Meat
...You crave my honey-glazed legs,
relish my breasts with practiced flair.
You chip my wings mid-conversation,
While dissecting my dressing,
Too raunchy, too clingy
never quite suited to your taste...
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Categories:
tenderized, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Augusts turn
...I saw you
tip toe through the change
Unflatteringly and seamlessly
You turned from Summer to August
The forebode was bothered
I was sleeveless until you found me
That Tempest wind
with its ow...
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Categories:
tenderized, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Marionetta
...From the chthonic chasm, I materialize in sarcophagus
Spectral filaments of the netherworld
Spiral in a maelstrom around my silhouette
Osseous structures fracture contort
I ascend from the fecund...
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Categories:
tenderized, crazy, dark, death, extended
Form: Free verse
Earth Day April 22nd 2024
...Earth Day April 22nd 2024
I lament bidding Gaia's creatures adieu,
an inner conflict dust brew
within this scribe, who offers ye to chew
(like sweet treats metaphorically) thee do
tee incumben...
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Categories:
tenderized, 12th grade, america, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
The Ocean is a Wild Beast
...The ocean is a wild beast that I approach cautiously.
I submit to its undertow. It makes me laugh expansively.
I dive in, never turn my back, never quite relaxing.
It wants to rush at me, my ir...
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Categories:
tenderized, sea,
Form: Other
From Somewhere Deep Inside
...I heard an angel the other night from deep inside my heart
she sifted through my senses
like liquid light
It was an auditory worship
...
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Categories:
tenderized, angel, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Please Respect the Walking Drunk
...No music
uplifting, soft or loud.
My nerves and liver
have been tenderized
with traumatic alcohol tremors all night.
Be gentle as I descend the stairs
a pale ghost of myself.
No, no fried eggs...
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Categories:
tenderized, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Earth Day 2021 Thursday April 22
...POETIC PREFACE:
An inner conflict dust brew
within this scribe, who offers ye to chew
(like sweet treats metaphorically) thee do
tee incumbent, when Doomsday clock
counts down minutes few
acc...
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Categories:
tenderized, appreciation, april, care, earth
Form: Rhyme
Tenderized
...As the tenderizing tenderloin rub his meat.
The antibiotics circulated through his veins
ran down beneath his feet. The taste is off
but memorizing my mouth, as I swallow his
flavors I began t...
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Categories:
tenderized, food, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Tenderized Fear
...It’s not that I am not afraid,
It’s just that I am not scared
We shall not overcome…
For the liberated sufferer
Knows that God defeats all evil:
Consummating victory…
And the only thing to b...
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Categories:
tenderized, america, analogy, courage, discrimination,
Form: Prose Poetry
Megan's Quest Part 5of7
...At that moment an explosion of mud filled the air
as their tension was now largely increased.
They tried to gather their wits but all took to stare
as for the first time laid eyes on the B...
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Categories:
tenderized, adventure, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Eclipse of the Moon
...tenderized neck bone ~
the ancient one sinks her pulse
dire with sharpened fangs
perplexed her face drains
from purity to pallid ~
eclipse of the moon
she weeps at her wake
arra...
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Categories:
tenderized, dark,
Form: Choka
Butterball-To the Tune of Wreaking Ball By Miley Cyrus
...I spent my early life
Looking out from behind
The chain link fence on the turkey farm
There they fed me right
Fattened up my thighs
After all, what could be the harm
If it was up to me
I w...
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Categories:
tenderized, humor, thanksgiving, thanksgiving day,
Form: Light Verse
Thaw and Tenderize - Happy Holiday Special
...I just bought a turkey
In dire need of tenderize
Also a quick summer thaw
As this chick's as cold as ice
Must have froze it in the tundra as
I dive deep into the internet
Where it's got me wo...
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Categories:
tenderized, fun, holiday, humor,
Form: Light Verse
I Have Moved On
...The fake postman under the spell of your sob story
had dropped the forty-ninth letter in nine months
Envelope stained with cerise lipstick, perfumed with promises,
sealed with the saintliest of t...
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Categories:
tenderized, confusion, longing, lost love,
Form: Free verse
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