Mute, No More
...Today, March 8th is International Women’s Day. After centuries of relentless struggle, are women happier today…? Can’t say! Despite all claims to equality and progress, women are still at the back se...
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Categories:
skyrocketed, abuse, cry, endurance,
Form: Free verse
- Yesterday -
...~ if life were a happy song - I'd sing it yesterday ~
quote by poet
"All my troubles seemed so far away"
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Categories:
skyrocketed, humorous, memory, time, tribute,
Form: Other
Someone's Knocking On the Door
...There was a knock on my door,
It made my heart thumbing indoor,
Chappy lips and sweaty hands along my heart so sore.
On the third knock my heartbeat skyrocketed.
Panic was banging all over my ...
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Categories:
skyrocketed, adventure, anxiety, art, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Shares of Truth
...The wise I asked:
" Why have the shares of truth skyrocketed at
the stock exchange of human values, these days? "
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" Because the truth has become a rare commodity in recent times. "
He ...
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Categories:
skyrocketed, people, truth,
Form: Free verse
Fearlessly Going Above and Beyond
...I was interested in what will happen.
In the endmost fate of this debilitating dimness.
An insightful major established man advised me:
It will be a time when one's destiny will ...
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Categories:
skyrocketed, analogy, change, character, courage,
Form: Free verse
He Wasn'T Wrong, Part I
...I remember Charlie from college,
a troublemaker par excellence,
not that Charlie intended to be,
it’s just his views were often askance.
Take, for example, the time in class
we were discussing f...
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Categories:
skyrocketed, conflict, crazy, culture, how
Form: Narrative
Would the Real Matthew Scott Harris Please Stand Up
...Would the real “Matthew Scott Harris” please stand up!
Yo...over here in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
all the other ones (that follow below)...
them guys imposters I write – every ƒµ©**** one.
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Categories:
skyrocketed, 12th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Free verse
The Last Smoke
...The Last Smoke
by Edmund Siejka
I miss cigarettes
Gave them up forty years ago
Holding one in my hand
Wine glass nearby
Made me look sophisticated
Like someone
Who knew the world....
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Categories:
skyrocketed, life,
Form: Narrative
Landing Pad of Lies
...Have the days have gotten darker
Maybe the sun is just hiding from me
I drew cheerful with a marker
Just so everyone could see
I just want to be sad
Run a river from my soul
Sail across the a...
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Categories:
skyrocketed, desire, feelings, loss, lust,
Form: Rhyme
Early Morning Harmony
...Danced with
Conceived and born
Sung to and nursed
On a downy soft quilt
Transfused with
Vibrations of Ellington
Basie, Crosby, Waller
Goodman and Armstrong
Skyrocketed spiritually
By Ke...
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Categories:
skyrocketed, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Taking a Stand
...Wake up, wake up and look at the facts,
We are funding the terrorists and setting up ourselves for their attacks.
In 1999 a barrel of crude oil sold for less than twelve dollars a barrel and that...
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Categories:
skyrocketed, angst, political, visionary, time,
Form: Verse