My Teeth Hate Me
...my teeth crack and die and fall out of my head
Unless my mouth is closed, then they click against other teeth.
This used to happen when I was eating.
Now it happens daily.
My teeth are sad, mad...
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Categories:
scraggily, me,
Form: Prose Poetry
L'Heure Bleue
...L’Heure Bleue
Winter comes into early spring,
Patches of grey crusted old snow linger in the shadows under spruce sentinels.
Larches still bare-branches, only for support of their moss beards.
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Categories:
scraggily, nature,
Form: Free verse
My Boyfriend Found This Cat
...My boyfriend found this cat
Grey whiskers, beady eyes, and a small scraggily body.
We’d been dating for two years.
Met at a little coffee shop right down the street.
“Isn’t he adorable?” He ch...
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Categories:
scraggily, funny, giggle, , cute,
Form: Free verse
Ricky
...I sit on my stoop
watching him wander the street,
skinny as all hell,
scraggily hair and scraggily clothes,
coffee in one hand,
and a smoke hanging from the other
plus a baby boy’s face
you’d...
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Categories:
scraggily, life, sad
Form: I do not know?
Eve's Lament
...Eve blew the hair from out of her eyes
“He thinks nothing matters except size!”
“All he does is loll in the shade
It would be so nice to move to the glade!”
Eve picked a small critter from her...
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Categories:
scraggily, family, funny, girlfriend-boyfriendme, me,
Form: Rhyme