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SILENCE
...To live bound by “integrity”, where rectitude derides you? It’s starkly accustomed. I enrooted, enclosed by academics--the desolate nature of my sentience consuming my interior. Nether perfection def......

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Categories: subsequent, angst, anxiety, courage, dance,
Form: Haibun
The 6th Death Anniversary
...2025.4.16 Six year passing. It was an early Tuesday morning. You laid on your sick bed without moving. For a while, you laid still with your eyes closed. I decided to get close and climbed on yo......

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Categories: subsequent, appreciation, april, best friend,
Form: Free verse



Galore of buzzfeeding, needling and scamming female hustlers
...Galore of buzzfeeding, needling and scamming female hustlers... with a scheming, loving, and enticing guise alive and well seeking gullible guys (once upon a time just like me), who experiences......

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Categories: subsequent, adventure, age, anger, anti
Form: Rhyme
Fate decreed sexting or texting while married abominable
...Fate decreed sexting/texting while married abominable Therefore karma caught up to me big time and delivered yours truly sent to purgatory (figurative speaking) by casting a spell, whereby the ......

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Categories: subsequent, adventure, animal, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Fear
...A little child Got scared of looking Into the mirror Fearing ugliness Look back at her As she had always been told… When she grew up She got scared of failing In her exams Fearing neglect......

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Categories: subsequent, fear,
Form: Free verse



Putin non gmo gluten free cheese on the ritz as a celiac to follow
...Putin non gmo gluten free cheese on the ritz as a celiac to follow Initially written March 18th, 2023 and revised exactly two years later tweaking the poem here and there courtesy adding or sub......

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Categories: subsequent, absence, adventure, analogy, birth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Elect
..."Our nation needs to prosper, "Our people deserve to thrive, "But the old ways do not foster, "The betterment for which we strive!" These words erupt at every campaign And that part, at least,......

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Categories: subsequent, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Big Lie
...This is the century of the Big Lie. Right from the beginning With the Dot Com boom 9/11 attack and subsequent counter attack We’ve been living In one continuous deceptive news cycle Of mi......

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Categories: subsequent, addiction, fear, perspective, society,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Snake Skin
... On a woodland path, a near perfect sloughed off snake skin, it scales glistening in bright morning light, its owner somewhere in a new season’s growth. Call it a rite of passage ......

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Categories: subsequent, extended metaphor,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member The Cuckoo Clock doesn’t Tattle
...still bright orange rinds around juice, mixing with a few very green leaves, mixing ultimately with fried rice and chicken; no peas or carrots. finally in the mouth, hands letting go of virtua......

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Categories: subsequent, food,
Form: Free verse
Arthur Rimbaud: The Drunken Boat translation by Michael R Burch
...Le Bateau ivre (“The Drunken Boat”), an Excerpt by Arthur Rimbaud translation by Michael R. Burch The impassive river carried me downstream as howling warriors slashed the bargemen's throats, ......

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Categories: subsequent, beautiful, boat, body, children,
Form: Free verse
To Give you an idea
... There isn't only ever one of someone like me, And indeed someone like you, With an inherent awareness of spiritual Freedom, There will be and there are millions of untapped potential qualiti......

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Categories: subsequent, courage,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Terrorist
...He was born from a well of family unlike many Educated in a good school with many others They fondly remmember what were his likes They say he was of a good demeanor and calm So it pains to pen t......

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Categories: subsequent, analogy, anger, community, conflict,
Form: Blank verse
Turning the maxim familiarity breeds contempt on it's head
...Turning the maxim familiarity breeds contempt on it's head... not just in time for Valentine's Day but the remaining days of our lives as the world turns on all our children the young and restle......

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Categories: subsequent, absence, adventure, anger, anniversary,
Form: Free verse
Ah the glory of a restful sleep
...Ah... the glory of a restful sleep Nothing beats the refreshing blissful peaceful easy feeling resulting from shut-eye after feeling zonked out staying up late after a hard day's night binge ......

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Categories: subsequent, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

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