Slapped with Love
To the hater out there, so hollow, so grim,
Your hunger for chaos spills over the brim.
You fashion your spite into daggers and knives,
But love is an armor that endlessly thrives.
The weight of your scorn, the sting of your blow—
It lands on my soul yet watch how I grow.
For every lash, my kindness replies,
A slap of
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Categories:
slapped, anger, anti bullying, deep,
Form: Free verse
Slapped
When my mom delivered me, she and I both screamed. Dad said, the doctor slapped both of us!
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Categories:
slapped, confusion, cry, funny,
Form: I do not know?
Got Slapped In the Face Today
I got slapped in the face today
By an exuberant foot, no wait, maybe both to them.
They had on fluffy socks, so that part I recognized.
I had forgotten they could reach my face though.
The leprechaun had not granted my wish to be taller
Until last night around midnight.
Was that my feet? I screamed with delight.
I was crazy-happy.
I
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Categories:
slapped, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse
Slapped Down
This is actually a Shadorma. I wrote it in response to a review of the anthology that was done for research of the brain disorder that my son has. The review was a personal attack on me. Writing this, helped me get past it.
She slapped me
slumping sliding dumps
cascading
I'm held down
I feel like I cannot
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Categories:
slapped, emotions,
Form: Shadorma
The Man Who Slapped God
Workshop poem-The Man Who Slapped God
There is no word like coincidence,
If such a word would’ve reigned
My country wouldn’t be free…
There is nothing like impossible,
If such a thing would’ve been
‘YOU’ wouldn’t be born…
Who
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Categories:
slapped, conflict, god,
Form: Blank verse
Slapped Real Hard On the Bum (Tagged) Catie Lindsey
as i go running through cyber space
i wonder who it is
that is giving me chase
i'm so excited about playing
the game
i wonder who it is that'll
think of my name
it better be phyllis
or could it be jane
which of these poets
remembered my name
while i'm sitting here
i'm going insane
with this special e-mail
running around in my brain
oh
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Categories:
slapped,
Form: I do not know?
Slapped & Cut Loose
Alone
we come in-
nutured by love
character flowers from
within.
Alike
yet unique-
joined together
as one,fellowship
we seek.
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Categories:
slapped, life, people,
Form: Cinqku