Bully me you I exemplified archetypal scapegoat
...Bully me you, I exemplified archetypal scapegoat...
who suffered cuts by a thousand knives.
Even as old (dish) married
(spooning) curmudgeon,
who receives social security disability
linke...
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Categories:
thuggish, anger, bereavement, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
Bully me you, I exemplified archetypal scapegoat
...Bully me you, I exemplified archetypal scapegoat
Even as old (dish) married
(spooning) curmudgeon,
who receives social security disability
linkedin with social anxiety)
chose the fork less ...
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Categories:
thuggish, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
A Normal Name
...who had a normal name
Now that October glides into November, we sleep later
till nine, and we do not use the living room heater, sit in the kitchen, watch TV after breakfast.
A light morning mea...
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Categories:
thuggish, blessing, blue, boat,
Form: Blank verse
Disordered Sons and Fathers
...May all sacred,
but not quite omnipotent,
fathers learn this day
as we impatiently correct
our stress-disordered sons
That respect is earned,
so maybe disrespect is too
positive and negative...
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Categories:
thuggish, age, father son, health,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Rampant and Endemic Police Brutality
...Rampant and endemic police brutality...
flourishes against United States citizens of color
going on three years
post George Floyd
short lived heightened awareness
when #blacklivesmatter
in...
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Categories:
thuggish, absence, abuse, africa, anger,
Form: Free verse
Taking Today's Tumblerful Tea Time
...Taking Today's Tumblerful Tea Time
This teetotaler turns to tea
torquing temptation
towards tippling
thankfully, though
that tremendous tugging
teasing tendency thirst trumped,
thru teachi...
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Categories:
thuggish, 12th grade, adventure, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Bully Me You, I Exemplified Archetypal Scapegoat
...Bully me you, I exemplified archetypal scapegoat
Even as an old curmudgeon, aye pucker
and raspily suction, albeit toothless mouth
drawing reminiscent guffaws affecting
(think feeble attempt
...
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Categories:
thuggish, anger, angst, anniversary, anti
Form: Rhyme
Emilokan the Chants of Rogues
...Emi’lokan, the lyrics from a loon,
the vituperation born from the womb of greed,
the menace of recycled gangsters.
Emi’lokan, the beggarly shame of old vermin,
the intrusion of mafias and thug...
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Categories:
thuggish, africa, confusion, corruption, integrity,
Form: Free verse
The Last Lover of Heroes
...Squalid were those days of thuggish delight
When the fat land's spirit the small Goths stole.
Joy was a thirst slaked, forever a night,
In that corpulent desert of mean soul.
But pastel virtue...
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Categories:
thuggish, character, color, corruption, culture,
Form: Sonnet
The Intruder
...Idlers, paved paths with active energies, purloining, feigning amity.
Dodgy & concealing past immoral dregs by comradely, waspish mien.
Obdurately empowered by this stranger plucked from th...
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Categories:
thuggish, black love, divorce, evil,
Form: Narrative
Ignominious Cult Leader Best Kept Locked Up
...Our unhinged president,
(a veritable loathsome miscreant)
cannot get away with murder,
nor will mine paltry poetic
(side winding) gambit
help clinch deserved punishment
for leader of free world...
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Categories:
thuggish, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Go Out and Buy a Gun
...You see ‘woke’ hordes roaming the streets,
beating people and setting fires,
you look to your leaders and ask,
“Why do you let riots transpire?”
They scowl and says,”It’s just protest,
you lie w...
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Categories:
thuggish, betrayal, corruption, how i
Form: Rhyme
The Junkie's Son, Part Ii
...II.
She didn’t wake up until the next day,
at first she didn’t quite knew where she was,
through bleary she saw her husband there,
he said,”I wasn’t sure you’d make it, my love.
I didn’t know if...
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Categories:
thuggish, birth, forgiveness, grief, hope,
Form: Narrative
Beating Down the Help
...I told my oppositional defiant daughter,
It is always bad politics
and devastating economics
to beat up the cook
and maid
and chauffeur
and gardener
and tax payer
because then,
regardless ...
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Categories:
thuggish, health, humor, integrity, political,
Form: Political Verse
Rampant Police Brutality Against United States Citizens of Color Second Round
...Prejudice, inferiority and abuse
maligned, hashtagged, and dogged
heels of peoples uprooted peoples
south of the equator, or elsewhere
whose epidermis strongly hinted
fifty plus shades of ebony....
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Categories:
thuggish, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Political Verse
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