The Leads Were Flawed
...our impenetrable marriages
we both in honesty, blatant
honesty even in the
darkest of confession
It's a trust based on a premise
of us being together
removing our selfs from
the responsibil...
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Categories:
selfs, film, love, music, song,
Form: Ballade
Bel Canto What's Ruining me What's Ruining Us
...One's perspective
might be the precursor to his down fall
when it's all or nothing
he might end up
with know one at all
betrayal of ah lover
has real consequenses
a fool only loves someone
th...
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Categories:
selfs, break up, conflict, culture,
Form: Ballade
Battler
...
I am losing the war against myself
Who I am vs who I am supposed to be against what I am
It exhausting when your opponent is a fighter
Its exhausting fighting the mirror
Cuts and bruises un...
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Categories:
selfs, angst, deep, depression, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Phenomenalogistically Speaking
...a reality once understood
...echoes...
the actual and becomes a
...medium...
specific gravity called time
...awareness...
that allows one to swim in the
...moment...
in any direction ...
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Categories:
selfs, appreciation, peace, world,
Form: Free verse
Hideaway In Advance
...Some way to be
When the next thing comes along
To find some way
To explain what we think we need
Is it an excuse to blame the world
For what we refuse to see
Unhappy
Unhappy
All the erksome...
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Categories:
selfs, happiness, sad,
Form: Free verse
Hitchhiker From Another World 4
...“Come on, let's get introduced to my play mate in a palm.
Linda, these are Joshua’s true other selfs.”
Lelia emitting a peculiar chuckle.
A comic situation arose where I changed my voice for each of my "selfs" by way of introduction.
My great powers of concentration helped me do this while driving.
"Pleased to meet you, Linda.”
Lelia altered her voice when teasing all my "selfs."
Lelia conceded...
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Categories:
selfs, art, beautiful, beauty, celebration,
Form: Prose
Hitchhiker From Another World Part 3
.... This time talking to the palm of her hand.
Starring vacantly at her palm she kept repeating the name Linda.
Lelia continued oblivious to what I saw or might be thinking.
She hummed this strange lullaby which almost covered her conversation.
Suddenly my "selfs" surfaced in an uncontrollable flurry.
I tried to suppress them but failed abysmally.
The "whispers and selfs" started to have a life of their own.
This car is getting a bit crowded.
It's ...
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Categories:
selfs, art, august, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Prose
Conversation With Omicron
...Conversation with Omicron
I’m speaking with Omicron. Omicron is a well known antagonist of the health care system and frequently mentioned in political discussions. First, why did you come here?
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Categories:
selfs, social, spoken word,
Form: Free verse
Photographs and Memories
...In the photographs,
times are submitted
by the cameras and their
phlegmatic blasé flashes ...
They do not care
with us...
Wedding,
graduations,
picnics or portraits...
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Categories:
selfs, allegory, allusion, emotions, extended
Form: Prose Poetry
Sondige Vlees
...Ek wil nie meer kyk
of myself vergryp
aan die dinge van die vlees
wat my wil oorheers.
Ek roep na die Vader
Hy trek my nader.
Selfs in die donker
is Hy my genadig....
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Categories:
selfs, christian, faith, god, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Always Is
...penchants for doing things the right way
unhinge the knighted sky shot full with holes
twinkle twinkle little star, you burn so very
bright, where have you all gone? home you say,
dancing the e...
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Categories:
selfs, inspiration,
Form: Blank verse
Butterfly Beauty
...Butterflies don't peak to soon
They are cuddled in cocoons
Warm and safe as they grow
Into the beauty they will show
To the world when they are free
They are just like you and me
Slowly growing...
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Categories:
selfs, beauty, identity, image,
Form: Rhyme
Scars Forming In Your Dreams
...They listened
They listened to you cry
They listened to you scream
Fists bloodied from beating walls
Scars forming in your dreams
They never loved your heart
They never loved your being
Thei...
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Categories:
selfs, abuse, addiction, age, betrayal,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Right of Bruhta, Right On Sista
...sometimes we act like we
gotta ask for nothing
our way of trying to get something
beg a little to get what we got
and act satisfied cause it aint a lot
unmind one to do what we need
that save a...
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Categories:
selfs, betrayal, celebrity, city, culture,
Form: Narrative
Dissiepels
...Net soos Noag, David & Abraham
word dissiepels van die ware lam.
Net soos Johannes, Lukas of Filamon
leer die word en vertrou net op Hom.
Leef soos Titus, Markus & Daniël
wys vir almal dat God m...
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Categories:
selfs, bible,
Form: Quatrain
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