Repeating Sentiments from her Mommy
...We had to divorce daddy the five-year-old said
Her mommy had planted this inside her head
He is uncourtable she announced with sass
What does that mean? I asked the tiny lass
We are angry with ...
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Categories:
reiterated, divorce, parents,
Form: Rhyme
Skeleton Cat And Pinstripe Mouse
...Canon Beach Oregon
Present Day
Silver rain wrapped her following fingers around Douglas Firs.
Ocean was the ballerina dancing.
Flash after flash she took pictures of nightfall landscapes while...
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Categories:
reiterated, children, courage, death, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Nadir
...The paths of my mission would be rows of roses, I thought.
To my shock, in tipsy turvy twists and turns, I got tossed
Didn't I desire to know the known to know the unknown?
Each wish of mine, like...
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Categories:
reiterated, angst, life, sad,
Form: Rhyme
then the sun plunged into the sea
...My bf works in Geneva, Switzerland. I go to school in New Haven. We Facetime a lot - but it’s not ideal.
“I wanted to tell you, that it’s been nice.” I told him somberly. “What do you mean?” He as...
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Categories:
reiterated, angst, boyfriend, fear, humor,
Form: Free verse
Popping off
...This was last Christmas - 39 days ago - doesn’t that seem like ancient history?
We were in Lisa’s (parent’s) 50th floor flat, in Manhattan. It was mid-morning, we’d done the present thing, and it...
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Categories:
reiterated, christmas, grandmother, humor, music,
Form: Free verse
I Wish I Was Dead
...My day is ruined the eleven-year-old said.
It is the worst kind of day, I wish I were dead.
What is it? I asked? She looked like perfection.
This enormous pimple is full of pink puss infection.
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Categories:
reiterated, for teens,
Form: Rhyme
To The KEY HOLDER With MULTI-FACETED Responsibilities: DEPARTMENT OF INFINITE SPECIALITIES
...You're moving through life with knowing it can merge into struggle and strife but regardless, you take aim moving above and beyond! Next thing you know, you take a tumble, a significant stumble, and ...
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Categories:
reiterated, angst, blessing, change, courage,
Form: Prose Poetry
To Make a Long Story Short
...I asked about her family.
She started to say “to make a long story short.
her story went on and on and on
There was a barn, a country road, a duck pond.
It rambled and ambled,
My eyes were scram...
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Categories:
reiterated, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Chapter 5 -- Damian Hakim: Brothers To Brothers
...Date February 17, 2014
Today is the day that Damian
Will not ever forget. 12 years-old Damian
Was asleep in bed. When he Heard
His father's voice calling and his
Mother screaming. Damian ...
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Categories:
reiterated, birth, boy, deep, devotion,
Form: Prose
Chapter 85 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Young Solomons
...Damian Stood in the morning sun.
The sun felt good on his face.
Delilah was still sleeping. He
Kissed her face and caressed
Her belly until she awoke.
Hey my Mrs. Me. Come on babe.
We will be ...
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Categories:
reiterated, adventure, birth, business, father
Form: Alliteration
Self Existence In Wordplay
...reiterated &continous
an outpouring
exemplifies
an alterego
in succinct
ironic layers
a relentless
genre
perennial
&
implicit
a practice
paralleled &
morphed
into sparse lines
...
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Categories:
reiterated, word play,
Form: Free verse
Strawberry
...Sensual Interludes mapping my lover's chest
Taking in the essence of his exuberant passion suggest
Ravishing moments will be filled with sentimental embrace
Angelic radiance will never leave my fa...
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Categories:
reiterated, beautiful, fruit, love,
Form: Acrostic
Encounter On Campus
...Walking through the gardens;
sky sifting raindrops,
I was stopped in my tracks by a Hawk.
Wings flapping towards me,
he leapt from foot-to-foot;
a primal mating dance.
I went left, he ...
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Categories:
reiterated, animal, appreciation, bird, nature,
Form: Free verse
Ronald Rump Reasonably Roasted
...Ronald Rump reasonably roasted
Remarkable – recourse retaining rickety
rambling reverence regarding “r.”
Ronald Rump
repugnant racist republican reviled -
rickettsia re:itch ruler.
Rap...
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Categories:
reiterated, 12th grade, america, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
What Pet Would It Be
...If you could have any pet I said.
“A piranha!” she yelled. Then she laughed.
She is seven years, eight months and two days.
“A piranha!” I reiterated.
I had never had this answer before.
I had...
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Categories:
reiterated, children,
Form: Light Verse
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