The Precious Jewels
...By Poet "Great memories are the best kind to have but some memories bring a waterfall of tears."
all little girls like to play dress up
mom had great hats, bags and pearls
her pretty white pear...
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Categories:
straps, fun, girl, happy, love,
Form: Free verse
Oh, Wounded Warrior
...Oh, Wounded Warrior.
Battle lines and battle scars
hidden in plain sight.
Many of us now asking
was it really worth the fight?
Some of us wear uniforms.
Some of us wear shame.
It doesn’t ...
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Categories:
straps, anger, conflict, courage, family,
Form: Rhyme
Fasten-aiding
...There are things we take for granted
People used to do without
With a thousand-plus examples,
But these verses are about…
Fasteners we use for clothing,
Such as zippers, hooks or snaps,
Also...
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Categories:
straps, clothes,
Form: Rhyme
Laika
...They called it a seat,
but it was a cradle of fire—
metal-wrapped, bolted shut,
no window,
just the hum of wires
and the memory of old Moscow snow
still clinging to your pads.
They fed you w...
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Categories:
straps, animal, betrayal, death, dog,
Form: Free verse
Stop waiting for the world to love you, for it never owed you that
...Stop waiting for the world to love you, for it never owed you that,
Do you think you'll feel worthy if you win, accumulate, and prove enough?
That shame will vanish one morning, that the mirror wil...
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Categories:
straps, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
travel light
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* I’m honored to say that this piece was used for a “War Poetry” class by Ann Marie Thornton at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. Many thanks to her and the students for their questions and pho...
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Categories:
straps, analogy, child, war,
Form: Epic
Anatomy Of The Leg
...In 2013 Amélie Ségarra danced on a Grand Piano with knives
taped to the tips of her feet.
The room is empty apart from a single man in a music box
He wears a black an white suit buttoned up to th...
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Categories:
straps, allusion, analogy, appreciation, daffodils,
Form: Free verse
Speed Gutter Bunny
...Sexuality marooned jellybean pilfered spigot refugees vomit hazelnut in some static plain cloud cupboard.
A stifled hexed harvest, suffer the stagnant taffy contraception,
Oxidized gut-string lyre ...
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Categories:
straps, america, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
spaghetti kaftan
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from thuh straps draping
hern shoulders
it's linen
flowing unto hern
hip's limb'z tramp's
digits
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Categories:
straps, allusion, beautiful, blessing, sweet
Form: Romanticism
Velvet straps
...Blushing blooming flower
red blue full of desire
she lays still
pouring slowly
spill
drips of love
holding tights and latex gloves
she makes it easy
but hard to breath
slowly letting out
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Categories:
straps, anxiety, desire,
Form: Rhyme
Tickle
...Feather leather strap
tight bright makes one wept
Feather fly down oh my
leather tighter
straps
red black pink and blue
so many colours on You
leather feather straps
Its fine relax...
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Categories:
straps, animal, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Lingerie
...lace like
a barbed wire fence
the last line
of defense
before everything
becomes senseless
again
for a while
that feels like
eternity
and we don’t want
to be anywhere else
don...
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Categories:
straps, addiction, blessing, gothic, kiss,
Form: Free verse
Raging Fire Hollow Hearts
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Written: January 22, 2025 for contest Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann
Quote: “In the dynamic world society which is the objective of the United Nations, all peoples must have eq...
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Categories:
straps, analogy, discrimination, freedom,
Form: Free verse
P O W DOWN
...I will never ever fear domestic terrorists waving flags threatening and intimidation of severe PTSD survivors Army Veterans being stalked by enraged corrupt beasts attempting to blackmail him for med...
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Categories:
straps, allah,
Form: Masnavi
my sister and cancer
...My sister and cancer
Maybe it was in 1946
when the winter was very hard
the big lake outside town froze solid
my brother had given me an old pair of skates
something with leather binning, I t...
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Categories:
straps, absence, abuse, allusion,
Form: Rhyme
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