If you can't say something nice
...“if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all”*
Such a sweet talker
He could talk a buzzard off a meat wagon
The truth lied in his mouth
Waiting…patiently…
Preying on the momen...
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Categories:
sweet talker, voice,
Form: Free verse
The Deeds That We Do, But Never Discuss
...What good is love, when guys and girls are whores?
What use are we, when all is the libido?
Good girls on their backs, bad girls on all fours,
secretly swoon for guys like the Mandingo! ...
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Categories:
sweet talker, america, desire, humanity, life,
Form: Ode
On the Button
...On The Button
A sweet talker went out for a nip
At a bawdry pub where he’d get to sip
From a gal’s belly button
Of which he did cut in
But she sassed and said ‘don’t give me no lip’
May 2, ...
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Categories:
sweet talker, body, drink, fun,
Form: Limerick
Humanhood
...Dedicated to the memory of those who take their own lives. Theirs is a special hell that we cannot fathom. Please take care of yourself and your loved ones.
Humanhood
By Michelle Morris
15/12/20...
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Categories:
sweet talker, anxiety, death, depression, mental
Form: Free verse
What Would You Do For Love
...This one I have no title for,
All I know is it's the cries of my heart
And the innocence of her chastity,
She wears the love of Shakespeare
Atleast that's what I think,
But I never find a way to...
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Categories:
sweet talker, angel,
Form: Free verse
Phoenix Rising
...Phoenix rising
One can see the emptiness of ages in her eyes,
riding the beast of burden without disguise.
Dead to rapture and despair by daily routine,
taken another drag of smoke to be genuin...
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Categories:
sweet talker, joy, love, magic, senses,
Form: Ballade
Lock Out Love Looters
...Can’t understand why a woman’s heart grows so fickle
It labels a man with clean intentions a bore
Treating a player as though from him a miracle
Would elevate her life to polish her social ore
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Categories:
sweet talker, poems,
Form: Free verse
Impulsive Love
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When I was younger, I was impulsive and unpredictable,
capricious and fanciful and whimsical;
and HE was charming- would flatter me with compliments,
giving praise, attentio...
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Categories:
sweet talker, lost love,
Form: Verse
Taking Out the Trash
...He kept tabs on me at first, just like he was a stalker
then turned on his charm and became a sweet talker
I was too naïve to realize why he was being so nice,
and all the while his duplicitou...
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Categories:
sweet talker, character, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Sweet Talker
...You said you loved me
And i dwelled into your gloomy eyes
I sacrificed my heart for such a pretty talker
You drew me into your world with your sweet lips
The words would just slipper out of yo...
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Categories:
sweet talker, feelings, lust, sad love,
Form: Free verse
The Ghost Between Her Thighs
...The ghost between V's thighs
What lies heavily on her minds? A three word phrase
I am beautiful!
Passion, strength and fire
they control by her inner thoughts
She relies on her beauty
For breakfas...
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Categories:
sweet talker, angst, black african american,
Form: I do not know?
Cracking As Broken Toys
...Picking up my phone, the voice recalls my memories
Sweet talker across the line, hey... it's been a while
Days running, things change, here we are aloof in our boundaries
Trapped within our history,...
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Categories:
sweet talker, dark, friendship, pain, old,
Form: Terzanelle
Celebration 50: Xviii
...Maroon man
Broad back, true mouthed
Flinging fire to frolic in the face
Jamaica man, Saint Ann sprouted
Long lignum vitae of the race
Belly clean
Platform devoted
Africa's champion, noble will
Great...
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Categories:
sweet talker, political,
Form: Verse
Sweet Talker
...You are such a sweet talker.
You are my best friend. ...
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Categories:
sweet talker, loveme, me,
Form: I do not know?
Time Has Carried Me
...Time has carried me so close to old age
Will acceptance be added to my traits
Accepting comfy shoes, not latest rage
Having become old__many varied weights
Hobbling to a electric grocery cart
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Categories:
sweet talker, health, life, loss, naturetime,
Form: Sonnet
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