I Want that World
...Her throat is a reliquary of shards.
Every sob races through burial yards.
Her words erupt.
Surgeons laced her scars not the stare.
Scalding eyes ignited the trauma's flare.
Sympathy was bankr...
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Categories:
stilettoes, anger,
Form: Free verse
Lamb to the Slaughter
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I fear for the future of many young and innocent.
The unfortunate ones whose childhood was spent
without responsible parents who couldn't care less.
Abandoned or runaways, alone and in dire dist...
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Categories:
stilettoes, how i feel, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Ragtime Drummer- Come On and Hear
...Back to the beat
Even as the strumming sweat
Can’t wait to investigate
What we deem we procrastinate
Melody fine, blowing my mind
What beat is time
Time to watch the beat
Ever sweet
Tha’ rat ...
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Categories:
stilettoes, analogy, dance, song,
Form: Lyric
Indecision
...I must admit she’s beautiful.
I see her swagger towards me.
Yet I feel confused.
I am in an insoluble maze.
I am reminded of a marigold.
She loves me
She loves me not.
Bah! Waste of time.
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Categories:
stilettoes, beautiful, feelings, how i
Form: Free verse
The Sertraline Queen of New Orleans
...The sertraline queen of New Orleans
Getting high on her brandy and coke.
Perched on a bar stool, surveying the scene,
While she lights up another smoke.
Tom Waits is playing on the radio
“In ...
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Categories:
stilettoes, abuse, addiction, conflict, depression,
Form: Rhyme
No Stilettos, Please
...I heard of a busty chick from Philly
She was noted for being quite silly
Working on a brick street
Stilettoes on her feet
Her customers said she was a dilly.
written ...
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Categories:
stilettoes, humor,
Form: Limerick
An Inspiring Pile of Shoes
...I attended a large gathering and took some time
to observe the great assortment of shoes stacked on the racks
I saw new shoes, pricey shoes, and shoes not worth a dime
and shoes that seemed to hav...
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Categories:
stilettoes, humor, inspirational, social,
Form: Quatorzain
In Her High Heels - She Walks
...In her High Heels - She Walks
On golden sunbeams she gracefully strides,
elegant in her little black dress; like Audrey Hepburn,
she a star sparkling in sexy, black shiny stilettoes.
S...
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Categories:
stilettoes, sexy, woman,
Form: Free verse
Eagle In Stilettoes
...Licenced to Rule
you can break open the sky
The world is your runway and you are an Eagle in stilettoes
Strike a peacock pose, this is your para...
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Categories:
stilettoes, encouraging, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Midnight Romance
...charcoal was the night
the ground I waited on was an absinthe sheet
crimson was the bonfire light
cloudy smoke got directed to the street
dressed in long ashes of rose gown she came
so ...
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Categories:
stilettoes, adventure, allusion, anxiety, celebration,
Form: Sonnet
Pairing of Shoes
...two kinds of starlight
fashion their luster come eve
muddy and fiery--
heels adhere to night's command
rubbers or stilettoes worn.
Not for contest
7 Aug 2017...
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Categories:
stilettoes, fashion, weather,
Form: Tanka
In a Relationship With a Dis-Abled Person
...Fate stepped in and dealt us a harsh and cruel blow
when we least expect it!
Up to one year ago, my mother was the great thought and
Solution to anything that stomps us, the stalwart in the family...
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Categories:
stilettoes, age, blessing, caregiving, courage,
Form: Free verse
Unquotable Quotes: Paris the Last Week of the August Reprieve- Xxxv Part Two
...Unquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV Part Two
II
The first signs reek tell-tale
Buffer-to-buffer parking lots choc-a-bloc
Long insistent hor...
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Categories:
stilettoes, august, autumn, farewell, lost
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Unquotable Quotes: Paris the Last Week of the August Reprieve - Xxxv Part One
...Unquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV
Part One I
Even the turtle doves secretly in love in the sticky linden wake
I...
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Categories:
stilettoes, august, autumn, farewell, september,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
She Walked
...she walked stiff legged
balancing with difficulty...
wearing stilettoes
Click on "About This Poem"...
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Categories:
stilettoes, funny, life,
Form: Senryu
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