Head is Heavy
...Head is heavy with the load of pressure,
The pressure that I bought unwillingly.
A burden passed from hands I trust,
Now rests on me, relentlessly.
They say it's life, this endless fight,...
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Categories:
outride, anxiety, betrayal, change, dark,
Form: Free verse
An ode to a wounded child
...O tender soul, o innocence defiled,
What cruelties did your youth upend?
Tormented by she who should cherish her child,
Instead her addictions made her your fiend.
Those eyes that should have b...
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Categories:
outride, abuse, addiction, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
The Whip That Flogs The Devil
...There’s a good man deep inside me
though most could never tell,
when I’m brawlin’ with the devil
drinkin’ booze and raisin’ hell.
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Categories:
outride, addiction, conflict, drink, drug,
Form: Rhyme
The Outs Have It
...He is outstandingly out-of-bounds
asserted the outlandishly outspoken outlaw
He can outshoot, outtrump and outride you.
He is outrageously outranked, the tenderfoot replied.
But he did feel ou...
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Categories:
outride, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Bag Lady In the Portrait Gallery
...BAG-LADY IN THE PORTRAIT GALLERY
In all my failed moments of ambitious grace,
The truth, swarth-headed, lifts its greenest shape
To madly light the curls of whitest lace
Edging your throat, and...
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Categories:
outride, blessing, identity, imagination, poets,
Form: Sonnet