Sewn To The Pages Of My Life
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Still unwritten not quite, filled in
every word has pinned itself to story
like a sewing machine stitch
down a runway path to somewhere;
Turning points and zig zag threading
let ...
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Categories:
ready to wear, appreciation, life,
Form: Free verse
Don'T Kill Yourself
...Don't kill yourself
I beat my chest
I decided I will not be nothing
Lesser than who I am
There is no other way of existence
I know
I cant be a photocopy when I am the original
I have been w...
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Categories:
ready to wear, africa, confidence, courage, freedom,
Form: Epic
Fashionable
...Fashion’s symbolic sensuality draws eyes, stir passions and maybe even resentments! =]
Of course, maybe you’re above worldly conceits, above fashion. YOU, go through life as unaware as sinless Ad...
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Categories:
ready to wear, 12th grade, art, fashion,
Form: Free verse
East Coast
...There's this guy I used to eye
When I first moved to the country,
He's a taurus with a great smile and his mother really loved me.
Him and I were a we after I told him,
"Hey, hope you don't mind,...
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Categories:
ready to wear, break up, butterfly, crush,
Form: Free verse
What Men Want
...WHAT MEN WANT
I went for a walk, tripped and bumped my head,
I got up, buttoned my coat, it was freezing cold,
Began snowing outside I was told
Walking in the mall, in my head,
Heard, two men...
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Categories:
ready to wear, men,
Form: Free verse
A Tongue-In-Cheek Christmas Poem
...'Twas the night before Christmas
On the village square.
Carolers were singing.
Everyone was there.
My daddy was a baritone
But his falsetto filled the air.
Mama shrunk his boxers;
They're no...
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Categories:
ready to wear, christmas, funny, humorous, silly,
Form: Rhyme
The Seashell
...Nostalgic memories when I was young
Of taking long trips along the Maine coast
I loved to go to the beach and have some fun
When life was simple and fun was foremost
It was a long ride along a ...
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Categories:
ready to wear, beach, childhood, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Whither Blows the Wind
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Sarcophagus beetles gnaw on these bones
buried in the catacombs
They still have zombie feast needs of me
long after I’m gone
The scratching on the whited stones
of the sunken mauso...
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Categories:
ready to wear, dark, death, horror, scary,
Form: Free verse
Too Late
...TOO LATE
If you do not include yourself as a sinner redeemed
even if you look to the law and break them all
or even one. If you do not look upon the son
as the one who saves your soul from th...
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Categories:
ready to wear, christian,
Form: Free verse
Being a Mobile Washing Machine Van
...We run a mobile washing machine van,
To help all the people with none.
We wash really fast, have it clean, dried and ironed,
Ready to wear when we’re done.
We visit the aged, we visit the flats...
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Categories:
ready to wear, clothes, humor,
Form: Quatrain
A Cowboy Is
...A sweet reality, The cowboy image
A laborer wore what he could get
ready- to - wear,
would make city men quit
hand me downs
and second hand clothes
discarded garments
by men who stuck up their...
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Categories:
ready to wear, dedicationmen, city, men,
Form: Rhyme