Laura Norder 2 - New Balls Please
...Laura Norder took her gun and strapped it to her thigh
The skirt she wore was so damned short she had to strap it high
And stood there on the corner where the street lamps dare not tread
She waite...
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Categories:
reattached, courage,
Form: Narrative
Steam Train Ride
...The whistle blows, the chugging starts -
A steam train ride in France -
For those who like to try things
From the past, this is your chance.
Since when it’s time to turn around,
The leading c...
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Categories:
reattached, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Slodehand
...Slodes new poem
Low slode-hand
I cant explain the fierce pain
Detached reattached no change to spare
Wild and free and then god help me
Challenges inept
failures future reaps wisdoms fury
T...
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Categories:
reattached, earth, fate, forgiveness, innocence,
Form: Free verse
Still Trying
...It rained
And then it pained
I wanted it to rain but now I'm scared
Tears never stopped
Why is it so complicated
My heart ached
Uncontrolled, captivated
I waited,
Maybe I will dream, I ho...
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Categories:
reattached, break up,
Form: Rhyme
Lost Girl
...I havent written about him since the day i said goodbye.
When i reattached his shadow so he could fly across the sky.
I hadn't spoken a word to anyone I knew .
Afraid of what People would think...
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Categories:
reattached, character, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Last Bell
...Senses untamed,
spaces to reign
Bodies that die,
spirits to fly
Length or by width,
time is a myth
Dimension aground,
essence refound
Eyes looking forward,
eyes looking back
Eyes ...
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Categories:
reattached, change,
Form: Rhyme
The Faeries Save the Day
...By the light of the pinkest prettiest orange moon Faerie folk had ever seen,
There was a haze such as the elves could have invented, but maybe not.
It was the magical bewitching hour, and the meado...
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Categories:
reattached, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Life From Cancer
...Cancer had taken her hopes and dreams.
All pain gone, we felt her relief.
From another plane, her heart
Leapt with unbridled joy
Reattached again
To her Soul Mate
Finding her
Sassy
Self...
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Categories:
reattached, angel, bereavement, cancer, mother
Form: Nonet
The Last Bell
...Senses untamed,
spaces to reign
Bodies that die,
spirits to fly
By length or by width,
time is a myth
Dimension aground,
essence refound
Eyes looking forward,
eyes looking ...
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Categories:
reattached, change,
Form: Rhyme
My Red Wagon
...Christmas, me in my red wagon
Slogging in tears, later you forget
Am I a full person?
Blown black pepper stings your eyes
You strike me, the ambivalence aches
Covered mouth laugh-sharing from ...
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Categories:
reattached, beauty, childhood, dedication,
Form: Free verse
The Aswang Fable
...Day quickly fades into a fearful silent night
Frightful because within the darkness evil comes to life
Abomination that became legend as legend became myth
The Aswang
The wicked epitome of sin
B...
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Categories:
reattached, dark, evil, fantasy, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
To the Man Who Almost Killed Me
...Don’t involve me in your suicide!
Did you see me coming,
On that lonely alpine bend?
Nowhere to turn,
Cliff wall to the right,
River to the left.
I hit the brakes,
But you kept coming.
Ju...
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Categories:
reattached, forgivenessme, thanksgiving, car, me,
Form: Free verse
Where the Karanda Is Wild
...the farmer knows the earth,
her cycles of preparation and harvesting,
the moon's tide and
Joseph's dream: the years of plenty
and the years of famine;
we live in the time of destruction:
Kali Y...
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Categories:
reattached, seasonstime,
Form: I do not know?
Why
...Why has she fed me with lies?
Why does she not truly reply,
to my voice, which we once both shared?
Has it been wiped off, the face of the earth
Or has she wondered off
with another kind.
Why i...
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Categories:
reattached, lost loveme,
Form: Free verse