Theatre
...The lines are well rehearsed
The blocking to perfection
No curtain yet to elevate
Audience anticipation
A gentle mist wafts across
The scene is set and ready
Our actors find a mark
Low vo...
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Categories:
plot line, life, surreal,
Form: Rhyme
Whose Got Next Part 1
...Man have you seen all the stuff
that they’re spreading these days?
Beaming it through the air
from some satellites somewhere a
thousand miles out in space…
Not even stopping at the
fact check...
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Categories:
plot line, poetry,
Form: Free verse
My Muse Made Me Do It
...I thought my secret was safe in the closet
In scads of pads neatly stacked on a shelf,
But when my muse said it's time
To post my rhymes online
Was the day that I "outed" myself.
I'm not what ...
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Categories:
plot line, muse, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Word Play Lines
...Word Play Lines
My main line muse stepped over a line –
My confuser got confused off line
Rhymes on strike, my pen went dry in a stiff hard line
Thesaurus got clean away flying through the pipe...
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Categories:
plot line, fun, hilarious, word play,
Form: Free verse
Silly Lines
...~ Silly Lines~
My main line muse ran away on this sunny this day –
My confuser got confused - rhythms upside down -
My pen went dry – rhymes on strike -
Thesaurus got away.
Searched for fo...
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Categories:
plot line, fun, poetry, silly,
Form: Rhyme
My Life Is Like An Unread Book a Constanza
...My life is like an unread book;
Each day the story’s plot unfolds
While hinting what tomorrow holds.
Like “Peter Pan and Captain Hook”
Each new adventure on the way
Is written as I live each d...
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Categories:
plot line, adventure, life,
Form: Rhyme
Coming Courageously Home
...I'm returning home
from a bag it yourself grocery,
and listening to an African-American novelist
respond to questions,
actual open-ended real NPR questions,
like old school inquisitive journalis...
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Categories:
plot line, conflict, courage, health, hero,
Form: Political Verse
I'M Just Getting Started
...You hear I've been workin' hard
slavin' away, word by word
you imagine, how far I've gotten but
I'm just gettin' started.
Breathin' life into their world
shapin' each and every thing
Weavin' ...
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Categories:
plot line, books, encouraging, writing,
Form: Free verse
Permaculture Design Operetta
...This Permaculture Design Operetta
comes out from within you
with universally acclaimed Grand Patriarchal Earth Rights
to sing in reverse harmonic rhythms and blues
with Full-Octave Matriarchal Ea...
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Categories:
plot line, destiny, health, humanity, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Rape
...Rape Is
A Disgusting Word
A Formation of Hurt
A Deepness in Bleeding
A Scar of the Insides
A Psychological Torture
A Pain that's Sure
A Moment in Time
A Mind Rewinding
A Sickness Replaying...
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Categories:
plot line, abuse, art, bereavement, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Now I Know
...Now I know why I'm an easy target
for a psychopath
I spin the lie into the truth an illusion
of a plot line inside my head
And I've gotten so good at it that this
Is a gift for writing a screenp...
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Categories:
plot line, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Chivelry Is Not Dead 2
...See:
plot line one was all fiction
Baptized by fire
was not playing
by my rules.
He was lying.
I had to put him in his place.
And make him realize
that a big brother
at work would twist ...
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Categories:
plot line, allusion,
Form: Free verse
I Told My Abuser
...I told my
abusive fiancé
That I was
writing an
award winning
novel
My songs
That were
unsung
Until I was
Done
With him
He'd have
a star
A shining chapter
My gift of
reading bet...
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Categories:
plot line, adventure,
Form: Free verse
A Little Girl Named Ivy
...There's a little girl named Ivy
Who thinks in metaphors
She plays by herself
The universe to explore
Shes beginning to comprehend
That her gifts are so much more
Than her neighbors down a flo...
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Categories:
plot line, art, girl, universe,
Form: Free verse
What -Explicit Language-
...Together tethered to existence
we act upon our soul‘s insistence
to dare and dream to find…? What exactly?
**** the morning;
I sigh as I step into the shower.
Soon to be discarded dreams tug at my s...
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Categories:
plot line, anger, career, life, lonely,
Form: Free verse
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