Exit Wound
...On Kensington Avenue, under the railway,
Her stage is a paperboard box.
The sounds of North Philly provide the applause.
Her venue’s the school of hard knocks.
At the drama’s finale, the curtain ...
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Categories:
paperboard, addiction, allegory, america, angst,
Form: Verse
Save Me Am Drowning
...My talent is disappearing in space,
My ocean is slowly turning into ice,
Feeling as if am loosing this race,
Am doing my best to pick my pace,
Oh God! When will everything be nice?
My well is ...
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Categories:
paperboard, absence, addiction, adventure, allah,
Form: Rhyme
Hunger Pangs
...The sign actually said ‘Universal Disposal’ but the haggard squalid creature
Had no time for such ephemeral discourse he could just about spell his name
Kanja meaning water born and his parent...
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Categories:
paperboard, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Two Greatest Commandments
...37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love yo...
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Categories:
paperboard, allegory, analogy, religious,
Form: Limerick