Your Gem In Me
...Your heart is my soul in me
Your face I can't forget
Your love that dwells in me
I always call your name in me
A gem I keep in my closet
Your heart is my soul in me
Your scent that blows in...
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Categories:
safe deposit, for her,
Form: Villanelle
Noir Intrusions
...It’s the cat on the doorstep you didn’t expect.
A burnt-out lightbulb darkening the foyer.
It’s the thought of something creepy lurking under the porch,
A feeling you might need a clever lawyer.
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Categories:
safe deposit, allegory, fantasy, memory,
Form: Lyric
Silence and Secrets
...Oh all the silence and
secrets that I carry
My palms are so tired
I've lost the key to my safe deposit box......
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Categories:
safe deposit, anxiety, confusion, deep, depression,
Form: Prose
Pass It Off As One's Own Plagiarize
...not to boastfully brag
or to overly self-praise
but I gave, and I gave
my creative lyrics
the best and the worst
of my unhappy days
thinking to myself they will
never see the light of da...
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Categories:
safe deposit, betrayal, bullying, celebrity, international,
Form: Bio
I'Ve Had Enough
...I think I'll signal guru Bob that I've had enough
of his implicit stress therapy as he calls it
I've contacted the hunchback sperm banks
for a safe deposit box until the embrace is ended
with the...
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Categories:
safe deposit, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Tormens Humanum
...I established a rapport
with the Sacred Cow
and it stepped all over my toes
the oil of anointment in my crankcase
I was limping worthy of an asterisk
an army of monks couldn't keep me pure
lau...
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Categories:
safe deposit, how i feel, universe,
Form: Free verse
So Many Struggles, So Little Time
...Why does "sacrilegious"
mean struggling against sacred health experience
rather than struggling with re-ligioning monotheistic divinity
to notnot dualling polytheistic dividity?
How could prodi...
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Categories:
safe deposit, anger, humanity, humor, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Death
...Michael and Carolyn came home again
Their busy lives disrupted by death's end
Not knowing they'd encounter love unrestrained
By coming home for mom's funeral to attend
Life has some changes f...
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Categories:
safe deposit, death, life, love,
Form: Sonnet