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if God was a woman on earth - An ode to my grandmother
...my grandmother’s name is Verna some look at her and see section 8, welfare checks, abuse and neglect they see insufficiency, ignorant independency, a trench-condemned wreck no collegiate ed......

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Categories: set the record straight, 10th grade,
Form: Spoken Word
Dust, ashes, memories
...Dust is falling The one above is calling Hate myself but can't erase The damage done is written all over my face Killing me from the inside out Disassociated and consumed by doubt All that iv......

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Categories: set the record straight, child abuse, childhood, conflict,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member poem 4 in 2023 available as 2023 vol 1 on amazon
...4 Have gone so far To be left behind No longer longing for a reward To set the record straight I know I lived every day But these thoughts are rearranged Can’t remember and I forgot What I wa......

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Categories: set the record straight, analogy, anger, angst, animal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Refurbished Nursery Rhymes: Peter Piper's Peculiar Pepper Patch
..."Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers…" Every time I hear a kid recite this twisted rhyme, I'm 'minded how 'gainst Mother Nature it's a crime. What that peck of peppers was no one can te......

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Categories: set the record straight, humor,
Form: Light Verse
An Ode To the Fullness of My Belly
...sweet decadent belly how ever will you forgive me i didn’t know couldn’t know how to love you i didn’t see that you were more than a belly you were an entire person an easy breezy lover gir......

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Categories: set the record straight, health, loss, society,
Form: Free verse



As My Life Goes On
... As My Life Goes On The past is gaining on me There's nowhere else to go I'm tired of running Ready or not it's time to face my foes The ghosts the demons the skeletons the scheming......

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Categories: set the record straight, deep, endurance, hip hop,
Form: Rhyme
Hear Me Out
...I hear, you ask about me? I will tell you exactly. All these years I was a fool. In the kingdom of the blind, You were the king with the one eye. Everybody has......

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Categories: set the record straight, betrayal, confidence, conflict, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Blacksmith's Lament - With Apologies To Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
...I'm at work in the village market, sky of lapis, lawn of jade, Near the stump of the ancient chestnut where my grandpa learned his trade. I could close my eyes and still enjoy the view With a f......

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Categories: set the record straight, desire,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member For My Very Last Poem
...For my very last poem I'd like you all to know I used to live on wanderlust Though now it doesn't show For my very last poem I'd like here to confess That for too much of my too short l......

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Categories: set the record straight, farewell, poems, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Shell Shocked
...Humpty Dumpty had no yolk As oft implied to younger folk. This hatched idea in oviform Should never have become the norm. And so, before it is too late I mean to set the record straight. For ......

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Categories: set the record straight, perspective,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Mystery of Humpty Dumpty - the Cover Up
...I heard the tale of Humpty Dumpty who sat on a wall, and how he managed to have a terrible and fatal fall. But let me be the first to set the record straight, everything that happened that day ......

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Categories: set the record straight, murder, mystery, myth,
Form: Couplet
Crossing Over
...I've crossed over life's next great divide Joining others from near as well as far and wide A new world where memories are king And one knows not what each day may bring Seems only yesterday that......

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Categories: set the record straight, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Today's Racist
...Today's racist is not your hate racist of the past. Today's racist are just ignorant people, both good and bad. Most see humanity, as akin to the feline family. There are lions and tigers, cougar......

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Categories: set the record straight, race,
Form: Rhyme
The Day the Sun Explodes
...One day this old earth shall pass, When the cosmic gods unleash their last damning curse. Everything will be digested, into the bellies of a billion skies, The black smoke will paint hands, waving......

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Categories: set the record straight, destiny, earth, firework, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member If I Were An Elephant
...If I were an elephant: I would set the record straight And squash that big fat lie. I'm not scared of an little ole mouse. It's fleas that scare the HELL of me! 12-08-16 Contest......

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Categories: set the record straight, humorous,
Form: Light Verse

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