Ilheobeorin
...I am lost in the dark again.
Can you help me find my way,
and the pieces that fell away
in my stupor?
First was brightness; it dimmed
Until, at last,
it fizzed out with no fanfare
and rolled...
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Categories:
salvageable, pain,
Form: Free verse
He Deserves a Great Marrage
...Yesterday i was told a story
it involved celebrities and stardom
two people well known and wealthy
came to be lovers
they married and were friendly
and cordial through out
there time together....
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Categories:
salvageable, guitar, music,
Form: Ballad
Necessity
...the air of our quiet breathing
the bower bounce on which to live
outlasting all the blooms and bells of time
sweet to inhale in fresh woods and on sunflower hills
in an ever-changing dance
com...
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Categories:
salvageable, city, environment, future, planet,
Form: Free verse
Apples Live Up To Prediction
...rich fertile tree with brown-turning wrinkled leaves
surrounded by your own fruitful bounty
many rounded orbs with teeth marks in them
do Kansas deer have teeth?
begin to count them as I rake t...
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Categories:
salvageable, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Children of the Sewage-
...• CHILDREN OF THE SEWAGE-
First I no more I drink not of the toilet water;
I save the sewage for the benign sister and brother;
Children of default blessed not yet salvageable;
They too will be...
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Categories:
salvageable, analogy, anxiety, change, cheer
Form: Dramatic Verse
No Supper
...No Supper
Round as a planet, dark as the galaxy
the interior looked like the last battle in Verdun
the early spring of 1914.
It had been a healthy preparation of carrots, beans
turnips, potato...
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Categories:
salvageable, best friend, fun,
Form: Blitz
The Cold Heart of Consequence
...if only i had made better choices
if only i had said no
if only i knew what and where love was
if only i had simply remained faithful
i would be sleeping in a warm, comfortable king size bed
and...
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Categories:
salvageable, break up, introspection, lost
Form: Free verse
Word of the Day : March 21, 2021
...cannibalize
verb KAN-uh-buh-lyze
1 a : to take salvageable parts from (something, such as a disabled machine) for use in building or repairing another machine
b : to make use of (a part taken...
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Categories:
salvageable, christian, high school, kid,
Form: Free verse
Friendly Pirate Wannabe Flies His Jolly Roger
...Friendly pirate wannabe flies his Jolly Roger...
while surfing cyber seas today March 2nd, 2021.
Actually yours truly quite a literate codger
(ah shucks just missed being draft dodger)
no not f...
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Categories:
salvageable, absence, adventure, confidence, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Stop Thinking
...Sure life is a disappointment, but is it menial?
Salvageable? Palpable? Tolerable?
My brain waves are pondering this.
I am not a philosopher or anything,
yet here I am, thinking again.
Stop thin...
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Categories:
salvageable, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Seven Salvageable Things
...My house
soon to be
at the mercy
of a catastrophic fire
the likelihood
of salvaging
everything
infinitesimal to nil.
Given a choice
to make off
with just seven things,
I'd choos...
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Categories:
salvageable, fire, house, me, perspective,
Form: List
Letters For People Part 4
...Dear people,
(Am i?) Mad it’s a conformist state?
A status that perpetuates people to pair, to compare, to prepare,
to perfect, before performance, …?
-sure hard to try to tardily prefa...
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Categories:
salvageable, america, angst, business, confusion,
Form: Epic
Twelve Months Broken-Hearted
...Twelve months later
I’m struggling for a motivator
To get me up in the morning
My life at present is stagnant and boring
Mixed feelings about my ex-wife
Am I missing her from my life?
Yes I’v...
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Categories:
salvageable, break up,
Form: Rhyme
Preponderance of Guilt
...
50-50
was the divorce court decree
She and I both bear the blame,
yet, why does an 800-pound gorilla
preponderance of guilt
weigh heavy on the back of me?
I know I did my shameful pa...
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Categories:
salvageable, divorce, marriage, perspective, sad
Form: Dramatic Monologue
A Better Fate
...Unrequited love haunts
your fantasies and dreams.
And you are left struggling;
to stifle silent screams.
All hearts crave affection;
those denied die inside.
And like a seductress,
l...
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Categories:
salvageable, fate, hurt, love, love
Form: Quatrain
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