THE DON JUST BEFORE DAWN
...YOU MEAN LIKE PETERS BOSS OF BOSSES DETROIT HITMAN OBSESSED WITH BEING BIG PAULIE THE MAKING OF JOHN GOTTI BOSS OF ALL BOSSES INCLUDING BIG DON OF CLASSIC SCUM PAYOFFS BRIBES BULLYING CAR BOMBS IGNIT...
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Categories:
soliciting, allah,
Form: Naat
Purpose?
...Why Poetry? she muses, sat in front
of paper, staring blankly, lifelessly
at her image.— and really…, who is she
to ask the page—in a manner so blunt—
to shoulder her excesses? such a stunt
s...
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Categories:
soliciting, art, creation, devotion, imagination,
Form: Italian Sonnet
TALES OF PREGNANT MEN
...Under the canopy of the silver crescent light, right before the ripe of night, basking in the mushroom embrace of twinkling stars, listening to crickets’ melancholic lullabies, before temporary death...
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Categories:
soliciting, corruption, leadership, political, power,
Form: Free verse
Swiftku
...whirling aerials -
swift melodious birdness -
soliciting grace -...
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Categories:
soliciting, boyfriend, break up, class,
Form: Haiku
Donald Pellegren born 6-4-1937 garment district slash Detroit hitman posing as a nice guy publisher
...Donald impersonating
a nice guy publisher right
after my accident traumatic
brain injury car bomb attack
he followed me to book stores
ice cream shops art museum
obsessed with my poetry my...
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Categories:
soliciting, allah,
Form: Ghazal
Shake the dust off your feet
...Oh dusty feet that walks on the midnight track
Lead me to the place where I can get my life back
Hoist me upon the five pillars of faith
And give me the courage to complete the race
I have borne ...
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Categories:
soliciting, adventure, birth, business, career,
Form: Sonnet
Timid and mighty
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Slight may outdo the sizeable
Nature is fascinatingly unique
Its sways and swings are astounding
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Categories:
soliciting, appreciation, inspiration, introspection,
Form: Free verse
War Cries of Mad Man
...I REMEMBER A TIME WHEN A MAN WOULDNT CONSIDER LISTNING
TO THE TYPE OF THINGS THAT MODERN POLITICIANS SUGGESTING
AND THOSE MEN KNEW MEN BEFORE THEM THAT WOULD LISTEN TO EVEN LESS TODAYS WORDS WOULDN...
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Categories:
soliciting, america, anger, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Yellow Brick
..." (Two roads) diverged in a yellow wood and I choose the
the one less traveled by and that has made
all the difference. "
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Categories:
soliciting, adventure, angst,
Form: Free verse
Oak
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"Oak"
The guardians
stood around and
shook their heads
great thoughts
quivering
from the ground, roots up,
as if to walk
confidently
with great armies
y...
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Categories:
soliciting, dark, journey, light, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Because Ignorance Is Bliss
...Please do not laugh; yes, I am “woke,”
Volumes I’ve cried because ignorance is bliss,
That our social studies are demonstrably broke
When realities of our past we coldly dismiss.
Ch...
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Categories:
soliciting, education, how i feel,
Form: Rondeau Redouble
Uncle Joe
...My Uncle Joe loved to engage in tickling
Especially young boys, it was sickening,
We wondered about him,
Hanging out at the gym
'Till he started openly soliciting!...
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Categories:
soliciting, humorous, sad,
Form: Limerick
Address Unknown
...We pass their vagrant shrouds each day
then watch as silhouettes excrete
from hovel crates amidst the street.
In fear, we hurry on our way
and if by chance our paths traverse,...
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Categories:
soliciting, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Sipping Tea With the Moon
...Just sitting, sipping tea with the Moon;
Across she glows in her party dress,
I send my dreams up on a balloon;
With each soft gaze ideas are strewn;
Under this sky it’s easy to decompress, ...
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Categories:
soliciting, emotions, feelings, imagination, moon,
Form: Villanelle
Floating In The Air
...Once, when I was barely three
I climbed up the tallest tree.
My Gramma was scolding me,
and yet, I didn't care.
A crude diaper parachute
left me in my birthday suit.
And I must've loo...
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Categories:
soliciting, anxiety, fantasy, flying, hyperbole,
Form: Tail-rhyme
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