Why embarass yourself?
...
You're not doing a stellar job
distracting me with idle chatter.
Life is not something to be ignored
and swept under a mat.
I've been living in limbo
no matter how you sugarcoat it.
Life ...
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Categories:
sugarcoat, longing, relationship, sad love,
Form: Free verse
sugarcoat
...chunks of dirt mingle with the bread.
cinnamon wafting in the wind.
a house of sugary bliss,
a promising deal of sweet paradise.
shoveling savories like a last meal--
bellies rising like dough...
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Categories:
sugarcoat, murder,
Form: Free verse
No More Need To Sugarcoat
...Loving the comfort and warmth of my long green winter coat.
Smoking what I am wishing would just be my last cigarette smoke.
Realizing I no longer have anything to sugarcoat.
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Categories:
sugarcoat, break up, first love,
Form: Sijo
say it like it is
...so there we go, trying to twist our thoughts for the comfort of others.
we tell lies and continue to unite, as we call ourselves a circle of brothers.
we need to sugarcoat the truth while still not...
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Categories:
sugarcoat, growing up, happiness, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
The Freedom To Choose
...Everybody has the freedom to choose,
don't stop living because of your choice;
nobody can sway you from words of persuasion,
come what may: you'll withstand any intrusion!
No, without the freed...
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Categories:
sugarcoat, america, anger, courage, endurance,
Form: Lyric
Showboating a dreamboat
...In your life, goodness has its best role,
You made being great looks really very cool,
Your success is cherished even by all fools,
Your kindness is used as an effective tool.
.
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Categories:
sugarcoat, blessing, encouraging, happiness, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Something Fishy
...What have you done, for you look like a perch?
On Botox you should've done some research
I won't sugarcoat it
You look very bloated
Your face is engorged, and some will besmirch
Resemb...
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Categories:
sugarcoat, fish, humor,
Form: Limerick
An Ode To Narcissus
...All these years I tried to sugarcoat the pain you gave me
I tried to understand your how’s
Accept your when’s
be absent in your where’s
and ended up alone in my why’s
I can’t even believe that...
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Categories:
sugarcoat, lost love, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Very Merry Anniversary
...Can’t believe how many years together.
As a couple the ups & downs we weather.
As husband and wife over the past six.
Loyally accepting flaws we cannot fix.
I’m not going to sugarcoat how w...
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Categories:
sugarcoat, anniversary, appreciation, birth, children,
Form: Rhyme
Ubereats Beats
...Been at the Uber game since 2019.
Got in the booming gig work scene.
Needed a part time job outside retail.
Something allowing me to write my tale.
Giving me the chance to pick my hours.
A...
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Categories:
sugarcoat, business, technology,
Form: Rhyme
What I See
...what i see.
I see nothing but a dead community of people who would never snap into reality and realize life ain't a joke, We live in an world full of people who only care about themselves and loves ...
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Categories:
sugarcoat, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Sugar Coat It
...The holidays come round again,
distant and far off at first, this trend,
plenty of time to prepare, cards to send.
Hurried shopping travels
eased by the buyer's experiment with internet dabb...
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Categories:
sugarcoat, analogy, christmas, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
Horrified By Backstreet of My Mind
...coughed up with cigarette dust
spit out of a roaring mouth
truths that pierce me
regurgitated in slimy green vomit
backstreet of my mind
pretending relief
forefront horrified by his pretense
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Categories:
sugarcoat, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
If I Offend
...
If I offend,
let the reason be pure
Should my presence spoil your thoughts,
let not a shadow of doubt
be cast secular
When I move against the status quo grain,
fermented feelings...
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Categories:
sugarcoat, perspective, society, truth, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Eating Badly
...Eating Badly with diabetes is a Suicide Mission.
I know, because Artur Anczarski, says so.
He is the Prophet, he is the Saint,
And nothing he says, is ever quaint
(it simply ain’t)
As for ...
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Categories:
sugarcoat, appreciation, depression, food, introspection,
Form: Prose Poetry
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