Parasocial Relationship: What Remains Is the Latch
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I’ve kept the bone-ash circle open—
chalked in wax traced from your last reply,
the one you coughed out sideways
between a mirror and an echo,
Just to reiterate, it read.
(Though you...
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Categories:
reiterate, absence, anxiety, friend, life,
Form: Free verse
Fallen out of love
...#Fallen_out_of_love
Yes it's true, I have left the station where our hearts first met, that garden our heart used to shower it's flowers with love, has now turned to a desert,its flowers blossoms no...
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Categories:
reiterate, assonance, betrayal, garden, heart,
Form: Free verse
The oarnge is arranged wrong
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See if your whole life flashes before your eyes
can you see your death
What if eveyone else is thinking the same thing your thinking all the time
What if souls never leave the body
Now I ...
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Categories:
reiterate, poems,
Form: Free verse
MY TRIP TO HEAVEN PART 1
...It was 6/10/19 at 5am. I was asleep in my front room. I first became aware that i was in a differant place when i seen myself in the pitch black sky with billions of stars all around me. My left s...
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Categories:
reiterate, analogy, angel, bible,
Form: Free verse
This Is Not A Love Poem
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{“The day I loved you was my homicide.
The day I loved you I was petrified, the day I loved you I was humiliated of myself that I was indeed capable of it, the day I loved you the satellites in m...
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Categories:
reiterate, absence, abuse, addiction, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
If I Carry My Secrets To The Grave
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{"I fall into the river drenched in my own expectancy,
The peddles inside enveloping me as a fairytale destined to be. However I knew life was far from being caressed and revived by fiction once ...
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Categories:
reiterate, absence, abuse, addiction, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
we need to get together
...My friend always says “we need to get together soon”
She is a phone friend.
I remind her that I am not going anywhere unless it is forty degrees.
I am an asthmatic.
Cold air triggers my respirato...
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Categories:
reiterate, friend,
Form: Free verse
Everyone nose especially Al R Gee I haint no otolaryngologist
...Everyone nose, especially Al R. Gee, I haint no otolaryngologist
Nonetheless this bard ****
videre licet punster mocker feels gratitude
courtesy Kaitlyn Gilsenan, PA-C
a moost deal height full...
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Categories:
reiterate, adventure, angel, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Quantum Challenged IV
..."Referencing an old poetic imagism sort of poem I wrote some four years ago--almost to the day---wherein lies a paradox," ... by The Poet.
MIRROR, MIRROR
I was in a room,
there, I saw ...
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Categories:
reiterate, analogy,
Form: Imagism
My lookalike dilemma
...#My_Lookalike_Dilemma
Feels like a Curse, since my childhood someone somewhere looked like me, Nigerians call me Ogah, Somalians calls me Their Own, got punished for being a Lookalike, forced to wit...
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Categories:
reiterate, analogy, anger, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Free verse
I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome
...I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome...
Whereby yours truly presages and doth abhor
nothing short of an imminent civil war
dwarfing insurrection on January 6, 2021
oddly enough e...
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Categories:
reiterate, abuse, america, anger, animal,
Form: Free verse
Time to separate
...Let’s kill not dying moments of closeness,
This much was destined our togetherness,
Let’s heal our hearts before we separate,
And accept what has been as a fair fate.
You and me met at a fair s...
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Categories:
reiterate, moving on, together,
Form: Kyrielle
I hate poetry
...I hate the verse, despise its embrace,
Yet, a poet I am, in this ironic space.
No, I genuinely loathe poetry's face,
It revolts within me, words of ignorance trace.
Yet, within its lines, a ref...
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Categories:
reiterate, appreciation, courage, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Inspiration In the Rain
...I find inspiration in the rain
Soul-searching while it withers away my tears
There’s no inspiration greater than that of the rain
Small droplets on my windowpane
Slowly caress away my pain
I ...
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Categories:
reiterate, blessing, feelings, gospel, motivation,
Form: Rhyme
For More Effective Communication
...Do you remember Helen Keller?
She was a really awesome speller
Who couldn't hear nor see nor speak,
So to communicate
She would ges-tic-u-late.
Marcel Marceau spoke perfect French,
But he was...
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Categories:
reiterate, humor,
Form: Light Verse
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