Younger Me and the Unknown
...Dear freshman me,
Why didn’t you go watch Powder Puff? I promise, it’s really fun. Your classmates darting across the field for a once-a-year-event that you’ll only get once more of in your high sch...
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Categories:
passing comment, 12th grade, age,
Form: Free verse
So Called Experts Critics and Coaches
...Hard to fathom the logic of
the following
How in sporting terminology
even the great Tiger Woods
in his pomp and prime employed
the service of a swing coach
with not a single major title to
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Categories:
passing comment, slam,
Form: Free verse
Closure of You
...Awakened with all seeing eye
Focussing, turn away and sigh
An empty space, I have to try
Feeling all askew
Take memory of distant times
Everywhere, as committed crimes
Regretful, revisited mi...
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Categories:
passing comment, break up, emotions,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Closure of You
...Awakened with all seeing eye
Focussing, turn away and sigh
An empty space, I have to try
Feeling all askew
Take memory of distant times
Everywhere, as committed crimes
Regretful, revisited mi...
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Categories:
passing comment, break up, emotions,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Meeting New People
...I enter a room,
Each person I see, stare back,
All their eyes feel like piercing daggers,
There simple greetings of “Hi”
Are sucker punches with powerful blows,
Wilting this delicate wallflowe...
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Categories:
passing comment, introspection, voice,
Form: Free verse
It Raised a Smile
...Ironic Remark
This morning in the surgery, a magazine perusing,
I heard this passing comment which I hope you’ll find amusing.
I saw before me, pen in hand, a happy little boy
But as the wai...
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Categories:
passing comment, humorous, irony,
Form: Rhyme