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I promise to love you
Love you with a love so strong
No mountain, nor hill, nor forest
Could stand in our way

I promise to cherish you
Cherish you...

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The Haunting of the Moon


She comes when the Moon is heavy
With wishes from many a maid
Who with passionate longing,
Their dreams upon it laid

She comes when...

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Never met her, yet I've heard
the crazy Tante von Vogt
lived her life as any would,
if they were crazy.

She'd walk to butcher's each week
no nod greeting...

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Sunset of your summer, by the poolside all my winters
and when you go away, waiting like you're my only way,
drowning down in your sight beiges,
I...

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**Content warning: depicts abuse (please skip to one of my more lightheaded poems if one needs to).


To you, your abuse began as a game or...

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To figure you out holistically, 
I need to wade the waters cautiously
A snap of a band on my wrist 
Every time I think of this...

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Here a woman and man sit on a bench.
The man beside her holding her hand
The woman weeps. The man is praying,
So it seems - we...

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One foot out the door,
The other stayed behind.
All prepared to flee,
Our situation, lead lined.

The last time we shared,
Before the door was slammed.
Yelling to be fixed...

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Our home was lit with autumn's spicy scent.
Now spent are the forms that had something to hold:
votive molds, photo frames, vases.... forsaken.

The form within my...

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(This time I've quoted my own poem titles. Everything in quotes is a title.)


"Dear reader," again, this monolog persists.
We're no longer "sparring" with figurative fists.

"The...

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Oh, the piggy loves you
The piggy loves me
The piggy is homeless, 
yessiree. 

Give the pig a cookie
Give the pig a bed
Or maybe a sarcophagus, 
in...

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Trying to figure out where I went wrong
And why must I face this world all alone
There was a time I felt I belong
There was a...

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Once my heart was made of stone
Cold and hard, it stood alone
But then I met a gentle soul
Whose kindness made my heart whole

I felt a...

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My Beautiful Angel

You always said you'll be right by my side, 
U always told me to reveal my true self, and to never hide
I try...

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I’m a soldier of fortune 
Just home from the War
Begging for food from
The woman at this door.
She took me to her kitchen 
Fed me cold...

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