Child Inside
...I worry for the child every night,
And every night brings forth another fright.
I worry for the child in every way everyday,
“Do not stumble, don't get hurt”, always I would pray.
It's harsh, t...
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Categories:
overwriting, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Same But Different
...Piecing it together
for a second time
the result was not the same
The years had altered
the way each piece fit
a strange familiar game
Instinct overwriting
what memory lost
the picture st...
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Categories:
overwriting, time,
Form: Rhyme
Trick Or
...I use make-believe
overwriting memory
to bring me some peace
The fiction I’ve weaved
you’re at the store - you wouldn’t leave
is a fool’s relief
So I take mine neat
sweet opiate of self-de...
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Categories:
overwriting, 12th grade, betrayal, emotions,
Form: Senryu
A Penny For a Poets Thoughts I
...Standing up for the kids standing up to sleep in overbearing heat clothes damp from their pee, God made night separate from day, but with lights bright all night as well as all day, the children lose...
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Categories:
overwriting, abuse, anger,
Form: Political Verse
Shadows Soundless Quotidian Shift
...bohemian rhapsody parades
amidst greensward moored
erupting profusely toward cerulean skies
ushered with invisible rip cord
this Earthling self assigned to an (elder)
box office c...
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Categories:
overwriting, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
- Halloween's Evil Visage Cometh -
...Halloween’s Evil Visage Cometh now alive in this famous predestined time
Where dubious shadow shades run a riot as the ghastly ghosts of darkness,
Begin calling to all goblins, ghosts, ghouls, and ...
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Categories:
overwriting, evil, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Halloween's Evil Visage Cometh
...Halloween’s Evil Visage Cometh now alive in this famous predestined time
Where dubious shadow shades run a riot as the ghastly ghosts of darkness,
Begin calling to all goblins, ghosts, ghouls, and ...
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Categories:
overwriting, dark, evil, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Halloween's Evil Visage Cometh
...Halloween’s Evil Visage Cometh
Halloween’s Evil Visage Cometh now alive in this famous predestined time
Where dubious shadow shades run a riot as the ghastly ghosts of darkness,
Begin calling to...
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Categories:
overwriting, dark, evil, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Memories and Pens
...This pen is cracked and broken but luckily it still writes.
The ink is almost at an end
low, down in the point, barely visible.
Did you ever use a pen to its very end
from start to finish, t...
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Categories:
overwriting, memory, write,
Form: Prose Poetry
Imperative Methodology
...Just when the quick peruse
Turns obtuse
Thereby roundly refused
That noose for an excuse
We made the day quake with paper
Gracious allowance
By overwriting the undercurrent
Betting down for stamps i...
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Categories:
overwriting, allegory,
Form: Free verse