REWIND
...The Truth
The way I feel
For years our love was a thought
No true nor false
Lies the whole time
Love wasn’t there
You cheated everywhere
We had two different storms
Your rage was Thunder
My ...
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Categories:
sleeping around, betrayal, care, change, character,
Form: Free verse
I am comfortable as Me
...I am comfortable with dogs, because they make me feel safe
Three of them guard me, sleeping around my head and hands.
My husband is also a comfort; I have known him for sixty-eight years.
Since we...
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Categories:
sleeping around, self,
Form: Free verse
Times of uncertainty
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What say you now, before the crowd, for these most heinous crimes.
You're a wretched sort, to face this court, in most uncertain times.
A capital charge, against your heart, for loving all ...
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Categories:
sleeping around, conflict, corruption, devotion, extended
Form: Rhyme
Abused
...I was abused
Only five years old
So very confused
It's a game
We will play
Shh. Don't tell anyone
He would always say
I was abused
Only fourteen years old
Still so confused
Mom was so...
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Categories:
sleeping around, abuse, child abuse, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
We Were Playful
...I have a mixed diagnosis after trying to kill myself, aged sixteen. Just after six months in hospital,
“I’m worse now “, “Than when I went in”, “I had clean arms back then.”
“I ran away from my p...
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Categories:
sleeping around, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Murder of the Innkeeper
...Do you remember the night the Innkeeper’s body
Was found in the pond behind his B & B, Sherlock?
Of course, how could you forget? We were
Meeting him that afternoon for his opening tea...
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Categories:
sleeping around, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Merry Christmas
...Merry Christmas
my love
It’s another day we sing God’s blessings
Distance may separate us but
God’s love is the same everyday
Distance memories occupy my mind
Distance thoughts of our first ...
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Categories:
sleeping around, absence, africa, america, arabic,
Form: Free verse
Question Persisting
...The question persisting
What really is love?
When you choose to open your heart full of honesty
About sleeping around tryponosomniaclly
Is love forgiveness?
I cannot do what you need me to do
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Categories:
sleeping around, angst, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
Spirit
...Spirit, a stallion born in the wild,
Follows a strange light near his herd,
And finds horses chained up,
And people sleeping around a campfire.
They wake up and capture Spirit,
One of them tri...
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Categories:
sleeping around, animal, fantasy, horse,
Form: Free verse
Born Defective
...I come from the land of coffee,
plastic breasts and nonsense,
drugs and narco past,
very proudly they'll exalt.
Woman so pretty as blow-up doll,
got so many surgeries, you don't know what yo...
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Categories:
sleeping around, community, identity, immigration, political,
Form: Free verse
Fighting For Complete Understanding
...I held my arms, sleeping, around her breasts, bending, allowing myself to fall, the ghosting, dark wake, the fiery sands burned by a storm of thorn trees, burned by the march of sea and the keys of i...
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Categories:
sleeping around, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Fighting For Complete Understanding
...i held my arms, sleeping, around her breasts, bending, allowing myself to fall, the ghosting, dark wake, the fiery sands burned by a storm of thorn trees, burned by the march of sea and the keys of i...
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Categories:
sleeping around, fate, pain, poems,
Form: Free verse
Her Last Client, Part Ii
......This caught her off-guard, so she asked, “What’s wrong?”
He said,“Aren’t you setting yourself up for hurt?
Women with many partners don’t pair-bond well,
there’s quite a low chance your marriag...
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Categories:
sleeping around, gender, marriage, political, sad,
Form: Narrative
What If
...The human heart…the young human heart. I look at our lives, the confusion we live in. Falling in and out of love, having friends..with benefits…dreaming of perfect relationships…unrealistic ones. Som...
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Categories:
sleeping around, devotion, engagement, friendship love,
Form: Narrative
Winter Outside
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Babe, babe,
It's all winter outside,
Come inside,
It's all winter outside,
We can work it out,
It's all winter outside:
I need you here with me.
It’s all winter outside,
There's no...
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Categories:
sleeping around, forgiveness,
Form: Alexandrine
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