He took so many innocents lives
...He Choose to Grow Weak
Could you help me understand the complexities of our actions? When joy fills our hearts, we radiate positivity, but when sadness washes over us, it feels like an ache that p...
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Categories:
pressure cooker, 10th grade, anger, angst,
Form: Dramatic Verse
An unexceptional turning point in our marriage
...An unexceptional turning point in our marriage...
unexpectedly came about,
when possible prospect
of the wife going
to Puerto Rico by herself
(for a fêted celebration
of our eldest daughter
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Categories:
pressure cooker, absence, abuse, adventure, anger,
Form: Rhyme
PTSD WOUNDED WARRIOR
...THE CLEAR NOTION OF WHAT WE BELIEVE WHAT IS REAL WHAT IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU WHAT BECKONS YOUR THOUGHT YOUR ABILITY TO COME PANIC ATTACKS AND FEAR TO BE BOTTLED UP IN A MENTAL PRESSURE COOKER THE T...
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Categories:
pressure cooker, allah,
Form: Naat
Cat 4 Hurricane Helene
...Mightn’t get any sleep
Nose pressed to the screen
so…colorful
so…dreamy
mesmerised
No one’s turned the faucet off
landfall imminent
head like a pressure cooker
build up
drip drip d...
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Categories:
pressure cooker, storm,
Form: Free verse
Pain is
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Pain has a universal resemblance to a cutglass
Lifeless with twists and turns.
Slowly apprehending one like quicksand.
Outwardly screaming for help, no one
in sight to be pinpointed at least...
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Categories:
pressure cooker, anger, bereavement, birth, blessing,
Form: Free verse
DUAL VOICES: INK AND CHALK
...I am a tempest of words, aching to burst forth.
(Years of structured lessons simmer beneath my skin.)
The most important thing is that I'm drowning in metaphors.
Being a poet shapes reality, an...
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Categories:
pressure cooker, teacher, writing,
Form: Narrative
Looking At Things From A Different Prospective
...I can understand Cowgirls
And some are real cows
But 'Cowboys'?
Shouldn't they be Bullboys?
Why did they call the chimp
On Tarzan 'Cheater'?
I wouldn't play cards
Did Williams Tell spill the b...
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Categories:
pressure cooker, howl,
Form: Free verse
Ode to a Pressure Cooker
...In my kitchen, there's a treasure,
scrumptious dinner, it helps me prepare.
Under pressure it combines flavors,
Serves proudly, mouthwatering savors.
This wonder made of stainless steel,
Shine...
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Categories:
pressure cooker, food, joy, thank you,
Form: Ode
The Narrow Path
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I knew it was you all along, trying to compose a different song, I knew you were standing in the line when the bullets explode into the sky
Everyone had to run for cover and hold onto what they...
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Categories:
pressure cooker, absence, business, conflict, corruption,
Form: Narrative
Norwegian Bachelor Farmer Days I Never Lived
...Norwegian bachelor farmer days I never lived
Woebegone and egg foo young on you
meaning me of course
sidestepping a crucial positive
electric kool aid battery acid test
prior to pledging troth...
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Categories:
pressure cooker, adventure, america, appreciation, atheist,
Form: Rhyme
Rush Amid the Rapids Published
...The greatest performance of my life.
Howard’s proud piece de resistance award on Poetry Nook for my magnum opus “Rush Amid The Rapids” in their daily member section.
After endless hours of toil,...
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Categories:
pressure cooker, adventure, age, appreciation, art,
Form: Prose
Wandering the Road
...Wandering the roads. It has me under a spell even at this juncture in my life.
Even when spiked brambles
scrape my eyelids or those tender foot soles are being twisted by tooth-like stones. Qu...
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Categories:
pressure cooker, beautiful, birth, blessing, earth,
Form: Prose Poetry
Double Trouble
...There lived a man and his wife
Who buzzed like bees in a hive
The tension between them was rife
They stung each other with knives
They somehow survived these fights
It got worse when they turne...
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Categories:
pressure cooker, funny,
Form: Rhyme
I 2 Have a Dream
...i 2 have a dream
That one day
The poor will have enough
to eat and change to spare
Every child has both a
mother and father
And clean water to drink
And the sad and bleak
Who end...
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Categories:
pressure cooker, slam,
Form: Free verse
The Writer In Me Wants You To Know
...poetry saves
thoughts from obscurity
leads emotions
onto paper-thin canvas
of feelings impressed
with no purpose other
than being expressed
for what it is worth
a few scr...
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Categories:
pressure cooker, devotion,
Form: Free verse
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