The Grifters
...
They do not spend their time at home
the way most families do
Talking of the day’s events
and dreams they will pursue
Oh no, this family’s different
they’re led by dirty Don
Steeped in lif...
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Categories:
siphon, corruption, family,
Form: Rhyme
The Shackled Ghost
...POEM “ THE SHACKLED GHOST “ by Martin gedge ©
( pin by Aray MarTina )
Caught between a tug of war of love and deaths desire
A shackled ghost upon the post a roast to spit the fire
Chained to th...
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Categories:
siphon, angel, betrayal, conflict, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Nurses
...Nurses
Most aspire nurses
to achieve more out of life.
Nowhere does caring invoke the spirit.
But time shapes your world its way,
sometimes silencing your hustle.
It’s like no ...
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Categories:
siphon, 12th grade, character, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Darkness We Meet Again
...Alas! You dark, grotesque, vile servant of Lucifer, the antithesis of the morning star.
Once again, you have sought me out and endeavored to siphon my light at the end of my tunnel.
In the pa...
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Categories:
siphon, allegory, angst, anxiety, art,
Form: Free verse
I Lay Awake
...I lay awake at night, dreaming of my future.
In the black void, my destiny flickers faint,
A fragile ember fighting the pull of silence.
I fracture my pain into shards,
Each a memory too sharp to...
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Categories:
siphon, anger, beautiful, destiny,
Form: Blank verse
An Open Letter to the Flat Earth Society
...Do you sometimes use GPS
To navigate your flat world?
Did you ever wonder how all those satellites
Get around to the underside?
Do you use a flush toilet
Or a siphon?
See, fluids can sometime...
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Categories:
siphon, education, science, world,
Form: Didactic
Old Company
...I know you,
misery.
Old company from years before I ever met joy.
I have shut the door in your face in recent years,
Tucked you in the back of the closet to hang on your own. I know how you...
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Categories:
siphon, angst,
Form: Free verse
An Epoch of Bloody Tears
...Pain that takes up residence from inside of the mind
The stain of red blood, the sting of crimson lines
I want to be alone but surrounded at the same time
But if I open up the floodgates who knows...
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Categories:
siphon, dark, death, depression, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Shake Off the Wolf
...steel clouds once more freeze
bare trees comfort each other
ripped trunk holds it together
the sun shields its eyes
its flames dying in Winter
the core feels the biting chill
it is in my bo...
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Categories:
siphon, weather,
Form: Choka
Siphon
...A firefly in an ox eye's petal
tread those October chestnuts
A siphon of a lie within a parchment
Lovers touch on the realm
Golden cup poureth
Assure broken schemes
A way to love
A way to gi...
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Categories:
siphon, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Hope of Spinoza
...Siphon your hope
barricade against your accusers
You should be a contender
Polish Lens like Spinoza
Nature is mathematical Godliness
Tell us truth is neigh
as we guide our silent prayers
into ...
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Categories:
siphon, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Mister Money Bags No More
...Mister money bags no more
Ah..., how I idolize the days of yore
before June twentieth, and twenty first
two thousand twenty three
when utter senselessness wore,
a trail of woe brutally
ravagi...
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Categories:
siphon, abuse, america, anger, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Mine Doppelganger Complicit As Accomplice In Pecuniary Crime
...Disguised as an Apple Computer Technician.
He initially hacked Macbook Pro laptop.
He (alias Harvey Specter)
planted seeds of suspicion
that criminal activity prevailed
within my geographic ...
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Categories:
siphon, abortion, absence, abuse, angel,
Form: Rhyme
Hate Vacuuming
...Hate Vacuuming?
By Mark Stucky
Vacuum cleaners are pneumatic nobles,
built to cleanse our offices and homes,
sucking dust from floors and crevices
to discard in trash c...
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Categories:
siphon, discrimination, hate, political, racism,
Form: Free verse
Steer Free and Clear By a Bajillion Miles
...Steer free and clear by a bajillion miles...
the warning words website not secure
nearly left writer of these words piss poor.
usually linkedin with *********** websites
lest ye find yourself ...
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Categories:
siphon, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
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