Seeing Earth as it was
...
An ask of mine needs urgent sating
I don’t mean to blashpeme or be rude
But when God was done and dusted creating
And he looked and saw that “it was good”
What was he looking at?
Were his ey...
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Categories:
snaked, beauty, nature, perspective,
Form: Spoken Word
Blue cheese and old pickles
...
I shudder while peering at sepia photographs,
showing visits to my maiden Aunt Hilda’s house.
Even though I was very young
it was clear she didn’t tolerate children.
I was to be ‘Seen and not...
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Categories:
snaked, childhood, memory,
Form: Free verse
The she between ets
...
She scissored his skin between her teeth
His moan increasing as she increased the pressure
His fingers snaked her back
A shiver of want parkouring itself up her spine
His fingers entwined in ...
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Categories:
snaked, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Pay Attention
...4/24/24
How weird it is
All around the planet are pyramids
Yet we don't understand it fully, this makes me curious
The reason for their construction must've been serious
It makes me a bit fu...
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Categories:
snaked, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
When sorry shut you up
...When your Hand came by, felt like lingering tie...
,,Sigh", knew it would die high in the sky.
Cause even the love you had for the body (my) you made,
was betrayed into hate, left me moody into f...
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Categories:
snaked, april,
Form: Ode
lonley child
...I say, mama, I'm so sorry
I got ice burn where my heart at
On the road where I had it hard at
How I'm chosen? I'm so heartless, so, so heartless
I ain't know my age, he was 16, they killed Lil Da...
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Categories:
snaked, mother, motivation,
Form: Rhyme
A Whisper of Hope
...Tick...
Time has moved on
but I’m standing still...
No matter where I go, I can never run away.
Gray, gray, gray, it’s all gray, everything, gray.
Tock...
They say you're at peace now,
so, I'm...
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Categories:
snaked, 12th grade, death, funeral,
Form: Free verse
Homeless in the Rain
...The sky, heavy-laden with curdled black clouds,
Burst wide open, and all night long it rained.
It pitter-pattered on the panes,
And rattling on the slanting roofs.
It churned the dry soil to a pu...
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Categories:
snaked, lost love,
Form: Free verse
josephines place
...It was the summer of 2014, I was just about to turn 13, spending June of summer vacation with my Grandmère, in Paris. Tonight, we’re at a fundraising benefit for African relief (it’s always *somethin...
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Categories:
snaked, grandmother, humor, paris, writing,
Form: Free verse
falling
...My last Thursday class is over - my class-week is over.
Looking back at the science building we’d just left,
the hallway looked dark, like the throat of an animal,
the people snaked out like a t...
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Categories:
snaked, autumn, happiness, school, student,
Form: Free verse
The Signs That They All Ignored
...Nobody cared.
You could tell from the cracked and broken windows.
You could tell from the maggots and moths in the kitchen cabinets.
You could tell from the nails scattered across the dirt-caked f...
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Categories:
snaked, 11th grade, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
Wyre
...Going home
across the Shard bridge
spanning a rattle-snaked river
that bites into the Irish sea
cold-bloodedly pumping
into Fleetwood's gaping fish-mouth.
Here birthmarks
are branded wit...
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Categories:
snaked, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Parade
...Today I met with my daughter to swim.We finished at eleven oclock.I drove to a place near the airport named Sandys for her first ever thanksgiving
buffet.
She used to be located at the actual airpo...
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Categories:
snaked, people,
Form: Free verse
Lets Unite the World
...“Let’s unite the world! “ The exuberant pretty teenager yelled.
She was shaking a yellow sign in the street. She had torn jeans.
A plethora of tattoos snaked up her arm, and her bellybutton showed....
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Categories:
snaked, usa,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Revenge of the Witch
...They killed her lover. She just could not forget.
The raven circled thrice around the old oak,
But settle silently on her wide shoulders.
Dark was the raven, dark the woman’s dress
Dark the...
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Categories:
snaked, scary,
Form: Free verse
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