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The Shoes I Lace Myself Into
...I found them tucked beneath a cracked mirror, black leather dull with the dust of old grief, heels worn down from turning away— a shape molded by silence, not comfort. I wear them when the air ......
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Mark Massey
Categories:
scuffed,
absence, abuse, anxiety, character,
Form:
Free verse
Maze of Longing - Fear's Abyss
... Written: April 12, 2025 for contest sponsored by Brian Strand ************* . . .In the silent expanse of lunar dust a momento rests shards of progress glint like stars ......
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Sotto Poet
Categories:
scuffed,
appreciation, history,
Form:
Free verse
I once had a PE teacher from Lille
...I once had a PE teacher from Lille, who cruelly knew how to make me feel like the sweaty, old rag stuffed in her scuffed gym bag to hide her cigs and butt plug of steel.......
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Rio Jansen
Categories:
scuffed,
anger, humorous, rude, student,
Form:
Limerick
RICH GIRL IN RAGS
...Two skinny legs dangle from hand-me-down frocks. Elastic bands holding up her socks. Scuffed shoes upon her feet, so small they barely fit. Water leaks through the crack where the sole had spli......
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Wendy Evans
Categories:
scuffed,
celebrity, dream, irony, star,
Form:
Rhyme
Autumn Side Of September
...In the middle ages these roughed and scuffed decades between newborn crocus snow-melt-nursed and dried hydrangea blooms sepia-skinned and papery thin I earned the right to wear sapphires and bur......
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Susan Ashley
Categories:
scuffed,
age, beauty, birth, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
The Field
...His dog stops often to sniff the scuffed turf of this recreation park. It smells last Sunday's soccer game, by tracing the sweaty play, the spots where the spinning ball slid crazily, through ......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
scuffed,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
An American Chorus
... Written: November 12, 2024, for — Glenn Hughes Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori, inspired by the song “Let America Be America Again” ______________......
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Sotto Poet
Categories:
scuffed,
allusion, america, celebrity,
Form:
Rhyme
Fearful Realizations
...My days are void of color It seems I cannot speak your name My consciousness lives within my memories Holding only myself to blame. The bleakness of reality My soul, it perseveres It lives f......
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Samantha Scharf
Categories:
scuffed,
anxiety, loneliness, lost, sad,
Form:
Rhyme
A life with love in it
...Two skinny legs dangle from hand-me-down frocks. Elastic bands holding up her socks. Scuffed shoes on her feet so small they barley fit. Water leaks through the crack where the sole had split. ......
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Wendy Evans
Categories:
scuffed,
growing up,
Form:
Rhyme
Falls mysterious sounds
...With a SPLASH of color a chance for cooler weather falls BUZZ is heard the CHATTER of talking leaves DROP to the ground a CRUNCH under foot broken into a MUMBLE barely heard trees beco......
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Karen Croft
Categories:
scuffed,
seasons,
Form:
Free verse
Seijaku
... Life is not always filled with cloying contentment. There are taunting trials and things I'd rather not do. Those tedious tasks that steal my smiles and my time, but not the joy of life's mo......
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Lin Lane
Categories:
scuffed,
appreciation, home,
Form:
Free verse
Undone
...sneakers twisted over hydro wires co-joined dangling from tied laces tracks to an unhappy ending a runner's castoff erasing the scourge of a race lost? an overhead tale of something snapped ......
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Brian Sambourne
Categories:
scuffed,
environment, imagery, loss, places,
Form:
Free verse
Dichotomy of Freefall
...Summer soil melded between bloodied feet. There is gravel stuck between bone and soul in their arch. A curve, a signature that belongs to an individual, it is yours and only yours. It ......
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B. Andrew Kelly
Categories:
scuffed,
best friend, farewell, friend,
Form:
Free verse
Old Jaw Harp
...Aging man your shoes do not shine upon jagged century’s wooden floor scuffed, swollen leathers, buckles not laces, bereft of brush that buffed they tap your time, just time for you where ghosts......
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Clive Culverhouse
Categories:
scuffed,
age, dedication, fire, life,
Form:
Free verse
Seattle Streets
...The traffic light delayed us both Me driving my car She driving her cart. The traffic direction changed, rotated, making black eyes spark annoyed as her walk signal failed to appear, shr......
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Sarah Ann Jullion
Categories:
scuffed,
age, old,
Form:
Free verse
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