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Kinda Wonky
...Wonky is nature's norm! Our obsession with straightness, conceived in arrogant innocent bliss, kowtows to a belief that adroit straightness following straight lines, somehow makes things strong......
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John Anderson
Categories:
straightness,
nature,
Form:
Free verse
Danger
...Her laugh was a sharp sound. It made you wonder whether she was amused or if her throat was simply incapable of making any other sound. It suited the heavy look in her eyes, the straightness of h......
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Sara J
Categories:
straightness,
dark, dream, magic, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The Lover's Dream
...I dreamed you disappeared down shore's long curve, dipped, abandoned prints, the jealous waves smoothed by manic curl and rushed away, reminder of the straightness of your stride, I dropped a h......
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Robert Warlov
Categories:
straightness,
loss, lost love, love,
Form:
Rhyme
What You Must Go Through
...I see others stuck where I was stuck Self destructive in a rut Trying to pull themselves back up feeling that they've had enough And I know that they're facing hell Turning corners overw......
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Nick Trim
Categories:
straightness,
anxiety,
Form:
Rhyme
No Reason
...The rec was where we dug sandy tunnel dens in danger of collapse.There I fired my catapult on a group of three children some distance away as I hid behind a willow tree not far from the passa......
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©
Bob Kimmerling
Categories:
straightness,
growing up, sorry,
Form:
Free verse
Rigid Straightness
...and it dawns on me while straightness aims for conformity it seems to clutter people's brains with madeup rules of shoulds and musts that snowball spitefully into rampant venomous chaos ......
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Line Gauthier
Categories:
straightness,
bullying, peace, people, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
Choir Dissonant Practice
...I am a right-brain prominent writer which must not be confused with a prominent left-brain writer, which I am almost decidedly not nor would I aspire toward such all or nothing thinking and not......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
straightness,
anxiety, appreciation, depression, health,
Form:
Political Verse
The Son
...The woman is glad for the visitor with his tidy beard and dark curls, his clothes smell of the money he earns from the foreigners, see how he sits so upright and successful, proud holding his stron......
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Julie Achilles
Categories:
straightness,
age, image, leaving, mirror,
Form:
Prose
Bicameral Covenants
...May supreme Force become You. How is whiteness like straightness? she asked And how is maleness like left-brain dominance? he responded. It seems, to usually curious and always ancie......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
straightness,
bullying, community, gender, health,
Form:
Political Verse
Slow-Cooked Conversion Stories
...I was raised in one of those white nationalist churches, passing itself off as a Christian evangelical Bible church, where "evangelical" meant fundamental and "fundamental" meant we did not interp......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
straightness,
childhood, christian, earth, faith,
Form:
Political Verse
Decency
...The decency. With relation to the horizon I am a walking vertical. I justify it by standing in a line of the same lines near a coffee boot. I will certainly be punished for behaving dif......
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©
Maryna Tchianova
Categories:
straightness,
addiction, adventure, art, chocolate,
Form:
Blank verse
Decency - Ukrainian-English
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Maryna Tchianova
Categories:
straightness,
adventure, allusion, anger, anti
Form:
Blank verse
Odyssey From Africa 11e
...Odyssey from Africa, Chapter 11e, The Island Kingdom (continued) Matto, Lisa and their parents Contemplated now a journey On the ocean that was longer Far than any in their memory One wh......
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©
Phil Salmon
Categories:
straightness,
adventure, africa, history, mythology,
Form:
Narrative
The Figure a Poem Makes By Robert Frost
...Abstraction is an old story with the philosophers, but it has been like a new toy in the hands of the artists of our day. Why can't we have any one quality of poetry we choose by itself? We can have ......
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©
David Smith
Categories:
straightness,
art, education,
Form:
Madah
City Geometry
...CITY GEOMETRY I’m on big town Inserted Yea, transplanted Within its swaying wave Of box and angle Where my self-identity Is something throbbing Upward gazing Arrowing To sky points S......
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©
Daver Austin
Categories:
straightness,
corruption,
Form:
Free verse
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