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Premium Member Sullied Threads From Yesterdays
There's a pile of sullied threads on the floor from muddied quarrels of our yesterdays Remnants of life that we stripped bare like sheets from a bed needing laundering It's a hoard of soiled and frayed toggeries too foul from words to be properly cleansed I thought of trying to bury the lot of it but shoveling the hurt left blisters on...

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Categories: sullied, lost love,
Form: Free verse
The Sullied
On the streets of Lagos,lumbasa , Kigali, Cairo and their environs Shame etched his name on thy skin Thou art become a site for dumping For all willing to dump Gone is thy once-proud stature Now a harlot to Pitiable exchange Opening for every Harry with a Dick To be violated time and time again From noble lineage thou sprang Chastity thy emblem...

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Categories: sullied, africa,
Form: Free verse



Too Late To Clean a Sullied Slate
Crazy Fate mocks People Fuzzy How we become a couple In business, in marriage Make commitments To nurture the carriage Teeming with developments Cultivated into a caring art When from the bottom of our hearts we feel love So smart We float and fly above wings of the dove Fate flies in our face To dangle a carrot Into hearts so enamoured on the surface they displace Caution and in...

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Categories: sullied, poems,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Shy Sullied Sun
The sound of drip, drip, dripping drops of rain, drum pitter-patter patterns on my brain. And I slowly start slip-sliding past sane; as endless dripping drops drive me insane. For many miserable months, it pours and a dank depression drains me of hope. My misery manifests as bedsores; deprived of sunlight, I am forced to cope. It's a moody, melancholy Monday, another awful,...

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Categories: sullied, angst, anxiety, depression, environment,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Love's Sullied Rose
Love’s Sullied Rose He emptied the trash and his heart the detritus of loving’s pain, vain attempt to erase the start, He emptied the trash and his heart of sullied sweetness turned to tart of loving's roses gone to stain. He emptied the trash and his heart the detritus of loving's pain. 9/2/2014 for the Zeugma - Poetry Contest...

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Categories: sullied, lost love, sorrow,
Form: Triolet




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