Repossess Poems

The Story About Not Finding Yourself

...Ma lied to me about using credit cards
she'd taken in my name, notices 
told the tale. I let them repossess
my car to keep post-Uni plans 
for the Emerald Isle, which I liked to consider 
my hom...
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Categories: repossess, abuse, life, travel,
Form: Free verse

Timing

...A listless wall-clock tocks.
Pedestrians sleep-walk to their garages,
strung out nightwalkers arrive home
to unwind main springs.
Neighborhood cats want in and dogs out.
Pet-free I arise
to pee...
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Categories: repossess, poetry,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberYou're On the Naughty List

...A Parody for Soupers based on the song, 'Santa Claus is Coming to Town.'

You better not shout
You better not sigh
You better not pout
I'm telling you why...
PS Admin is makin' the rounds
They...
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Categories: repossess, holiday, parody,
Form: Rhyme

Gone

...The urge to disappear. 
Fall off into a volcano 
Erupt and saturate the surrounding land. 
Suffocate myself quickly in sand. 
repossess my life and leave this empty, broken shell.
This is goodby...
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Categories: repossess, anxiety, butterfly, change, deep,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberShow Me the Way

...Thank you Lord
For a new beginning 
Thank you Lord
For the grace to overcome
The vagaries of the old year
Show me the way to go Lord
For you are my divine compass
The way the truth and life
T...
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Categories: repossess, allusion, birth, blessing, change,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberRise Nigerian Youth

...Hello Nigerian youth!
How are doing? 
I salute your courage
I salute your resolve
To take back your country 
Bedeviled by evils of unimaginable proportion 
That threaten and becloud your future...
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Categories: repossess, birth, bullying, confidence, corruption,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWe Took the Bridge

...We took the bridge of San Luis Rey
And stood on the beach at Manila Bay
We bellied down in the soggy lea
And creeped across the churning sea.

In every clime where men were chained
We stormed t...
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Categories: repossess, patriotic, war, world war
Form: Ballad

Premium MemberWaves

...Crashing waves pound the shore dashing wildly up the sand 
 until exhausted, they reach their limit then,
bubbling, drift back into the sea.

Like lovers that rush towards you with ardent intensi...
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Categories: repossess, depression, suicide,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberHomeless Now Car-Less Soon

...Just because I had a job
Doesn't mean I was gainfully employed
Or could afford my college degrees
Or even to eat, to sleep
So working low wage jobs 2nd shift
Was one way to look as if
I was hea...
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Categories: repossess, animal, anxiety, car, cheer
Form: Free verse

The Great Crossing

...THE GREAT CROSSING

Moses communicated to Pharaoh God’s message,
“Let my people go to the desert that
They may worship me and celebrate.”
Plagues nine from God, Pharaoh deceived nine times
The ...
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Categories: repossess, adventure, age, angst, beach,
Form: Free verse

Narcissistic America

...They abuse us in
many forms with intent
to strip us of dignity then
snatch away our lives
They return with red and
blue apologies they
watered with white lies
Cohorting us into accepting them
...
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Categories: repossess, abuse, america, anger, bullying,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberEchoes of the Angel's Fallen

...Invocation to the Muse

From the gleaming skin of life’s underbelly, 
sin unreconciled, formed from Nephilim seed,
fleet footed jokers mask pawns into flight;
To the epistle of the Most High.
F...
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Categories: repossess, allegory, angel, christian,
Form: Epic

Giver of Usury

...
Those feeling unsecured,
who be in brokered deal need,
listen to this vary interesting message carefully

I got what you don’t have,
but what you want financed desperately
You most cer...
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Categories: repossess, money, philosophy, truth, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Fighting the Rapids

...Where a year seems like an eternity to you
getting through to tomorrow is progress
Never have such words rang so true

You were a paddle less canoe
Caught in the rapids under stress
Where a yea...
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Categories: repossess, feelings, future,
Form: Villanelle

Depressive To Selfless

...Please tell me why do I feel like this?
my life is so good, safe, to most it’s bliss 
then why do I sit all day, just weep and cry
thinking that things will be better if I die,

there must be so...
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Categories: repossess, anxiety, change, confusion, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme

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