who knocks
...Who Knocks
"Who knocks so quietly on the cloister's
port a poor girl from a land afar."
We sang that song at school and always
made me emotional, I could picture this
poor waif seeking shelter...
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Categories:
sedative, abuse, age, analogy, angel,
Form: ABC
Alcohol
...That clean crisp bubbly taste.
That clean crisp bubbly taste I crave.
That taste just one more sip, one more sip to drown out the noise, one more sip to forget about everything.
One turns into ...
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Categories:
sedative, addiction, drink, how i
Form: Free verse
Not so Non-Profit
...I was referred to your organization for shelter
what was offered was totally helter skelter
first week a birdie gave the scoop of the place
a dirty dark seedy operation without any grace
Your ...
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Categories:
sedative, abuse, community, dark, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
Grief of the Bard
...After the end of all the loudest times
A poet breathed in yet another breath
Finally prepared to present his rhymes
About love and hate, even life and death
Prepared to give stories with falls an...
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Categories:
sedative, art, poets,
Form: Ottava rima
Real World Sedative Huitain
...Knew just what she wanted to say,
that’s what she steadfastly believed;
Jazzed to write this poet at play,
clever words with rhythm are weaved;
No longer with that spirit sleeved
ghost whispers ...
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Categories:
sedative, dream, emotions, feelings, poetry,
Form: Other
Bitter Wind - Page 3
...Mary; After entering the room, the sounds that continue to cry on the phone are heard from three doors in Joseph's room. Joseph; He knew it was downstairs and after a few days, he agreed to prevent t...
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Categories:
sedative, literature,
Form: Free verse
Jasmine
...
Sweet scented, star shaped,
Summer sedative, silky spike
Shines with its short stature
Sign of sensuality and suppleness
Supports spirits, slashes stress
Scents and colognes mad...
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Categories:
sedative, flower,
Form: Free verse
Still Mine In My Heart
...Remembering the sedative X I was given by my ex...
How I had tried to X him out, all went according to plan...
But all of that has failed and now I wish he was still my man....
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Categories:
sedative, devotion, first love, i
Form: Sijo
I Am Not a Pill Pusher
...here you go.
Have a sedative.
No wait! That’s mine!
It was given to me by a doctor fine.
Here’s a lithium.
That might calm you down a bit.
No wait. It has to be given to Uncle Chit.
Here’s...
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Categories:
sedative, drug,
Form: Prose Poetry
Four Narcotics Chemicals
...1.Midazolam injection.
2.Hydromorphone inj.
3.Sodium Barbital inj.
4.Sodium thiopental.
An anesthetic or sedative,followed by a drug to paralyze the inmate,and finally a drug to stop the heart.Th...
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Categories:
sedative, addiction, drink, drug, fire,
Form: List
Victims of Thalidomite
...It’s not a dreaded story, created by Grimms*,
but shouldn’t it horror in us and reflection ignite?
Ten thousand children born with malformed limbs
and brain defects, which were caused by thalidomi...
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Categories:
sedative, abuse, baby, birth, drug,
Form: Rhyme
I'M Over It
...Interpret this - you psychotic, sociopathic snake
I wish everything in your world to crumble and break
You're the most f--king illogical sad excuse for a soul I've ever seen
It would be, "off with...
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Categories:
sedative, boyfriend,
Form: Rhyme
South Westerly
...A south westerly buffeted the house
all night, howling at the windows,
trying to find something loose
to lift up and rip away.
Then the rain hardened to hail
bruising early summer growth
with i...
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Categories:
sedative, storm,
Form: Free verse
Suspicion Fell On the Butler
...For him quirky incidents are not very new,
Being adept seasoned butler for years a few;
Dead fly in the chicken curry they bluntly cry,
While gladly consume entire pork and mutton fry...!
My ...
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Categories:
sedative, bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Loud
...Thunderous, roaring, booming, deafening
A hit so good got 'em begging
Begging for more, just pulling 'em in with magnetism
Hitting so LOUD causing astigmatism
Now, vision for the future is di...
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Categories:
sedative, abuse, addiction, community, depression,
Form: Rhyme
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