is cheaper than bread.

they smile in portraits,
gold
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Categories: or, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Either and Or

Kiss the sky or dig the land,
Catch the stars or drill the sand.
Sit on clouds and fly with birds,
Drink the air or taste the soil.
Look up for cosmic ways or skies,
Or move around the ground of words.

Face the sun and feel the moon,
Gaze at moments of dawn and dusk.
Behold, stare, and listen to
The whisper of
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Categories: or, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Other

Premium MemberMind or Machine?

God’s creation dispenses comforts. 
Many of man’s creation deliver frets.
AI, the weapon of the wisest, 
Adds no more cognizance to the existing.
Don’t assume it a dumb servant.
It will take us under its authority.
There will be a pandemonium as 
The reality would go under the covers of falsity.
One day, the whole world will seek a philosopher's
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Categories: or, creation,
Form: Free verse

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