Popcorn and Needles
...I remember how
you used to roll
your popcorn popper
across the floor grinning
and not paying attention
to where you were going—
and how happily you
pretended to drive
the rusty ’49 GMC pick...
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Categories:
syringes, addiction, boy, childhood, drug,
Form: Free verse
THE ARCHITECTS OF LIES
...They sowed chaos to claim their peace.
A few wars to realize their dreams.
They sell chains wrapped in freedom’s guise,
Spitting laws applied only to the weak.
They paint bombs in the colors of...
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Categories:
syringes, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Liturgy for the Damned of Progress
...My wounded heart drinks deep from the rotting gut of misery,
Humanity vomits its relics onto the oozing tiles of the real.
I see kids chewing syringes like candy canes,
Their innocence smashed, fa...
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Categories:
syringes, america, change, christian, community,
Form: Rhyme
Echoes of a Silent Shore
...Echoes of the Silent Shore
Garbage, raw sewage, needles,
syringes, food wrappers.
Plastic, cans, bottles, trash,
oily sand, old fishing line.
I stand on the shore and I see
waste and destru...
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Categories:
syringes, pollution,
Form: Free verse
Komodo's Final Feral Kiss
...In the beginning was the word-
and the word was…
light darkness
dawn promise dusk despair.
I was a tempest
child a feral cat-
alone wild and
untamed eyes a
jigsaw of shattered chaos.
...
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Categories:
syringes, abuse, addiction, depression, loneliness,
Form: Narrative
What's Cookin' in the Old Crone's Cauldron?
...the old crone’s dome boiled
skull scalding, full of trouble and toil
oily face, razorburn neck
my eyes the type to scan
salamander like
darting here to there
wondering where to next
where to...
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Categories:
syringes, addiction, dark, drug, growing
Form: Free verse
The Recipe
...menthol cigarettes / messy journals / propane torches / unfinished poems /
broken promises / black bandana / clock rings /
thrift shops / candle wax / stolen books / peach nehi /
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Categories:
syringes, anxiety,
Form: List
Old House Tour
..." Can you feel the soul of an abandoned house; can you hear the whispering?" - Constance La France.
dilapidated and weather-beaten,
looking at this old house
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Categories:
syringes, house, imagery, old,
Form: Imagism
Bleak
...It was one of those days again.
A spoon full of syrup,
Another needle,
Sugary sweet.
Crimson blood,
White sheets.
Repent your sins,
Take a breath,
For it may be your last.
White wal...
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Categories:
syringes, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Girl With the Black Pearl Eyes
...
The heat of the street more than you can take
hem hiked high above your bony knees
spread slightly apart so you can breathe
you sit in the stifling air on a stony stoop
there’s no relief from...
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Categories:
syringes, abuse, addiction, drug, lost,
Form: Free verse
Three Girl Bounty
...Wishing for a woman or friend
To your corner room, alone, but then
Creating sins not yet penned:
Infallible rules of fallible men.
For whereas Love seems so bubbly
And see through feelings ea...
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Categories:
syringes, anger, break up, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Anti-Poem Iphone Maniacs
...iPhone Maniacs
crankshaft tendencies secure a brace of sly meatballs
truth daggers entice the worm girls with petite pastas
creature lilacs uproot themselves for pink dippity-do gels
white nylo...
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Categories:
syringes, life,
Form: Free verse
The Owl
...A display of giant eyes
But rarely morning flights tries;
Unwanted publicity her grounds,
All CCTV out of bounds!
With ears for the faintest cough,
Their sound-grabbing devices tough,
Also fo...
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Categories:
syringes, allusion, animal, beauty, death,
Form: Rhyme
Guerre De Trenches
...Who waits on tomorrow when today is barely tolerable?
greet the sun
and the light
Green leaves,
Warm brown bark.
How many dawns will see them still,
as they have always been?
It happened a ...
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Categories:
syringes, addiction, corruption, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Covid Sad, Covid Bad
...It's a new day, a new Christmas eve party streaming live
when Santa had to drink, Kahlua and cream, tequila to survive
to warm him up, have a little trust that the world is still alive
as covid-...
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Categories:
syringes, allusion, political, pollution,
Form: Rhyme
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