Glassfoot
...Glass-foot by Gabrielle Munslow
She kneels on glass.
Two jagged rocks, hidden—clenched behind her back.
Secrets.
Her mouth open,
not in benediction
but for unholy things.
He looks down...
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Categories:
smashes, betrayal, destiny, history, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Summer smashes Spring
...Summer smashes into Spring with violent heat that leaves the air in a hazy daze. All of the tender, green rain-draped brilliance of young foliage giving way to the drab, sunbaked drowsy green that s...
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Categories:
smashes, america, april, autumn, life,
Form: Free verse
Love Collision
...If love breaks you open
And you have a chance to look inside
You might be surprised at what you find
If love smashes your expectation
And you have a chance to make your defense
Yo...
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Categories:
smashes, allegory, courage, emotions, extended
Form: Rhyme
Avril
...Granite faces—bones of the earth,
Eyes empty, hollow as caves,
Whispering a past that erased her name.
Anger jagged, slicing through her chest,
Like a blade cutting through thorns,
She stays—roo...
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Categories:
smashes, angel, april,
Form: Free verse
His Mind
...Let me try one more time to see if I can provoke his disturbed mind,
Let me try one more time to break the distraction that trapped him in hell
And is causing him to rebel.
I throw my arms arou...
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Categories:
smashes, absence, america, beach, bereavement,
Form: Narrative
Dustbin
...On a busy night, near the streets as I stood,
When something felt off nothing was good,
I saw a dirty, abandoned plastic bin,
The widely and popularly known as the DUSTBIN.
How it came and what ...
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Categories:
smashes, analogy, anxiety, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Flames of Hell
...“Want to play ball?” cackle of witch.
Play’n cards dispersed on pew.
Who knew this is the day they’d pay;
Their church doors close for good.
A knock at window breaks; no bat.
Hot blob of monst...
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Categories:
smashes, fear, fire, natural disasters,
Form: Verse
make Pancakes with molasses Horn Haiku
...after taking classes
to make pancakes with molasses
we must move our asses
(while making advances)
(we were all aghast)
(were burned to ashes)
(against head bashes)
(have been on branches)
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Categories:
smashes, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Naked in Winter
...Bleeding from the head
I pushed the chair
In front of the door
Until I didn’t hear you no more
Banging and yelling
I wished you’d leave
Rubbing my tummy
Sick like morning
Standing on the bal...
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Categories:
smashes, car, courage,
Form: Free verse
Gnarled
...the floor smashes into her wrist
twisting the limb
she didn't see the floor, wet
aged 100
her mobility is stress heavy
like being priced out of a home
her fall of unexpected angles
with bala...
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Categories:
smashes, age, caregiving, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Free verse
- Stranger -
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His footsteps
an echo chamber
on cobblestones
Ruminative walking -
shoulders are slumped
Bruise, wounds and lacerations
coagulated blood
Sour mouth ...bile
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Categories:
smashes, dark, fear, night,
Form: Free verse
Euphoric Yacht
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Chiseled bone fibre silences white noise water
Shiv splits through throat, jugular scissored
Flung spray fusillade's lain flat slaughter
Bluster bullseye sta...
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Categories:
smashes, animal, bird, confidence, destiny,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Devastation Arrived With a Fury
...she announces herself days ahead
yet none of us are prepared
she tears us up and spits us out
uncaringly smashes and bashes us
our lives will never be the same
none of us were prepared
even tho...
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Categories:
smashes, fate,
Form: Free verse
Requiem For An Atom
...Interior exploration
with its usual playlist,
all lined up
then some mass is hurled
out of nowhere and smashes
into me, and I see myself
fly off into parts, becoming
little more than traces
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Categories:
smashes, science,
Form: Free verse
A Wedding-Multiple Choice Quiz
...Weddings most often take place in June because...
a. It's the traditional month
b. More flowers are in bloom then
c. Mother's coerce their daughters to choose it
d. As a little girl, it w...
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Categories:
smashes, conflict, confusion, wedding,
Form: List
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