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Hurricane Boy

...He showed up with the storm,
not meant for me at all,
just a friend of my brother’s friend—
a tagalong, a shadow in the hall.

I thought he was cute—
but silence felt safer.
Girls like me don’...

Tending the Withered Woes

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Once well-intended
morning sun alarmed my rise
voices stirred the field
tasks like steady watering —
enlisted day's living work

Then the old gates closed
the pathway seldom walked choked —
...

Poe

...He mourned the loss of his love, for whose support his soul’s survival had come to desperately rely: Lenore!~ the only one less judgmental of his irrational, often self-destructive, passionate nature...

Where Waiting Lives

...It was one dusky evening.
I stood at my balcony,
The weather whispering secrets in a chill breeze
Beautiful, cold, and a little stormy,
The kind of weather that makes you feel
Everything you've ...

Belshazzar's Banquet

...The drinking was getting out of hand,
Using vessels from the Promised Land,
Praising gods that rulers can withstand,
A pagan king gets more than he planned!

"The enemy is outside your wall!...

Codons of Contempt: A Crime Against Empathy

...
We came not for conquest,
but for containment—
though conquest is what happens
when containment itches beneath the skin
like sulfur spores in a sealed lung.

They had the secret.
Not gold, n...

A Sensitive Man

...A Sensitive Man

He was the finely spun, hushed type
his character often folded up; 
inside pocket rather than on display.
He felt different but followed the rules:
school, college and then wor...

Why Can't I?

...You can’t defeat me!
You can’t stop my crimes!
I’ll someday get it right, you see,
I’ll even do it speaking rhymes.

I can rob a bank.
I can end it all.
Your hero powers have been shrank -
Or...

Love Thaws in Winter Embrace

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Written: February 03, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Charles Messina
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This clock let forth one painful scream
Bliss time shrank, as a ...

The Lemon Tree

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It was a big backyard,
big enough to hold
the imagination of a boy -
trees to climb, 
sheds to explore,
a large lawn to swing a bat 
or kick a ball
and in a quiet corner, 
a sanctuary for...

A convo to myself

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I don't even know myself that well that I cannot understand my actions. I had a lot of tension with a boy because he did things that were just not okay. I asked him about it, and he blocked me, whi...

Reverse Psychology

..."Show and tell suggestions the opposite,  that sometimes their way doesn’t work."  Quote by poet

Mimsy Loved to Mimic

Mimsy so pretty 
Loved her little kitty
So very bitty

Mimsy so very wi...

Sins

...Eve listened to the evil feelings and thoughts in her heart.
Adam heard her hissing, as though, conscience tearing apart.
Arrogance-filled waywardness shined in the form of Apple.
Against their pr...

Senryu'terus

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          Yes ‘tiz the true mom
‘hind the doctor’z gown mine shrank
     whilst your'n fourth’d our son 




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In the quietness of dusk, when shadows stretch long over the fields of memory

...In the quietness of dusk, when shadows stretch long over the fields of memory,
Memories rise like reflected ghosts, wandering through the labyrinth of thoughts,
Taking me back to the times of child...

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