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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Categories:
straightness, addiction, adventure, art, chocolate,
Form: Blank verse
Decency - Ukrainian-English
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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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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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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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Categories:
straightness, corruption,
Form: Free verse
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