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
A Shy Sullied Sun
The nonstop drip, drip, dripping drops of rain,
drum pitter-patter patterns on my brain.
And I slowly start to slip-slide past sane:
as endless dripping drops drive me insane.
For many miserable months, it pours,
and a dank depression drains me of hope.
As misery manifests, boredom soars,
and I'm deprived of light and forced to cope.
It's a moody, melancholy Monday,
another awful,
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Categories:
sullied, angst, anxiety, depression, environment,
Form: Alliteration
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