I Plucked The Moon From The Sky
...I plucked the moon from the sky last night.
No one else seemed to be using it
So, I thought, “Why not?”
I mistakenly thought it would fit comfortably in my pocket
But, it bulged, protruded, an...
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Categories:
protruded, humor, metaphor, moon,
Form: Free verse
Evil Dress in Suits
...The morning filled with beauty and luster creeps slowly under the mangrove tree and anchored along the tropical coast where the skies, sea and my lover frequently meet. Something unusual was going on...
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Categories:
protruded, america, beach, boat, business,
Form: Prose
I spent my childhood being enraged
...I spent much of my childhood being enraged
Fairness mattered to me
I was a kindness advocate
Deploring bullies, liars and thieves
Good thing I did not know about sex trafficking or rapists
I c...
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Categories:
protruded, anger,
Form: Free verse
The Loyal Bird
...I promise to be true and I won’t allow anyone or anything to come between me and you, the stakes are too high and already we are soaring in the sky, I will reach the summit close to the sun and I wi...
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Categories:
protruded, america, analogy, beach, boat,
Form: Narrative
My Longing Creature
...Crack! I lay, beneath me creaking
Hath it taken from me? What to give?
Mayhaps yesternight another seeking
For not many there is to live
It approaches, shaking, floors creaking
To th...
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Categories:
protruded, adventure, analogy, angst, anxiety,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Cages We Carry
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When I was a kid, I learned survival’s first lesson
That protruded from my veins
The world divides from the the hunters and the hunted
The tiger etches its laws in the shadows
Hawks hold the c...
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Categories:
protruded, 10th grade, childhood, growth,
Form: Free verse
Windows of Hope
...The songs of the early nineties keeps ringing in my ears, it is the joy and the melody that I continue to feel and hear, I can still feel the chills as the snowflakes drops on my window sill and Sa...
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Categories:
protruded, business, celebration, city, dance,
Form: Narrative
Beauty and Fear
...A small difference between fantasy and make-believe
As kids, the cartoons we see forms the scenes in our dreams
The scene captured brings nothing less than an animated concept
But looking fu...
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Categories:
protruded, anxiety, appreciation, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Growing Up Brave Is Growing Honest No Room For Fake
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The thing with psychology is it darkens the human
when you’re no longer guessing or sat there assuming
the intent of a pattern inferring the action
a shade that people would name as the black...
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Categories:
protruded, for teens, psychological, strength,
Form: Rhyme
Learning when how to close seat then
...Learning when/how to close seat then...
flush... the toilet with good frisson!
Bull leave me you, though how bison
teen and juvenile
from a sixty four year old
married male no less!
(alter...
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Categories:
protruded, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Another Day At the Office
...White Ted looked flat;
that hair and pyjama bed smell.
She was getting heavier
My bleary eyes trying not to sleep.
Bone protruded from flesh,
blooded the seat and gearstick;
leaning in b...
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Categories:
protruded, daughter, family, jobs, life,
Form: Free verse
Diagonal
...If I knew what it was all about, I would not have to shout. If I knew what it was all about, I wouldn’t have taken that boat. If I knew what it was all about, I wouldn’t have to travel the world to w...
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Categories:
protruded, care, change, confidence, earth,
Form: Prose
Tatters
...His clothes were tattered, in vivid shades of red blue & yellow
he wore leatherette shoes blackly polished and gleaming with shine
Red fiery hair that summoned like a fire hydrant and a...
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Categories:
protruded, analogy, people, strength,
Form: Narrative
I Relished Being Hungry For Thanksgiving Pop Slop Gloppy Grub
...I relished being hungry for Thanksgiving pop slop gloppy grub
whereby the missus didst potchke
created whirling dervish hubbub
after enjoying repast,
(fit for a tarnished king),
yours truly a...
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Categories:
protruded, abuse, adventure, appreciation, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
The Maypole
...I remember it well.
The feeling was swell.
It happened once a year;
An event most precious and dear.
The fragrance was in the air.
It was still mid-Spring, but from the sky,
There protruded t...
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Categories:
protruded, childhood, may,
Form: Verse
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