Gothenburg Penitentiary
...Gothenburg Penitentiary, the hardest of the hardest/
The concrete jungle, where everyone is heartless/
Gothenburg Penitentiary, the show now mercy/
So, you gotta learn to swim in murky waters/
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Categories:
shivs, anxiety, corruption, dark, depression,
Form: Free verse
Peacespeaker
...Pairing knives peppered the garden growing by the river.
Eerie sounds slid sideways into the lowering light.
Alfy and Alice were still out cavorting beyond the barn.
Children in dusty blue dresses...
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Categories:
shivs, farm, peace,
Form: Acrostic
Dad Or Bad
...Dad or Bad.
Broken homes
And
Lavish dens
On Benefits
Or in a benz
Got enemies
Some call Friends
There's
Stick up kids
Gangs with shivs
And the thug addicts
Selling drug habits
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Categories:
shivs, life, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Mister Z
...Splintered shivs of the mirror, life
Memory strains my true visage
Broken in jagged, shadowy grimaces
Once ... smiles, joyous
Oh, immortality has many faces
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Categories:
shivs, analogy, life, loss, love
Form: Free verse
One More November
...november’s storms keep my travels safe indoors
the wind and snow prosper
the tumult is a sad caricature of change
gusts play tag with ill-prepared complaining cars
pedestrians believe that even...
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Categories:
shivs, imagery, november, weather, winter,
Form: Free verse
From My Window
...Worn ships are sailing
Riving the sea like sharp shivs,
To defiy dumb waves.
Valeria Iliadou-An Haiku From Your Window...
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Categories:
shivs, inspirational, nature, sea
Form: Haiku