Part of Me: A Fallen Child
...Part of my soul severed by their ruthless oppression, demoralization and exploitation of a frightened and abandoned child.
Part of me drowning in detrimental sorrow as a 10 yr. old coerced by the ...
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Categories:
rickets, abuse, anti bullying, child
Form: Free verse
Moon Light Delight
...Sunlight long gone for Night's Moonlight
And its sure throbbing delight:
"God, help me tomorrow at school
To exams pass and feel 'No Fool' "
This night watchers to buy tickets,
As shrill chirps...
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Categories:
rickets, celebration, devotion, humanity, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Anchors Aweigh
...Anchors Aweigh...
destination unknown
for this Earthling
stardate: February 26th, 2022
At sea since time immemorial
I relish being alone
upon oceanic expanse
yours truly doth bemoan
me ga...
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Categories:
rickets, 6th grade, adventure, america,
Form: Rhyme
Excuses
...I appreciate you asking me for a date
but, errr... the invitation arrived too late.
You see; I stumbled and took a tumble
that broke my nose and bloodied my toes.
My face is swollen and my clo...
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Categories:
rickets, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Hot Passing Weather
...The visitation of that unpleasant side of life is here
comes with a series of pain is this compulsory treasure hunt
issues grow fat and fetch more corn meal from our distresses
the skin is seared ...
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Categories:
rickets, anxiety, life, society, spoken
Form: Free verse
Hot Passing Weather
...The visitation of that unpleasant side of life is here
comes with a series of pain is this compulsory treasure hunt
issues grow fat and fetch more corn meal from our distresses
the skin is seared ...
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Categories:
rickets, adventure, character, life, strength,
Form: Free verse
Time Machine
...This time machine controls your destiny you already know the answer, you can see clearly how amazing your future is. You did it , congratulations....but at the same time since we travelling through t...
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Categories:
rickets, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Hunger Pangs
...The sign actually said ‘Universal Disposal’ but the haggard squalid creature
Had no time for such ephemeral discourse he could just about spell his name
Kanja meaning water born and his parent...
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Categories:
rickets, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Poor Rickets
...My one legged mate called Rickets
Pierced his foot on a thorn in the thickets
As he hopped around in pain
He did it again and again
It was so funny I could of sold tickets
In the bathroom, he ...
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Categories:
rickets, age,
Form: Limerick
Anchors Aweigh Destination Unknown
...Anchors Aweigh...Destination Unknown
Weather beaten cap'n,
and watertight bewitched craft
time tested since maiden voyage
(circumnavigating the globe
back in the day
of my youth),
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Categories:
rickets, absence, adventure, allegory, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Would You Believe
...I appreciate you asking me for a date
Would you believe you asked too late?
No? Well I have another excuse
A list of them that's quite profuse
I tripped and fell, breaking my nose
Now there...
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Categories:
rickets, nonsense,
Form: Couplet
Rival of Rickets
...rival of rickets ~
Spring sunshiny easter egg hunt
and D-licious milk
4/2/2018...
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Categories:
rickets, holiday, spring,
Form: Haiku
Silver Arrows, and Rickets
...nonsense purity
polymer
a squeezing of something
out
a tri fold with scores
of plastic, so necessarily unfulfilled
with pictorials
a social security card,
a card from the merchant marines
w...
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Categories:
rickets, 1st grade, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Concrete
Spring Is Coming Soon
...Sing with the birds in May
Pretty songs in dancing play
Raindrops on pedals of flowers
Inspire dreams in spring showers
Nests where robin eggs lay
Give ...
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Categories:
rickets, beauty, spring,
Form: Acrostic
No Jobs For a Man
...I was the seventh child in a family of four,
the second born, do I need to say more?
Well perhaps I should fill in a few gaps,
or you could remain confused perhaps...
Yes I was the second boy b...
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Categories:
rickets, class, family, grief, jobs,
Form: Rhyme
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