Dimming Reminiscence
...I delight in your twaddle inside me, young girl.
Restore the golden-pink gleam with a swirl.
Memories of who've died or are close to dying.
Delve deep, according to inner-child supplyi...
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Categories:
taking apart, analogy, appreciation, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Parachuting Squirrels
...Parachuted squirrels glide onto leaf piles and laugh at my heroic efforts
to keep them from taking apart my bird feeders.
With xylophonic fingers they lift the lids and unscrew until the feeders ...
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Categories:
taking apart, animal,
Form: Prose Poetry
Light of Blackness
...Humpty Dumpty was Egyptian.
Hampered with mental genocide
and in this evolution there
seems to be no hope for the black human.
A tribal extinction.
Describe a culture
that is as urgent
witho...
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Categories:
taking apart, anger, conflict, corruption, culture,
Form: Free verse
White Tiger
...White Tiger
Giant beast,
un-caged power of destruction,
taking apart my life one day at a time.
Ever-growing and living off,
the suffering of my apparent lack,
of everything.
Your se...
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Categories:
taking apart, abuse, anxiety, divorce, growing
Form: Free verse
K-Ville
...Meth Bomb, Homicide Village,
Diverse Culture Site, Crown Town,
Kendaltucky and Johnny Appleseed's Homestead;
Tremendous and Troubling and Tortured,
Town of the Long Face:
They say you are e...
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Categories:
taking apart, absence, child, home, old,
Form: Free verse
A Letter To Myself: No More Lighting Myself On Fire To Keep You Warm
...honey, you are not responsible for the skeletons hidden in his closet.
rinse. repeat.
you are not responsible for the bones threatening to spill out.
he can call you a doll and watch your c...
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Categories:
taking apart, love,
Form: Free verse
A Worthy Question
...A Worthy Question?
Our income tax has become outrageous
Our politicians promise umbrageous
Life one step at a time
Then two steps out of rhyme
Is being honest disadvantageous?
On the Prowl
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Categories:
taking apart, fun,
Form: Limerick
A Purpose
...Life took me for a ride
up
It took me
It took me
down
It spun me round and round
like a spinning top () ()
unknowing where it will stop
out of control one m...
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Categories:
taking apart, feelings, health,
Form: Light Verse
I Think of You
...From the moment I awake
With every single breath I take
With every vital beat of my heart
And every moment we’re apart
In every single thing I do;
Eating my lunch or lacing my shoe
Shaving my...
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Categories:
taking apart, devotion, feelings, for her,
Form: Couplet
Ten Things I Like About Her---
...Ten Things I Like About Her ...
# 10 - Now number ten is neither here nor there
It can be concluded that number ten, an illusion
Eluded to confusion, a pigeon to decision
A scalpel to precisio...
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Categories:
taking apart, crush, girl, love, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Effigy
...Late at night I hear the monkey’s laughing in the jungle
They are burning an effigy
And they find it more than amusing
They find it comforting.
They built it out of broken dreams and green cards.
It...
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Categories:
taking apart, creation,
Form: Free verse
I Wait
...She puts together a heart of
hearts that been broke apart
for so long. Reluctantly it’s
been so long since I had a
tender touch. You see it’s been
too much trust I began to lust
and fall back i...
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Categories:
taking apart, loveday, heart, angel, angel,
Form: ABC
All These Shoulds
...Intense gazes
catch me right in the chest
bowl me over
with misplaced emotions.
Too many times
have I fallen
and jumped back
into the saddle
Maybe I shouldn’t get up
this time.
With meaning...
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Categories:
taking apart, angst, confusion, life, me,
Form: Lyric
Sweet End
...Tornados destroying night and day turns the sky dark and gray. First devouring
the sun and then the moon the end of the world will come soon. Towns and
cities falling through the earth. Quakes...
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Categories:
taking apart, death,
Form: Lyric