James Fuchsia Bachelor Pad
...James did not invite a lot of guests
they had to know him better than the rest
his mother had decorated his apartment nest
in hot pinks and fuchsia, a friendship test
he had protested when he h...
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Categories:
overeager, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
The Goldfinch
...The finch dances merry, weaving feathers into music
That spills from overeager beaks and drips light onto slick wings
Which beat in time with the song, fluttering, flittering,
Finding life in th...
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Categories:
overeager, bird,
Form: Free verse
Hot Chili Pepper Dance
...These spicy banana peppers are hotter than hot.
My annoyed esophagus yells “Not! Not! Not! Not! Not! Not!”
They dance around and down my gullet from the crockpot.
Temperature there is turned up to...
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Categories:
overeager, food,
Form: Monorhyme
The Tragedy Fades
...At twenty-three, Brett found his girl,
A green-eyed vision with strawberry curls,
A year of dating came and went,
And wedding bells the sky did rent.
Life was good, he worked as a welder,
And ...
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Categories:
overeager, depression, hope, loss, lost
Form: Narrative
Waking Nightmare
...Sylvia writes, “I have the choice,”
And her words gut me like
An overeager pubescent student
With a scalpel and tweezers.
I feel the same as she. I, too,
Ricochet; I, too, document it
In my ...
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Categories:
overeager, anger, dark, humanity, universe,
Form: Free verse
Tears of Soliloquy
...With nothing to be
Memory's all he claims
As his own
As he wanders the streets
So alone
A wandering wayfarer of the abyss
He watches the rain find its way to darkness
In the sea
That desire...
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Categories:
overeager, faith, introspection, philosophy, rain,
Form: I do not know?
No One Gets It Right
...A ritual of mating,
the God of lust
conferring no blessing
on either sex.
just a heated dance
around each other
testing the already
sullied waters
with dirt feet
worn out...
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Categories:
overeager, angst, confusion, social,
Form: I do not know?