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Premium Member The Duality of Fatherhood
...a secret d r e a m of peace youth making dreamers of all – amidst enemy F. I.R.E p a s s I o n s rode H I G H – he lays a bridge of worn footprints— each step a ch......

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Categories: struggled, analogy, father,
Form: Other
the weight
...The weight He had written two short books needed to show her his work, Not now, she said, I’m watching TV Around the beam that keeps the heaven’s roof from falling, He slung a rope fastened to a......

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Categories: struggled, absence, abuse, age,
Form: ABC



Premium Member That is not safe
... That`s not Safe I dared to battle with the wild thunder Where flashes of lightning could blind......

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Categories: struggled, heartbroken, pain, storm, stress,
Form: Sonnet
Putting Together
...I ordered a free-standing cabinet, Despite having known in advance It needed to be Put together by me And my husband, who viewed it askance. All the pieces were labeled quite clearly, As was ......

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Categories: struggled, work,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tightrope of Her Abandon
... Hebrews 13:5 “Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.” (fiction like......

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Categories: struggled, betrayal, emotions, forgiveness, grief,
Form: Terza Rima



Premium Member Cherub - A Partially True Fairy Tale
...“I like it; go get it and stand it right there.” The ‘It’ was a concrete bird bath It was heavy as hell; about all I could bear I struggled… my wife had a laugh She’d seen it online; it was sel......

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Categories: struggled, fantasy, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Vying For Dominance
...Vying for Dominance … 16 is hard enough for anyone navigating adolescence… my 16 wasn't “typical.” …16, I simultaneously experienced a trifecta of physical, emotional, and mental illnesses, fu......

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Categories: struggled, angst, conflict, depression, fear,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Origins Of Over Nurturing
...Origins Of Over Nurturing My need to protect others began during my turbulent adolescence. It started out as the need to protect others from me. This morphed into over nurturing everyone around m......

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Categories: struggled, children, emotions, growth, introspection,
Form: Prose
Why Your Cities Burn, Part I
...I’ve seen many look to the sky and to the gods earnestly plead, what sins have the committed that require so many to bleed? Why does Lord Diyal ride the lands, do things that make your stomach c......

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Categories: struggled, anger, conflict, dark, evil,
Form: Epic
Premium Member I have One Memory of my father
... I have one memory of my father Who was not my dad There was a father, he left. There was no dad. There were men who tried to be. There were men who could’ve tried to be. There were, ......

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Categories: struggled, abuse, childhood, divorce, father,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mewling Fear: A Question
...Darkness engulfed me I struggled to adjust to the shadows blinked when my vision brought to light— an empty room, rumpled sheets of an unmade bed a tear-stained pillow where I'd laid my head T......

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Categories: struggled, dark, fear,
Form: Narrative
You Never Came
...I never asked you to feed us, Or give us gold from your chest. It wasn’t your job — I knew that, Our father carried that test. But not once did you knock the door, Not once ask, “How are they ......

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Categories: struggled, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 6535 SOUTH BISHOP CHICAGO HEAVEN
...THE UNSEEN TERROR BEHIND MY WEARING PREGNANT FOR THE FBI CHICAGO FIELD OFFICE LIVING AT 6535 SOUTH BISHOP CHICAGO WE LIVED ON THE FIRST FLOOR THE BUILDING OWNED BY PAPPA DUKES LONGTIME PILAR OF CHICA......

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Categories: struggled, allah,
Form: Naat
Premium Member naked mattress
...naked mattress the naked mattress seemed more abandoned than on nights gone by when european percale sheets lifted like a kite from the corners as though they had somewhere to go ......

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Categories: struggled, betrayal, emotions, forgiveness, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vacuuming Saga
... 1 John 1:7 “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.” In the vacu......

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Categories: struggled, appreciation, faith, hope, jesus,
Form: Couplet

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